🔗 Finds #21

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #21 of Finds — the articles, sites, and corners of the web I bookmarked this week:

📄 Articles

raytracing.github.ioRay Tracing in One WeekendPeter Shirley, Trevor David Black and Steve Hollasch turn a graphics course into a weekend build: PPM output, a camera, ray–sphere intersection, then diffuse materials and a working path tracer. Free under CC0, and the first of three books.

endwalker.comThe Archive500+ of Wikipedia's most fascinating, morbid and unusual articles, each with a one-line hook — “1593 transported soldier legend: did a Spanish soldier teleport from the Philippines to Mexico?” There's an Open a Random Article button, and a warning that any link might lead somewhere upsetting.

🌐 Websites / blogs

existentialcomics.comExistential ComicsA philosophy webcomic “about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes.” New strips on Mondays, and a counter on the front page tracking days without a Kant/can't pun — currently 996.

slowernews.comSlower NewsRelevant trends and some edge cases, sorted under twenty-odd headings from Geopolitics to Drones, robotics & AI, each a few lines with the sources linked inline. Hand-coded, no JavaScript, and it updates only when something is worth adding.

📚 From Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.orgAlfred Adler — The first of the great dissenters from Freud, who coined the inferiority complex and put social interest at the centre of therapy. He also threw out the analytic couch for two chairs, so patient and therapist sat as equals.

📺 From YouTube

youtube.comSpeeed — 74 long videos for 2.48M subscribers, mostly cars: building a fun cheap classic in five days, every type of suspension explained, how every car brand got its name. It wanders into watches, camping gear and Levi's too.

youtube.comGraphic Design Tutorial For Beginners — An eleven-hour design course in a single video: imagemaking, typography, shape and colour, composition, then the histories of Swiss design and Push Pin. It ends with a project where you invent a fake client and brand them.

🌱 Promoted to the wiki: these now live on their topic pages — Computer Science, Time Wasters, Comics, News, Psychology, Engines, and Design — so they’re easy to find later. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.