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Readeck helps you keep all that web content you’ll want to revisit in an hour, tomorrow, or in 20 years.
Readeck helps you keep all that web content you’ll want to revisit in an hour, tomorrow, or in 20 years.
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BUTT - broadcast using this tool
BUTT (Broadcast Using This Tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports Icecast, Shoutcast and WebRTC and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. The main purpose of BUTT is to stream live audio from your computers microphone or line input to an Icecast, Shoutcast or WebRTC (WHIP) server. If you want you can also record your broadcast locally on your computer.
Accessibility Checker - 200+ WCAG & ADA Checks - Free Scan
The best free accessibility checker. Our free accessibility checker tests any web page for over 200 WCAG issues, and gives you straightforward, step-by-step guidance on how to improve. Available on Chrome and Edge. I just tried it to understand how some text would be rendered in audio through a screen reader. At a quick text, very useful to understand how text is read.
Readeck
Readeck helps you keep all that web content you’ll want to revisit in an hour, tomorrow, or in 20 years. That article you want to read later today? The photo you’d love to keep forever? Or the video you want to save for this weekend? Readeck helps you collect them as Bookmarks, ready for you whenever you are. Curate, Archive, mark as favorite, add labels to your content so you can find it later. Search anything in your growing content and create dynamic collections. h/t https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight/113309548487761157
HTML for People
HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on. I’m Blake Watson. I’ve been building websites since the early 2000s. Though I work professionally in the field, I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.
OneTab extension for Google Chrome and Firefox - save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutter
Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once. OneTab is also available for Firefox , Edge and Safari When your tabs are in the OneTab list, you will save up to 95% of memory because you will have reduced the number of tabs open in Google Chrome.
Taking Knowledge in My Own Hands By Self Hosting Wikipedia and Arch Wiki
I am not a doomsday survivalist (yet), but I like post-apocalyptic movies and games. And they have taught me that preserving knowledge is crucial for the human race. Avoiding all the doomsday talk, self-hosting projects are also helpful in cases where there is not consistent internet or where you want to have a controlled environment. Whatever may be the reason, if this is something that interests you, let me share my latest adventures of self-hosting Wikipedia and Arch Wiki on a Raspberry Pi with the help of a project named Kiwix.
Smallweb Subway
The map below shows a subway style network of webrings! Each line represents a themed webring and each station is a different webpage in that theme. On mobile, tab a station to see its info, then tap the info box to visit the site in a new tab. With a mouse, hover over a station to see the info and click to visit!
Recurring Creative Challenges
Recurring monthly and weekly challenges are a great way to learn or improve a new skill, and find a community of people with shared interests. Read more about my own experience on my blog. If you'd like to share an event I should add to my list, please reach out! Bonus points for including the #DS106 #dailycreate Made by https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan
Get Blogging!
A blog is an easy way to get started writing on the web. Your voice is important: it deserves its own site. The more people add their unique perspectives to the web, the more valuable it becomes.
Your Name in Landsat 🛰️
Type in your name to see it spelled out in Landsat imagery of the Earth! h/t https://social.ds106.us/@tdc/113220612601898562 created by https://mastodon.social/@dogtrax
TikTok Cultures Research Network
The TikTok Cultures Research Network is a portal for scholarly resources, research projects, and events that connects networks of qualitative scholars of various disciplines from around the world. This research portal was founded in October 2020 by Professor Crystal Abidin and a group of Asia Pacific-based interdisciplinary scholars who are studying TikTok cultures from a variety of qualitative research methodologies. It is run by a small Core Team at Curtin University, Australia. We provide and facilitate the production of scholarly resources, research projects, and events that connect networks of qualitative scholars of various disciplines from around the world. Our ethos is rooted in providing opportunities to junior, under-represented, and under-privileged scholars; in committing to a decolonial perspective that prioritises research from and by the margins/marginalized in the Asia Pacific and Global South; and in fostering meaningful and impactful collaboration and networking opportunities that will result in innovative research perspectives.
BCD Watch
This site automatically collects, indexes, and makes available for viewing (and as subscribe-able feeds), information about updates to Browser Compatibility Data (BCD). Currently there are two different views (and feeds) on this data, which are compiled each Tuesday (US/Eastern time). h/t https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/113210277764638289 Perhaps you're interested in which changes were reported last week, or more specifically which features became "new baseline" last week (marked as available in all 3 engines).
BBC Sound Effects
The BBC Sound Effects Archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. There are over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years. These include clips made by the BBC Radiophonic workshop, recordings from the Blitz in London, special effects made for BBC TV and Radio productions, as well as 15,000 recordings from the Natural History Unit archive. You can explore sounds from every continent - from the college bells ringing in Oxford to a Patagonian waterfall - or listen to a submarine klaxon or the sound of a 1969 Ford Cortina door slamming shut. As well as browsing and searching through this treasure trove of sounds, you can also make and share your own mixes and soundscapes using the ‘mixer mode’ function. Use the mixer to layer, edit and re-order clips from the archive to create your own sounds. The licensing terms appear to be open for non-commercial use, but does not explicitly apply an open license https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/licensing h/t https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@NocturneGames/113197995618661732
Photini: An easy to use digital photograph metadata (Exif, IPTC, XMP) editing application
A free, easy to use, digital photograph metadata (Exif, IPTC, XMP) editing application for Linux, Windows and MacOS. "Metadata" is said to mean "data about data". In the context of digital photographs this means information that isn't essential in order to display the image, but tells you something about it. For example a title and description of the scene or the date & time and the GPS coordinates of the camera's position when the picture was taken. Upload to Flickr or Google Photos or Ipernity or Pixelfed with reuse of metadata.
CourseSource
We publish articles that are organized around courses in both biological and physics disciplines, and aligned with learning goals established by professional societies representing those disciplines. CourseSource provides authors with the opportunity to publish teaching materials in a high-quality format that documents their scholarly teaching efforts, accomplishments and innovations. To our knowledge, CourseSource is the only online journal that exclusively publishes teaching materials that: Incorporate student-centered, evidence-based pedagogy. Focus on professional society-developed learning goals and objectives. Are organized and formatted to enable replicability and adaptation for other classrooms. Do not require data supporting the efficacy of the specific materials themselves, since they are based on evidence-based practices that are fully supported by research. CourseSource is an open-access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Authors retain copyright to their materials, through a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Dateful
Dateful builds tools so you've always got the right date and time. How to use time zone converter: When you start the converter displays your current local time and that of another city. Click on the field with the city, put in a different city, and then press return. That's it! The time for that city appears in the field near it. There's nothing more to click on or button to push to convert the time. Try changing any of the fields and the other fields will update automatically. Features Time Zone Converter - convert between major world cities and timezones instantly as you type Eventlink - create a link to share for when your event starts World Clock - up to 20 clocks Time Calculator - adds and subtracts times, dates, and durations
Macpaint.org: The Macpaint Gallery
Macpaint.org serves as a historical gallery and contemporary directory of artwork produced using Macpaint. You can access those categories using the icons on the right. If you are new to Macpaint, start with the History section to learn about this important piece of software. If you are a current or former Macpaint artist of any sort, please get in touch with Joel Cretan so your work can be presented on the site: joel@macpaint.org
WebVectors: distributional semantic models online
Enter a word to produce a list of its 10 nearest semantic associates. English Wikipedia model will be used; for other models, visit Similar Words tab. This service computes semantic relations between words in English and Norwegian. Semantic vectors reflect meaning based on word co-occurrence distribution in the training corpus (huge amounts of raw linguistic data). In distributional semantics, words are usually represented as vectors in a multi-dimensional space of their contexts. Semantic similarity between two words is then trivially calculated as a cosine similarity between their corresponding vectors; it takes values between -1 and 1. 0 value means the words lack similar contexts, and thus their meanings are unrelated to each other. 1 value means that the words' contexts are absolutely identical, and thus their meaning is very similar. Recently, distributional semantics received a substantially growing attention. The main reason for this is a very promising approach of employing artificial neural networks to learn hiqh-quality dense vectors (embeddings), using the so-called predictive models. The most well-known tool in this field now is possibly word2vec, which allows very fast training, compared to previous approaches. Unfortunately, training and querying neural embedding models for large corpora can be computationally expensive. Thus, we provide ready-made models trained on several corpora, and a convenient web interface to query them. You can also download the models to process them on your own. Moreover, our web service features a bunch of (hopefully) useful visualizations for semantic relations between words. In general, the reason behind WebVectors is to lower the entry threshold for those who want to work in this new and exciting field. WebVectors is basically a tool to explore relations between words in distributional models. You can think about it as a kind of `semantic calculator'. A user can choose one or several models to work with: currently we provide five models trained on different corpora.
analog audio tape cassette nostalgia - tapedeck.org
Tapedeck.org is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette. There's an amazing range of designs, starting from the early 60's functional cassette designs, moving through the colourful playfulness of the 70's audio tapes to amazing shape variations during the 80's and 90's. We hope you enjoy these tapes as much as we do! h/t https://mastodon.social/@krib/113125076798915749
Photogrammar
The 170,000 photographs taken between 1935 and 1944 under the direction of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) constitutes one of the richest photographic archives in the United States, arguably the world. One of the most famous documentary photography collections of the twentieth century, the “Historic Section” created visual evidence of government initiatives alongside scenes of everyday life during the Great Depression and World War II across the United States. Photogrammar provides tools to explore this abundant archive: maps to see photos taken in thousands of locations across the United States, a “treemap” to explore them categorically and thematically, a timeline to concentrate on a given moment in time or a specific photographer, and individual photographer pages with oral histories.
Mathgen: Randomly generated math papers
Produce your own math paper, full of research-level, professionally formatted nonsense! Just enter your name and those of up to 3 "co-authors". Mathgen is a program to randomly generate professional-looking mathematics papers, including theorems, proofs, equations, discussion, and references. Try Mathgen for yourself! It’s a fork of SCIgen, a program which generates random papers in computer science.
Krita | Digital Painting. Creative Freedom.
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
Chronoscope World @mprove
Chronoscope World is a time machine to explore the history of the world by browsing maps dating back to 14th century B.C. More than 7,500 high-resolution maps can be displayed in a maps browser app on the correct geo location. h/t https://hci.social/@mprove/112830977616285040
URLTeam
TinyURL, bit.ly, and other similar services allow long URLs to be converted to smaller ones on their specific service; the small URL is visited by a consumer and their web browser is redirected to the long URL. Such services are a ticking timebomb. If they go away, get hacked, or sell out, millions of links will be lost (see Wikipedia: Link Rot). Archive.org/301Works is acting as an escrow for URL shortener databases, but they rely on URL shorteners to actually give them their databases. Even 301Works founding member bit.ly does not actually share their databases and most other big shorteners don't share theirs either.
Writebook
Instantly publish your own books on the web for free, no publisher required. Blogging and posting on social is easy. But why is it so hard to publish a whole book on the web? It’s not anymore. Writebook is remarkably simple software that allows you to publish text and pictures in a simple, browsable online book format. h/t spotted in a blog post by Doug Belshaw https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2024/07/21/weeknote-28-2024/
Open RSS
Follow updates across the web in a feed that only you control Instead of manually checking individual websites for updates, you can automatically get updates through a website's RSS feed using an RSS Reader app. This allows you to build a single collection of updates across the web in a single feed, that only you control. You can get an RSS feed for any website supported in three simple steps. 1. Go to any website 2. Add openrss.org/ to the beginning of the URL to get its RSS feed 3. Add the RSS feed to your RSS Reader app if a feed exists you are all set. if not OpenRSS queues it in a process that creates a feed for the site. RSS is alive.
radio aporee
Over the years, and thanks to a broad community of artists, phonographers and individuals working with sound and field recording, radio aporee has collected a comprehensive corpus of sounds from all around the world, and has provided many collaborative tools for artistic practices and research in the field. (listen to a 20min piece about radio aporee here) In addition to aspects of collecting, archiving and sound-mapping, the radio aporee platform also invokes experiments at the boundaries of different media, and public space. Within this notion, radio is both a technology in transition and a narrative. It constitutes a field whose qualities are connectivity, contiguity and exchange. Concepts of transmitter/ receiver and performer/ listener may become transparent and reversible.
anime.js • JavaScript animation engine
a lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API. It works with CSS properties, SVG, DOM attributes and JavaScript Objects. Shared under MIT License. h/t https://chaos.social/@otacke/112610237238635421
Kinopio
Kinopio is the spatial thinking tool for building ideas and solving hard problems. Create spaces to brainstorm, research, plan and take notes. An elegant visual mind mapping / organizer tool based on cards and connections and media.