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Books & Podcasts in 2025

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Books The Lie of the Land: A Game Plan for Ireland in the Climate Crisis by John Gibbons A must-read for anyone interested in or worried about climate change and climate action in Ireland. John pulls no punches and lays out exactly where Ireland has failed and is falling behind in emissions reduction, and how to fix the situation.
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Movies in 2025

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Sinners Sinners delivers. A 1930s period film in the deep south, that's also a vampire movie, that also has the second-best rendition of Rocky Road To Dublin (Lankum's being number 1) and Micheal B. Jordan, twice! What's not to like!   Wake Up Dead Man See my previous comments regarding murder mysteries above. Wake Up Dead Man keeps you guessing every step of the way.
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TV in 2025

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Murderbot I enjoyed a lot of TV shows this year but looking back at my list, Murderbot stands head and shoulders above most others as a fantastically quirky, funny, and touching new sci-fi show.   This City Is Ours
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Floor 796

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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. 
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That Cloudflare Outage

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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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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 Liverpool. 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