Weeklog for Week 1: December 29 to January 04
Progress
The holidays. No hustle, just relax.
Articles
- GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you -- GOG.COM
- I Was Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn and All I Got Was 1.50 EUR
- What an unprocessed photo looks like: (Maurycy's blog)
- Die zehn besten VR-Spiele der Dekade -- heise online
- Introducing Hypermind: A fully decentralized, P2P, high-availability solution to a problem that doesn't exist. : r/selfhosted: Perfection
- Was Daft Punk Having a Laugh When They Chose the Tempo of HBFS?
- Lottery Every Second - Watch the Odds Fail in Real-Time
- KdK (Kinetik der Kontinua) part 1: Introduction
- Maybe Comments SHOULD Explain 'What'
- NETFLIX OPEN CONTENT
- The Year of the 3D Printed Miniature (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves)
Libraries, programming, etc
Books
- Artificial Condition (Murderbot 2) by Martha Wells: very nice, and the additional character is great -- even though they could have done more with it. And also the third one, that would be so good, instead it is discarded right away.
- Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky: read the first three chapters, didn't like it very much.
Games
- Walkabout Minigolf
Board games
- Die kleinen Alchemisten made two levels in two games! This is such a well-designed and engaging game!
- Red 7
Recipes
- Porc Au Sucre
Other media
- The Thursday Murder Club: I had started to read the book but it's quite hard to get excited for characters that are far removed from my own experience. In a movie that's easier because it takes less time. The story is good and the characters are good (although here, the movie very much concentrates on the lead, while in the book you get more of all of them), but the twist and the resolution are a bit... meh...
- Michael Ammar's "Crazy Man's Handcuffs!" - YouTube
- Flight deck to the most remote Atlantic island - YouTube
- Staying in the Infamous Circus Circus Las Vegas - YouTube