“Playing with type” article discusses some of the issues related to typography and typesetting, and how to work around those. Some of the services mentioned are:
Update (November 15, 2018): Also have a look at this tool.
Year: 2015
The Trello Tech Stack
The Fog Creek blog has a lengthy post explaining the technology stack behind their Trello project management tool. It mentions all the fancy buzz words from NodeJS and WebSockets to Redis and MongoDB. An interesting read overall.
Good morning
Location: The Buccaneer Pub & Restaurant
The Insider Guide to Cyprus’ Leading Microbreweries
The Insider Guide to Cyprus’ Leading Microbreweries tells the story of the local microbreweries (those that don’t include monster factories like Keo and Carlsberg). To my surprise there are more of them than I knew. I was only familiar with Prime Microbrewery and Aphrodite’s Rock. There’s also Hula Hops Brewing and Pivo Microbrewery.
There’s also Draught Microbrewery, which is not in the article, but worth a visit.
Open Source Photography Workflow
Riley Brandt, the photographer, goes over his photography workflow, involving only Free and Open Source software. Here are his picks:
- Image viewer: Geeqie
- Monitor calibration: dispcalGUI or Gnome Color Manager
- Download and rename photos: Rapid Photo Downloader
- Custom camera color profiles: ArgyllCMS
- Photo and metadata management: darktable
- RAW editor: darktable
- Touch ups and web preparation: Gimp