Weeklog for Week 47: November 17 to November 23
Articles
- Extract Health Data From Your Samsung Device -- by Anuradha Wickramarachchi -- TDS Archive -- Medium
- I Built a Synth for My Daughter - bitsnpieces.dev
- Story of Wörgl and others – Sustainable Communities Foundation
- Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
- 5.0 — Blender
- What I Learned About Creativity From a Man Painting on a Treadmill
- Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared - IT Notes
- AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering -- Tom Phillips
- 2 Years of ML vs. 1 Month of Prompting: "Fun fact: Translating French and Spanish claims into German first improved technical accuracy—an unexpected perk of Germany’s automotive dominance."
- [2511.15304] Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
- Loose Wire on Containership Dali Leads to Blackouts and Contact with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge
- Memory is slow, Disk is fast - Part 2
- DCA26MA024 Preliminary Report - Prelimiary Report DCA26MA024.pdf
- Reverse Engineering the Miele Diagnostic Interface · Severin's Blog
- GitHub - PegorK/f32
- Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB – DuckDB
- It's hard to build an oscillator - lcamtuf’s thing
- Strichcode-Verschwörung – Etikettenwissen
- Tom Forsyth: "Recent discussion about the pe…" - Mastodon
- Helping Valve to Power Up Steam Devices -- Igalia
- You only live once, self host a NAT Gateway -- Sailor Blog
- Project Sapphire -- Air & Space Forces Magazine
- Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines - Susam Pal
- Hacktivate
- The App Store Was Always Authoritarian - Infrequently Noted
- The Trust Spectrum – Raph Koster
- How Video Games Inspire Great UX – Scott Jenson
- Playing with “game” – Raph Koster
- Become the Consequence – Rands in Repose: I used to read Rands quite frequently some twenty years ago or so (even have his books), and I'm quite surprised that he's still around and still writes about the same things. I'm still not very interested, though.
- A YouTube Education - by James Marriott - Cultural Capital
Books
- This Way Up by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman
- The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
Games
- Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop
Backlog
- Len's Island
Board games
- Cartagena
- Isle of Skye
Recipes
- Plätzchen und Wölkchen
Other media
- GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power (GOPR0016trim) - YouTube
- Chinese Takeout Menu - YouTube
- Otzi the Iceman Knife - Modern replica - YouTube
- I Built an Elevator With a $1 Motor - YouTube
- I Spent 3 Years Engineering my Water Bottle - YouTube
- The Unknown Phase of Matter - YouTube
- A Bone Drill On Human Skin - YouTube
- How I Designed a 3D Printed Wing - YouTube
- Tiny Train, Big Impact: Building a Coffee Table with a Twist! - YouTube
- I Fixed SpinLaunch - YouTube
- We Spent One Year Making a Game About Fantasy Paperwork. - YouTube
- I might have made my golf game too weird - YouTube
- I Fixed the BIGGEST Issue with Racing Games - YouTube
- Designing The Strongest 3D Print - YouTube