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Printing Films: an archive of industrial films about printing, typography, & journalism. Including ‘Farewell etaoin shrdlu’, about the last night of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times.

(Via @boldmonday on Twitter)
- Printing Films Archive A website dedicated to preserving the visual history of the printed word
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 1 month ago.
- letterpress
- library
- printing
- retro
- video
DuckDB is an embeddable SQL OLAP database management system with a silly name. Especially aimed at data analysts who already use Python+Pandas or R

(Via @tomwhoscontrary on Twitter)
- DuckDB - An embeddable SQL OLAP database management system DuckDB is an embeddable SQL OLAP database management system. Simple, feature-rich, fast & open source.
Noted by Damian Cugley 4 years, 2 months ago.
- database
- library
- Python
Blurhash is an algorithm that lets you transform image data into a small text representation of a blurred version of the image that might be used as a placeholder while the image downloads, for example.

(Via halcy:icosahedron: (@halcy@icosahedron.website))
- halcy/blurhash-python Implementation of the blurhash algorithm in pure python - halcy/blurhash-python
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 7 months ago.