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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought
a popular method of user tracking due to its ability to connect multiple different browsing sessions even if the user clears browsing history and data
Sweet Home 3D JS Online
a free interior design application which helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D 📌
Open Assistant
Conversational AI for everyone. (open source) 📌
Excalibur: PDF Table Extraction for Humans
a web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs, written in Python 3 📌
Integrating My Blog with Mastodon
Turns out it’s pretty easy to set up an integration between your blog and the Fediverse!

Mac Network Commands Cheat Sheet
a quick cheat sheet for anyone who’d like to have them all in one place 📌
Styling External Links
Adding a much-loved feature from Wikipedia to any site in just one line of CSS.
Mastodon timeline feed widget
Displays Mastodon timeline with toots embed in your website. Very easy to setup, no dependencies, no trackers, WCAG compliant and fully responsive.
Login.gov (github)
Use one account and password for secure, private access to participating government agencies. 📌
solvy
A little app for simple calculations. 📌

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Takahē
An efficient ActivityPub Server, for small installs with multiple domains 📌
Jsonlink
…a powerfull, free and super fast Link Scraper API for developers to extract structured data from any website or URL. 📌
Nostr
…a simple, open protocol that enables truly censorship-resistant and global value-for-value publishing on the web. 📌
ColorMath (github)
Expressions to manipulate colors. 📌
Opening macOS Ventura’s System Settings to desired locations via the command line 📌
Feedbro
Fast & free RSS feed reader as a browser extension for Chrome, Vivaldi, Edge, Brave and Firefox for reading blogs, news or any RSS, Atom or RDF based feed.

Mastodon Feeds – Open RSS [mikael]
“You can get an RSS feed for any Mastodon user by simply navigating to the user’s page on Mastodon and adding openrss.org/ before the instance’s domain of the URL in your browser bar.”
Fedi.Tips: “RSS fans!
“You can follow any Mastodon account via RSS by just adding “.rss” to the end of the account’s public profile URL.”
Joe’s comment: I prefer the Open RSS versions of the feeds.
What makes RSS better than social timelines?
Joe’s comment: An interesting point of view.
RSS Box (github) [mikael]
“This website lets you subscribe to RSS feeds for websites that do not support RSS themselves, by using the respective website’s API and then translating that data to RSS feeds.”

System Fonts are the Best Fonts | compares a simple text string set in Open Sans against the same text string set in your device’s system UI font [📌]
World Imagery Wayback | a digital archive of the World Imagery basemap [📌]
Conventional Comments | comments that are easy to grok and grep [📌]
The Art of Command Line | master the command line, in one page [📌]
p5.play | a 2D game engine [📌]