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Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser. Using WebRTC, FilePizza eliminates the initial upload step required by other web-based file sharing services. Because data is never stored in an intermediary server, the transfer is fast, private, and secure. h/t https://xoxo.zone/@scruss/117531969068171885

RemoveMacAI turns off Apple Intelligence and deletes its models. It also switches off Mac Analytics and personalized ads, fixes small things like the wallpaper click that hides every window, and clears out old installers and caches. You see each change before it happens and can undo it later.

Since their arrival, generative AI models and their trainers have demonstrated their ability to download any online content for model training. For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative AI model against their will. Opt-out lists have been disregarded by model […]

Overland is an open source GPS tracker for iPhone. It logs your location in the background and sends it to a server of your choosing. It keeps saving data while you're offline and sends it later in batches.

COMETLINK is a made-up 1997 online service at lolchat.rip. Dial in, pick a screen name, enter a room. Everyone here is real. Messages are filtered.

photon is an open source geocoder built for OpenStreetMap data. It is based on OpenSearch – an efficient, powerful and highly scalable search platform. photon was started by komoot who also provide the public demo server at photon.komoot.io.

ShutterQueue is a powerful photo batch uploader for photographers and content creators who want to share their work across multiple social platforms simultaneously. Upload to direct platforms or to Buffer-connected platforms with a single queue.

Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you. Local content is direct from Wikipedia – geocoded pages only. If there are fewer than 25 things close to you, it takes the closest 25 things within about 6 miles. If there are more than 500 […]

This website was created by Dave Machin during the pandemic of 2020. Dave started collecting view-master reels and viewers as a "pandemic-hobby". The initial collection was a few personal viewmaster reels – but those are quite expensive to collect. The main collection really began with a set of old single-reels […]

Chronolog is a monitoring tool for parks, nature centers, wildlife organizations, schools, and museums worldwide. With over 200,000 contributors across 500 organizations, Chronolog is on a mission to engage communities with nature while recording important natural changes. h/t https://mastodon.social/@dogtrax/117495403482369010

HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.

As web developers, we’re constantly working with websites with different types of content and ways to craft that content. Whether it’s a handcrafted blog, a WordPress site or a web app, these days you likely have a bunch of images out there: some decorative, others with meaningful messages. I built […]

No algorithm, no timeline, no engagement bait. Just feeds you chose. Here's the whole ecosystem — readers, feed generators, monitoring, directories, and the standards that hold it together.

Quick, private video cuts and conversions that run entirely in your browser. A lightweight replacement for the handful of things most people used Avidemux for: * Extract a clip from a longer video (set In/Out points). * Trim a chosen amount off the start of a video. C* ut out […]

Ever look at one of those adorable 8 page zines made out of a single sheet of paper and thought "gosh, I wanna make some of those!" Ever opened Word and thought "This isn't going to work!" and cried yourself to sleep because your zine dreams were shattered? Well cry not, […]

Every day at midnight UTC, a new Wikipedia article goes into hiding. Your job is to find it. WikiWhiz is a free daily guessing game I built on top of English Wikipedia and other sister projects. If you’ve played Wordle, the rhythm will feel familiar: one puzzle a day, same […]

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So: what would happen if stories were drawn from actual data, randomized to give a valid representation of the human story? That's the question that was stuck in my head, and that drove this project forward. If you could draw a life at random from all of human history, what […]

Privacy-friendly and lightweight analytics for WordPress sites Valuable insights without tracking your visitors. No cookies, no consent banner, no GDPR issues, no data transfer agreements.

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 […]