Category Archives: Tech

Quark Shell

https://github.com/HackPlan/quark-shell-mac Quark Shell helps you create cross-platform (currently Mac-only, Windows version coming soon) menubar/tray app using HTML and JavaScript without writing any native code. Quark Shell exposes a JavaScript object called quark to provide system functions. Quark Shell for Mac … Continue reading

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Rumps

https://github.com/jaredks/rumpshttps://github.com/jaredks/rumpsInterface widgets for command line Python programs. 

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Category Theory for Programmers

http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/

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SVG history

http://blog.siliconpublishing.com/2015/12/the-fall-and-rise-of-svg/

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Use JavaScript for scripting

Light palm facebulb moment

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Chilling Effects announces new name

https://www.lumendatabase.org/blog_entries/763

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So much for don’t be evil

Eric Schmidt: Google Will Give Higher Rankings to Content Tied to Verified Profiles – Search Engine Watch #SEW. Now Google is corrupting search results by devaluing information from sources who they haven’t coerced into signing up for G+.

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Bugs

When you encounter an aggravating, nasty, despicable bug — don’t get mad! Thank the bug. Cherish it, love it, learn from it, then destroy it mercilessly. via Bugs.

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Is It Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook? | Copyblogger

Is It Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook? | Copyblogger. The answer to a question in a headline is usually “no”, and so it is here. FB, like any social media property, can engage part of your audience if … Continue reading

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Purple County Cartogram

From Mark Newman, the co-inventor of the cartogram algorithm.

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