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Review: The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot

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This week while spiralling down a Netflix film selection blackhole, I came across a film called The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot. The intruiging title led me to do a quick score check on IMDB which returned a 5.6, which isn't great. However, my curiosity got the better of me plus Sam Elliot (The Big Lebowski, We Were Soldiers, A Star Is Born) is a joy to watch so I jumped in.
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Page Speed Stats

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Backlinko published a bumper report about the page speed stats of 5.2 million web pages. Their results contain a number of interesting items including ranked CMS page speed (Weebly & Squarespace are the fastest) and ranked Javacsript framework page weight for small, medium and large pages (Wink and Gatsby win).
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Book Review: Gaeilge: A Radical Revolution - Caoimhín De Barra

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This week I finished reading Gaeilge: A Radical Revolution by Caoimhín De Barra. The book does an excellent job at describing the many facets of the relationship between Ireland and the Irish language, from ancient history to modern day. De Barra debunks all of the automated responses most of us Irish have inherited about Gaeilge, such as "It's the way it is taught" and "You'd be better off learning Mandarin".
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The Mysterious Uncrackable Video Game

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On their quest to unearth lost video game coding secrets, researchers John Aycock and Tara Copplestone of the Universities of Calgary and York stumbled accross a piece of code from the 1982 Atari 2600 game Entombed which they could not reverse engineer. The video game archaeologists contacted employees involved in developing the game, and they too recalled not being able to decipher the logic behind a particular data table which was used to generative valid maze structures within the game.
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