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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/

Coordinate group meetings without the back-and-forth emails – like doodle but without all the ads and bling. Free to use.

A collection of our favorite visualizations built on Wikipedia data, curated by Hatnote.

The RSS Review is just a little corner of the web trying to raise awareness about RSS and RSS feeds. By using RSS we, the people of the internet, do not have to wait for news, blog posts, podcasts, and articles to surface to us from search engines and social […]

One of the things that I find fascinating is how bad a geology movie could be yet still end up being a surprisingly good teaching tool, if you know how to use them right. Here I am working through geological reviews of bad geology movies. If you are a geology […]

Emerging in the mid-90s, badges/buttons with a resolution of 88 pixels by 31 pixels spread through the web like wildfire before eventually waning in popularity in the 2000s. A sure remnant of the olden days of the web, today they have a retro chic. They’re a fun, lo-fi visual adornment, […]

LosslessCut aims to be the ultimate cross platform FFmpeg GUI for extremely fast and lossless operations on video, audio, subtitle and other related media files. The main feature is lossless trimming and cutting of video and audio files, which is great for saving space by rough-cutting your large video files […]

Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse. Mastodon is a free, open-source, decentralized microblogging network. If you click on one of the lists below, you'll see a page full of people that volunteered to […]

Convert documents without leaving your browser, using the power of pandoc.wasm. This app is a web-assembly version of pandoc, the documents never leave your computer. h/t https://fosstodon.org/@pandoc/115858394624318802

Relieve the entire era of MTV from the first first episode onward "music will never be the same", all free / no ads, 30x music videos, organized by decade. h/t https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/115849247297802437

Follow your favorite writers, not algorithms. Experience the web the way it was meant to be. Start reading instantly. No account required. Everything stays private in your browser. We built Blogs Are Back because we believe the web is better when people connect directly with the writers they care about. […]

Switch to the good side every first Sunday! (translation from site in German) Our digital lives are in the hands of a few super-rich individuals. With the monopolistic power of their companies, people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg determine worldwide how we access information, discuss, communicate, and […]

Taiga: The free and open-source project management tool For cross-functional agile teams to work effectively A featured-rich software that offers a very simple start through its intuitive user interface.

Mermaid lets you create diagrams and visualizations using text and code. It is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically.