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"Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing."

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"This specification defines an API that allows Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel to their main page. This allows for thread-like operation with message-passing as the coordination mechanism."

"On the outside it might appear that everybody who is not using Tool X is a moron. But speed & latency are only part of the picture. We already established that going from 5ms to 50ms might not even be noticeable by anyone using your product. The expense for speed can be multiple things:..."

"Rifgraf is a fire-and-forget web service for displaying graphs of data collected over time. Post your data points periodically via rest calls. Then view a graph of the data at any time in the future."

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