- A procedural-shader demonstration video was shared showing a fully synthetic tardigrade rendered without geometry, using only vector displacement techniques in Blender; the artist also posted a knitted-cloth shader that took “a few hours for the basic shape and a few more to make it realistic.”  
  – Links: Twitter demo (http://twitter.com/simonthommes/status/1193374769829351428), YouTube reel (http://youtu.be/7EeIsUErzLE), ArtStation cloth shader (http://www.artstation.com/artwork/1nN3l2).

- Discussion questioned the rationale behind a proposed change to repository signature-checking that would ignore invalid signatures, with one participant arguing that the whole purpose of signatures is to fail when invalid.

- A participant asked for experiences with finger-prick blood tests, specifically seeking convenient vitamin-D testing options available in the UK.