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Matchy Maps makes it fun and easy to import walking maps into your phone! Simply take a photograph of your paper map and align it with a digital map. You'll then be able to see your location on the paper map as you walk around. Following complicated walking routes becomes […]

Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool. I was looking for a self-hosted monitoring tool like "Uptime Robot", but it is hard to find a suitable one. One of the closest ones is statping. Unfortunately, it is not stable and no longer maintained.

Blogosphere is an aggregator that fetches the latest posts from over 1,000 blogs across many different categories, surfacing the recent and interesting ones worth your time. But it's really about something bigger: rebuilding a thriving community of independent writers and thinkers who share their thoughts freely, without waiting for an […]

Combine multiple RSS feeds into one unified feed

Any publicly accessible ICS/iCal file should work, including Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar exports, and more.

Add any public account from Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, X, TikTok or YouTube to quickly get a feed that you can add to your favorite reader. Bonus: Add any website to quickly grab its existing feed as well. h/t https://hachyderm.io/@kyleford/116387700275422026

An audiobook player for iOS built around simplicity and accessibility. I built this for my dad. He's partially sighted and has poor motor control, but he still loves listening to books. I tried a bunch of audiobook apps and they were all too busy, too fiddly, or had text and […]

On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder in his pocket, went to see an up-and-coming rock band from Washington for their debut show in Chicago. After a blast of guitar feedback, 22-year-old Kurt Cobain politely announced to the crowd at […]

Compare CJK characters between regions. CJK stands for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. All of these languages have incorporated Chinese characters into their writing systems. They are called Hanzi in Chinese, Kanji in Japanese and Hanja in Korean. They display some characters differently. Historically, this has also included Vietnamese, which is […]

Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Stop printing and start skimming. Explore the links to the left to investigate Skim and consider helping out […]

The new foundation for documents— Limitless power to write, create, and automate anything that you can fit on a page. reate content as markdown, publish as PDF. all open source. h/t https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116345986291087377

We think of it as the spiritual successor to WordPress. It’s written entirely in TypeScript. It is serverless, but you can run it on your own hardware or any platform you choose. Plugins are securely sandboxed and can run in their own isolate, via Dynamic Workers, solving the fundamental security […]

An independent search engine. No ads. No tracking. Xonaly was built differently: a lightweight engine that explores the web itself. No third-party APIs, no commercial influence, just pure local analysis. Xonaly’s robots crawl thousands of pages every single day, building an index that is entirely our own. Independent from Google […]

Build and share your best shaders with the world and get inspired. h/t https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision/116318677427940352

The mission of the Interactive Principles project is help make research backed principles from the learning sciences more understandable and usable for designers of instructional technologies and experiences, specifically educational games. We do this by providing examples and contextualizing the design questions that can have pedagogical impacts. This current site […]

The free GNU/Linux terminal for everyone. Practice Linux commands, write bash scripts, learn Python and more — right in your browser. No setup required. Running since 2011 and always free.

A Mastodon client built for live event coverage Liveblog lets you follow, search, and post to Mastodon with a focused interface designed for covering events in real time — hashtag tracking, quote posts, notifications, and more. No data stored by this server. All auth tokens are stored in your browser.

Founded in 2008, Pinball Map is an open source, crowdsourced worldwide map of public pinball machines. It includes 12,312 locations and 52,406 machines. Pinball Map is a user-powered map. To help maintain it, create an account and add and remove machines and submit new locations. You can also add machine […]

WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe and using music theory and Wolfram Language algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story—and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition. It's all original music—fresh from "mining" Wolfram's […]

Security Headers is a part of Snyk, a leading cybersecurity company, and was originally created by Scott Helme! It is a free and easy to use tool designed to help you better deploy and understand modern security features that are available for your website. Snyk is a comprehensive developer security […]