🔗 Finds #31

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #31 of Finds — the articles, sites, and corners of the web I bookmarked this week:

📚 Books

see.stanford.eduThe Fourier Transform and its Applications — Brad Osgood's lecture notes for Stanford's EE 261, free as a PDF and written the way he talks. He calls the idea that every signal is determined by its spectrum 'a Major Secret of the Universe', and one section is titled 'The Bell Curve Tolls for Thee'.

🌐 Websites / blogs

artvee.comArtveeA library of public-domain paintings, posters and illustrations to browse and download in high resolution. You can go in by category, movement or artist: Renoir alone has 752 works, the ukiyo-e master Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 565.

📚 From Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.orgAxolotlA salamander that reaches adulthood without metamorphosing, so it keeps its gills and stays underwater for life. It regrows limbs and parts of its eye and heart, and its genome is ten times the size of ours; maybe 50 to 1,000 adults remain in the wild.

🗯️ Comics

tapas.ioThe Swordmaster's Son — 7.5/10Jin Runcandel is banished from his swordmaster clan for poor swordsmanship, makes a contract with the god Solderet, and dies anyway. He wakes up as a baby, years before any of it, with a second chance and new powers.

📺 Completed

en.wikipedia.orgSentenced to Be a Hero — 8.5/10 — Here 'hero' is a criminal sentence: convicts are made immortal and sent to fight demonic faeries forever. Xylo Forbartz, a knight convicted of a crime he didn't commit, leads Penal Hero Unit 9004 and ends up contracted to a sword goddess, Teoritta.

en.wikipedia.orgKPop Demon Hunters (2025) — 9/10 — Rumi, Mira and Zoey are the K-pop group Huntrix and also demon hunters, up against a boy band of actual demons. A high score, I know, but I cried during this one and can't explain why. I knew 'Golden' before watching, and it's a banger.

📺 From YouTube

youtube.comBen Eater — Tutorial videos on electronics and computer architecture, built on breadboards. His best-known series assembles a programmable 8-bit computer from simple logic gates; a later one gets a 6502 running Wozniak's Apple 1 monitor and Microsoft BASIC.

🌱 Promoted to the wiki: these now live on their topic pages — Mathematics, Art, Animals, Comics, Anime, Films, and Computer Science — so they’re easy to find later. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.