It's that time of year again – where we consider what the color trends have been for the past couple years, and how those might change going into 2021.

Build this handy mobile workbench that folds up to only 7 in. You only need two hours, some 2x4s, 3/4-in. plywood and 8’ of 1x4.

Color scheme for UI design

I wonder why most modern solutions built using Perl don't enable UTF-8 by default.

Saying that “Perl should [somehow!] enable Unicode by default” doesn’t even start to begin to think about getting around to saying enough to be even marginally useful in some sort of rare and isolated case. Unicode is much much more than just a larger character repertoire; it’s also how those characters all interact in many, many ways.

List of 256 colors for Xterm prompt (console). Contains displayed color, Xterm Name, Xterm Number, HEX, RGB and HSL codes.

When I first met Vim, I thought someone was looking to make his life more complicated. But after a while I figured that Vim is the perfect text editor for people who want the text editor to be…

Phony Targets (GNU make)

SVG isn't just useful for illustrative animation. It's hella handy for UI too.

Orsola de Castro shares 3 tricks to mend your clothes and challenge yourself to think of imperfections as opportunities.

• One: Darn your holey knits
• Two: Fix your jeans Boro style
• Three: Pareidolia your stains

Build Guides
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The command for Insert mode abbreviations looks like this:

:iabbrev [<expr>] [<buffer>] {abbreviation} {expansion}

• - stands for Vimscript expression to create the expansion.
• - means that it only applies to the current buffer.
• {abbreviation} - is the thing you type, or your “trigger”
• {expansion} - is your final outcome
• Anything that’s inside a [] is optional.

Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier Editing in Vim can be a breeze, if you know how to make use of its more advanced features. Moving around files can feel like a slog if you’re stuck with the basic movement keys, but editing is effortless when you have command of marks and jumps. Basically, a mark is …

This is a list of the pieces I chose when building my own gaming PC:
Case: NZXT H510.
Central processing unit (CPU): Intel Core i5–9400.
Thermal Paste for the CPU: ionz IZP8.
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z390 GAMING EDGE AC (this particular motherboard seems to be unavailable everywhere at the moment).
Memory (RAM): HyperX Fury.
Graphics processing unit/Graphics Card(GPU): EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 SC ULTRA GAMING.
Storage (SSD): Kingston 120 GB SSD A400 Solid State Drive.
Hard Disk Drive (HDD): Seagate Barracuda 1TB Hard Drive.
System cooling: Cooler Master MWE 700 White 230V.
Gaming peripherals: Samsung S24D330 24-Inch LED Monitor, RK100 3 Color LED Backlit Mechanical Feeling Gaming Keyboard, Trust Gaming Headset GXT 310P Radius with Microphone.
Operating system: Windows.

I put the first coat of polyurethane on some oak plywood shelves last night, and it turned out horrible. The surface has a bunch of little tiny rough bumps...

Oil based poly, especially the typical brands at the big box stores, is way too thick to be applied by brush by most of us mere mortals. And stretching the finish over a larger area in order to obtain a thin coat exacerbates the problem even more. It is just too thick to level on its own if you over work it even slightly.

Even though the can will likely tell you not to thin it, thinning with mineral spirits or naphtha even 10% by volume will vastly improve its ability to level on its own. Naphtha flashes off faster giving the film less time to collect dust nibs, one cause of the bumps you talk about.

Poly on the first two coats does feel bumpy but the more coats with proper treatment between coats will be very smooth.

Useful T-SQL queries for SQL Server to explore database schema.

select schema_name(tab.schema_id) as schema_name,
    tab.name as table_name, 
    col.column_id,
    col.name as column_name, 
    t.name as data_type,    
    col.max_length,
    col.precision
from sys.tables as tab
    inner join sys.columns as col
        on tab.object_id = col.object_id
    left join sys.types as t
    on col.user_type_id = t.user_type_id
order by schema_name,
    table_name, 
    column_id;

Complete guide to the free font Libre Franklin. See beautiful examples, recommended pairings, OpenType features, and more.

https://larahogan.me/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-your-q3-roadmap/

• in terms of off camera use, you’d need the SU-800 to trigger it without another flash or the on camera flash. Equally you could trigger it with the flash button if you are doing a long exposure. The SU800 would probably be preferable.

• Buy yongnuo trigger

• I'd really recommend Jared Polin's guide to flash photography, it's fairly cheap but his videos are very good and worth buying!

The button state communicate its status to the user
Creating correct interactions and styles for your buttons is one of the most important parts of the process. Each state must have clear affordances that distinguish it from other states and the surrounding layout, but should not drastically alter a component or create a lot of visual noise.

Programming Design Systems is a free digital book that teaches a practical introduction to the new foundations of graphic design.

Grids

A virtual file cabinet of maps, charts, diagrams, data visualizations and other related curiosities.