Links for this week:
- A long-read on the inner-workings of Unicode (link)
- Iconic, an interesting-looking tool for app development (link)
- “The Deep Sweep,” a Critical Engineering project that uses a high-altitude balloon and a radio to listen to drone and satellite communication (link and above)
- A synthesizer unit that runs your audio… through real dirt (link)
- Great read from The Atlantic: “Not Even The People Who Write Algorithms Really Know How They Work” (link)
- Diagrams of “The Internet” pulled from patent drawings (link)
- IPv4, the former standard for internet IP addresses, officially ran out last week (link)
For Data Visualization:
- A sobering, simple infographic from the NY Times on where perpetrators of mass shootings got their firearms – warning: while there are no graphic images in this post, there is considerable discussion of mass shootings (link)