Weeklog for Week 2: January 05 to January 11
Progress
Half a work-week makes for little progress.
But I kind-of want to make an adventure game with a friend, so I'm thinking about that one.
Articles
- What is a PC compatible?
- Quantenspalt aus einem Atom: Physiker schließen Lücke im Einstein-Bohr-Streit -- heise online
- ‘The admin’: why it’s not easy to rename streets called after Prince Andrew -- Local government -- The Guardian
- Connector identification online - The electronic connector book
- I/O is no longer the bottleneck?
- How I changed my personality in six weeks
- How to repair the underside of a ship’s hull, still in the river, in -50˚C Yakutsk! -- Nota Bene: Eugene Kaspersky’s Official Blog
- Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician - The Korea Herald
- OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
- DeGoogled phones, made in Europe: Fairphone, Volla, SHIFTphone, Punkt – a full review. -- Tuta
- If a Tree Falls, by Rosa Lyster
- Shipmap.org -- Visualisation of Global Cargo Ships -- By Kiln and UCL
- Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years -- PC Gamer
- A4 Paper Stories - Susam Pal: brilliant: “as a mathematician I drink my tea from a donut”
- The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity – Effectiviology
- Daring Fireball: Let’s Call a Murder a Murder
- Pole of inaccessibility - Wikipedia
- GitHub - samuel-vitorino/sopro: A lightweight text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning
- On Getting Hacked
- blakewatson.com - The joys of home-cooked apps
- Orbital Rocket Simulation
- How Will the Miracle Happen Today?
- My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated, Literally - Alienchow
Libraries, programming, etc
Books
- Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt 1) by Adrian Tchaikovski: well, this is very different from the other Tchaikovski book I've read (Children of Time), but he certainly loves his insects! It's also far less grandiose that CoT, so I don't know.
Games
- Vermintide II
- Saints Row
Board games
- Splendor quite a few times
- Heckmeck am Bratwurmeck
- RoboRally
- Splendor again
Other media
- We Just Turned Down Millions of Dollars. Here Is Why. - YouTube
- Every Dumb Start-Up Ever - YouTube
- I Put Buckingham Palace Up For Rent -- @MaxFosh -- Channel 4 Documentaries - YouTube
- bird cowboy’s song - YouTube
- What happened to bathroom doors? - YouTube
- I Automated Typewriter Art! - YouTube
- Finding the Best Hobbyist CAD for 2026 - YouTube
- What happened to public bathrooms? - YouTube
- I weighed an airplane... while it was flying! - YouTube
- I Made the Whole World out of Pallet Wood - YouTube
- The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine - YouTube
- It sounds dumb but they really fixed a typo with a human leg - YouTube
- Obra Dinn's "pixel art" is actually genius - YouTube
- Expanding racks in 3D - YouTube
- 3D Printing with Fixtures - YouTube
- The Return of Festive Flashing Lights - Computerphile - YouTube
- When Electricity Doesn't Take the Shortest Path - YouTube
- Words that Mean the Opposite in America - YouTube
- Escoria -- Adventure Game Engine [Godot Powered] - YouTube
- Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola (It Took Me A Year) - YouTube