Cool Tech

Generativ Design is a project by Yasuhiro Yokota, a Tokyo-based designer, a series of creative tools to generate visual designs that are far from the slop of generative AI. Translated from Yokota's about page: "I have launched a website called Generative Design as a private project. The "e" in Generative […]

Create a feed with the form above and Kill the Newsletter! provides you with an email address and an Atom feed. Emails that are received at that address are turned into entries in that feed. Sign up to a newsletter with that address and use your feed reader to subscribe […]

This is a website where anyone can add Anything About Anyplace™ anywhere in the world. A crowd-sourced website that brings you fascinating and perhaps unique information about specific locations everywhere.   Historical markers, often in bronze or stone, commemorate something of importance or interest about a place. Yet there are millions of […]

A small program to generate "programmatic" lists in Mastodon, as a way to experiment with different kinds of home feeds. Mastodon's strict chronological timeline favors frequent posters over less frequent ones. In my experience this causes a problem where your feed is dominated by a few hardcore, big-follower-number posters, while […]

The Virtual Microscope (VM) for Earth Sciences is primarily an Open Educational Resource (OER). The VM project aims to make a step change in the teaching of Earth Sciences by broadening access to rock collections that are currently held in museums, universities and other institutions around the world. The Virtual […]

Flickr Commons is a program to bring the visual collections of cultural heritage organizations to new audiences. Getting these resources in front of people where they are online as opposed to being siloed in their own website or not online at all. It was a pretty ground breaking project, the […]

FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable. Follow websites, podcasts and video channels in a single place. Read your articles directly in FreshRSS. Search and save queries for quick access. Generate feeds by scraping external websites. Generate new […]

Enjoy dog chosen music for slide shows of all geocities pages that represented dogs, almost as fun (for dog fans) as openpuppies.com h/t https://olia.geocities.institute/@GIFmodel/115310965677666934

The climate crisis is urgent, so it’s critical that the solutions are fast-acting and effective. Drawdown Explorer identifies and characterizes the most effective climate solutions that can address climate change on a meaningful scale today. It also provides valuable insights into proposed solutions that are not viable, not impactful enough, or […]

ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who need to edit and analyze audio files without complications. ocenaudio also has powerful features that will please more advanced users. This software is based on Ocen Framework, a powerful library […]

Welcome to Potato Internet; this is a provocation, an ephemeral technology and a community. We are a small scale social network, powered by a raspberry pi mesh network system and potatoes, that updates only once or twice a day. Our content moderation is built on feminist values and feminist protocols, […]

With ActivityPods, you have only one profile, one outbox, one inbox and one list of followers – all in a single place. Applications connect to your Pod to post activities, read the inbox and fetch data. And of course they can connect to any existing fediverse application !

Select which photo is AI-generated by clicking on it or using the and arrow keys. h/t https://social.coop/@dajb/115254892065575794

My latest data visualization project gives you an overview of what fediverse servers you’re connected to through your followers and accounts you follow.

Bring Impossible Products to Life, Your wildest product ideas, visualized in seconds! Generates products (well pictures and descriptions) of anything you search for. Each with a "Crap" or "I'd buy" button to rate, reviews, wishlists and ohhh… the asterisk "This product is conceptual and not available for physical purchase" Put […]

Bespoke.js is a super minimal (1KB min'd and gzipped), modular presentation library for modern browsers, designed to foster a rich plugin ecosystem. The core library sets up the presentation, provides a simple control API and manages events. Any other functionality is implemented as a plugin. h/t https://mastodon.social/@stephenharlow/115199521752121338

This website uses openly available meteorological data (openmeteo API) to generate sounds depending on the weather of the location typed. The code will be available on gitlab. h/t Clive Thompson’s Linkfest https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-39-xenoparity-navajo-microchips-and-in/

A scrolling essay on fear of scrolling h/t https://fosstodon.org/@brianb/115182891479140637

This website provides a list of all RSS/Atom feeds from the top 1 million websites for RSS/Atom feeds. Find the code and data at https://github.com/lwindolf/rss-feed-index h/t https://mas.to/@lwindolf/115168306390912220

Welcome to the Atlas of Space — an interactive visualization to explore the planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in the Solar System.