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What are crucial tracks? A crucial track is a song that changes the direction of your life or helps you see the world in a different way. The songs that represent relationships or trigger memories. The songs that make you, you. Crucial Tracks is a music journal with a simple […]

Quickly make custom VHS slipcases to help you complete your collection. This slipcover generator automatically pulls movie posters, logos, and metadata to design custom sleeve designs for your custom VHS project. h/t https://mastodon.social/@grantpotter/116252679850906579

Badge Studio is an open-source tool for designing custom SVG badges. It was originally created by Andrew Hayward for Mozilla's Open Badges initiative, and has been modernised and genericised for general use. Icons are provided by Font Awesome (CC BY 4.0). The badge graphic you design here can be used […]

Everyone needs a rewarding hobby. I’ve been scanning all of my receipts since 2001. I never typed in a single price – just kept the images. I figured someday the technology to read them would catch up, and the data would be interesting. This year I tested it. Two AI […]

Saturday morning forever. Zero ads. Zero algorithms. What's up doc? By the same folks who made MTV rewind

As your StoryHost, I co-design sustainable story-based processes. After 42 years in non-profit story-based creativity and project development and management, I want to help you create transformative spaces for learning, connection, and renewal. —— note from the bookmarker: I share because I cannot respect Joe Lambert too much, such a […]

A retro TV guide that turns YouTube into live cable TV. Each channel plays videos on a deterministic schedule — like real TV, you tune in mid-show. Videos loop on a fixed daily schedule based on wall-clock time. Everyone watching the same channel sees the same video at the same […]

Conçu par l'Atelier des chercheurs pour documenter et créer des récits à partir d'activités pratiques, do•doc (prononcer doudoc) est un outil libre et modulaire, qui permet de capturer des médias (photos, vidéos, sons et stop-motion), de les éditer, de les mettre en page et de les publier. Son design composite […]

Today, we’re introducing my.WordPress.net, a new take on that idea designed for a new generation of creators. With my.WordPress.net, WordPress runs entirely and persistently in your browser. There’s no sign-up, no hosting plan, and no domain decision standing between you and getting started. Built on WordPress Playground, my.WordPress.net takes the […]

DIY Web Archiving shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!). Based on the 11/25/2024 virtual workshop co-sponsored by WebRecorder, SUCHO, and ACH; taught by Walsh, Kreymer, Dombrowski, & Kijas; with additional […]

in a world looming with the threat of ai stealing your job, save humanity by stealing ai's job. • each text or image prompt costs 1 credit. • to earn credits, switch to the AI tab and answer someone else's prompt. • if you're broke, you'll occasionally get some free […]

You can’t buy happiness but you can map it. visualization of the HappyDB, In 2017, more than 10,000 people tracked experiences that made them happy as part of a research project. The researchers gathered more than 100,000 happy moments.

Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization and physical installation exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. It traces technological patterns of colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure since 1500 to show how these forces still subjugate and how they might be unwound. h/t https://code4lib.social/@pbinkley/116183999719472662

Radio broadcasts leave Earth at the speed of light. Scroll away from Earth and hear how far the biggest hits of the past have travelled. The farther away you get, the longer the waves take to travel there—and the older the music you’ll hear. h/t https://mastodon.social/@dogtrax/116182070482328222

Web Rewind is an interactive platform and living archive of real browsing memories, where you can explore 30 years of internet history and reflect on how the web once felt. Help expand this collective archive by submitting your own memory in the form of a photo, video or text, for […]

Programming languages have always co-evolved with their users. Assembly emerged from hardware constraints. C from operating system needs. Python from productivity needs. If models become the primary authors of software, it follows that languages should adapt to that. The biggest problem models face isn't syntax it's coherence over scale. Models […]

Inkwell is a federated social journaling platform — a place built for writing: journal entries, long thoughts, personal updates, and creative expression. Where the people you care about can actually read what you write. Built on ActivityPub — the same open standard that powers Mastodon and a growing ecosystem of […]

Create and manage your blogroll. Import from OPML, share publicly, embed on your site, and discover what others are reading. Bring your existing blogroll via OPML import. We'll auto-detect favicons and RSS feeds. Get a clean URL for your blogroll that others can browse and discover. Add a simple script […]

A JavaScript script saved as a bookmark is called a “bookmarklet,” although some people also use the term “favelet” or “favlet.” Bookmarklets have been around since the late 90s. The site that coined them, bookmarklets.com, even remains around today. They’re simple and versatile, a fact evidenced by most of the […]

Generate beautiful minimalist city map posters. h/t https://daily.ds106.us/tdc5153/