{"id":102631,"date":"2019-06-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=102631"},"modified":"2019-06-27T18:27:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T01:27:26","slug":"20190628-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20190628-00\/?p=102631","title":{"rendered":"2019 mid-year link clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/origin-flash.sonypictures.com\/ist\/awards_screenplays\/SV_screenplay.pdf\"> The screenplay for <i>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/i><\/a> is online.\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sony was kind enough to make our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Spiderverse?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Spiderverse<\/a> script available online. Here it is if you&#8217;re interested. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CO2EQCKdD3\">https:\/\/t.co\/CO2EQCKdD3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 rodneyrothman (@rodneyrothman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rodneyrothman\/status\/1079057234959556608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<li>Apparently there&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/fawltytowersgourmet.com\/\"> Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torquaysuitetheatre.com\"> Faulty [sic] Towers: The Dining Experience<\/a>, which uses original scripts in an attempt to sidestep copyright issues.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t get enough nostalgia, there&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austensprideamusical.com\/\"> Austen&#8217;s Pride<\/a>, a musical version of <i>Pride and Prejudice<\/i>, coming to Seattle this autumn.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tasvideos.org\/6347S.html\"> Arkanoid is now a solved game<\/a>: Perfect play calculated via brute force.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/physicist-creates-remarkable-tennis-ball-pyramids-including-one-made-from-46-balls\/\"> Physicist creates remarkable tennis-ball towers, including one made from 46 balls<\/a>. Ah, recreational science.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/possiblywrong.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/06\/follow-up-i-found-two-identical-packs-of-skittles-among-468-packs-with-a-total-of-27740-skittles\/\"> I found 2 identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs with total 27,740 Skittles<\/a>: Ah, recreational mathematics.<\/li>\n<li>Jacob Williamson <a href=\"https:\/\/beennnews.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/19\/speller-spotlight-roster-special-the-revealed\/\"> handicaps the Scripps National Spelling Bee<\/a>. I am not making this up. This year&#8217;s bee ran past midnight, ending when the organizers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/31\/us\/national-spelling-bee-champions.html\"> ran out of words<\/a>. I am not making this up. The organizers declared all eight remaining entrants co-winners. Williamson proclaimed this to be <a href=\"https:\/\/beennnews.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/31\/armageddon\/\"> Armageddon<\/a>: &#8220;God is dead, and we have killed him.&#8221; He places a large piece of blame on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/web\/\"> SpellPundit<\/a>, an app to help spellers master the hardest-to-spell words in the English language.<\/li>\n<li>You love mechanical computer keyboards, don&#8217;t you? Of course you do. The seventh semi-annual <a href=\"https:\/\/ckeys.org\/events\/smkmeetup\/\"> Seattle Mechanical Keyboard Meetup<\/a> takes place <a href=\"https:\/\/ti.to\/ckeys\/seattle-mechanical-keyboard-meetup-summer-2019\"> July 27, 2019<\/a> at Seattle Pacific University.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8bhjNvSSuLM\"> Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chriszacharias.com\/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6\"> A conspiracy to kill IE6<\/a>. I want to see more stories like this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/codeandacookie.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/31\/racing-object-construction-a-debugging-tale\/\"> Racing Object Construction: a debugging tale<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tooslowexception.com\/scenario-mystery-of-the-very-long-gc-pauses-in-net-windows-service\/\"> The Mystery Of The 15-Minute-Long GC Pauses in a .NET Windows Service<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msbuildlog.com\/\">MSBuild log viewer<\/a> for debugging your vxcproj files.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/a\/54935500\/902497\">Why does the Visual Studio C++ standard library use <code>_STD_<\/code><code>BEGIN<\/code> \u2026 <code>_STD_<\/code><code>END<\/code> instead of <code>namespace std {<\/code> \u2026 <code>}<\/code><\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the obligatory plug for my video appearances.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WindowsDocs\/status\/1091011266682880000\"> What was your first interview at Microsoft like<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WindowsDocs\/status\/1096090535629074433\"> What was your first project at Microsoft<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WindowsDocs\/status\/1103700759194030081\"> Why not reset the build number after a major release<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WindowsDocs\/status\/1105859926897971200\"> Why are some blue screens green<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WindowsDocs\/status\/1129453571412549632\"> The bug that was too cool to fix<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The One Dev Question folks even created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLlrxD0HtieHge3_8Dm48C0Ns61I6bHThc\"> a playlist<\/a> of all my videos, which is either handy or frightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another checkpoint reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-102631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Another checkpoint reached.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}