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Tutorials about new features of CSS aimed at people already experienced with CSS
(Via @terriblemia on Twitter)
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Short documentary about the 1-tonne fount imported from Hong Kong to print the the New Zealand Chinese Growers’ Monthly Journal and its relevance to Chinese New Zealanders.
(Via @klimtypefoundry on Twitter)
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
We are used to treating databases as a pluggable back-end for storing inert data for processing in our code, but the PostgreSQL database has many features for slicing and dicing the data and doing analysis than one might think.
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Short silent film of aerial footage from a dirigible piloted by Roy Knabenshue in 1914 over Chicago.
(Via Aerial Footage of Chicago from a Dirigible (1914))
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Wrote some geometry code for a side project and two lines aren’t matching because of a floating point rounding error and I am kicking myself for not using fixed point arithmetic from the start.
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Recreating the logic board of the famous Macintosh SE/30
(Via Creating a “new” SE/30 logic board)
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
People have been playing Tetris using the dinky little NES controller for almost 40 years, but even so a new button-mashing technique is sparking a minor revolution.
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Sculptural artworks made entirely of black LEGO bricks.
(Via Building Black: Ekow Nimako’s All-Black Lego Sculptures)
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
A simple, correct PEP517 package builder—in other words a replacement for disttools/setuputils/whatever.
