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2021

Color Scheme Designer 3

Link: Color Scheme Designer 3: "In love with colors, since 2002. A designer tool for creating color combinations that work together well. Formerly known as Color Scheme Designer. Use the color wheel to create great color palettes."

Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color - Smashing Magazine

Link: Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color - Smashing Magazine: "There are few things in design that are more subjective—or more important—than the use of color. A color that can evoke one reaction in one person may evoke the opposite reaction in another, due to culture, prior association, or even just personal preference. Get email updates about next articles. [Updated: March 2021]"

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster - Adam Drake

Link: Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster - Adam Drake: "Introduction As I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to compute some statistics on win/loss ratios for chess games he downloaded from the millionbase archive, and generally have fun with EMR. Since the data volume was only about 1.75GB containing around 2 million chess games, I was skeptical of using Hadoop for the task, but I can understand his goal of learning and having fun with mrjob and EMR."

Company Logo API

Link: Company Logo API: "We're happy to announce Clearbit's free Logo API. While services like Gravatar make it straightforward to pull in a user's default avatar, we haven't found anything that caters well to company logos. And yet there's a lot of clear use-cases ranging from setting an organization's default image on signup to"