Weeklog for Week 37: September 08 to September 14
Progress
Work week. Not much energy for anything else.
Articles
- Belling the Cat - Wikipedia
- ServerlessHorrors -- Home
- Cross-section visualizer - Hyrodium's Graphical MathLand
- We all dodged a bullet - Xe Iaso
- An Attacker’s Blunder Gave Us a Look Into Their Operations -- Huntress
- Weg von Windows 11: Gaming unter Linux mit Bazzite im Selbstversuch -- heise online
- How can England possibly be running out of water? -- Water -- The Guardian
- How I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years -- DBOS
- Signal >> Blog >> Introducing Signal Secure Backups
- %CPU Utilization Is A Lie - Brendan Long
- Alternative Math -- Short Film - PeerTube
- Kerberoasting – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
- I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens -- Seth Purcell
- Beginning BD: Where Did the Smurfs Get Their Hats? - PIPELINE COMICS
- Strong Eventual Consistency - The Big Idea behind CRDTs
- Hashed sorting is typically faster than hash tables
- From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban - Gothamist
- My foray into Vlang -- Kris Tun
- Engora Data Blog: The sisters "paradox" - counter-intuitive probability
- Boy or girl paradox - Wikipedia
- Bertrand's box paradox - Wikipedia
- De-clouding: Music - Ross Wintle
- Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions – Krebs on Security
- 3D Modeling with Paper
- Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers? -- Read the Tea Leaves
- humanely dealing with humungus crawlers
- Many Hard Leetcode Problems are Easy Constraint Problems • Buttondown
- Doomscrolling: The Game: eek, vibe coded
- sort-research-rs/writeup/unreasonable/text.md at main · Voultapher/sort-research-rs · GitHub
- Magical systems thinking - Works in Progress Magazine
Libraries, programming, etc
Books
- When Gravity Fails by Alec Effinger
Games
- Planet Crafter
- Star Birds: was released just this week and it's really nice.
Backlog
- Eden Crafter: it's weird that two such similar and similarly-named games are in my playlist, but meh, looks good enough.
- (free from EGS)
Other media
- Blue Man Group w/ Venus Hum: I Feel Love (best quality) - YouTube
- How to wash core of the aircraft engine - YouTube
- How to fly when you can’t sit - YouTube
- Can I Grow 100 Year Old Tomato Seeds? - YouTube
- ZEIT-Kritiker reagiert auf "Skibidi Toilet" - YouTube
- I made a spinning coffee table - YouTube
- Building the most accurate DIY CNC lathe in the world - YouTube
- Why is this task so difficult for machines? - YouTube
- Terminal Failure: Fire at ITC - YouTube
- We Digitally Cracked A High-Security Safe -- Hacklab -- WIRED - YouTube
- Why does an escalator handrail move faster than the stairs? - YouTube
- Die dümmste Schnitzeljagd – TryHards (feat. Tom Scott) - YouTube
- What ACTUALLY Happened to Von Der Leyen's Flight? - YouTube
- Hard Landing at St. Maarten What Went Wrong with WestJet 2276 - YouTube
- Why is this number everywhere? - YouTube
- Thousand Layer Potatoes But With Bacon - YouTube
- Tutorial: Blender MODELLING For Absolute Beginners -- Low Poly Girl - YouTube