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Friday, November 20, 2020

In This Edition:
Creeping devices, open architecture playbook, Upptime status page, One Item Store, & the mystery of the dancing droplets!

In the first of three posts in the run up to Christmas on Smart Thinking Books, some of the authors that I've interviewed on the site in the past have told me what books they want for Christmas! Hopefully this list will help you with your own holiday shopping :-)


Creeping Devices

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The Mozilla Foundation have published an index of privacy relating to consumer devices. The Privacy Not Included site lists a range of electronics sorted by how creey they are in using your personal information.

Open Architecture Playbook

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With the Architecture Playbook, Maikel Mardjan ahs created a book that aims to capture all the best open tools and methodologies for software development in one place, making it easier and simpler to build software.

Upptime Status Page

Image: Upptime

Upptime is an open source status moitoring page framework, that can be used to display the latest status of a site and also include github incident reports as status updates.

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One Item Store

Image: One Item Store

One Item Store is a shopping cart platform that lets you easily setup and sell one product. It is free to setup an account and charges a 1% fee plus payment transaction fees for any sales made using the site.

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Mystery Of The Dancing Droplets

Image: Stanford

Researchers at Stanford have solved the mystery of the dancing droplets. Food colouring droplets comprise water and propylene glycol. Differences in surface tension and evaporation between both elements cause the droplets to move.

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About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in London. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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