FOUND THIS WEEK

downforeveryoneorjustme.com is a very handy tool to check if your site is really down.

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The Plastic Recycling Lie

"It's pure manipulation of the consumer"NPR's Planet Money expose on how big oil misled the public into believing plastic would be recycled.

Business

Environment

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The $88Tn World Economy

Howmuch.net created this fascinating chart that visualises the entire $88 Trillion world economy based on country GDP figures.

Business

Data Vis

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Microsoft Underwater Datacentre

In 2018, Microsoft submerged a datacentre in the waters off Orkney in Scotland. The tube held 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage and was intended to test the resilience of operating a data centre 117 feet in the ocean. It has now reached its end of life and has been resurfaced to begin the recyling stage of the project.

Environment

Innovation

Tech

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Podcast of the Week: NPR Shortwave on Pods

The daily NPR Shortwave podcast is great for short episodes about science each day. A recent episode describes the practice of creating isolation pods among people outside of your immediate household or family as a way to socialise during the coronavirus pandemic, assuming you've all had the talk!

Life

Podcast

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Blobs

Blobs.app is a handy blob generator that allows you to create a blob and copy the Flutter or SVG code.

Design

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Never Use Black

Ian Storm Taylor has a great blog post on why web designers should never use pure black as a colour in their designs.

Design

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Title Cities

Artist and web designer Nicholas Rougeux created a fantasticly creative project called Title Cities, where he converts text on the covers of historic books with blocks of colours, and then extracts and rearranges these blocks into cityscape posters.

Data Vis

Design

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SaaS Boilerplate

Kelly & Timur from builderbook.org are back with their second online book SaaS Boilerplate, which is a soup to nuts tutorial on building a production ready Saas product.