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.
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!
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.
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.
The First Thought Talks are an excellent set of talks in the Galway International Arts Festival that this year are streamed online and available to view on the festival's YouTube channel. There was an excellent talk on practical options for Ireland in addressing the climate crisis. The last day of talks will be streamed tomorrow, Saturday Sep 12.
The Irish Times Inside Politics podcast featured an interesting and powerful interview with Elif Shafak, author of How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division.
