2023, Week 23 in Review

A few weeks back in my 2023, Week 19 in Review I mentioned that I was looking forward to watching Frances Buontempo's lecture What is a random number and why should I care?. It would appear that the ACCU Conference YouTube channel have begun releasing the videos from this Aprils conference over the past two weeks at a rate of one a day. Frances' lecture isn't yet live but I should be able to watch it soon.

This week has been almost entirely consumed by a big deployment at work of a project that has been three years in the making. It unfortunately once again hit a roadblock with a bug in an upstream service this new feature depends upon and so after a marathon week it's culminated in a sense of frustration and deflation. So close, and yet.

Joke of the week

Notable Articles Read

• Alex Molas: Debunking the Myth of Dollar Cost Averaging

Notable Videos Watched

• serpentza: China is planting Fields of Stones stuck to Metal Bars - No, Really
• LEGO Great Ball Contraption at BrickCon 2022

Cool things from around the internet

• Max Nurzia: RISC-V CPU core written in ANSI C
• Evan Hahn: Introducing UTF-21, a toy character encoding
• Hubert Figuière: Toot That, browser extension for Firefox