A spam filter for search sites, lets you set up a personal blocklist of search results you don't want to see

A fossil of 2000 Internet culture, a small community of tech folks

A wild set of AliExpress men's jewelry, just absolutely bonkers watch designs

Various techniques for removing posterization in dark images, like movies set at night

A general purpose tool for encoding and decoding data in various formats used in webapps. The Magic recipe is particularly good for decoding data in an unknown format.

An accessible summary of some real research on using corks and other closures to seal bottles of wine.

Notes on estimating size by random sampling

Seems to have one the contest for a non-cryptographic hash or checksum algorithm

New code / art toy, a simple stack language you can make 256x256 graphics with

Detailed work claims electric cars are cheaper per mile than gas in the US.

Nice article about my California Gold Rush town, for tourists

A short history of the digital design / fabrication company's innovative jigsaw puzzles

An LGBT reading on the lovely children's films that have no overt queer content

New monospace coding fonts; a group designed to work together with a fancy system for improving kerning (despite being fixed width)

Inexpensive AI hardware for development and production

New US government digital service for providing text message notifications to people

A detailed guide to baking sandwich bread and making sandwiches at home

A simple calculator showing you what rebates for upgrading to electricity usage the IRA will give you

New electric car charging standard has come out, is apparently good

Stream any movie immediately in a web browser, seemingly without regards to licensing

Google is removing server storage of your location history. Probably good for privacy, worried about usability for my niche case.

Reddit discussion about why AI models are 3b, 7b, 13b, etc. The answer is not as precise as I'd hoped!

Interesting short history of a German judge who without unauthorization helped Israeli intelligence capture Nazi war criminals

Unauthorized iMessage client is back and working... for now

Modern backup software with snapshots

Biden administration project to build EV chargers around the US is going slowly

An oasis of fun chill people on the Internet

Hack your car's firmware if you are very brave

Simple graphical models of early experiments with varying pressure and heat

Tesla encourages other car makers to use higher voltage in the car's electrical systems

An Android Automotive app for playing music from a USB drive

Finally a place to get a decent pastry in Paris. At Les Halles, no less.

Groups of words with the same phoneme that have a common meaning or sense. Ie: slick / slide / slither / slog

Programming framework for machine learning on Apple hardware

Jepsen, the database testing tool, is written in a Lisp variant

More thoughtful than the usual, an end of year best of list from Polygon

Excellent city builder game is coming out of Early Access, gets a glowing review

Helpful overview of the economic state of the carbon direct removal business. (Still basically non-existent, but with a plausible path forward if the tech works.)

Battery backup for devices that take DC power: USB, routers, etc

Update on the taboo technology; more folks are talking about it possibly being necessary. Also lots of skepticism.

Whimsical approach to a drawbridge; rolls 180 degrees to allow boats to pass underneath