Holy shit, they fixed it.

Voyager 1 had a failed chip, and the engineering team patched around it.

Put THAT on your resumé. FUCKING BADASS.

#voyager1 #softwareEngineering

“NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth”

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

Fascinating article from IEEE Spectrum that discusses the carbon footprint of software and how we can both measure and improve it: https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-software

The benefit is not only less carbon, but following some of the principles that are outlined can decrease costs and improve efficiency.

The article references tools such as Firefox Profiler and Ecograder as well as an open source Sustainable Software Engineering course.

#computing #computerscience #softwareengineering #sustainability

We Need to Decarbonize Software

The green software movement is tackling the hidden environmental impact of today’s code

^{Rina Diane Caballar (IEEE Spectrum)}