Weekly links 2022-03-25: you're not getting posts for a while edition

I’m completely overwhelmed by work and life recently. While I might have time do quickie posts like this one, longer investigative journalism post (like the one on stablecoin source of funds I’m working on) will take time to get together.

In the meantime, links!

• Here’s a 2019 video on Elon Musk’s hyperloop, and why it’s a bad idea. Turns out tunnels move people better if you put trains in them, who would have thought[footnote]certainly not Elon[/footnote]. The author went on to make the Well There’s your Problem podcast, which is also pretty good.

• Here’s a tour of an extremely expensive Paris home. It’s nice

• Andy Gavin the author of Crash Bandicoot has a blog post series on the making of Crash Bandicoot in the 1990s. Games programming in the 1990s is fascinating. He still maintains his blog and mostly posts about the food he eats and reviews stuff he plays/watches.