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A few months ago I started working on WordPal, a module that would make it possible to convert WordPress block themes into Drupal themes. It was very rough back then, and now it works. The results are pretty good, better than I would have expected. That's a testament to the […]

But a friend online had a different answer: "tildes are only ever properly used in front of usernames on shared hosting." And that answer sent Ford back to the 90s, because back then, homepages existed at URLs like CyberFox.net/~vixen. In the essay he wrote about what happened next, he put […]

One binary.A whole fediverse server. littleFedi is a small ActivityPub server written in Go. It ships as a single static executable with a server-rendered web interface, a Mastodon-compatible client API, a durable federation queue, moderation tools, and optional PostgreSQL and S3 support. No runtime to install, no services to wire […]

Advanced Free AI Speech Recognition with Whisper Web Whisper Web transcribes audio in 99 languages with Whisper-powered AI. Free mode processes files locally in your browser using WebGPU or WebAssembly. free for 20 minute audio.

Data visualizations are not just windows into the world, but communicative acts that frame reality from particular vantage points. They can raise questions, provoke reflection, and open up complex issues for debate, but they can also mislead, manipulate, or marginalize. This atlas holds an expanding body of work about the […]

Pick a snail and get comfortable. It's a long race and overtakes are rare, but the snails are taking it extremely seriously, so the least you can do is watch. Unless, of course, you happen to know how to encourage one. Snail racing is a genuine sport, and a wonderfully […]

A static site generator for video publishing. Build and publish video sites, from single videos to large archives. No database, no programming, no maintenance required. Compatible with virtually every webhost on this planet. See example https://dorninger.servus.at/videos/

Before Hackernews, before Twitter, before blogs, before the web had been spun, when the internet was just four universities in a trenchcoat, there was *BYTE*. A monthly mainline of the entire personal computing universe, delivered on dead trees for a generation of hackers. Running from September 1975 to July 1998, […]

A lightweight, browser-based editor for building reveal.js presentations. Decks live in your browser—nothing is uploaded. Made by Mark Sample @samplereality Source code: github.com/samplereality/small-reveal

It is hard to represent our spherical world on a flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into a 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator projection. Every map projection introduces distortion, and each has its own set of problems. […]

This is a slow collaborative painting. Everyone gets one stroke a day: pick an empty cell, pick a colour, place it. Nothing can be undone. Each stroke is small on its own. Together, the strokes form one public artwork shaped by everyone who visits. When the grid is full, the […]

In the years since HTML 2.0’s 1995 debut, the web has changed massively. However, there is a saying in the web standards world: ‘Don’t Break The Web’. There are some exceptions, but on the whole a website developed at the web’s inception should work in a modern browser, regardless of […]

How you order elements in the can have an effect on the (perceived) performance of the page. Capo helps you identify which elements are out of order.

Find games you can play without sight. See what works, what doesn't, whether you need a mod, and what the game costs.

This is a WordPress plugin that displays a FeedLand river — a constantly-updated stream of news items from feeds a FeedLand user subscribes to — on a WordPress page or post. FeedLand also has its own News Product feature, a whole standalone HTML page you deploy on your own server. […]

As fancy primates, we regularly produce bits of interesting human-made ephemera as part of our ongoing creative explorations. Some of these are easily shareable. Historically, it's been possible to offer such goodies under extremely permissive Creative Commons licenses. In the age of "artificially intelligent" machines mulching all of human expression […]

A weekly photo challenge for the whole Fediverse. One theme, every Friday; shoot it and #share it from wherever you already are. Follow. Tag and share your entries. See the entries from others. Show some love to the ones that inspire you. Watch your feed for the weekly results. All […]

The best RSS app that works in your favorite RSS app already… I love the open web, and because RSS came to prominence in the pre-web 2.0 era, a lot of the basics are effectively open standards. This means that a lot of RSS apps allow you to connect any […]

The modern, open source, self-hosted customer support platform. An alternative to Intercom and Zendesk. h/t to Paul Hibbitts, spotted it in use at https://docsify-this.net