It was the summer of 1952, and the executives of Tombow Pencil were about to revolutionize the Japanese pencil industry—or, possibly, fall flat on their faces. Hachiro Ogawa, the son of founder Harunosuke Ogawa, was Tombow's managing director, and he had just finished a years-long project, at enormous cost...

https://blog.tombowusa.com/2020/07/30/everything-you-need-to-know-about-tombow-pencils/

OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.

Who is behind this project and how can I follow it?
I’m Zsolt Ero (blog, email).

After 9 years of running my own map tile infrastructure for MapHub, I’ve open-sourced it and launched OpenFreeMap.

X: @hyperknot (for details)
X: @OpenFreeMapOrg (for announcements)

GitHub: openfreemap and openfreemap-styles

Myriam Frisano explores the basics of hand-coding SVGs with practical examples to demystify the inner workings of common SVG elements. In this guide, you’ll learn about asking the right questions to solve common positioning problems and how to leverage JavaScript so that, by the end, you can add “SVG coding” to your toolbox. You’ll also be able to declare proudly, “I know how to draw literal pictures with words!”