“The Devil’s Candy” (2015) was pretty fun, and an interesting case of a haunted house where the danger isn’t directly what’s haunting the house… bonus points: great actors (Pruitt Taylor Vince is here!), and metal soundtrack!
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
“Why US Malls Are Dying (And Why European Malls Aren’t)”. AFAICT malls here around Vancouver are doing pretty decent, and that’s because they are mostly built on the European model. Of note, the city is in the process of remodelling the biggest one, too.
“Animation vs Math“: a fun and very well-done animation that is even better if you know a bit of trigonometry, calculus, and other basics
This is a nice and short breakdown of what the Writers’ Strike was about and how things have changed from network TV to streaming for the people making those shows.
Collaborative stick transport
If you’re using Plex to manage your media, Plexamp is a very nice music player that is now available to everyone (it was previously limited to those with a paid Plexpass).
This is an absolutely great little sysadmin mystery: “The case of the 500 miles email“
Me when I was in my twenties…
I had missed this somehow: Bram Moolenaar, creator of my everyday code editor, Vim, passed away a couple weeks ago. :wq 😔
One cool thing I’ve wished for a long time Mastodon did, and that Bluesky does out of the gate, is the ability to set your own domain name in your handle regardless of your server. Nice!