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Michael's Zite and Unicode Sparklines Lightning Talk

Michael from liik pitches Zite, a German open-source task and process management application positioned between Trello and Salesforce, asking the audience for GitHub/GitLab stars. He then shares a second vignette about deliberately choosing no UI framework for a research prototype and solving an in-app data-distribution histogram need via Unicode sparklines.

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