Web excursions are select bookmarks from Brett's travels around the internet. You can see them all on Pinboard. Visit the bookmarks page for previous Excursions.
Web Excursions for January 30, 2014
- Newspaper
- “News extraction, article extraction and content curation in python. Built with multithreading, 10+ languages, NLP, ML, and more”
- Markdown Tables generator - TablesGenerator.com
- Nifty tool for quickly generating Markdown tables.
- Folding
- A way to render FoldingText documents as static web pages.
- 20 Websites With Unique Interactive Scrolling
- Once you get past the annoying modal popup, this is a great collection of sites making smart use of scroll navigation and animation.
- dasheets
- Generate your own cheatsheets as docsets for Dash. A simple command line tool and write your cheatsheets in an easy language (Ruby DSL). I also have an in-progress converter that lets you turn MMD tables into dasheets format.