This series of posts argues that muscle cramps are the result of fatigue, not a lack of electrolytes.
After my first marathon, where my calves completely cramped up and I walked the last 10km, I bought into the electrolyte theory. But now I think it was just heat- and dehydration-enhanced fatigue.
I usually prefer text articles to instructional videos, but Vimcast screencasts are very nice.
Another great IC photo and write up from Ken Shirriff which explains how Intel's 8087 used different gate widths in its ROM to encode two-bits of information per address.
Python's syntax for nested list comprehensions always seemed backwards to me; here's an explanation for why it is the way it is. I still think nested for-loops are easier to read.
“Sorry, but I won the Boston Marathon,” Kawauchi told his boss. “Is it possible to have another day off?”
Very nice online electronics textbook.
Adrian S. Nastase's weblog has some nice, short introductory articles.
Introductory tutorials on many electronics topics. I don't know who wrote these, but it is now one of the many EE websites owned by Aarow/AspenCore.
Mr. Squishy re-implemented the Gameboy game Pokemon Red in Minecraft.
Here's an interview and video showing how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-U96W89Z90
Fish slapping the 2014 Imogene Pass Run.
Everything you wanted to know about enumerating states of the game 2048 in one series of posts by John Lees-Miller.
After writing my first small golan program, this all rings true to me.
Steve Losh's tutorial book on Vimscript
Carolyn Van Slyck made a thing out of computers.
After years of using vim I just recently discovered filename-modifiers which make it easy to, for example, quickly edit files with similar names.
This is a nice overview, from the issue of Increment magazine on programming languages.
Sasha has run a ~2:30 marathon in Crocs, and Benjamin has run a ~71 minute half in Crocs.
Runner's World has also done a profile of the family: https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a20848845/large-family-in-utah-aims-to-be-americas-fastest/
