We design with ideal conditions in mind, but the world is far from ideal.
Design Under Pressure is a practical resource center to help you and your team proactively create products and services that hold up under stress cases.
When an aspect of a person or a context is pushed to an extreme, that's a stress case. Nobody is normal. As appealing as your "target demographic" looks, you don't actually control who will show up to use your design, and people are... well, human. That patient, reasonable, calm, healthy, able-bodied, literate, accurate, safe, well-intentioned, and happy user in your mind's eye doesn't actually exist. And, of course, people and environments that aren't "users" in the classical sense are very much part of your design.
Most businesses aim to get acquired or go public, which often pits the founders against the communities they serve. We're working to enable a third option: An exit to community.
E2C is a path to ownership that benefits all stakeholders: Founders can let go at the right time, communities can grow the business they value, and allies in consulting, policy, and academia can help businesses advance economic democracy.
COVID-19 continues to kill and injure many people daily. With the collapse in case data reporting it has become difficult to show that high-risk events such as large meetings, performances, and other events result in quantifiable harms.
This web app allows you to create a sharable event link for attendees to report their symptoms and test status anonymously. The public event page will then display how many attendees have become sick or tested positive in an easy-to-digest form along with expected impact (e.g. how many might be expected to get Long COVID). These statistics can be used to help you advocate for increased COVID-19 mitigations in your workplace or other groups.
It may be difficult to get people to disclose their status publicly with their name attached to colleagues (it's embarassing and everyone is trying to ignore COVID), but it is much easier for an activist to drop a link and aggregate anonymous statistics since there is less chance of blowback for such disclosures for the individuals and they'll feel like they're contributing to public health and workplace safety.
For the organizer or activist, information is power. Statistics are able to show the real harms that are occuring and can be used to advocate for safe events and workplaces. It also gives your fellow attendees a way to help each other in a clear and structured way that the Federal government should be providing, but isn't.
A search engine for almost a billion US court cases and records.
REST API: https://www.judyrecords.com/api
(You have to e-mail them and request an API key.)
A collection of Awesome resources for the Flipper Zero device.
This case looks like it should contain an Altair 8800.
Cases and replacement parts for Amiga computers. The cases even have mountpoints for popular aftermarket hardware upgrades, and even a RasPi 3 or 4 if you just want the shell!
Has JSON and XML APIs: https://pacer.uscourts.gov/file-case/developer-resources
Needs an account.
A set of scripts for Retroflag's RasPi cases that make the power and reset buttons functional in ways considered safe for live Linux machines. Requires the GPIO pins.
Be sure to follow the instructions for the correct Retroflag case!
A company that makes cases for the Raspberry Pi that look like classic gaming consoles, like the NES. They sell them through Amazon. I have a few, and they're quite nice.
A compiled list of links to public failure stories related to Kubernetes. Most recent publications on top.
An updated and curated list of readings to illustrate best practices and patterns in building scalable, available, stable, performant, and intelligent large-scale systems. Concepts are explained in the articles of prominent engineers and credible references. Case studies are taken from battle-tested systems that serve millions to billions of users.
A fan-curated wiki cataloging cases originally shown on Unsolved Mysteries, a television show that started in the late 1980's and ran in various forms until very recently.
International Center for Unidentified and Missing Persons. Accepts tips. Has a search engine which could be useful. Showing signs of being updated regularly.