Internet Find of the Week Tomb Raider: Side-Scroller Edition
Deep in a TR1-3 remastered playthrough and I stumbled into the best Netzfundstück of the year - Lara Croft, remade as a cinematic platformer.
Timeline
The Brief Spike 8 billion people and falling: a brief spike in human history
Global population peaks before 2080, then falls. Four-fifths of all human births are already behind us. What that means for the next two centuries.
Empty Corners Singapore – empty corners of a crowded island
Singapore for a week without a single photo of the Merlion - wetlands, hornbills, empty rain-soaked parks, and the small human encounters most tourists miss.
Baking Through the Heatwave Bitter orange cake – a recipe in three attempts
A Seville orange loaf cake that took three versions, one feral oven, and an entire office of Monday-morning guinea pigs to get right. (148 chars)
A Pearl Resurfaces The $137 million game I couldn’t play
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within bankrupted a studio, changed cinema forever, and looked like a game I desperately wanted to play. Twenty-five years later, I found it on Netflix.
Two Flags Apart Thirty years of wuseln – The Settlers 2 and the fan project that refuses to die
The Settlers 2 turns 30 - a personal history from DOS to Sài Gòn, and the fan-made overhaul that keeps the Wusler bustling on modern machines.
Sister, Citrus, Continents Lemon meringue tart: A French recipe that traveled through Australia to land in Sài Gòn
Lemon meringue tart with a supply chain spanning three continents - a French recipe, an Australian sister, and a Vietnamese kitchen.
Living Inside the Game $100 billion and an excavator for an alarm clock
Ho Chi Minh City is building $100B+ in infrastructure simultaneously - metro lines, airports, highways, an entire new CBD, and a city reclaimed from the sea. A deep dive from someone whose bedroom window overlooks the chaos.
What The AI Found I fed 15 years of my private conversations to an AI and asked it who I am – part 2
Part 2: the AI analyzed 850K messages and 691 blog posts. What did it find? The results have been sitting with me since. Heavy stuff.
Feeding AI My Life I fed 15 years of my private conversations to an AI and asked it who I am – part 1
15 years of private chat messages fed to an AI. 850,982 messages, one question: Who am I? Part 1 - the method behind the madness.