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Digital Public Library of America

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The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

coaltrace: simulating genealogies using charged particles

bedford.io/projects/coaltrace/
This is a simulation of the basic demographic / genealogical process. Individuals are born and individuals die. This causes lineages to branch and to disappear, and causes the population to share a common ancestor at some time in the past. The coalescent provides a mathematical description of these patterns of ancestry.

VIM Adventures

vim-adventures.com/
VIM Adventures is an online game based on VIM's keyboard shortcuts. It's the "Zelda meets text editing" game. So come have some fun and learn some VIM!

Beyond TYPO Font – Felt-tip look with OpenType Features

typotalks.com/news/2016/03/29/beyond-typo-font-felt-tip-look-with-opentype-features/
> Diesen Artikel auf Deutsch lesen. Microbes always find a nook or cranny to occupy. Steff Hengge sees parallels between the world of microbes and bacteria and the way designers work. For instance, the constant search for new solutions, the will to adapt to given conditions and the capacity for creative cooperation and combination. Particularly […]