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Blog | The Noun Project: Beautiful Icons from Tim Boelaars
Every icon designer has their own unique style. What line weight to use, how much detail to show, what should the corner radius be, all of these effect the aesthetics and feel of the symbol suite. Here at The Noun Project we really enjoy seeing symbol sets that are unexpected and unique, and that…
Blog | The Noun Project: Designing Icons for Web Cartography
For our latest guest blog post we invited designer / cartographer Saman Bemel Benrud to talk about the unique challenges presented when designing icons for maps. Saman is one of the creators of Maki which is an open source map icon project. We are proud to announce the Maki collection is now…
Abecebooks: “Una selección libérrima de libros que merecen la pena”
“De Cervantes a Mr. E. De Nabokov a McCarthy, pasando por Lorca, Kundera y Baricco. Larga vida a Bernhard y a Marías y a Tanizaki y a Cortázar y a Calvino y a Nothomb y a Wolfe y a todos los hombres y mujeres capaces de llegar a nosotros a través de las historias puestas […]
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Spiral of Theodorus
First constructed by Theodorus of Cyrene, the spiral (also called the square root spiral, Einstein spiral or Pythagorean spiral) is composed of contiguous right triangles. It is begun with an isosceles right triangle with each leg having a length of 1 - then another right triangle is formed next to it with one leg being the hypotenuse of the prior triangle and the other leg having a length of 1.Thus, each successive nth triangle has side lengths √n and 1, with a hypotenuse of √(n + 1).
GitHub Styleguide
Welcome to the internal GitHub styleguide. This is where you should look if you’re interested in how to write code for GitHub. We have a living CSS styleguide, JavaScript styleguide and some recommendations on how to write Ruby code.
Instagram Engineering: What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies
One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, “what’s your stack?” We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in…
