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[merakitechnology-1]

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[mindblowingscience]

Want to hunt for black holes, but lack access to a mountaintop observatory or deep-space telescope? There’s an app for that—and you can help out astronomers by using it. Developed by the Dutch Black Hole Consortium, an interdisciplinary research project based in the Netherlands, Black Hole Finder is a free program available both on smartphones and as a desktop website. After reviewing a quick tutorial, all you need to do is study images taken by BlackGEM, a telescope array in Northern Chile tasked with searching the skies for cosmic events called kilonovas. Although launched in March 2024, as Space.com noted on August 19, the project’s recently expanded from just English and Dutch to support Spanish, German, Chinese, Bengali, Polish, and Italian.

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[blueiscoool]

Disputed Ukrainian Treasures Returned to Kyiv After Dutch Court Ruling

A haul of Ukrainian treasures sent to Europe for an exhibition nearly 10 years ago have been returned to Kyiv from the Netherlands after a lengthy legal battle.

The collection of ancient artifacts was dispatched to the Netherlands from four museums in Crimea before Russia’s annexation of the region in 2014. But the annexation meant their return has not been straightforward.

“After almost 10 years of litigation, artifacts from four Crimean museums that were presented at the exhibition ‘Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea’ in Amsterdam have returned to Ukraine,” the National Museum of History of Ukraine said in a statement.

The collection comprised 565 items, including antique sculptures, Scythian and Sarmatian jewelry, and Chinese lacquer boxes that are 2,000 years old, the museum said.

Rostyslav Karandieiev, Ukraine’s acting minister of culture and information policy, described the treasures’ homecoming as “our great historical victory.”

“It is very important for us to save and protect our history, traditions, and heritage. This is what we are fighting for at the battlefield. We are fighting for our identity and freedom,” he said.

“The exhibition in the Netherlands was showing the history of Ukrainian Crimea, therefore it is exclusively the people of Ukraine who should possess these treasures,” he added.

In a statement published on its website, the Allard Pierson museum in Amsterdam confirmed that the collection had been kept in storage while the legal dispute raged on over whether items should be returned to Ukraine or the four museums in Russian-controlled Crimea, with both sides claiming ownership rights over the historic pieces.

Ultimately, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled on June 9 of this year that the collection should be returned to Kyiv.

In its statement, the Allard Pierson museum went on to say that the items were “independently checked and carefully packed in accordance with museum rules” last month and arrived back in Kyiv on Sunday.

Els van der Plas, director of the museum, said in the statement: “This was a special case, in which cultural heritage became a victim of geopolitical developments. After it became clear in 2014 that the judge would consider the case, we focused on safely storing the artefacts until the time came to return them to their rightful owner. We are pleased that clarity has emerged and that they have now been returned.”

Welcoming the development, Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Information Policy said in a statement: “Until the de-occupation of Crimea, the ‘Scythian Gold’ will be temporarily stored on the territory of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.”

By Maria Kostenko, Victoria Butenko and Lianne Kolirin.

[evidence-based-activism]

Hi! Thanks so much for your hard work, I always appreciate the amount of effort you put into your posts and your devotion to promoting the truth above all.

Recently, I was curious about what proportion of men use pornography on a regular basis, so I googled it, and the search results were not useful in the slightest. There were a huge variety of studies cited in various different articles with wildly differing statistics attached to each of them. I don't really know how to effectively parse through all the information available on the subject, so I was wondering if you, as someone with an admirable grasp of statistics, had any light to shed on the question of what proportion of men are regular porn users.

(While writing this, I realized that the answer to this question is probably heavily dependent on which demographics of men are given which surveys, so for my purposes, being a USAmerican, I guess I'd be primarily curious about USAmerican men's habits, but if you had any way to break the data down by region or continent or country, that'd be incredibly interesting too)

Hi, Anon! Thank you!!

There are definitely a wide range of estimates for this, and they vary even more when considering what "frequent" is (at least once a week? more than once a week? at least once a month?). That being said, I think there are still some good estimates:

This article [1] reviewed relatively large (n >= 100) studies published between 2010 and 2017 on non-clinical samples. Both their pooled, weighted, analysis of studies with convenience samples of young adult (~18-39) men from developed and nearly-developed countries* (final sample size > 14,700) and an estimate from a review of large-scale, nationally representative surveys of young adult men from the USA yielded a final estimate of: ~45% of men use pornography at least weekly.

There have also been some more recent studies that help provide a clearer picture.

First, random/probability samples (better for generalization):

This 2021 study [2] on people aged 16 to 84 in Sweden found 33% of men used pornography at least once a week, but this ranged by age group from 66% for men aged 16-24 to 7.4% for men aged 65-84.

This 2021 study [3] on adolescents aged 14 to 17 in six European countries (Greece, Spain, Poland, Romania, the Netherlands, and Iceland) found 40% of male teenagers used pornography at least once a week.

Next, non-random/non-probability samples (issues with generalization, but still useful for investigating specific aspects of a phenomenon):

This 2021 study [4] on more than 15,000 young adults (age not specified) in Arab countries** found 55% of men used pornography at least once a week.

This 2018 study [5] on more than 1,000 adults (>18) in the US found 92% of men used pornography in the last month with an average (across participants) of 68 minutes per a week

This 2017 study [6] on 941 participants (aged 15 to 29) from Victoria, Australia found 84% of men used pornography at least once a week

This 2022 study [7] in that it performed an analysis of "objective website traffic data" in Poland found that pornography use has been increasing over time and as of 2016, 49% of male internet users used pornography in a month. Averaging across all study years, and dividing out by age, the estimates ranged from ~25% for boys aged 7-12 to ~60% for men aged 18-22. (And these are averaging across the period of increase, so the current estimates would likely be higher.)

In summary, frequency of pornography use varies by age and (to a degree) by geographic region (i.e., by degree development and gender equality). All of these also only considered prevalence among men with internet access, which means it is most likely not generalizable to very low income countries.

That being said, given the similarity in estimates between the review, the probability samples, and the convenience samples I think a reasonable rough estimate for the percentage of younger (not senior) men (with internet access) who use pornography at least once a week is ~45%. Just keep in mind that there is definitely significant variation by age, such that older men use much less pornography than younger men.

There are also a lot of studies that look specifically at problematic pornography use, but I didn't include these because (1) they wouldn't be representative of the general population who may or may not be registering their behaviors as an issue and (2) I consider all pornography use problematic.

I hope this gives you the answer you need!

References below the cut:

Miller, Dan J., Raggatt, Peter T.F., and McBain, Kerry (2020) A literature review of studies into the prevalence and frequency of men's pornography use. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 15 (4) pp. 502-529.

Kinda Malki, Christoffer Rahm, Katarina Görts Öberg, Peter Ueda, Frequency of Pornography Use and Sexual Health Outcomes in Sweden: Analysis of a National Probability Survey, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Volume 18, Issue 10, October 2021, Pages 1735–1751, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2021.08.003

Andrie, E. K., Sakou, I. I., Tzavela, E. C., Richardson, C., & Tsitsika, A. K. (2021). Adolescents’ online pornography exposure and its relationship to sociodemographic and psychopathological correlates: A cross-sectional study in six european countries. Children, 8(10), 925. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8100925

Eljawad, M. A., Se’eda, H., Ghozy, S., El-Qushayri, A. E., Elsherif, A., Elkassar, A. H., ... & Islam, S. M. S. (2021). Pornography use prevalence and associated factors in Arab countries: A multinational cross-sectional study of 15,027 individuals. The journal of sexual medicine, 18(3), 539-548.

Solano, I., Eaton, N. R., & O’Leary, K. D. (2020). Pornography consumption, modality and function in a large internet sample. The Journal of Sex Research.

Lim, M. S., Agius, P. A., Carrotte, E. R., Vella, A. M., & Hellard, M. E. (2017). Young Australians' use of pornography and associations with sexual risk behaviours. Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 41(4), 438-443.

Lewczuk, K., Wójcik, A., & Gola, M. (2022). Increase in the prevalence of online pornography use: Objective data analysis from the period between 2004 and 2016 in Poland. Archives of sexual behavior, 1-15.

*USA, Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Croatia, Poland, Portugal, Indonesia, Korea

**Egypt, Bahrain, Algeria, Yeman, UAE, Tunisia, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Oman, Morocco, Mauritania, Libya, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq

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[mariacallous]

The FBI, working closely with an international team including the Czech and Baltic intelligence services, has helped link a series of international cyberattacks to a shadowy unit associated with the Russian secret service, the GRU.

According to a joint cybersecurity advisory report issued on Friday, the cyberattacks were undertaken by a group tied to Unit 29155 of the GRU.

Previously, the same unit has been blamed for an explosion at an ammunition site in 2014 in Vrbětice, deep in the Czech Republic’s southeast, as well as “attempted coups, sabotage and influence operations, and assassination attempts throughout Europe.”

However, in 2020, Unit 29155 expanded its portfolio “to include offensive cyber operations.”

Among other objectives, this offshoot group was used to collect information for espionage, cause reputational harm by stealing and leaking sensitive information, and destroying data.

“Unit 29155 cyber actors [are assessed] to be junior active-duty GRU officers under the direction of experienced Unit 29155 leadership,” said the report.

“These individuals appear to be gaining cyber experience and enhancing their technical skills through conducting cyber operations and intrusions,” it continued. Additionally, the report assessed that non-GRU officers had also been recruited, including known cybercriminals.

The unit is believed to be responsible for unleashing WhisperGate, a multi-stage wiper that has been deployed against the Ukrainian government, non-profit and tech organizations since January 2022. In addition to launching WhisperGate against Ukraine, the group has also targeted NATO states as well as countries in Latin America and Central Asia with its activity, including website defacements, infrastructure scanning, data exfiltration, and data leak operations. “Since early 2022, the primary focus of the cyber actors appears to be targeting and disrupting efforts to provide aid to Ukraine,” the report revealed. Furthermore, over 14,000 cases of domain scanning had also been recorded, with these impacting 26 NATO members and several other EU nations. “Whether through offensive operations or scanning activity, Unit 29155 cyber actors are known to target critical infrastructure and key resource sectors, including government services, financial services, transportation systems, energy, and healthcare sectors of NATO members, the EU, Central American, and Asian countries,” said the report. Led by the FBI, the investigative operation also involved teams from Britain, Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia, and the Czech Republic. Together, their joint findings have enabled the Cybersecurity Advisory to develop tactics, techniques, and procedures to thwart further actions by Unit 29155.

[notwiselybuttoowell]

In Europe, Pringles has 34 active flavours in seven can sizes (one of which is called “David” for reasons no one can explain). Not all of these flavours are available in every European country – prawn cocktail only really sells in the UK and Ireland, while bacon is found in most places except Belgium, the Netherlands and strongholds of vegetarianism Austria, Denmark and Sweden. Salt and vinegar has spread everywhere except Norway and Italy. “They don’t have the habit of doing vinegar on their crisps; they just eat them plain with salt,” says Julie Merzougui, lead food designer at Kellanova. If an employee in Italy wanted to explore bringing salt and vinegar to the market, they could – they’d simply have to ask. As of yet, they haven’t.

Multiple times a year, Pringles releases limited-edition flavours known internally as “insanely accurate analogues” – Merzougui and Peremans come up with these for Europe. “People think we have the dream job,” Merzougui says (she has dark hair, round glasses and an easy laugh, a personality akin to an experimental flavour – perhaps a chorizo Pringle). Peremans, who has worked at the company for 26 years, has a salt and pepper beard and a Salt & Shake personality. He speaks quietly and pragmatically, but has a subtle playful streak: “My young son, he wants to become my successor.”

Like Lay’s, Pringles starts with data – in Asia, the company uses a Tinder-like tool with 200 consumers at a time, asking them to swipe left or right on potential flavours. Lucia Sudjalim, a senior Pringles developer in Asia, says she does a lot of “social media listening”, observing trends among influencers and bloggers. Kellanova also uses AI, which Merzougui says can predict trends up to 10 years in advance. Things aren’t always this sophisticated though – both Lay’s and Pringles also look at what’s on the shelves in countries they want to break into, copying flavours and identifying gaps to fill.

Yet just because the world wants a flavour doesn’t mean it’s made. In December 2020, scotch egg sales soared in the UK after Conservative ministers ruled the snack a “substantial meal” (providing punters with an excuse to be in the pub under Covid-19 lockdown rules). Peremans was challenged to make scotch egg Pringles and pulled it off; Merzougui says they tasted “really authentic”. Ultimately, however, the potential order volume was not high enough to justify a production run. (This, incidentally, is why it’s hard to get Salt & Pepper Pringles in the UK, even though they’re delicious.)

Another unreleased flavour was part of a collaboration with Nando’s that petered out for reasons Peremans is unsure about. Sometimes, logistics get in the way: the perfectly blended seasoning might clog the machines or create too much dust, causing sneezing fits in the factory. Belgian legislation mandates that every seasoning has to be put through a dust explosion test – it is set alight in controlled conditions to ensure it won’t blow up.

Inside the plant, manager Van Batenburg shows me giant cube-shaped bags of seasonings that arrive ready to be cascaded on to the crisps. At the end of his video presentation, he made a passing comment that rocked my world. We were talking about other crisp companies, big name competitors. “In essence,” he said, “they’re using the same seasoning houses we do.”

I leave Belgium with the names of three seasoning houses Pringles work with. At home, I discover that their websites are obscure – they speak of flavours and trends, but don’t even mention Pringles. I haven’t so much stumbled upon a conspiracy as been invited into it, but I am still shocked. After two months’ cajoling by the Pringles team, two representatives from a seasoning house agree to speak – but only on the condition of total anonymity, in line with their contractual obligations.

“It’s quite secretive,” food scientist Reuben admits via Zoom, wearing a pink shirt and a thoughtful expression (the only crisp I can compare him to is a Quaver). “Everyone has their own crown jewels that they protect.”

As a marketer, Peggy has always found the company’s secrecy “strange”. She speaks clearly, in a way that is reminiscent of a teacher or a steadfast multigrain snack. “It’s always been a bit of a puzzle to me … I was like, ‘Why aren’t we shouting about this?’ But I was told, ‘Oh, no, we have to keep it very quiet.’”

This is because – just as Van Batenburg hinted in Belgium – the seasoning house Reuben and Peggy work for provides flavours for Pringles and Lay’s, as well as other brands. When asked whether their clients know, Reuben says, “They do and they don’t.” “It’s just not really talked about,” Peggy adds. However, this doesn’t mean that a Salt & Vinegar Pringle is flavoured with the same seasoning as a Salt & Vinegar Lay’s. In fact, the seasoning house is strictly siloed to guarantee exclusivity. Reuben’s team work on the Pringles account; the team making flavours for PepsiCo is in an entirely different country. “So the recipe, if you will, of the Pringles salt and vinegar can’t be seen by the other team,” Reuben says.

[adarkrainbow]

Lost media quest: H&G Epic Tales (part 3)

Last time I ended my post while exploring the defunct epictales.com website. There was one page of this website (preserved in the Wayback Machine) that I did not add in this post: the About page.

The About page not only describes the Epic Tales line, but also lists the full staff that worked on this project. Here is what the website contains:

EPIC TALES™ is a developer and publisher of interactive storybooks for the iOS platform. EPIC TALES presents its own unique interactive adaptation of the imaginative and magical stories found in fairytales, folklore and world mythology.

All of our tales are narrated by our central storyteller, a most likeable dwarf named Silvertongue who used his magic to let our books and stories come to life. Each storybook offers stunning hand-drawn animations, a revamped storyline, original music scores, and spellbinding interactive environments that are sure to draw readers deep into the story.

EPIC TALES allows you to not only enjoy magical worlds and enchanting tales, but to experience them more closely than ever before.

We, the people at EPIC TALES, are always inspired by stories that fuel our ideas and imagination. We are storytellers, animators, and composers that gladly indulge ourselves in folklore, mythology, and the many tales and stories that have captured our imagination for generations. The result is a talented team of people driven to create original storybooks that are filled with whimsical characters, spellbinding environments, and interactive surprises. By combining creativity with technology, and talent with expertise, we hope to constantly produce exciting tales that bring every page to life. EPIC TALES is a joint venture between Cloud Castle Interactive and Anikey studios.

EPIC TALES Paul Hanraets, Founder of EPIC TALES and producer

Albert ‘t Hooft, Partner and creative director

Paco Vink, Partner and lead artist, animator

TEAM MEMBERS Lou Attia, Narrator and voice actor

Martin van Spanje, Software engineer

Joost van den Broek, Music composer

Arjen Schut, Sound designer

Sjan Weijers, Background clean-up artist

David Muchtar, Animator

Jelle Brunt, Animator

Ruben Zaalberg, Animator

The website also briefly offers descriptions/curriculum of the staff members:

Paul Hanraets Paul Hanraets has been a creative entrepreneur since 2002 when he co-founded Red Road Media, a media agency specialized in video games. Successful projects undertaken by Red Road include: Benelux largest annual game event Gamexpo, the tv show GAME FACTS broadcasted by TMF/MTV and the freely distributed game magazine Games Guide. In 2008 Paul founded Cloud Castle Interactive and was involved in the development of smaller game projects which further awakened his passion for the creative industry. As an immediate result Paul founded EPIC TALES, a developer of interactive storybooks for IOS and GAMBITIOUS an equity based crowdfunding platform dedicated to the games industry.

Albert ‘t Hooft & Paco Vink Albert 't Hooft and Paco Vink both studied traditional animation at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam before they founded Anikey Studios in 2007. Anikey is an award winning animation studio which specialises in hand drawn 2D digital animation. Anikey creates independent and commissioned animations for television, films and games which have an emphasis on story, characters and fun. Anikey's first two independent films 'Paul & the Dragon' and 'Little Quentin' won several awards at international film festivals. In addition on working on the new EPIC TALES titles, Anikey is developing the first hand drawn animated feature film in the Netherlands since 30 years.

Lou Attia Working with the likes of Disney and Sesame Street, Lou Attia has been a professional voice-over artist for over 15 years. After studying professional vocals in London, England, Lou landed a radio host position at 104.2 Nile FM in Cairo, Egypt where he became Creative Director and then Program Director of the station. Throughout his seven years on the air, during which his morning show went on to be the No.1 listened to radio show in a city of 16 million, Lou continued to do voice-overs for numerous commercials, shows and features. In 2010 Lou moved to Toronto, Canada where he is currently a full time voice-over artist, writer and TV show host.

Martin van Spanje Currently co-owner of LayerGloss Digital Publishing, Martin used to program and design on 8-bit Sinclair machines in the eighties. Then came Macs, digital audio, ten years of IT-projects and finally, iOS. Nowadays he lives his life surrounded by Objective-C code, and he sometimes thinks cornflakes look a bit like people. Oh, and he doesn't do Twitter.

Joost van den Broek Joost van den Broek is a producer, composer, arranger and keyboardplayer based in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Starting out as a keyboardplayer for several metalbands like After Forever touring all over the world, he finished his conservatory with honour in musicproduction, keyboards and classical arrangement. Since then he been working as a freelancer in his own studio on several productions, compositions and arrangements, for acts/events like: Ellen ten Damme, Symphonica in Rosso, Wende Snijders, Games in Concert, Ben Saunders, Qlimax. Epic moviescores and/or/in combination with (pop/alternative)rock is what defines his style the most.

Arjen Schut Arjen Schut is a sound designer based in Hilversum, The Netherlands. As a freelancer Arjen has worked on numerous projects, both on location and in his own studio. Arjen is involved in sound effect creation for all sorts of media, but has a strong focus on interactive and animation projects. International blockbuster Killzone 3 being one of the larger projects.

I have taken upon myself to contact some of these artists, just in case they were open about talking or sharing information about the animation they worked onto. Is it a bad idea, or a good one? I don't know but that's the most straightforward direction one can take. I will warn you if I ever receive any response, positive or negative.

I forgot to link before the official page, on the Anikey Animation website, for their work on Hansel and Gretel - Epic Tales. Not only does it contain large, high-quality screenshots of the artwork, but their "Production" page also has one concept art for the storybook. They also list the credits of the app as such:

Title: Epic Tales - Hansel & Gretel

Release: 2012

Directed by: Albert 't Hooft & Paco Vink

Animation by: Jelle Brunt, David Muchtar & Ruben Zaalberg

Backgrounds by: Paco Vink & Sjan Weijers

Music by: Joost van den Broek

Sounddesign by: Arjen van der Schut

Producer(s): Paul Hanraets for Cloud Castle Interactive

AppAdvice still has a page dedicated to the application. There is also a review by the MacTrast website that is quite interesting because, while today the pictures contained within it are "dead files", in the Wayback Machine you can fetch them back, and they are pretty rare screenshots of the game! Here's an additional Dutch article I forgot to add earlier. Again, not much to add since they all basically just announce the game's release and rephrase the storybook's commercial description.

I also don't think I have added this to my previous posts, but Cartoon Brew also had a page for the app's launching, which contained this text:

The Hague, the Netherlands — April 24, 2012 — Hansel and Gretel – Epic Tales animated storybook is the first in a series of tales as told by Silvertongue, the likeable dwarf and storyteller, and is now available on the Appstore for IPad and IPhone.

Hansel and Gretel – Epic Tales animated storybook offers a world filled with whimsical characters ranging from pesky gnomes to witty dwarfs; from brave children to wicked stepmothers and cunning witches.

“But we are not just another fairytale App,” says Paul Hanraets, founder and producer. “What sets Epic Tales apart from other storybooks are the incredible production values. Each of Epic Tales storybooks are digitally hand-drawn by our award winning animators, and offer stunning 2d animations, professional voice acting, original music scores and ambient sounds by game industry veterans. These elements combined offer spellbinding interactive environments that are sure to draw readers even deeper into the story.”

“Of course, our alternating witty and wacky humour and the high quality of our animations are amongst the things that separates Hansel and Gretel from other storybooks,” says creative director Albert ‘t Hooft.”However, what ultimately distinguishes Epic Tales is the implementation of our central storyteller, Silvertongue the dwarf.” Using the magic of pesky gnomes, Silvertongue brings the stories to life and narrates them.”Silvertongue used to be quite the adventurer, travelling the world in search of the most intriguing tales and stories, and now looks after your storybook collection in his humble bookstore. He is a truly gifted storyteller who can take an audience from a gasp of fright to a roar of laughter in just the twist of a phrase.”

Epic Tales is a series of high quality, interactive fairytales that allows you to not only enjoy enchanting tales, but to experience their magical worlds more closely than ever before. Children will love the sense of wonder and discovery,while adults will certainly appreciate the clever and wacky humor.

A final piece to add to the dossier so far is Muchtar Productions' page for Hansel and Gretel - Epic Tales. Muchtar Production is the WordPress website of David Muchtar, a 2D animator and illustrator who worked on the Epic Tales animation as a (I quote) "Rough and Clean-up animator". He notably put within his portfolio an important number of concept art for the game's character designs. But, as with last time, I will keep it for the NEXT post!

Or... an almost final piece. I wanted to keep this for a much later post, but I ultimately decided to share it here. I vaguely described before one unofficial source for content about "Hansel and Gretel - Epic Tales". And that is an online review, a Youtube video, by a Youtuber named "Crazy Mike" specializing in app reviews. Here is the video, and the reason why this video is important (beyond it being the last remaining video review - unless I manage to get back the one from the defunct website) is because so far it is the only visual recording we have of the app outside of the trailers. Not only that, but at one point Crazy Mike opens the list of chapters within the app - which gives us a full glimpse of the story's main episodes, with thumbnails of each "tableau". Mind you, it is tiny details at the bottom of the screen so we can't get much of it... But with all the additional material I gathered, it will be a key element in my reconstruction of what the storybook looked like and was about.

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[brookston]

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Imagine Film Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands) [thru 11.3]

Pumpkinpalooza (Starkville, Mississippi)

Tacoma Holiday Food & Gift Festival (Tacoma, Washington) [thru 10.27]

Top Taco (Matairie, Louisiana)

Feast Days

Al Feldstein (Artology)

Ann Cleeves (Writerism)

Anthony Mary Claret (Christian; Saint)

Betty Lou (Muppetism)

Bijaya Dashami [10th Day of Dashain]

Bob Kane (Artology)

Cider Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Eberigisil (Evergitus; Christian; Saint)

Eugène Fromentin (Artology)

Feast of the Spirits of the Air (Pagan)

Five Martyrs of Carthage (Felix and Companions; Christian; Saint)

Janis Joplin Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Jüri Arrak (Artology)

Konstantin Yuon (Artology)

Lilith’s Day (Ancient Mesopotamian)

Luigi Guanella (Christian; Saint)

Magloire of Dol (Christian; Saint)

Maladay (Discordian)

Marianne North (Artology)

Martin of Vertou (Christian; Saint)

Massimo d'Azeglio (Artology)

New Year’s Day (Jainism)

Proclus of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Raphael the Archangel (Catholic Church 1921-1969, local calendars) [Travelers]

Rafael Guízar y Valencia (Christian; Saint)

Senoch (Christian; Saint)

Vico (Positivist; Saint)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays

Shemini Atzeret [22 Tishrei]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [57 of 71]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [49 of 60]

Premieres

The Alamo (Film; 1960)

American Pie, by Don McLean (Album; 1971)

Battle of Britain (Film; 1969)

Donald’s Camera (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Episode 120 or 123 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 120; 1961)

Equus, by Peter Shaffer (Play; 1974)

Fer-de-Lance, by Rex Stout (Novel; 1934) [Nero Wolfe #1]

Gattaca (Film; 1997)

Go Snow, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 7 & 8; 1964)

Hot and Cold Penguin (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1955)

John Wick (Film; 2014)

The Last Hurrah (Film; 1958)

Live at the Apollo, recorded by James Brown (Album; 1962)

The Manchurian Candidate (Film; 1962)

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, by Smashing Pumpkins (Album; 1995)

Mellow Yellow, by Donovan (Song; 1966)

Miss Fritter’s Racing School (Pixar Cartoon; 2017)

Moose Gets the Juice or Mourning Becomes Electra-Cuted (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 119; 1961)

Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene (Novel; 1958)

Pancho’s Hideaway (WB LT Cartoon; 1964)

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, by Simon & Garfunkel (Album; 1966)

Shaved Fish, by John Lennon (Album; 1975)

The Silver Spoon, by Clelia D'Onofrio (Cookbook; 1950)

Smooth Criminal, by Michael Jackson (Song; 1988)

Springtime (Ub Iwerks Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1929)

St. Vincent (Film; 2014)

The Super Salesman (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1947)

Taylor Swift, by Taylor Swift (Album; 2006)

The Wiz (Film; 1978)

Wotta Knight (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1947)

Today’s Name Days

Alois, Aloisia, Anton, Armella (Austria)

Antun, Proklo (Croatia)

Nina (Czech Republic)

Proclus (Denmark)

Asmo, Asmus, Ermo, Rasmus (Estonia)

Asmo, Rasmus (Finland)

Florentin (France)

Alois, Aloisia, Anton, Armella, Victoria (Germany)

Sevastiani (Greece)

Salamon (Hungary)

Ponzia (Italy)

Ara, Modrite, Mudrīte, Renāte (Latvia)

Daugailas, Gilbertas, Rapolas, Švitrigailė (Lithuania)

Eilif, Eivor (Norway)

Antoni, Boleczest, Filip, Hortensja, Marcin, Rafaela, Rafał, Salomon (Poland)

Areta (Romania)

Kvetoslava (Slovakia)

Antonio (Spain)

Eilert, Evert (Sweden)

Valentine (Ukraine)

Denver, Rafael, Rafaela, Raphael, Raphaela (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 298 of 2024; 68 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of Week 43 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 26 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Jia-Xu), Day 22 (Xin-You)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 22 Tishri 5785

Islamic: 20 Rabi II 1446

J Cal: 28 Orange; Seventhday [28 of 30]

Julian: 11 October 2024

Moon: 50%: 3rd Quarter

Positivist: 18 Descartes (11th Month) [Wincklemann / Fréret]

Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 33 of 90)

Week: 3rd Full Week of October

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 2 of 30)

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This Week in Rust 533

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

This Week in Rust is openly developed on GitHub and archives can be viewed at this-week-in-rust.org. If you find any errors in this week's issue, please submit a PR.

Updates from Rust Community

Official

crates.io: API status code changes

Foundation

Google Contributes $1M to Rust Foundation to Support C++/Rust "Interop Initiative"

Project/Tooling Updates

Announcing the Tauri v2 Beta Release

Polars — Why we have rewritten the string data type

rust-analyzer changelog #219

Ratatui 0.26.0 - a Rust library for cooking up terminal user interfaces

Observations/Thoughts

Will it block?

Embedded Rust in Production ..?

Let futures be futures

Compiling Rust is testing

Rust web frameworks have subpar error reporting

[video] Proving Performance - FOSDEM 2024 - Rust Dev Room

[video] Stefan Baumgartner - Trials, Traits, and Tribulations

[video] Rainer Stropek - Memory Management in Rust

[video] Shachar Langbeheim - Async & FFI - not exactly a love story

[video] Massimiliano Mantione - Object Oriented Programming, and Rust

[audio] Unlocking Rust's power through mentorship and knowledge spreading, with Tim McNamara

[audio] Asciinema with Marcin Kulik

Non-Affine Types, ManuallyDrop and Invariant Lifetimes in Rust - Part One

Nine Rules for Accessing Cloud Files from Your Rust Code: Practical lessons from upgrading Bed-Reader, a bioinformatics library

Rust Walkthroughs

AsyncWrite and a Tale of Four Implementations

Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code

Fragment specifiers in Rust Macros

Writing a REST API in Rust

[video] Traits and operators

Write a simple netcat client and server in Rust

Miscellaneous

RustFest 2024 Announcement

Preprocessing trillions of tokens with Rust (case study)

All EuroRust 2023 talks ordered by the view count

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is embedded-cli-rs, a library that makes it easy to create CLIs on embedded devices.

Thanks to Sviatoslav Kokurin for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

CFP - Projects

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

Fluvio - Build a new python wrapping for the fluvio client crate

Fluvio - MQTT Connector: Prefix auto generated Client ID to prevent connection drops

Ockam - Implement events in SqlxDatabase

Ockam - Output for both ockam project ticket and ockam project enroll is improved, with support for --output json

Ockam - Output for ockam project ticket is improved and information is not opaque 

Hyperswitch - [FEATURE]: Setup code coverage for local tests & CI

Hyperswitch - [FEATURE]: Have get_required_value to use ValidationError in OptionExt

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

CFP - Speakers

Are you a new or experienced speaker looking for a place to share something cool? This section highlights events that are being planned and are accepting submissions to join their event as a speaker.

RustNL 2024 CFP closes 2024-02-19 | Delft, The Netherlands | Event date: 2024-05-07 & 2024-05-08

NDC Techtown CFP closes 2024-04-14 | Kongsberg, Norway | Event date: 2024-09-09 to 2024-09-12

If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the submission website through a PR to TWiR.

Updates from the Rust Project

309 pull requests were merged in the last week

add avx512fp16 to x86 target features

riscv only supports split_debuginfo=off for now

target: default to the medium code model on LoongArch targets

#![feature(inline_const_pat)] is no longer incomplete

actually abort in -Zpanic-abort-tests

add missing potential_query_instability for keys and values in hashmap

avoid ICE when is_val_statically_known is not of a supported type

be more careful about interpreting a label/lifetime as a mistyped char literal

check RUST_BOOTSTRAP_CONFIG in profile_user_dist test

correctly check never_type feature gating

coverage: improve handling of function/closure spans

coverage: use normal edition: headers in coverage tests

deduplicate more sized errors on call exprs

pattern_analysis: Gracefully abort on type incompatibility

pattern_analysis: cleanup manual impls

pattern_analysis: cleanup the contexts

fix BufReader unsoundness by adding a check in default_read_buf

fix ICE on field access on a tainted type after const-eval failure

hir: refactor getters for owner nodes

hir: remove the generic type parameter from MaybeOwned

improve the diagnostics for unused generic parameters

introduce support for async bound modifier on Fn* traits

make matching on NaN a hard error, and remove the rest of illegal_floating_point_literal_pattern

make the coroutine def id of an async closure the child of the closure def id

miscellaneous diagnostics cleanups

move UI issue tests to subdirectories

move predicate, region, and const stuff into their own modules in middle

never patterns: It is correct to lower ! to _

normalize region obligation in lexical region resolution with next-gen solver

only suggest removal of as_* and to_ conversion methods on E0308

provide more context on derived obligation error primary label

suggest changing type to const parameters if we encounter a type in the trait bound position

suppress unhelpful diagnostics for unresolved top level attributes

miri: normalize struct tail in ABI compat check

miri: moving out sched_getaffinity interception from linux'shim, FreeBSD su…

miri: switch over to rustc's tracing crate instead of using our own log crate

revert unsound libcore changes

fix some Arc allocator leaks

use <T, U> for array/slice equality impls

improve io::Read::read_buf_exact error case

reject infinitely-sized reads from io::Repeat

thread_local::register_dtor fix proposal for FreeBSD

add LocalWaker and ContextBuilder types to core, and LocalWake trait to alloc

codegen_gcc: improve iterator for files suppression

cargo: Don't panic on empty spans

cargo: Improve map/sequence error message

cargo: apply -Zpanic-abort-tests to doctests too

cargo: don't print rustdoc command lines on failure by default

cargo: stabilize lockfile v4

cargo: fix markdown line break in cargo-add

cargo: use spec id instead of name to match package

rustdoc: fix footnote handling

rustdoc: correctly handle attribute merge if this is a glob reexport

rustdoc: prevent JS injection from localStorage

rustdoc: trait.impl, type.impl: sort impls to make it not depend on serialization order

clippy: redundant_locals: take by-value closure captures into account

clippy: new lint: manual_c_str_literals

clippy: add lint_groups_priority lint

clippy: add new lint: ref_as_ptr

clippy: add configuration for wildcard_imports to ignore certain imports

clippy: avoid deleting labeled blocks

clippy: fixed FP in unused_io_amount for Ok(lit), unrachable! and unwrap de…

rust-analyzer: "Normalize import" assist and utilities for normalizing use trees

rust-analyzer: enable excluding refs search results in test

rust-analyzer: support for GOTO def from inside files included with include! macro

rust-analyzer: emit parser error for missing argument list

rust-analyzer: swap Subtree::token_trees from Vec to boxed slice

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Rust's CI was down most of the week, leading to a much smaller collection of commits than usual. Results are mostly neutral for the week.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: 5c9c3c78..0984bec

0 Regressions, 2 Improvements, 1 Mixed; 1 of them in rollups 17 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

No RFCs were approved this week.

Final Comment Period

Every week, the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

RFCs

No RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

Tracking Issues & PRs

[disposition: merge] Consider principal trait ref's auto-trait super-traits in dyn upcasting

[disposition: merge] remove sub_relations from the InferCtxt

[disposition: merge] Optimize away poison guards when std is built with panic=abort

[disposition: merge] Check normalized call signature for WF in mir typeck

Language Reference

No Language Reference RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

Unsafe Code Guidelines

No Unsafe Code Guideline RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

New and Updated RFCs

Nested function scoped type parameters

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

No RFCs issued a call for testing this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

Upcoming Events

Rusty Events between 2024-02-07 - 2024-03-06 🦀

Virtual

2024-02-07 | Virtual (Indianapolis, IN, US) | Indy Rust

Indy.rs - Ezra Singh - How Rust Saved My Eyes

2024-02-08 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Crafting Interpreters in Rust Collaboratively

2024-02-08 | Virtual (Nürnberg, DE) | Rust Nüremberg

Rust Nürnberg online

2024-02-10 | Virtual (Krakow, PL) | Stacja IT Kraków

Rust – budowanie narzędzi działających w linii komend

2024-02-10 | Virtual (Wrocław, PL) | Stacja IT Wrocław

Rust – budowanie narzędzi działających w linii komend

2024-02-13 | Virtual (Dallas, TX, US) | Dallas Rust

Second Tuesday

2024-02-15 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | OpenTechSchool Berlin + Rust Berlin

Rust Hack n Learn | Mirror: Rust Hack n Learn

2024-02-15 | Virtual + In person (Praha, CZ) | Rust Czech Republic

Introduction and Rust in production

2024-02-19 | Virtual (Melbourne, VIC, AU) | Rust Melbourne

February 2024 Rust Melbourne Meetup

2024-02-20 | Virtual | Rust for Lunch

Lunch

2024-02-21 | Virtual (Cardiff, UK) | Rust and C++ Cardiff

Rust for Rustaceans Book Club: Chapter 2 - Types

2024-02-21 | Virtual (Vancouver, BC, CA) | Vancouver Rust

Rust Study/Hack/Hang-out

2024-02-22 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Crafting Interpreters in Rust Collaboratively

Asia

2024-02-10 | Hyderabad, IN | Rust Language Hyderabad

Rust Language Develope BootCamp

Europe

2024-02-07 | Cologne, DE | Rust Cologne

Embedded Abstractions | Event page

2024-02-07 | London, UK | Rust London User Group

Rust for the Web — Mainmatter x Shuttle Takeover

2024-02-08 | Bern, CH | Rust Bern

Rust Bern Meetup #1 2024 🦀

2024-02-08 | Oslo, NO | Rust Oslo

Rust-based banter

2024-02-13 | Trondheim, NO | Rust Trondheim

Building Games with Rust: Dive into the Bevy Framework

2024-02-15 | Praha, CZ - Virtual + In-person | Rust Czech Republic

Introduction and Rust in production

2024-02-21 | Lyon, FR | Rust Lyon

Rust Lyon Meetup #8

2024-02-22 | Aarhus, DK | Rust Aarhus

Rust and Talk at Partisia

North America

2024-02-07 | Brookline, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Coolidge Corner Brookline Rust Lunch, Feb 7

2024-02-08 | Lehi, UT, US | Utah Rust

BEAST: Recreating a classic DOS terminal game in Rust

2024-02-12 | Minneapolis, MN, US | Minneapolis Rust Meetup

Minneapolis Rust: Open Source Contrib Hackathon & Happy Hour

2024-02-13 | New York, NY, US | Rust NYC

Rust NYC Monthly Mixer

2024-02-13 | Seattle, WA, US | Cap Hill Rust Coding/Hacking/Learning

Rusty Coding/Hacking/Learning Night

2024-02-15 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Back Bay Rust Lunch, Feb 15

2024-02-15 | Seattle, WA, US | Seattle Rust User Group

Seattle Rust User Group Meetup

2024-02-20 | San Francisco, CA, US | San Francisco Rust Study Group

Rust Hacking in Person

2024-02-22 | Mountain View, CA, US | Mountain View Rust Meetup

Rust Meetup at Hacker Dojo

2024-02-28 | Austin, TX, US | Rust ATX

Rust Lunch - Fareground

Oceania

2024-02-19 | Melbourne, VIC, AU + Virtual | Rust Melbourne

February 2024 Rust Melbourne Meetup

2024-02-27 | Canberra, ACT, AU | Canberra Rust User Group

February Meetup

2024-02-27 | Sydney, NSW, AU | Rust Sydney

🦀 spire ⚡ & Quick

If you are running a Rust event please add it to the calendar to get it mentioned here. Please remember to add a link to the event too. Email the Rust Community Team for access.

Jobs

Please see the latest Who's Hiring thread on r/rust

Quote of the Week

My take on this is that you cannot use async Rust correctly and fluently without understanding Arc, Mutex, the mutability of variables/references, and how async and await syntax compiles in the end. Rust forces you to understand how and why things are the way they are. It gives you minimal abstraction to do things that could’ve been tedious to do yourself.

I got a chance to work on two projects that drastically forced me to understand how async/await works. The first one is to transform a library that is completely sync and only requires a sync trait to talk to the outside service. This all sounds fine, right? Well, this becomes a problem when we try to port it into browsers. The browser is single-threaded and cannot block the JavaScript runtime at all! It is arguably the most weird environment for Rust users. It is simply impossible to rewrite the whole library, as it has already been shipped to production on other platforms.

What we did instead was rewrite the network part using async syntax, but using our own generator. The idea is simple: the generator produces a future when called, and the produced future can be awaited. But! The produced future contains an arc pointer to the generator. That means we can feed the generator the value we are waiting for, then the caller who holds the reference to the generator can feed the result back to the function and resume it. For the browser, we use the native browser API to derive the network communications; for other platforms, we just use regular blocking network calls. The external interface remains unchanged for other platforms.

Honestly, I don’t think any other language out there could possibly do this. Maybe C or C++, but which will never have the same development speed and developer experience.

I believe people have already mentioned it, but the current asynchronous model of Rust is the most reasonable choice. It does create pain for developers, but on the other hand, there is no better asynchronous model for Embedded or WebAssembly.

– /u/Top_Outlandishness78 on /r/rust

Thanks to Brian Kung for the suggestion!

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Russian Su-57M fighter with new engine will enter service in 2025

Aircraft flight tests have been taking place since October 2022.

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 05/02/2024 - 10:08am Military

Russia's Su-57 fighter is scheduled to receive an upgrade with a new engine, the AL-51F, and will be designated as Su-57M when it enters service.

Since October 2022, the Su-57M has undergone flight tests, and according to reports from the Russian website topcor.ru, deliveries are expected to begin by 2025.

The AL-51F engine, formerly known as "Product 30" during development and later named "Saturn-30", will replace the current AL-41F1, promising notable performance improvements. With a thrust of 18,000 kgf, compared to the previous 15,000 kgf, the Su-57M is expected to reach a total thrust of 36,000 kgf with its two new engines.

Experts predict that this update will result in significant increases in the maximum speed and supersonic cruising speed of the fighter. The Su-57M is designed to reach speeds of up to 2,950 km/h, representing a substantial improvement over the current 2,550 km/h, equating it to the capabilities of the MiG-31BM long-range interceptor.

Improvements in the thrust-to-weight ratio during takeoff, together with the new AL-51F engine, provide high-energy maneuvers, allowing the Su-57M to make stable curves in the arphage plane at an angular speed of approximately 27-30 degrees/s. With features such as a thrust vector deflection system and advanced aerodynamics, the Su-57M gains tactical advantage in close combat scenarios.

In addition, the flight range of the Su-57M is expected to increase by almost 10% thanks to the AL-51F engine. The ascent rate is projected to increase from 330-335 to 370-375 m/s, allowing rapid ascents at altitudes ranging from 13,500 to 18,500 m. This improved climb rate, combined with the use of Izdeliye-180 and R-37M air-to-air missiles, expands the Su-57M's ability to intercept aerial targets at maximum distances of 180 and 250-270 km, respectively.

Despite the historic delays in the Russian fighter aircraft industry, Military Watch magazine suggests that the Su-57M will probably be delivered before 2027.

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Mega projects

Two years ago, I changed jobs.

The role of BI Analyst that I moved from was about 80% hard-skill based. I took on it while living with a disability resulting from post-operation difficulties and it served me well, providing me with great work-life balance at acceptable wage. Thanks to the arrangement, I was able to take care of myself, deal with my physical handicap, and finally undergo a couple of surgeries, which restored my somewhat healthy status.

Following that, I finally started properly recovering mentally. Soon, I had been able to take on many of my previous hobbies other than gaming. I bought a bicycle, which I'd driven the 20 odd kilometers to work couple of times and even managed to climb the way to the dorms where my then girlfriend (now wife) stayed. I also managed to recondition and sell off computer hardware that I had had piling up for a good while then. I started new electronics projects and fixed appliences for friends and family. I redesigned my blog, made a website, designed a brandbook for an acquaintance, and edited hours of videos. It was almost as if I were back at the uni with little extra money, which allowed me to invest into stuff.

The next obvious thing to happen for any purpose-driven individual was becoming more proactive at work. I suggested expansion and overall improvement of architecture behind the firm's BI suite, because it was clearly necessary - more on that in an earlier article. In spite of my being categorized under finance, there was no real budget for it and most of my proposals ended up in an abbyss. I even paid for Google Cloud resources to automate some of the data science stuff.

When a new CTO came in and things finally started to move, he was more keen on bringing his own people to do the important work. Myself, being previously involved in projects of country-level importance including system implementation and process redesign, even being offered a similar role in the Netherlands, albeit shortly before being diagnosed with cancer, I felt it was unfair not to give me the opportunity. So I left to seek it elsewhere.

I found it with a firm two miles from my birthplace, which was founded some two years after I was born. [Coincidence? Likely.] They (or rather we) are a used car retailer and at that point in time needed to replace an old CRM system. And that's what I was tasked with, all the way from technology and supplier tender to the launch and establishment of iterative development cycles. It was notch up from what I did some time before then, exactly the challenge I felt I needed.

Supported by the director of ICT with profound experience working with a global logistics giant, I completed the implementation in two years. The role encompassed project management, across business stakeholders and external suppliers, creating technical specifications, but most of all, doing a lot of the programming myself - especially the integrations. Along the way, I was joined by a teammate, whom I slowly handed over the responsibility of overseeing the operations and providing L1 - L2 support.

The final 9 months leading up to that were particularly difficult, though - finalizing every little bit to the continually adjusting requirements put forward by the key process owners. In the week before go-live, I worked double hours to finish everything and enable a "big bang" transition. D-Day 3 am, I had to abort due to not making the final data migration in time, meaning that the switch happened on Valentine's day.

The extended care period, over which we had to fix every single bug and reduce glitches took about two more months. And even though we managed to present the whole thing as complete, oversight and further expansion still take about two days of my week.

Over the duration of the CRM project, I was fully invested in it and still managed to deliver some extras, like helping out with reporting, integrating Windows users repository with chip-based attendance system from late '00s, working with some weird APIs, and administering two servers loaded with devops utilities.

Personal life did not suffer entirely. I dedicated most to spending time with my girlfriend, even managed to marry her during that period. There were some home-improvement activities that needed to be done and a small number of hurried vacations. But all my side-projects and hobbies ended up being on hold.

And that is literally the only thing I regret about the project and, to date, from the whole job change. Now is the time to try and pick up where I left off. Regaining the momentum in writing and video editing will be particularly difficult. My wife wants me to help out with her cosplay, so I have good motivation to return to being crafty again and refresh the experience from when I made a LARP crossbow and melee weapons. Furthering home-improvement is a big desire of mine but cost is an issue nowadays, with rent and utilities being entirely on my shoulders.

And then there are two things that I want to achieve that I failed at for way too long. Obtaining a driver's license (or possibly making my wife get it) and losing weight. The latter, I am working on with the handy calorie tracking app that dine4fit.com is, especially in my current region, and my Garmin watch. We will hopefully go swimming again soon as well. The former is a whole different story surrounded by plenty of trauma that still needs some recovery and obviously the sacrifice of cost and time to complete it.

I believe I have now strongly improved my work-life balance, by far not to what I was used to at the uni, but to a level that should let me do things that I want to do. And I wish to maintain it for a while. Maybe before embarking on yet another mega project, albeit with a much better starting point than the one I had in this case? Who knows.

And about the money, I believe a spike will come eventually, with transition to another employer, most likely. But the longer I am here, the more experience comes my way in doses much greater than those I would get elsewhere if I were to move just now. I'm 28 and if I lose weight and make sure to overcome obstacles of personal nature, I will do better. As for not being a millionaire by the age of 30, I should be able to handle that.

I almost died five years ago, gave up on pursuing my master's, lost the chance to take on the opportunity I had in the Netherlands, and now live where I'd wished, even managed temporarily, to move away from. I do well understand how scarce our time is, but I have to cut myself some slack when others don't (upcoming article "cancer perks"). For what it is, I still rock, don't I?!

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Heya! I'm Julie, a bovine designer and developer from the Netherlands. I create art in my OVER//CUTE style. And I also make album covers, logos, posters, websites and games! I hope to work with you in the future! ✽ I hope you have a nice Portfolio Day! ✽