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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

Open your exported Timeline JSON, replay the route on an animated map, and create a shareable MP4. Your location file stays in this browser. A Google Maps Timeline export is useful data, but a JSON file is not a story you can watch or share. Timeline Visualizer turns the places […]

Clone voices, generate speech across seven TTS engines, dictate into any app, and talk to agents in voices you own. A free and local alternative to ElevenLabs and WisprFlow, running entirely on your machine. Free and open source https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox h/t https://bionicteaching.com/bookmark/voicebox-open-source-voice-cloning-desktop-app/

Powered by LiveKit, La Suite Meet offers Zoom-level performance with high-quality video and audio. No installation required—simply join calls directly from your browser. Optimized for stability in large meetings (+100 p.) Support for multiple screen sharing streams Non-persistent, secure chat End-to-end encryption (coming soon) Meeting recording Meeting transcription & Summary […]

A global showcase where photographers share their single finest shot — and the community decides what rises to the top. Every photographer gets one upload per day. No galleries, no portfolios — just your best frame. This keeps the grid competitive and the quality high. Two feeds, one grid. Top […]

One color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its chemistry, and the people who paid for it in poison. Every pigment in this catalogue has a paper trail. Where it was first ground, in whose workshop, on whose canvas it dried, when it was […]

Power your own hotspot to share educational materials, videos and apps in small groups or classrooms. No internet required. Butter Box broadcasts its own WiFi network. Once you join, you can install Butter, get apps, join a public chatroom, or make your own private one to share with friends. Butter […]

Welcome to Stellarium Web, an online planetarium running in your web browser based on the open source Stellarium Web Engine project. Please report any bugs or ask questions on www.stellarium-labs.com or on our Github page. This web version of Stellarium is a 2-persons project: Fabien Chereau the original creator of […]

You cannot hide! Experience all the personal information any web page can learn about you, without even needing a cookie. open source from Kubrr Studio https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/cookie h/t https://fosstodon.org/@RockyC/117059376370160807

A sestet is either a 6-line poem or a 6-line stanza of a larger poem. Sestetle mashes sestets with Wordle, generating random poems using the primary constraint of Wordle, which is that each word is five letters long. The project is inspired by the occasionally meaningful list of wrong answers […]

Takes the URL to a Mastodon toot, and converts the thread (all children by the same author) to a Markdown blogpost. It also downloads all included media files, and their alt texts. h/t https://mastodon.acm.org/@mxp/117044159885158176

Just For Fun is a place to browse creative coding projects. It's created and curated by @nealagarwal.

find out if it’s worth going out to look at the night sky. a project of Terry Godier. Dark Hours is built on open data and published science.bb h/t https://indieweb.social/@tg/117022764569677489

Everyone has shared the frustration of waiting for an elevator that never seems to arrive. "I pressed the button, why isn't it coming?" you ask. For something as commonplace as elevators, they are far more complex than meets the eye. Over the course of this article, we'll unravel the mysteries […]

brolly.sh is a minimalist, plain text weather forecasting site. Use it to view weather from around the world, with: – 7 day forecast – Previous day log (so you can confirm it definitely was cooler / hotter / wetter / drier yesterday!) – Hourly rain, wind, temperature, conditions – Hourly […]