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69 bookmarks by garrettc
Seven reasons why readability formulas don't work and other ways to test the readability of your documents and text
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"The Dreamhold is a gentle introduction to the world of IF. It’s a small game, and not too difficult. More importantly, The Dreamhold features the Tutorial Voice -- a helpful guide that will lead you through the basics of playing a text adventure. "
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Paste in some text, then hit 'submit' to extract only the questions.
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"On the face of things, we seem to be merely talking about text-based files, containing only the letters of the English Alphabet (and the occasional punctuation mark). On deeper inspection, of course, this isn't quite the case. What this site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980's textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day. "
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"This is an online generator which converts normal text letters into tiny letters which you can copy and paste into facebook, twitter, instagram and other social media posts and status updates. It essentially allows you to make text smaller. The text looks so small because three special unicode alphabets are used. "
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Includes headers and lists, using Star Wars, Futurama, Doctor Who, and more
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Web scraping library and command-line tool for text discovery and extraction (main content, metadata, comments) - adbar/trafilatura
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"Here’s a fun CSS trick to show your friends: a large title that switches from a solid color to knockout text as the background image behind it scrolls"
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"I believe the era of new text editors emerging and quickly becoming popular has now ended with Visual Studio Code. VS Code has reached unprecedented levels of popularity and refinement, laying a foundation that could mean decades of market dominance."
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Modern notes manager for macOS/iOS
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"Rendering text, how hard could it be? As it turns out, incredibly hard! To my knowledge, literally no system renders text "perfectly". It's all best-effort, although some efforts are more important than others."
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A little text placeholder generator of Jeff Goldblum awesome... obviously.
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"A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team"
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A private notes app that features unmatched simplicity, end-to-end encryption, powerful extensions, and open-source applications.
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"We asked the Smashing Community for their favorite tips and tricks when editing text and code. With so many great suggestions, we've decided to collect them all into one article so you can add it to your useful bookmarks."
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Helps software designers think about complex product behavior. Sketch out states, add prototypes, and clarify questions quickly.
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Analyze text using ML to extract relevant entities, understand the overall sentiment, identify parts of speech and create dependency parse trees.
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"Imagine a sentence. “I went looking for adventure.” Imagine another one. “I never returned.” Now imagine a sentence gradient between them—not a story, but a smooth interpolation of meaning."
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TextBlob is a Python (2 and 3) library for processing textual data. It provides a simple API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, classification, translation, and more.
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Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web. With its modular architecture and expressive API, it is completely customizable to fulfill any need.
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"The Dead Outnumber The Living is a mix between a “choose your own adventure” book and a classic text-based video game, going beyond the typical choose-your-own-adventure theme by providing a vast amount of pathways, dynamic content, story clues, and a few puzzles to solve."
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An automatic summarization algorithm that combines the power of natural language processing and machine learning to produce good results.
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Comparison table of iPhone and iPad text/code editors and writing tools
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A collection of open-source tools to parse, geocode, and process data, all wrapped up in a virtual machine or EC2 image. REST/JSON API, CLI, Python and Javasript interfaces.
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