Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.
SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases

The only time you need to consider a client-server setup is:

  • Where you have multiple physical machines accessing the same database server over a network. In this setup you have a shared database between multiple clients.
  • If your machine is extremely write busy, like accepting thousand upon thousands of simultaneous write requests every second, then you also need a client-server setup because a client-server database is specifically build to handle that.
  • If you're working with very big datasets, like in the terabytes size. A client-server approach is better suited for large datasets because the database will split files up into smaller files whereas SQLite only works with a single file.
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
  • Use near-black and near-white instead of pure black and white
  • Saturate your neutrals
  • If you saturate your neutrals you should use warm or cool colours, not both
  • Use high contrast for important elements
  • Everything in your design should be deliberate
  • Optical alignment is often better than mathematical alignment
  • Lower letter spacing and line height with larger text. Raise them with smaller text
  • Container borders should contrast with both the container and the background
  • Everything should be aligned with something else
  • Colours in a palette should have distinct brightness values
  • Closer elements should be lighter
  • Make drop shadow blur values double their distance values
  • Keep container colours within brightness limits
  • Make horizontal padding twice the vertical padding in buttons
  • Nest corners properly
  • Don’t put two hard divides next to each other
Type Design Resources
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Everything from learning the basics to running your own foundry.

Design with FontForge
This is a fantastic introduction to type design, regardless of what software you use.

Mini chili dogs: Troy, New York's hyperlocal cuisine.
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At Famous Lunch, a long, historic counter diner on Congress Street, we bought the special: four mini dogs and an RC Cola, $5.75. We took it home and ripped the franks out of their brown bag, stained with magma-orange “zippy sauce”—delightfully greasy, a little spicy, distinct from any other hot dog I had ever eaten, and gone in one and a half bites.

What’s really remarkable is that Famous is but one of half a dozen or so localized quick-service spots that serve the little dogs and, like many of the other restaurants, they’ve been doing it forever. As their website’s story goes, Famous Lunch opened as the Quick Lunch, but in 1958 a U.S. Marine from Troy stationed at the embassy in Moscow requested some dogs from home. “Operation Hot Dog” became a media sensation, necessitating the name change. Famous stands out a bit from the other wiener vendors because their hot dog grill is—smart—pressed right up against the street-facing window. They keep about six dozen 3-inch dogs sizzling 15 hours a day, alongside a bubbling brown crock of zippy sauce.

Pop!_OS by System76
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Pop!_OS is an operating system for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create. Unleash your potential on secure, reliable open source software. Based on your exceptional curiosity, we sense you have a lot of it.

Craft Brewhouse Tour by Head Brewer!
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Enjoy a tour hosted by our CEO, head brewer, and co-founder Nathan Lanier where we look at Tree House Brewing Company's craft brewhouse equipment, beginning with the software controls and working our way through the grain room, malt silo, spent grain silo, water skid, mill, mash mixer, later tun, wort kettle, and whirlpool.

Harvesting Birch Bark : 10 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables
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Birch bark should be harvested in the spring when the sap is running in the trees. However, if done too late in the season the cambium (inner bark) will come off with the outer bark. If the cambium is damaged the tree may die. If done right, a tree will re-grow its bark over the course of 10-20 years. I have heard that the best bark comes from trees that have already been previously harvested, and traditionally people would return to harvest in the same grove over the course of several generations.

Modern Font Stacks
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System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes — just instant renders.