Items of Interest

ISS Photo Explorer

Callum Prentice and his 8 year old daughter built a website to explore the millions of photos of the earth taken by the International Space Station. The website allows you to enter high level latitude and longitude coordinates to see photos from that area, like this photo of Dublin city.

Photo

Space

Read more about ISS Photo Explorer

Anything Face Shield

#215

Korean design studio mmm have created a 3D printable face shield frame that can be used with any sheet of transparent plastic.

Design

Innovation

Life

Read more about Anything Face Shield

Layoffs List

#215

Layoffs.fyi is a list of people that have been layed off and are looking for work. The entries are searchable by location, skills and job titles among other elements.

Business

Life

Read more about Layoffs List

Black Illustrations

#215

A set of free illustrations of black people for your next digital project.

Design

Read more about Black Illustrations

AWS One Line Descriptions

#215

Know your Elastic Beanstalk from your Snowball? Yeah, me neither. Thankfully Joshua Thijssen has put together an extremely useful list of one line descriptions of all the different Amazon AWS products.

Tech

Web Dev

Read more about AWS One Line Descriptions

How Not To Store Passwords

#215

Paul Boyd published a great post on the differences between password storage methods.Key Derivation Functions > Salted Hashes > Hashes > Encyption > Plain Text.

Web Dev

Read more about How Not To Store Passwords

Detecting A Quantum Jump

#215

Physicists have discovered a scenario whereby they can detect an imminent quantum jump in state of a qubit. In the experiment, perfectly timed pulses of radiation can reverse the quantum jump when it is detected, keeping the quibit in its ground state.

Quantum Computing

Science

Read more about Detecting A Quantum Jump

Beautiful Pigeons

#214

I bet you didn't know there was more than one type of pigeon? Well I didn't until I saw these amazing photos of some beautiful pigeons!

Life

Photo

Read more about Beautiful Pigeons

Latest Tech Surveys

#214

The annual Stack Overflow Developer survey has been released. Poor old VBA is still top of the pile as the most dreaded programming languages :-) Thoughtworks also released the latest version of their technology radar, which is a great resource in seeing which techniques, tools, platforms and languages that are gaining traction with the tech landscape.

Data Vis

Tech

Read more about Latest Tech Surveys

Software Development Productivity

#214

The Binary Mist blog published a great piece on all the things that can be addressed while trying to improve software development productivity. The piece covers everything form bigger screens and better tools to improving processes and leaving developers alone (to avoid context switching).

Business

Tech

Read more about Software Development Productivity

Pages