73pctgeek / #weekly-links

https://www.wildmanlife.com/the-forgotten-castles-of-the-garamantes/

The forgotten castles of the Garamantes lie buried beneath the Libyan Desert, the ruins of a civilisation that built cities, traded with Rome, and raised pyramids in the Sahara.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/steam-machine-price-valve-interview

Valve's Steam Machine team tell us how the memory and components crisis scuppered their plans for the mini PC's pricing.

https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/06/welcome-datacomp/

Six Colors by Jason Snell, Dan Moren and friends

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/cockatoos-lorne-new-invention-to-stop-bin-rubbish/106760610

Residents of the scenic Great Ocean Road are at their wits' end after the increasingly intelligent birds learnt how to lift the lids of wheelie bins, spreading rubbish through the town of Lorne.

https://macdown.app/

MacDown 3000 - A free, open source Markdown editor for macOS with live preview, syntax highlighting, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and Apple Silicon optimization. Download the best lightweight Markdown editor for Mac.

https://evergreensewing.com/

Evergreen Sewing does service and maintenance on all types of domestic sewing machines, both modern and vintage. We aim to get your machine back to you in a week, and we offer loaner machines in case you have things you want to get done while your machine is in for a spa day. Find us…

https://lettera.md/

Lettera is a native, refined Markdown editor that works with single files or an entire folder as your workspace.

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

https://jely2002.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/

A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Tauri and Vue

https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/

TownSquare adds a small shared place to your website where visitors can see each other, walk around, and chat.

https://www.moments.im/

Publish your photos as a calm, beautiful journal of your own. No algorithms, no noise, just your photography, shown the way it deserves.

https://tilde.club/

Tilde club gives you access to a shared Unix computer where you can make web pages, learn, and share knowledge. It's a place where working together happens naturally, all within a friendly and supportive setting.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/06/05/Whos-the-Smartest-Corvid/

Crows, magpies and ravens have displayed everything from prey trickery to tool use to potential self-medication. An excerpt from a new book.

https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/the-history-behind-the-signs-lighting

Branding Main Street America and a rabbit hole into the history behind the vacuum-formed signage found in our daily lives

https://rybitten.space/

RYBitten is a color tool and library for exploring painterly, RYB-inspired color mixing, gamut presets, and palette generation on the web.

https://www.fadedpage.com/index.php

Fadedpage free eBooks forever

https://tinyawards.net/

This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

https://inventwithpython.com/curbsign/curbsign.html

Free full-screen custom text signs for phones/tablets/displays. Works offline in any browser — no install, no signup.

https://elicats.com/aim-therapy-and-cats-kidneys-2025-guide-to-trials-drugs-and-scientific-truths/

The Science Behind Hope The promise of extending the lives of cats with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) up to 30

https://www.purins.com/refilling-prismacolor-markers/

Can you refill or revive dry Prismacolors? Yeah! And it's pretty easy and affordable.

https://github.com/TomBadash/Mouser

A lightweight, open-source, fully local alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping Logitech HID++ mice. - TomBadash/Mouser

https://commonedge.org/high-density-living-2000-years-ago-inside-the-roman-apartment-building/

An excerpt from the new book Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home.

https://hilanderrpgs.bearblog.dev/how-to-eat-dice-soup/

A group cooking ritual for B/X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwXklzvvxIA

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https://hackaday.com/2026/06/04/ways-to-embed-magnets-in-3d-prints-and-not-ruin-printers/

Adding magnets to a 3D print can be very useful in a design, but there are some things that can trip you up if you’re not aware of them. In a recent video by [Lost in Tech] some of the essent…

https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/7p7ZU64dayZsuoMJAT6xfH

After a year of posting weekly comic strip on my social media, I wanted to film the making of the episode 53 published on the 20 May and build with all the 20 hours of video a tutorial on how to achieve this type of comic strip using Krita, from A to Z! Chapter: 00:00 intro 00:49 Scenario 08:29 Panels 25:41 Speechbubbles 37:59 Layout 40:43 Sketch 44:37 Drawing / Inking 53:45 Coloring 58:03 outro This tutorial has longer chapter on the new comic panel tool (in 5.3) and explains a full setup on how to use it, even for more complex comic pages, and also I spend time on the creation of speechbubbles, text (also new features of 5.3) and consideration regarding the layout and composition. The fundamental stone of getting a comic easy to read! However, the inking and coloring chapter are a bit more lightweight, mainly because I already have many video on my channel about painting, shading, and line-art with Krita and I wanted to keep the video lenght under one hour. I'll certainly make more video about those specific workflow step later! I hope you'll like the video, the first one I record and video edit on Wayland (and it wasn't a challenge at all; everything worked just as expected). Final comic + sources: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/053.html Free brushes: https://www.davidrevoy.com/tag/brush Fonts: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/fonts/index.html Textures: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article263/five-traditional-textures

https://shantellsans.com/

A new typeface from Shantell Martin

https://www.vulgarlang.com/

Vulgar is a constructed language (conlang) generator for fantasy writers and role players. Create unique languages for your race of peoples in the click of a button! Vulgar models the rules, irregularities and quirks of real languages: from grammar, to sounds, to vocabulary.

https://www.thebookofdays.com/

The searchable text version of Robert Chambers’ 1869 sentential work: The Book of Days - A miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calender. Including anecdotes, biographies, histories, curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character