Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages! It takes a 'snapshot' of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears. It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page including those from Web 2.0 sites. Sadly, Flash content is not saved-- which tells you how long this has been running.
Look Scanned is a pure frontend site that makes your PDFs look scanned! No need for printers and scanners anymore - everything you need to do is just a few clicks. Make a PDF look "real" h/t https://post.lurk.org/@samplereality/112598228717701996
Embed a highly customizable web calendar into your website using ICal source links
There are several commercial solutions which allow embedding of calendars into my website. I only have a link to an ICS file and want to show a nice-looking calendar on my site. Browser-only calendars usually have the problem that many ICS files can not be accessed (such as ownCloud/nextCloud in my case). I also want to be in control over who knows the people who visit the site and not pass everything to Google. This is a solution in my case which I share with the world. You are free to use it or deploy your own, modify or share it. It works offline and in company networks, too. Features Embedded calendar Choice of time zone ICS link, best multiple month/week as a view name, time of event, link? showing the time span styling of choice (icon, color, font, ...)
tyxsspa/AnyText: Official implementation code of the paper "AnyText: Multilingual Visual Text Generation And Editing"
AnyText comprises a diffusion pipeline with two primary elements: an auxiliary latent module and a text embedding module. The former uses inputs like text glyph, position, and masked image to generate latent features for text generation or editing. The latter employs an OCR model for encoding stroke data as embeddings, which blend with image caption embeddings from the tokenizer to generate texts that seamlessly integrate with the background. We employed text-control diffusion loss and text perceptual loss for training to further enhance writing accuracy. Try it on HuggingFace https://huggingface.co/spaces/modelscope/AnyText
Creative Bots is a project template I originally created on Glitch to make it easier to reuse code between all of my creative online bots. With the source code also available on GitHub, you can easily host it on other services, like Heroku or DigitalOcean — see deployment instructions below. You also see my own remix on Glitch that hosts most of my active bots. It also shows how the project lists all your bots, and has some examples of more advanced bots. And be sure to check out my botmaking guide on Botwiki.
Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. It draws strong influence from HyperCard, as well as more modern "no-code" or "low-code" creative tools like Twine and Bitsy. If Jupyter Notebooks are a digital lab notebook, think of Decker as a stack of sticky notes. You can try Decker in your browser right now! h/t D’Arcy Norman https://darcynorman.net/2024/05/11/2024-week-19/
Surfing the web is becoming increasingly boring. What used to be a wild trip through stormy waters has now become a journey on a cruise ship where everything is planned and there's no longer place for craziness. This site is our attempt try bring some of that unpredictability back. The next rabbit hole can be just one click away so click that button, go for a walk and enjoy getting lost on the web. h/t https://manuelmoreale.com/the-web-is-not-dying
The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem. We do this by enabling developers to have access to an open, categorized index that will always be available for free, for any use. h/t https://cosocial.ca/@evan/112106150061260659
https://symbol.wtf is a simple website made so it would be easier to copy symbols one usually has to Google. You're welcome to open a PR adding new symbols, take a look in symbols.js for an idea of how to do that.
Welcome to GitHub's largest open-source algorithm library. An algorithm is a set of rules that takes in one or more inputs, then performs inner calculations and data manipulations and returns an output or a set of outputs. In short, algorithms make life easy. From complex data manipulations and hashes, to simple arithmetic, algorithms follow a set of steps to produce a useful result. One example of an algorithm would be a simple function that takes two input values, adds them together, and returns their sum. We are a group of programmers helping each other build new things, whether it be writing complex encryption programs, or simple ciphers. Our goal is to work together to document and model beautiful, helpful and interesting algorithms using code. We are an open-source community - anyone can contribute. We check each other's work, communicate and collaborate to solve problems. We strive to be welcoming, respectful, yet make sure that our code follows the latest programming guidelines.
LinkAce - Your self-hosted bookmark archive. Free and open source.
LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites. Save articles to read them later, tools to use them in your next project, or historic content to archive it for the long term. LinkAce comes with a lot of features while keeping a clean and minimal interface.
It supports reading RSS and Atom and JSON feeds and then posting those items to Mastodon and Micro.blog and Bluesky and GitHub and LinkAce. Or it can send them as Webmentions and Webhooks.
Fediwall is a media wall application made for Mastodon. Follow hashtags or accounts and show the most recent posts in a self-updating, screen filling and visually pleasing masonry grid layout. Put it on a large screen and showcase community feedback or social media reactions while hosting your next big event, or use it to look at cat pictures all day. Your choice. Try it! Check out fediwall.social or host your own.
Imagine you are in your flow doing research, browsing through articles, and trying to make sense of the volumes of info you’ve been rapidly uploading into your brain. And BAAM! 💥 Suddenly, a paywall pops up out of nowhere, making it impossible to read an article. It may be a random publication that you’ve never heard of before or The Wall Street Journal. Either way, you have no intention of subscribing. If you are not a regular reader, you will probably close the tab and find another article. Or ditch the idea entirely.
You know all those “share to Facebook” / “share to Twitter” links you see all over peoples’ websites? They’re all out of date. Social media has evolved over the last year, yet nobody has “share to” links for Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, etc. There have been a few attempts to create “share to Mastodon” buttons, but they haven’t taken the larger breadth of the new social media landscape into account. So I’ve built a prototype, which I’ve called ShareOpenly.
An amazing visualization of the paths and trajectory of an LLM respones... it's math all the way across. From the creator of this: Using the chatgpt api, I ran the same completion prompt "Intelligence is " hundreds of times (setting the temperature quite high, at 1.6, for more diverse responses). Given a text, a Large Language Model assigns a probability for the word (token) to come, and it just repeats this process until a completion is… well, complete. Each text (a prompt completion or a sub-sequence) has an embedding: a position in a 1536-dimensions space (I call it semantic space, or s²₁₅₃₆). For each response there's a trajectory through s²₁₅₃₆ that corresponds to each sub-sequence of words, example: "Intelligence is " → "Intelligence is the" → "Intelligence is the ability" → "Intelligence is the ability to" → … → full completion. Because I cannot visualize a 1536-dimensions space (yet), I use a popular technique called Principal Components Analysis that tells me, for the set of points I have, what are the most important (principal) dimensions, and allows me to rotate the highly dimensional space so when I look through it, projected into only 3 dimensions, the points are scattered as much as possible. It's the best (linear)possible reduction of dimensions. In fewer words: it compresses a highly dimensional space into few dimensions while preserving as much info as it can. More or less the same as when for drawing something you choose a perspective (you rotate the object), so it provides the most relevant information. I call this new space s²₃, and it's what I visualize. What you see in the cube is a tree of trajectories that bifurcate. All start with "Intelligence is " and progress towards longer and less probable sub-sequences of responses. It's a different representation of the same tree being visualized on the right (both visualizations communicate).
AddToAny: Share Buttons by the Universal Sharing Platform
AddToAny is the way millions of sites have enabled visitors to share & save content, resulting in more traffic, larger audiences, awesomely viral content, and much more. Launched in March 2006, AddToAny is the very first universal sharing platform, and the customizable platform that makes it easy for visitors to share your content using any service. AddToAny is built with extraordinary care for end-users, publishers, and developers across the globe. AddToAny is the way millions of sites have enabled visitors to share & save content, resulting in more traffic, larger audiences, awesomely viral content, and much more. Launched in March 2006, AddToAny is the very first universal sharing platform, and the customizable platform that makes it easy for visitors to share your content using any service. AddToAny is built with extraordinary care for end-users, publishers, and developers across the globe. Get the share buttons for your website, app, CMS or blog, including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and many other platforms.
See a Mastodon account’s most-favorited posts. Yep, check your own. Or your dogs. Yes, you will likely check your own, a nice link to do a vanity check. I did https://www.topmastodonposts.com/by/@cogdog@cosocial.ca I got a whopper 20 favorites....
Displays a Mastodon timeline with posts embedded in your website. Very easy to setup, no dependencies, no trackers, cross-browser, WCAG compliant and fully responsive. Easy to customize to generate a hashtag timeline.
Blogrolls were a common feature in early websites. A list of blogs you follow. A checklist of places to look at. Advertising our web friendships. Blogrolls were the beginning of today's social web. It's time to take a fresh look at the humble blogroll. Some of the new features: Real-time updates. List sorted by name or time. Expand a blog to see recent posts. See when each blog was updated. * Keyboard navigation. This list is a set of blogs I'm using as part of the blogroll on Scripting News, specified in OPML, the standard for feed list exchange. When this product is ready, you will be able to supply your own list, and display it anywhere. And even better we can use it to bootstrap a new kind of social network! h/t https://social.masto.land/@dave/112101529581158205
Shareon – Lightweight, stylish, and ethical share buttons
Shareon are share buttons for popular social networks. Unlike many other share buttons, Shareon are: lightweight, clocking in at only 6 KB brotlied code (JS+CSS), stylish, using official vector logos and colours with no visual mess, and ethical, since they do not insert any pesky tracking code. The whole JavaScript code is quick and simple: it only populates the buttons with share links. This makes Shareon the perfect choice for your blog, news site, or project page!
This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. h/t https://mastodon.social/@epilepticrabbit/ The software for this search engine is all custom-built, and all crawling and indexing is done in-house. The project is open source. Feel free to poke about in the source code or contribute to the development!
Go ahead and block AI web crawlers • Cory Dransfeldt
I'm not excited when a product I use integrates AI, I'm weary and wary of it. What does it do to make the experience better? I'd love to know. Copilot is a mild improvement over traditional autocomplete. Advice on a subject is best provided by someone that has experience on what they're advising you on rather than a bucket of bits that will spit out believable-sounding text output. The companies building these tools will argue that more data will improve accuracy and improve the tools overall, but you have no responsibility to concede that point. Blocking these crawlers also assumes that you trust these companies to obey a long-lived, standard tool like robots.txt and given their argument that everything they can access is fair game for ingestion, it's fair to question whether they'll have the basic decency to do so.
Explore RSS feeds in your Mastodon neighbourhood - enter your fediverse username and it will generate a profile with RSS feeds for every link in your profile AND provide a list of fees from the profiles of all users you follow. Here is my own "fedifeedhood" https://rss-is-dead.lol/user?profileUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcosocial.ca%2Fusers%2Fcogdog
Echo is a node script to post new items from an RSS feed to various services including Micro.blog and Mastodon. Checkout the readme on GitHub for installation instructions. Use the forms below to generate your config.
Search, sort, filters, flexibility to tables, list and more! - List.js
Tiny, invisible and simple, yet powerful and incredibly fast vanilla JavaScript that adds search, sort, filters and flexibility to plain HTML lists, tables, or anything. h/t Tom Woodward https://bionicteaching.com/weekly-web-harvest-for-2024-02-18/
