🔗 Finds #28

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #28 of Finds — the articles, sites, and corners of the web I bookmarked this week:

📄 Articles

construction-physics.comComparing Flooring SystemsBrian Potter ranks every way of holding up a floor — wood joists, steel, concrete, CLT — by depth, weight and cost. Prefabrication is supposed to be the cheap option and isn't: it moves where the cost lands rather than removing it, which is why the panel systems keep getting value-engineered back out of the budget.

foodcrumbles.comWhat Are Emulsifiers? — A food-science primer on the molecules that stop oil and water from separating: one end likes water, the other likes fat, so they park along the boundary and keep the droplets from merging. Lecithin is why molten chocolate flows and why an egg yolk holds a mayonnaise together.

🌐 Websites / blogs

pagat.comPagat: Card Game RulesJohn McLeod has been writing down the rules of traditional card games here since 1995 — thirty years of them, and still updated this September. Indexed alphabetically, by region, by number of players and by mechanism, with dominoes and tile games alongside.

hacksplaining.comHacksplainingInteractive lessons on web vulnerabilities where you play the attacker — the SQL injection one hands you a fake bank's login page and walks you through breaking it across fourteen stages. The newest lessons cover prompt injection and slopsquatting: registering the package names LLMs hallucinate.

📚 From Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.orgList of steak dishes — Every steak preparation Wikipedia can name: carpetbag steak stuffed with oysters out of Mumbles, tartare served raw, twice-cooked pork simmered and then fried in a wok, down to portobello and tofu. Proof the grill has a longer menu than anyone uses.

en.wikipedia.orgAircraft carrier — The angled flight deck — which lets a plane that misses the arrestor wires simply take off again instead of crashing into the ones parked ahead — was a post-war Royal Navy idea, and is now on every carrier afloat. The New York Times coined 'supercarrier' back in 1938, for a 22,000-ton ship.

📺 From YouTube

youtube.comThe Entire Life of Napoleon in 82 Minutes — Corsican schoolboy to St Helena in one sitting, chaptered so you can drop straight into Toulon, Austerlitz, Russia or Waterloo. Maximus builds it from the Roberts and Zamoyski biographies, and is more interested in explaining Napoleon's character than in listing his battles.

🌱 Promoted to the wiki: these now live on their topic pages — Architecture, Food, Games, Security, Engineering, and History — so they’re easy to find later. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.