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The power of the design doc. How documenting our process has become… | by Brendan Fagan | Deliveroo Design | Medium

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Way back when I was in the midst of my graphic design degree, touching on everything from branding to “book-making” (that one was painful), there was always one thing expected from every student when…

205TF

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TF, 2 letters that signify at the same time Type Foundry and Typographie Française (French Typography). 205TF is a type foundry that brings together the work of independent typeface designers, some of them well known, others closer to the beginning of their career, all highly talented. Each of them developing characters where a certain French spirit can be felt.

How Many Plants - Indoor and House Plant Resource

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How Many Plants is a growing plant care resource and community for ALL plant parents, seasoned enthusiasts and first-timers alike!

Semgrep

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Semgrep is an open-source tool for lightweight static analysis using a familiar syntax

readme.so - Easiest Way to Create A README

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Use readme.so's markdown editor and ready made templates to easily create a simple README for your repositories

They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War | WIRED

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Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.

Internet Search Tips · Gwern.net

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Finally, you can always try to contact the author. This only occasionally works for the papers I have the hardest time with, since they tend to be old ones where the author is dead or unreachable—any author publishing a paper since 1990 will usually have been digitized somewhere—but it’s easy to try.

Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python | Manohar Vanga

mvanga.com/blog/basic-music-theory-in-200-lines-of-python
A basic introduction to Western music theory using the Python programming to derive scales, chords, and modes in every key.