Items of Interest

Rotary Mobile Phone

Justine Haupt created a rotary dial mobile phone, because she could! :-) Check out her how to post with schematics on her website.

Innovation

Tech

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Karla Thomas posted a fantastic helper post on medium for organisations looking to welcome diversity, by actually doing the work and not just saying "We welcome diversity". The post describes initiatives that companies need to adopt such as anti-bias training, HR policy reviews, holiday celebration and assessment tools.

Business

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Co2 Emissions On The Web

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Danny Van Kooten crunches the numbers on Co2 emissions for websites with high traffic in a recent blog post. He calculates that reducing file size by 1KB on a file that is loaded by 2 million websites reduces emissions by ~2950kg per month. That equates to 5 transatlantic flights between New York and Amsterdam.

Environment

Web Dev

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Climate Change Impact Maps

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ESRI published a set of Climate Change Impact maps for Europe using their ARCGIS software. The maps show comparisons between low emmissions and high emmissions scenarios for sea levels, droughts, income for farmers, flooding and fires.

Data Vis

Environment

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AI Colour Matcher

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Designs.ai provide a set of AI powered design tools that help the user get graphic design work done without the need to have too much graphic design experience. The company have two paid AI products on offer, logomaker and videomaker. They also offer a set of free assistive tools, including a colormatcher, a palette selection tool using AI generated colours.

AI & ML

Design

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Celtic Connections: Yng Ngheredigion

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Last week I attended the great Celtic Connections: Yng Ngheredigion concert in the Glad Cafe in Glasgow. Check out the photos from the gig here.

Music

Photo

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Machine Being - Jenn Kirby

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Congratulations to my amazing wife Jenn Kirby on the release of her new album Machine Being today! You can buy the album on bandcamp and listen on all the streaming services. Also, I designed the cover! :-)

Music

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3D Printed IKEA Speaker Hacks

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Swedish product designers teenage engineering have released a set of 3D printed accessories for the modular IKEA frekvens speaker and light system. They even offer the 3D printer files available for download on their website. This is the best example of a prcatical application for 3D printing that I've seen in while.

Innovation

Tech

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Compressed Air Energy Storage

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Low Tech Magazine descibes the fascinating possibilities of small scale compressed air energy storage (CAES), which are more sustainable than chemical batteries and robust enough to be suited to off-grid living. Parallel use of storage tanks can even allow for variable energy discharge to meet different energy requirements.

Innovation

Tech

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Second Order IDOR Attacks

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Ozgur Alp published an interesting medium post on Newsworthy about second order insecure object direct reference (IDOR) attacks. These cross site scripting attacks can take place when web application redirects are hijacked and identifiers are injected and used in without being validating.

Web Dev

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