There have been a couple of recent discoveries of water in new places in the
solar system. Last week a team using data from India’s Chandrayaan-1 probe
announced the discovery of water …
You’ve probably heard of gravitational waves. They’ve been in the news a lot
recently because of two experiments called LIGO and Virgo, which have detected
gravitational waves coming …
I wrote a summary of our experience at Stargazing Live this
year – the
first time we've managed to run a BBC Stargazing Live event at the Zooniverse
with no major technical issues even under peak load, and also the first run for
ABC Stargazing Live in Australia:
I wrote a post on the Valcato blog outlining
why, as a
company, we oppose the Snoopers' Charter and support our clients' right to
encrypt their communications.
Over at The Zooniverse we've been migrating most
of our apps to run under Docker. I won't bother
explaining all the benefits of Docker, but we've found it to be a great way of
packaging and deploying applications, especially since we have a lot of legacy
code with conflicting requirements. Getting everything running in Docker has
been interesting, and we've encountered a few problems that needed to be solved
along the way. One issue we needed to solve involved monitoring.
Two MPs, Tom Watson and David Davis, are challenging the DRIP
bill
that the government forced through Parliament last week. The bill was rushed
through on short notice under the guise of an emergency, in response to the
possibility of legal action by the Open Rights
Group.