wk49/2021

6 - 12 Dec

• Is the “Vertical Kilometer” the World’s Toughest Race? (insidehook.com) - attempting to set the fastest known time for running a vertical kilometre
• Scan of the Month: Airpods Evolution (scanofthemonth.com) - CT scans of the various versions of Airpods released over the years. (this page appears to expire every month so here's the archive link)
• How a Nepali Climber Shattered the Record for Summiting the World’s 14 Tallest Mountains (insidehook.com) - interview with Nirmal Purja about his project to climb the 14 mountains taller than 8000 metres. A documentary about this project recently released on Netflix; 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
• Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11 begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (blogs.windows.com) - the new version of Notepad rolling out to Windows 11
• How I Host This Blog From My Garage (eevans.co) - self-hosted blog setup running on Kubernetes