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https://font2png.com to browse font-icons and export them as PNG, with background/foreground color. Usually you want SVG, but sometimes a PNG is better. I use it mostly to generate quick favicons. It was also fun to make it work completely client side with canvas.

https://github.com/combatwombat/rmdb imports the IMDb database (at least the limited .tsv files they provide) into MySQL so you can query it. List the highest rated horror movies of the 90s, genre distribution by year etc. I made that mostly to c̶h̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶o̶n̶ help with https://www.reddit.com/r/GuessTheMovie, with limited success. Still fun though to SQL-query over all movies ever made.




Ooh, I have a use for the IMDB one, I hadn't realised they had data export. Thanks.


Nice. I gather one could generate a lot of listicles with that. "The 10 most * movies of *", "5 early but great movies by famous actors", ...

Too bad IMDb doesn't provide more data in the export. Budget, box office or country of origin would be nice.


It was the db used in one of the cs50 psets this year!




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