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Friday, July 1, 2022

In This Edition:
Maps you can draw on, Book Cover Archive, hacker search engines, how JPEG compression works, & a GoPro space selfie!

Maps You Can Draw On

Image: Felt

Felt is a handy mapping tool that lets you annotate maps and share them easily.

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Book Cover Archive

Image: Book Cover Archive

The Book Cover Archive is a great website that exhibits examples of some of the best book cover art produced.

Hacker Search Engines

Image: GitHub, edoardottt

Github user edoardottt published a handy list of search engines and other tools to use when "hacking" your way around the web.

How JPEG Compression Works

Image: YouTube, Branch Education

In this informative video, Branch Education describes how each step in the JPEG image compression algorithm works, showing how large images can be compressed to much smaller file sizes with little perceivable loss.

GoPro Space Selfie

Image: YouTube, NanoAvionics

NanoAvionics launched a cubesat with an extendible selfie arm and used a GoPro to capture a mega space selfie!

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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