Items of Interest

Podcast Of The Week: Songs of Disappearance on NPR Shortwave

Songs of Disappearance is an album of field recordings of Australia's most endangered birds. This episode of the NPR Shortwave podcast interviews the producer of the album Anthony Albrecht about the birds and their fantastic calls!

Environment

Podcast

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UberEats & Idempotency

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Former Uber employee Gergely Orosz teaches us why Idempotency is important when using external APIs in this great thread about how a bug in UberEats allowed $14,000+ of free food to be ordered in India.

Business

Web Dev

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How To Build On Solana

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Developer Dao published a good tutorial on how to create your first web3 program on the Solana blockchain.

Blockchain

Web Dev

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Mars Rock Layers

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NASA recently released a new image from the orbiting High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) satellite. The photograph show sedimentary layers on the rocks in the Danielson Crater, which suggests a cyclical nature to the layering.

Photo

Space

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Password Length Guide

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Simon Kuestenmacher shared this great table released by Hive Systems that describes how long it takes to brute force a password based on its length and composition.

Business

Tech

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Web Development For Dual & Foldable Screens

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Smashing Magazine published a handy tutorial on how to detect dual and foldable screens using CSS.

Web Dev

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Mixed Reality Development For Beginners

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Microsoft has launched a video tutorial series that introduces beginners to development in mixed reality, covering both XR (extended reality) and AR (augmented reality).

AR & VR

Video

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The History of Fruit Stickers

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Did you know that fruit exporting companies starting putting stickers on fruit in the 1920s and 1930s because they realised that putting a name or brand on the fruit made it easier to sell more fruit? Spanish design studio El Vivero has curated an exhibition of the sticker and logo designers of over 300 Spanish brands from the 1950s onwards.

Design

History

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Plant Music

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The Verge published an interesting round-up of a group of musicians and artists connecting synths and equipment to plants to generate music, while also going viral on Tik Tok.

Music