Week 16, 2024

Links

• Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks. Here’s how they get made. (vox.com) - the content farms and self-publishing grifters responsible for a huge amount of terrible e-books on Amazon
• Don Bluth's Garage Band (animationobsessive.substack.com) - the history of Don Bluth at Disney, and how his team of garage animators eventually left to form their own Animiation studio
• immich.app - Self-hosted photo and video management solution with Google Photos-style features
• Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95 (dpolakovic.space) - the chronically insecure Windows 95
• I can't use my number pad for 2FA codes (shkspr.mobi) - a bit of terrible javascript stopping a keyboard from operating normally
• OpenTherm thermostat with ESPHome and Home Assistant (olegtarasov.me) - a custom ESPHome device linking with Home Assistant for automated heating controls

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