Neil Blakey-Milner

Weeknotes: 2025-W19

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Summary

Made a bunch of progress on my long-paused 3D printing cabinets build, as well as more design work on my new woodworking project. Also continued my garage workshop clean-up, moving a bunch of stuff into more appropriate storage locations. There’s some light at the end of the tunnel for getting the garage into a nice woodworking space.

Photos

(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)

One of the 3D printing cabinets in place

Enjoying

Newly discovered

Liberal Crime Squad

I’m sure I saw Liberal Crime Squad one day on the Bay 12 Games site when exploring around Dwarf Fortress, but I just discovered there’s been ongoing development on it elsewhere, including the “New Age” rewrite in Dart with some modern updates playable on the web.

Long-time subscription Quill18 just started a play-through:

Liberal Crime Squad: New Age - Ep 1: Petra’s Story - quill18

Highlights

The Constitutional Court has confirmed the unconstitutionality of a law which automatically stripped South Africans of citizenship if they took citizenship of another country.

The court, in a unanimous decision, has struck down the relevant section of the South African Citizenship Act, declaring it invalid from its promulgation in October 1995.

– “Constitutional Court rules on citizenship”, Tania Broughton on GroundUp

This “you need permission to get a second citizenship or lose your first” always seemed like it was either arbitrary (if you don’t always get it) or hoop-jumping (if you do). It being something you lose potentially without ever knowing about it seemed cruel. So I’m glad to see it has been revoked.

Hungry Hungry Hippos Munch On Sudoku! - Cracking The Cryptic

Hungry Hungry Hippos Munch On Sudoku! - Cracking The Cryptic

This puzzle-specific variant Sudoku rule leads to a rather charmingly fun puzzle.


High Precision Speed Reducer Using Rope - Aaed Musa

High Precision Speed Reducer Using Rope - Aaed Musa


What Happens When You Stack 29,965 Photos of Jupiter? - Ian Lauer Astro

What Happens When You Stack 29,965 Photos of Jupiter? - Ian Lauer Astro