{"id":112494,"date":"2026-06-30T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=112494"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:33:51","slug":"20260630-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20260630-01\/?p=112494\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 mid-year link clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh boy, more random stuff.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aresluna.org\/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan\/\"> The hardest working font in Manhattan<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/shifthappens.site\/\">Marcin Wichary<\/a> digs up the history of the font named Gorton. I grew up with this font, seeing it not only on punch card keyboards but also in a Leroy lettering kit that we used in sixth grade graphics class when we studied mechanical drawing.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"RollerCoaster Tycoon's Overengineered Puking System\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tG66j1sP8gs\"> RollerCoaster Tycoon&#8217;s Overengineered Puking System<\/a>. Learn more than you ever needed to know about the algorithms in the game RollerCoaster Tycoon that determine when a park guest pukes. No really.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sickos-newsletter.beehiiv.com\/p\/the-spaghetti-policy-for-all-mlb-teams\"> The Spaghetti Policy for All MLB Teams<\/a> by the appropriately named Sickos Committee breaks down the outside food policies for all of teams in Major League Baseball to determine which ones would let you bring in a gallon of spaghetti. The first part is fairly straightforward, but it gets far more weird (and sicko) as they look at the stadiums where a gallon of spaghetti might not be permitted. (Background information: Sports fans in Philadelphia have a reputation for poor behavior. These are the people who <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philadelphia_Eagles_Santa_Claus_incident\"> booed Santa Claus and pelted him with snowballs<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>We have reached the second generation now. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/microsoft\/microsoft-invented-escrow-builds-to-launch-functional-apps\" rel=\"nofollow\">Microsoft invented &#8220;escrow builds&#8221; to launch functional apps &#8211; that&#8217;s internal &#8216;Microspeak&#8217; jargon for quality control<\/a>&#8221; is a rehash of <a title=\"Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name?\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20260623-00\/?p=112462\"> my article on the history of the term &#8220;escrow&#8221;<\/a>, but the article appears to just be a suspicious mishmash of fragments from the article. For example, in the sentence &#8220;He described it as unhelpful because the blog essentially described a metaphor using another metaphor&#8221; the antecedents of &#8220;it&#8221; and &#8220;the blog&#8221; are not present in the article, leading the reader to think that &#8220;it&#8221; is the explanation of what <i>escrow<\/i> means and that &#8220;the blog&#8221; is my blog. On top of that, the title of the article introduces the phrase &#8220;launch functional apps&#8221; (whatever that means), even though none of those three words appear anywhere in the original article, nor in the dodgy rehash. Undaunted, a different AI content farm picked up on that article and somehow expanded it <a href=\"https:\/\/windowsforum.com\/threads\/microsoft-escrow-build-and-bake-time-a-practical-release-guide.402725\/\" rel=\"nofollow&quot;\"> into an even longer article<\/a> that conveys even less information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made it to another midpoint.<\/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":[103],"class_list":["post-112494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Made it to another midpoint.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112494","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=112494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112494\/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=112494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}