This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as merely functional but as a text—in the case of 10 PRINT, a text that appeared in many different printed sources—that yields a story about its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.
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Comic Sans wasn't designed to be the world's most ubiquitous casual typeface1. Comic Neue aspires to be the casual script choice for everyone including the typographically savvy.
The squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape while maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular.
It's perfect as a display face, for marking up comments, and writing passive aggressive office memos.
Merry Weather is a lightweight forecasting website providing an all-in-one hourly summary of the upcoming temperature, precipitations and more. Hourly timelines helps plan ahead activities carefully with great precision. This website would not be possible without the ambitious Pirate Weather project which provides hourly and daily forecasting data in a sweet API.
Free and there are no ads. Most weather websites are needlessly heavy and distracting. Merry sky aims to be the opposite and give you precisely just what you need from a forecasting website. If you like this website, please consider donating to help with the hosting costs.
Designing with LibreOffice is not the usual death march through the menu and standard tasks. Instead, the book takes two fresh approaches to the world’s most popular free office suite.
First, it explains the importance of using styles and templates in order to use LibreOffice with the most convenience and the least effort. By taking advantage of styles and templates, you can concentrate on self-expression, rather than format. Later, as you edit, you can make changes more quickly and with more precision.
Second, it explains the basics of modern design and how to apply them in LibreOffice, expanding on the open secret that LibreOffice is as much a desktop publishing application as an office suite. It explains and illustrates the possible choices as you design, as well as the pros, cons, and considerations behind each choice — and, in some cases, what you should avoid altogether.
The result of these approaches is a unique overview of using LibreOffice. If you are a new user, the book will help you get up to speed with LibreOffice. If you have already used LibreOffice, then this book will leave you with a clearer overview of the program and its capabilities.
Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability. We are making it free for anyone to use!
Both desktop and web fonts are included.
FREETONE by Stuart Semple contains 1280 colours including digital versions of his Pinkest Pink, Incredibly Kelinish Blue, Black 3.0 and TIFF.
A SIMPLE & TOTALLY FREE COLOUR PALETTE PLUGIN FOR ADOBE
That unlocks a whole books worth of very Pantone-ish colours.
1280 Liberated colours are extremely Pantoneish and reminiscent of those found in the most iconic colour book of all time. In fact it's been argued that they are indistinguishable from those behind the Adobe paywall.
Cost: Nothing. Click through the cart and you don't have to pay (unless you want to leave a tip).
Fontshare is a free fonts service launched by the Indian Type Foundry (ITF). It’s a growing collection of professional grade fonts that are 100% free for personal and commercial use. Our mission is to make high-quality and technically sound fonts accessible to everyone.
Apart from ITF’s own fonts, Fontshare also distributes free fonts from the other publishers. We identify-top notch open-source fonts, review their quality, fix any design or technical bugs and publish their latest versions on Fontshare. We ensure that these fonts are of the same quality as ITF’s own free fonts on offer.
All Fontshare fonts are 100% free for personal and commercial use.
This is a free online edition of Mirrorshades, as edited by Bruce Sterling. Posted by Rudy Rucker, September 28, 2022.
Set up a free account, get access to NASDAQ data through their APIs.
Perspective is a free API that uses machine learning to identify toxic comments, making it easier to host better conversations online.
Handcrafted 3D Icons, Fully Customizable Online. Free for commercial and personal use.
This resource provides guidance on helping individuals who are experiencing homelessness obtain identification (ID) documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, state-issued IDs, DD214s, and Green Cards. This toolkit is available in English and Spanish.
This repo contains the PDF book The Cyber Plumber's Handbook - The definitive guide to Secure Shell (SSH) tunneling, port redirection, and bending traffic like a boss. The book was first published in October 2018 for purchase, but now I'm providing it for FREE to anyone interested in learning more about the magic of SSH tunnels and port redirection.
Repo contains the PDF for download. CC-BY-NCv4
Material Design Icons' growing icon collection allows designers and developers targeting various platforms to download icons in the format, color and size they need for any project. 26,000 icons and counting.
The Pinouts Book is a free digital book created for designers and engineers as a quick reference for remembering the different pinout functions in your electronics projects.
The book covers 130 commonly used components (view list), such as connectors, single board computers, dev boards, memory cards, microcontroller chips, and more.
If you need more technical information, each page has a link at the top (e.g. pinouts.org/XXX), and these redirect to official datasheets / specifications.
We’re going to be updating the book as time goes on, and we hope you find it useful.
Bartosz Milewski's Category Theory for Programmers unofficial PDF and LaTeX source. Has a direct link to the PDF as well as links to buy the dead tree if you find it useful.
This is an unofficial PDF version of "Category Theory for Programmers" by Bartosz Milewski, converted from his blogpost series (with permission!)
The Joy of Cryptography is a free undergraduate textbook that introduces students to the fundamentals of provable security.
In a single collection, Fork Awesome is a pictographic language of web-related actions. Completely free for commercial use. Originally designed for Bootstrap, Fork Awesome works great with all frameworks (even plain HTML). Doesn't require JavaScript. Easily style icon color, size, shadow, and anything that's possible with CSS. Scalable vector graphics means every icon looks awesome at any size. Accessibility minded and aware.