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Friday roundup

Baltimore, we’re more than halfway through the month of February. Spring is right around the corner. What are you most excited for as the region warms up?

 

Dropping gems

  • Mermaid.js is now supported by Github. Here’s a tutorial by Technical.ly Slack member Casey Watts.
  • Here's a thread by VC Lolita Taub that lists sites and guides to accelerators founders can apply to.
  • And here are some tips by VC Del Johnson on making better pitch decks.

In other news

  • The Baltimore Museum of Art opens the Guarding the Art exhibit on March 27, an exhibition curated entirely by 17 members of the museum’s security team.
  • The Baltimore Sun apologizes for playing a hand in decades of systemic racism in Baltimore.
  • Baltimore Bank closures second highest in the nation.

Random tech fact of the week

 

James E. West counts more than 250 patents in his name and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. A living legend and Hopkins professor.

 

— Technical.ly reporter Donte Kirby (donte@technical.ly)

 

P.S. Are you watching "Abbott Elementary"? You should be.

 

Abbott Elementary giphy

 

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