Items of Interest

Floor 796

Floor 796 is a huge 3/4 view pixel art project that depicts every character that you can think of from film, TV, and comics, in a series of rooms on a space station. See if you can recognise every character before clicking on them to see for sure. 

That Cloudflare Outage

The massive Cloudflare outage this week was caused by an SQL query that didn't filter its results sufficiently, which led to an input file with too many configuration records, which led to processing overload. Hackaday point out that input verification and error handling are basics of software development for reasons like this.

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