Off Hours: Weird Science and Weekend Wonders (cont.)
N ATTACK. A C64 BASIC dungeon crawler. Part eight. Someone is still writing dungeon crawlers in Commodore 64 BASIC in two thousand twenty-six, and honestly, more power to them. Forty-four signals. The devotion to the craft is real. And now for something that might make you feel slightly guilty about the screen time — HEAVY TV WATCHING ASSOCIATED WITH SMALLER BRAIN STRUCTURES. A new study out of USC Dornsife. The more TV you watch, the smaller certain brain regions measured. Now before you throw out your monitor — this is a correlation study, not a causation study. But still. Maybe the podcast is the compromise. Forty-two signals on this one. THE ZEN OF PARALLEL PROGRAMMING landed at thirty-one signals. Some thoughts on concurrency, lock-free data structures, and what happens when you try to make N cores behave like one. Worth a bookmark for your next late-night debugging session. And from the HOMELAB series — someone put a MIKROTIK router through its paces as a home router.