I recall reading a series of books long ago called "Hacker's Challenge" which was similar to this, and equally thrilling. Each volume was essentially a set of whodunits - or rather, howdunits - regarding some network compromise situation, with the solutions at the end of the book. The author of the linked post is right here that there's something thrilling about this "genre". Nice to see more people writing this stuff.

Reminds me of SQL Murder Mystery in a way: http://mystery.knightlab.com/

I took the time to do this now. It was fun, if a bit shorter than I had hoped.

Nice link, it was a fun exercise to refresh my memory of the SQL syntax

SelectStar is another great example of virtual data pedagogy

https://selectstarsql.com/

I’ve recently become interested in switching from DevOps to DBA/DataOps and these two sites, plus a few classes on coursera have been amazing finds. I hope they help others who may come across these posts

This would make a fun hackathon-type activity.

I have had this on an open tab for a few weeks now. Looking forward to finding some time to dig in.

Open tabs are a major unsolved problem. Need a zero-effort-to-use improved bookmarking system that is able to do stuff like indexing and tabbing and reminding you to read it next week

I find that leaving things to read in open tabs and not acting upon them immediately is a good thing. Once I circle back to them I often find myself thinking 'why would I wanna read that? it's a complete waste of time, what was I thinking?' and close that tab. Kinda procrastinating on procrastination ;)

Also sometimes lost and closed tabs should be categorized somehow based on criteria (was open for days without scrolling).

Agreed. I find it more or less solvable by two things (for me anyway).

1. For longer commitments, I move it to a Tab Group extension (e.g., Tab Group for Chrome) and review every so often

2. If I feel I'm procrastinating I basically try to notice this and force myself to commit to reading the article/paper/what-have-you.

I find it usually takes less time than I had originally thought and _that_ helps me procrastinate less the next time. It works for me most of the time, but always find some tabs get pushed so far to the left they're never seen again.

I use the "Tab Snooze" [1] chrome extension for this. Works very well. Snooze till the night, next day, weekend, next month all available with a click. They promptly reappear as scheduled.

[1] tabsnooze.com

I've given up, I just use open tabs as ephemeral bookmarks.

All of my open tabs become ex-open tabs. Problem solves itself.

Oh I thought this was going to be one of those low-stakes investigations like that Reply All missing song episode as described in this essay: https://hotpodnews.com/the-problem-with-the-inconsequential-...