Mauss - The Gift
The form and reason for exchange in archaic societies.x
Whitespace Characters — Copy and Paste Invisible Characters
Quickly copy and paste Unicode whitespace characters — and learn how and when to use them.
Note: Test note
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Art Fundamentals: Learning to Draw from the Ground Up
Everyone keeps telling you that you need to practice your fundamentals. What the hell does that mean, and how do you do it? This subreddit's all about concrete exercises that you can do to improve your fundamentals. We'll give you homework and we'll tell you where you're going right and wrong.
How to Combat Poor Movement in Your Upper Body Training | Breaking Muscle
In this article we’re going to look at how to improve movement quality in the upper body with mobility, stability, and motor control focused exercises. Sports-specific needs aside, the bulk of my initial programming for my clients’ upper body work focuses on the posterior chain, and there's no change here. I believe in lengthening the front and strengthening the back of the body first.
Ironic Serif: A Brief History of Typographic Snark and the Failed Crusade for an Irony Mark
Nearly half a century later, in 2007, Pan-European type foundry Underware was commissioned to create a special punctuation mark for the occasion and thus the ironieteken was born — a zigzaggy exclamation point denoting irony. But despite significant buzz across Dutch literary circles — including some criticism that, when placed in a row of several, it bore an unfortunate resemblance to the Nazi swastika — the mark quickly fizzled.
Wikipedia: Irony punctuation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
Percontation point
The percontation point, a reversed question mark later referred to as a rhetorical question mark, was proposed by Henry Denham in the 1580s and was used at the end of a question that does not require an answer—a rhetorical question. Its use died out in the 17th century.
This character can be represented using the reversed question mark (⸮) found in Unicode as U+2E2E; another character approximating it is the Arabic question mark (؟), U+061F.
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Pounds, Shillings, and Pence Explained - Created with Gemini
Ah, the "LSD" system (£sd). Before the UK went decimal in 1971, the currency was a quirky, base-12 and base-20 masterpiece of mental arithmetic that makes modern math look like child’s play.Here is the breakdown of how it worked:
Whirlpool refrigerator
33.625 depth might be too much! :-( Kenmore is 30" deep
Springs and Bounces in Native CSS • Josh W. Comeau
The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips and tricks I’ve learned for using it effectively. ✨
An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS - Piccalilli
Richard Rutter helps you to make sense of list-style, list-item, ::marker, counters(), counter(), @counter-style, symbolic, symbols(), symbols and more to push your HTML and CSS lists to the next level.
Beautiful Perl feature : fat commas, a device for structuring lists - DEV Community
A fat comma in Perl is a construct that doesn't involve a typographic comma! Visually it consists of an expression followed by an arrow sign => and another expression. This is used in many contexts, the most common being for initializing hashes or for passing named parameters to subroutines:
Easing Wizard - CSS Easing Editor and Generator
Generate and customize CSS easing functions with ease and magical precision using Easing Wizard 🧙
A Guide to the CSS Backdrop-Filter Property | Always Twisted
A concise guide to CSS backdrop-filter for glassmorphism and translucent overlays — how it works, why order matters, and an interactive CodePen playground.
The Best Falafel Recipe • tender and bright green!
The best falafel recipe is a tender Middle Eastern chickpea fritter that's crispy on the outside, and brilliant emerald green on the inside!
Tick Stick: The Carpentry Tool That Does the Impossible
The Trusty Tick Stick! You can make a perfect pattern to fit any shape, no matter how irregular.
The Most Overbuilt Workbench: https://youtu.be/m1_EWAQtqrg?si=CkIx2SVzqZev1tQa
Kudos to Dean Mook, who showed me this technique twenty years ago. He referred to it as a Spiel Stick, or Shpiel Stick.
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300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library | Open Culture
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an “open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives,” has for many years been making it easy for people to connect to nature through nature writing and illustration. On Flickr, you can find 319,000 carefully curated images. The collection itself is subdivided into different photo albums drawn from historical publications. For example, The Freshwater Fishes of the British Isles (1911), The Bird (1869), and The Insect Book (1901).
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