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CSS Reference - A free visual guide to the most popular CSS properties

cssreference.io/
CSS Reference is a free visual guide to CSS. It features the most popular properties, and explains them with illustrated and animated examples.

gchq/BoilingFrogs: GCHQ's internal Boiling Frogs research paper on software development and organisational change in the face of disruption #boilingfrogs

github.com/gchq/BoilingFrogs
The pace of disruptive change is increasing, from the rise of cloud technology, social business, the Internet of Things and others. We feel it as much as other government departments and so we offer this internal research paper publicly, not to present policy or guidelines, but to stimulate debate.

tonsky/AnyBar: OS X menubar status indicator

github.com/tonsky/AnyBar
AnyBar is a small indicator for your menubar that does one simple thing: it displays a colored dot. What the dot means and when to change it is up to you.

Burning out

notes.pinboard.in/u:vloux/e4e0633005b6a0b75b0f
“Burning out? I don’t have time for that, I’ve got work to do!” (allegedly Stakhanov, 1935, no reliable source)

What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? | Aeon Essays

aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem
Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?

Matrix Multiplication

matrixmultiplication.xyz/
An interactive matrix multiplication calculator for educational purposes

Shibboleth (artwork) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth_(artwork)
remember that time someone got paid to put a crack in the floor of an art gallery and said it was art and we were cool with that, and now they filled it in with concrete and pretend the art was never there and there is nothing to see -tef

ÉDITIONS B42 ♦● Devenir un expert du rakugaki

editions-b42.com/books/devenir-un-expert-du-rakugaki/
« Pour moi le dessin c'est comme un texte ou une conversation; ce n'est pas parce qu'on a pas une belle écriture qu'on ne peut pas écrire, de même que l'on n'a pas besoin d'une belle voix pour parler avec quelqu'un. Ce qu'on découvre par soi-même et ce qu'on veut dessiner sont des choses beaucoup plus importantes. »