link pile: tech & design edition

[kradeelav]

• "Why [Cooper Black, a font] is everywhere" - fascinating mini-documentary on possibly the one font used in more places than helvetica is.

• also found the font review journal (RSS friendly) through the above video, which gives a much more in-depth historical and text-based glance of slightly more uncommon fonts.

• relatedly, Vox' 5 minute video on how the Memphis design style influenced the 80's design (along with MTV) was rad and led me down yet another 80's design rabbit hole ... I always love digging into the anatomy of design movements, there's a sense a science/mechanics there that reveals so much more than what it looks like at first glance.

• 'why are unix read/write/execute permissions Like That' - i've always wanted to know why messing around with cpanel / ubuntu permissions are always 775 or some other weird number, now both you and I know :D 

• I don't have it working quite Yet, but here's the most promising photoshit-CC-on-linux github bash script I've seen lately. currently also doubling as a neat little 'learn git 101' with a very tasty reward at the end :P krita's great for drawing but as a professional, i do want to have the meaty backup in the pocket just in case for weird edge cases like converting a pdf and such.

• legally skittish / not confident enough in your h4x0r skills to run a tor node? the firefox snowflake extension looks like a great safe and easy way to help circumvent censorship in a similar way. still would not install it unless if you're comfortable with Tor, but been applying it to all my machines.

• "debugging by tarot" - this is a unique spread that honestly makes a lot of sense and practical structure and that I feel several of you may enjoy at least the read through :)