Solar panels that look like terracotta tiles. Seems roughly to need 2x the area of a simple glass panel?

Major collection of unlicensed ebooks is slowly being rebuilt on IPFS; this is a search engine

Companion reading / spoilers for the fantasy novel Poppy War. The details of East Asian history that are the basis for the book. It's grim.

ActivityPub supports full HTML but Mastodon strips most of it

Using two satellite dishes (one with motors disabled so it points wrong) gives increased reliability

Statistics on Usenet size: 160 TiB per day.

Detailed effort to make a better election map that emphasizes voters, not land area

A collection of interesting cartography

Beautiful map of the Sierra Nevada mountains

Single user instance is about $30/month, room for improvement

New tool for identifying where a GPS coordinate is, based on a static file and some simple AWS hosting

Javascript hackery to present dithered images in a browser safe from resizing

An industry map data collection based on OpenStreetMap and other sources

A musical instrument for the little game console that has a crank on the side

A data journalism non-profit recording instances of protests, armed conflicts, etc. I keep seeing them as a source of data in good newspaper articles

Lightweight user accounts for small projects

CW anorexia: Todd Haynes' infamous 1980s unauthorized film made with Barbie dolls

CW anorexia: Todd Haynes' infamous 1980s unauthorized film made with Barbie dolls

Video clips of 1960s Pink Floyd performances, many during the Syd Barrett era

Chinese language Wiki for the Chinese game

An augment to OpenStreetMap with extra data

1960s sitcom where two astronauts go back in time and meet cavemen. It looks absolutely awful.

Remarkable collection of early 20th century color photos

Mozilla system to translate langauages in your browser *locally*, without using a server. Amazing!

What if the universe were like a simulation, man? (Game of Life with infinite-zoom out, or at least an animation thereof)

Marriage equality is now the law in the US

A musing on websites that try to collect gender information poorly

Sweet, personal update on the basketball player's first days now that she is free from unlawful detention in Russia

Gossipy article about how the Google founders live with their billions of dollars

1980s East German speech generator, used in number stations for communicating to spies on the radio. There is now a MAME emulator.

Bing / Microsoft image search; upload a face picture, they tell you who it is (if they are famous)

Nice feature on the algorithmic artists

Practical notes of adding simple federation to a blog. It's not so simple.

One of the original Chrome engineers talks about his perspective ten years later

Writer Julian Gough talks about being taken advantage of by Mojang and a decade later coming to peace with the fact he didn't get $$MM from the sale to Microsoft. A message of love.

Open source software to make online books like technical reference docs from Markdown sources

A very simple demonstration of federating via ActivityPub with the simplest possible thing

Some stats on where people are going and how fast now that Twitter sucks

Update from the census survey about same sex households in the US

When a video game has romance options where someone is attracted to you no matter what gender your character is.

A list of stylesheets that make ordinary HTML look better

Neat interactive tool for generating quasiperiodic tilings

A Unix tool to redirect network connections; sort of like ssh tunnels but much simpler