{"id":99125,"date":"2018-06-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=99125"},"modified":"2019-03-13T00:42:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T07:42:51","slug":"20180629-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20180629-00\/?p=99125\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 mid-year link clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Bryan Gaw had been a member of Katy Perry&#8217;s dance team for five years     when he performed at the 2015 Super Bowl,     a dancer&#8217;s dream come true.     During the show, he changed out of a metallic horse costume into     a shark costume.     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/posteverything\/wp\/2018\/01\/31\/my-dream-of-dancing-at-the-super-bowl-came-true-and-then-i-became-left-shark\/\">    He became Left Shark<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"https:\/\/euclidea.xyz\/\">euclidea.xyz<\/a>     is an online game where you try to solve     ruler-and-compass problems.     It&#8217;s as gripping as it sounds. <\/li>\n<li>Tom Wildenhain does it again.     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jlX_pThh7z8\">    WordTeX &ndash; A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool<\/a>.     (<a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8\">Previously<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070910-01\/?p=25193\">    written about <i>Music for 18 Musicians<\/i> before<\/a>.     I found this curiosity in one performance:     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yRQw85LdRbI&amp;t=18m30s\">    During this section, the woman in the blue jacket     plays the marimba from the wrong side<\/a>     because there aren&#8217;t enough marimbas,     so three musicians must share one instrument.     I asked one of my percussionist friends how hard this is.     &#8220;Like anything else, you get better with practice.     But (and I think this is what you&#8217;re after)     it&#8217;s not something you are normally taught,     any more than pianists are normally taught how to     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9kw2duffoqo\">    play the piano from the wrong side<\/a>.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/moments\/854756239397462016\">    Love &amp; breadsticks: There was a knife fight at Olive Garden<\/a>.     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeWadlington\">Joe Wadlington<\/a>     went on a date with the former general manager of the Olive Garden     in Times Square.     It became an interview. <\/li>\n<li>    A lecture by     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irving_Younger\">    Irving Younger<\/a>     on his     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dBP2if0l-a8\">    10 Commandments Of Cross Examination<\/a>.     I&#8217;m not a lawyer, but I found it fascinating. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vGOL7ZvuGMc\">    Surgical resident Annie Onishi evaluates     emergency rooms and operating rooms in movies and television<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sAyNfRGtrOc\">    Doctors diagnose the injuries in <i>Home Alone<\/i><\/a>.     ER physician Seth Brenner is my favorite. He really gets into it. <\/li>\n<li>    The crazy people at     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/morfars.dk\">Danish radio-controlled vehicle company     morfars.dk<\/a>     created a     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Na1hDZvu5Q\">    GDPR-compliant shredder<\/a>.     &#8220;The faster you shred, the more compliant you are.&#8221;     Video is in Danish, but with English subtitles.     (Unsubtitled     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BjUakmojPOM\/\">    short version<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li>    At the 1:00 mark in the previous video, the subtitles say     &#8220;Mumbles: This is insane.&#8221;     I found this subtitle     hilarious because normal Danish already sounds like     mumbling.     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk\">    Not even Danes can understand each other<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"https:\/\/kcls.org\/blogs\/post\/free-museum-passes-with-a-library-card\/\">Your     King County (Washington, USA) library card will get you free museum passes<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/thehustle.co\/why-nobody-ever-wins-the-mall-car-giveaway\">    Why nobody ever wins the mall car giveaway<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/kernelmag.dailydot.com\/issue-sections\/headline-story\/14948\/space-cadet-pinball-windows-history\/\">    Another history of Space Cadet Pinball<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/q\/792607\">Why does Windows     think my wireless keyboard is a toaster<\/a>? <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-ZNKR9wFe8o\">    The top ten worst repositories to host on GitHub<\/a>.     At least CocoaPods has     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/blog.cocoapods.org\/Master-Spec-Repo-Rate-Limiting-Post-Mortem\/\">    taken measures to try to be less worst<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ya5ZSNGl3G4\">Terrible Ideas in Git<\/a>,     a presentation by     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/quinnypig\">Corey Quinn<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.panopticoncentral.net\/2004\/04\/26\/status-bar-almost-entirely-superfluous\/\">    Status bar == almost entire superfluous<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/shawnste\/2018\/04\/12\/the-japanese-calendars-y2k-moment\/\">    The Japanese Calendar&#8217;s Y2K Moment<\/a>:     my colleague     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/shawnste\/\">Shawn Steele<\/a>     writes about     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-japan-emperor\/special-panel-meets-to-discuss-japan-emperor-akihitos-abdication-date-idUSKBN1DV3AS\">    the planned abdication of the Japanese Emperor<\/a>     and its effect upon the Japanese calendar.     To help developers identify issues related to the first change of     Emperor most software will ever experience,     Windows 10 added a placeholder for the upcoming Era,     so you can test your applications before it&#8217;s too late.     Read more about it in Shawn&#8217;s article. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/davidgow.net\/hacks\/pharaoh_stack.html\">    The Stack Clash vulnerability and the Ancient Pharaohs<\/a>.     Application compatibility is hard.     Note footnote 1 that this particular game also assumes that     the high bit of pointers is always zero.     Footnote 3 is also interesting. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/allenpike.com\/2018\/the-great-bug-hunt\/\">    The Great Bug Hunt<\/a>.     Allen Pike also discusses     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/allenpike.com\/2018\/canadian-cheese-cartel\">    The Canadian Cheese Cartel<\/a> with panache.     I covered part of this story when I discussed     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/\">    tariff engineering<\/a>, but Allen&#8217;s version is much more entertaining.     I also hope he&#8217;s okay with me calling him Allen     instead of Mr. Pike or something like that. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And a list of my recent new <i>One Dev Question<\/i> videos. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OneDevMinute\/status\/987038658388606976\">    What was the Bedlam incident<\/a>?     (<a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_DpGR-WGRu4\">Higher     resolution video<\/a>.)     Here is the promised     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/exchange\/2004\/04\/08\/me-too\/\">    technical breakdown of the Bedlam incident<\/a>     courtesy of Larry Osterman. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OneDevMinute\/status\/976840787144134656\">    Why was <i>Documents and Settings<\/i> renamed to <i>Users<\/i><\/a>?     (<a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4vDHQewVmM8\">Higher     resolution video<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <i>One Dev Minute<\/i> folks <a HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OneDevMinute\/status\/1002217735923761152\">managed to con Larry Osterman into recording some short videos for them<\/a>. (<a HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WindowsDocs\/status\/1007307765436608512\">Second video<\/a>.) So if you&#8217;re sick of me, you can go check those out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaching the halfway point.<\/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-99125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Reaching the halfway point.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99125","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=99125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99125\/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=99125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}