Weeklog for Week 50: December 08 to December 14
Articles
- Fatima_Puzzle_Answer_Dec_5.pdf - Google Drive: how do you explain the mass delusion of the Fatima miracle? Well, it was a delusion. Crazy!
- Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
- Tutorial -- Django LiveView: it actually is super-easy!
- My favourite small hash table
- M-DISC - Wikipedia: TWIL: archival-quality BD-compatible discs with an expected lifespan of at least 100 years
- 30 things I’ve learned from 30 years as a Python freelancer — Reuven Lerner
- Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI -- TechCrunch: hilarious!
- Pop goes the...population count? — Matt Godbolt’s blog
- JVA Leipzig: Häftling stirbt nach tödlichem Kuss durch Partnerin
- Venus flytrap - Wikipedia
- Lucas Sifoni - The tiniest yet real telescope I've built
- Litestream VFS · The Fly Blog
- Poor Johnny still won't encrypt - by JP Aumasson - bfSwA
- Rats Play Doom: The impact of prolonged VR exposure on rat well-being needs further research.
- Ferrari's Formula One Handovers and Handovers from Surgery to Intensive Care [Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children] - 2008-sower.pdf
- Gild Just One Lily — Smashing Magazine
- magnus on X: "I chose the green door ninety-three days ago. At the time, it seemed obviously correct. Not even a close call. The red door offered two billion dollars immediately—a sum so large it would solve every material problem I'd ever face, fund an
- Should You Trust Your VPN Location? -- IPinfo.io
- Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future - Positive News
- What Is the Nicest Thing A Stranger Has Ever Done for You? -- Living Out Loud
- Logan Williams — No-tifier
Libraries, programming, etc
Books
- The Atrocity Archive by Charles Stross: I don't know which way the causality goes, but everything in here feels dated, from the clichéd "technology is magic" to the outdated Palmtop hardware. It's still good, but dated. Also, this is only very barely sci-fi, but actually horror. 6.5/10
Games
- Warhammer: Vermintide II
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart: what an adventure! And the graphics are so smooth, no pop-in, no texture problems, just fantastically fast transitions and great effects everywhere. 9/10
Backlog
- Hogwarts Legacy (free from EGS)
- Botany Manor (from Humble Bundle)
- Summerhouse (from Humble Bundle)