the dailywebthing archives

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the dailywebthing archives was established in April, 2023. This site contains all content from the dailywebthing linkport and dailywebthing daily pointers, both of which were discontinued that month. Link validation is carried out regularly to assure a positive browsing experience for our users.

What remains are thousands of validated links to diversions, resources, and other links in a number of categories. Explore and enjoy!

Please visit the i.webthings hub for newly-curated links - the hub is updated 2-3 times weekly. –joe jenett

Category: lists

List: Recently Noticed (113)

lists / miscellany
April 1, 2023

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 📌
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!

List: Recently Noticed (112)

lists / miscellany
March 11, 2023

Mac Network Commands Cheat Sheet
a quick cheat sheet for anyone who’d like to have them all in one place 📌
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. 📌

‘a collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more’

dev / directories / lists / resources / tools
March 7, 2023

The Book of Secret Knowledge

This repository is not meant to contain everything but only good quality stuff.

[justinludwig]

List: Recently Noticed (111)

lists / miscellany / resources
March 3, 2023

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. 📌
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.

‘a growing, public, collaborative collection of type design resources’

design / dev / lists / open-source / resources
February 22, 2023

Type Design Resources
[barrygw]

List: Recently Noticed (110)

lists / miscellany
January 31, 2023

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 [📌]

‘airlines, airplanes and airports compared’

lists / resources / topical
January 21, 2023

Airline List
[kostas]

Note: This is not an endorsement.

a curated list of ‘delightful wordle-like games’

games / lists / words
January 1, 2023

awesome-wordle
[tdjones]

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