2019 mid-year link clearance

Raymond Chen

• The screenplay for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is online.

  Sony was kind enough to make our #Spiderverse script available online. Here it is if you’re interested. https://t.co/CO2EQCKdD3

  — rodneyrothman (@rodneyrothman) December 29, 2018

• Apparently there’s a Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show, a dinner performance which incorporates scenes from the classic television series, under license from John Cleese and Connie Booth. There is also an apparently much more popular version, known as Faulty [sic] Towers: The Dining Experience, which uses original scripts in an attempt to sidestep copyright issues.
• If you can’t get enough nostalgia, there’s also Austen’s Pride, a musical version of Pride and Prejudice, coming to Seattle this autumn.
• Arkanoid is now a solved game: Perfect play calculated via brute force.
• Physicist creates remarkable tennis-ball towers, including one made from 46 balls. Ah, recreational science.
• I found 2 identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs with total 27,740 Skittles: Ah, recreational mathematics.
• Jacob Williamson handicaps the Scripps National Spelling Bee. I am not making this up. This year’s bee ran past midnight, ending when the organizers ran out of words. I am not making this up. The organizers declared all eight remaining entrants co-winners. Williamson proclaimed this to be Armageddon: “God is dead, and we have killed him.” He places a large piece of blame on SpellPundit, an app to help spellers master the hardest-to-spell words in the English language.
• You love mechanical computer keyboards, don’t you? Of course you do. The seventh semi-annual Seattle Mechanical Keyboard Meetup takes place July 27, 2019 at Seattle Pacific University.
• Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography.
• A conspiracy to kill IE6. I want to see more stories like this.
• Racing Object Construction: a debugging tale.
• The Mystery Of The 15-Minute-Long GC Pauses in a .NET Windows Service.
• MSBuild log viewer for debugging your vxcproj files.
• Why does the Visual Studio C++ standard library use _STD_BEGIN … _STD_END instead of namespace std { … }?

And the obligatory plug for my video appearances.

• What was your first interview at Microsoft like?
• What was your first project at Microsoft?
• Why not reset the build number after a major release?
• Why are some blue screens green?
• The bug that was too cool to fix.

The One Dev Question folks even created a playlist of all my videos, which is either handy or frightening.

Raymond Chen

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