• The channel discussed whether pharmacological cognitive enhancement (e.g., Adderall) can measurably improve programming performance, linking to a StackExchange question that had no answers at the time.  
• A Wired article on “super-humans and instant cities” was posted, prompting a tongue-in-cheek warning about “Illuminazis” and mind control.  
• A JavaScript question arose on how to dynamically select one of several pre-instantiated Google-Maps-layer objects (“vegtype”, “globalbiomes”, etc.) at runtime; the consensus was to store the objects in a dictionary/hash rather than use string interpolation.  
• Elm-lang was mentioned as an interesting functional-reactive web language, with a pointer to an online editor example.  
• A UCLA paper on “Distributed Rate Limiting” was shared as a resource for scalable network control.  
• The site blockscraping.com was briefly noted as a potential tool for scraping or analyzing blockchain data.  
• An unexpected email from the Australian Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) warned the recipient about DIY-bio activities in Australia and provided hotline numbers for reporting “suspicious behaviour,” sparking speculation that it might be a prank.