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Flexoki is a colour scheme for text and code—for example for syntax highlighting. Steph Ango designed this inspired by physical printing inks having co-founded a printing company Inkodye.

(Via Links to CSS colour palettes)
- Flexoki An inky color scheme for prose and code.
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 weeks, 5 days ago.
A discussion of leap-year calculations, and how the formula for the best-distributed leap years is useful for various calendar calculations, but alas! not for actual leap years.
- https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/03/a-leap-year-inequality/
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 months, 1 week ago.
- calendar
- resource
Nolen Royalty (eieio) has created a web site for listing all UUIDs, in case you are having trouble remembering them all.
- Writing down (and searching through) every UUID · eieio.games I couldn't remember every UUID so I wrote them all down
Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 4 months ago.
- resource
- UUID
A database of European (EU and EEA) alternatives to the cloud services and SaaS essentials that mostly come from more well-known American companies. By Constantin Graf, a software developer in Vienna.

(Via Ian Betteridge (@ianb@well.com))
- European alternatives for digital products We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products. Support local businesses When you buy from local businesses, you are supporting yourself down the road. Taxes paid by the company come back to you indirectly and the company creates jobs in your region.
Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 6 months ago.
- Europe
- resource
Spicy Sections is a web component that takes sections and can display them as tabs or detail/summary depending on screen size.

It’s developed as part of explorations in Open UI, to get an idea of how a future ‘tabs’ element should be designed.

(Via Spicy Sections | CSS-Tricks)
- https://github.com/tabvengers/spicy-sections
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 5 months ago.
- CSS
- Css Tricks
- resource
inspire.js is a nifty HTML + CSS + JavaScript framework for making slide decks for presentations
- GitHub - LeaVerou/inspire.js: Lean, hackable, extensible slide deck framework. Previously known as CSSS. Lean, hackable, extensible slide deck framework. Previously known as CSSS. - GitHub - LeaVerou/inspire.js: Lean, hackable, extensible slide deck framework. Previously known as CSSS.
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 5 months ago.
- presentation
- resource
Fictional brands archive: a table of information about brands of companies and institutions in films, games, and animation, originating as a master’s thesis in brand design.
- Brand New: Fictional Brands Archive Fictional Brands Archive
Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years ago.
- branding
- resource
A tool for measuring contrast value Lᶜ as proposed for WCAG 3. The Lᶜ value (written with upper case L with lower case c superscript) is intended to be a better match for how the human eye perceives contrast in light-on-dark displays and dark colours generally than the relative luminance calculation used by WCAG 2.1.
- Colour Contrast Tool Check the WCAG 3 contrast between two colors; adjust colors to desired contrast levels; convert between hex, rgb, hsl, and LCh
Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years ago.
- accessibility
- resource
Braggoscope, an unofficial index of the BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time, in which Melvyn Bragg interviews three subject experts on an amazing range of topics. Organized by Dewey Decimal category and guests.

(Via kottke.org (@kottke@botsin.space))
- Explore the In Our Time archive Explore the In Our Time archive.
Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years, 2 months ago.

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