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inspire.js is a nifty HTML + CSS + JavaScript framework for making slide decks for presentations
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
One of the movies coming out this summer made the use of the colour pink a cornerstone of its visual design. Here’s an article in the Hollywood Reporter about how Nimona uses colour to subvert stereotypes and embrace self-expression.
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Superscript is an energetic, compressed, high-contrast script type family designed by Neil Summerour for Positype.
(Via https://www.instagram.com/p/CzZEExIxJCp/)
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
An five-storey office building built with timber instead of steel. This makes it less carbon-intensive than steel frame, and the timbers are designed to be unpegged and reused when the building is no longer needed.
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
XKCD on Black Holes vs Regular Holes
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
jless is a command-line tool for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.
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Election maps tend to give a distorted impression because constituencies vary in size. Here is a nice visualization of the Australian state of play before the election in 2022, using an map made of 150 hexagons. The geography is almost unrecognizable because Australia’s population is largely concentrated in cities and towns.
(Via @jenit on Twitter)
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Flipnote Studio is an animation app created by Nintendo for the Nintendo DSi in 2008. The official sharing service was, alas! closed down in 2013 but now there is a fan archive of 44 million flipnotes.
(Via @flipnotearchive on Twitter)
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Wuffs is a programming language specialized for writing codec libraries that must be fast and also free of obvious security bugs like numeric overflows and buffer overrun errors—such as the image decoders in a web browser. Moving overflow checks in to the compiler makes code more annoying to write but also eliminates the need for run-time checks, meaning the resulting code can be faster than C or Rust.
