wk42/2021

Links from 18-24 Oct

• The Day My Script Killed 10,000 Phones in South America (pythonforengineers.com) - a programming mistake (and lack of testing) resulting in thousands of phones being temporarily bricked
• Meet the Raspberry Pi Build HAT: create with Raspberry Pi and LEGO® Education (raspberrypi.com) - new adaptor for the Raspberry Pi to allow control of Lego Technic motors and electronics
• Re: 'cuts' in the treads in the tops of plastic soda bottles. (madsci.org) - I never wondered what those grooves were in the lids of fizzy drink bottles, but now I know
• Eating the Cloud from Outside In (swyx.io) - on the launch of Cloudflare's latest product, 'R2', and their goal to become the fourth largest cloud provider
• The race to grab all the UK’s lithium before it’s too late (wired.co.uk) - using machine learning to analyse old mining maps and locate lithium in Cornwall