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Christmas!

I did have some time and played some games as well as Godot. So nice to be free.

Articles

• In praise of the hundred page idea – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
• Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
• fogus: Games of interest: Zendo: will definitely play a round!
• Ants vs. Humans: Putting Group Smarts to the Test - Space & Physics -- Weizmann Wonder Wander - News, Features and Discoveries
• Lokale Kortikosteroidspritze versus Operation bei Karpaltunnelsyndrom - Ashworth, NL - 2024 -- Cochrane Library
• Introducing Differential Growth Addon for Blender · Boris Okunskiy
• Cognitive load is what matters
• Super Snowflake Maker
• GitHub - dtolnay/semver-trick: How to avoid complicated coordinated upgrades
• GitHub - meyfa/CobolCraft: A Minecraft server written in COBOL
• Homebrew Batteries made from acidic fruits
• Seven years later - Mark Asbach's blog
• Scratch And Sniff Stickers And The Gas Panic Of ’87 -- Hackaday
• Listen to a Led Tea Light : 4 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables
• Coding Font Tournament
• How I ship projects at big tech companies -- sean goedecke
• Sonair -- Journal -- Building functional safety at speed with Rust
• Exploring Microsoft’s Phi-3-Mini and its integration with tools like Ollama and Pieces
• Ladendiebstahl: Bearbeitungsgebühr unwirksam

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - princeton-vl/infinigen: Infinite Photorealistic Worlds using Procedural Generation
• GitHub - go-shiori/shiori: Simple bookmark manager built with Go
• sharkdp/fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
• BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
• ggreer/the_silver_searcher: A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
• GitHub - drk1wi/portspoof: Portspoof
• GitHub - qntm/t-a-i: Converts Unix milliseconds to and from International Atomic Time (TAI) milliseconds: of course, qntm is not just a brilliant writer, they are also a great programmer!

Books

• Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold: I'm reading this because of the hilarious short description.

Games

• Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 played so much.

Other media

• I went INSIDE the last coal MINE in Longyearbyen ︱ Svalbard - YouTube
• Bending of a 140m wind turbine tower 2.0 - YouTube
• how to make every christmas song ever - YouTube
• I built a 1,000,000,000 fps video camera to watch light move - YouTube
• How to program in Godot - GDScript Tutorial - YouTube: Alright, I can Godot now!