73pctgeek / #weekly-links

https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-greatest-norwegian

Harald Hardrada - your boys took a hell of a beating

https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/

Tracking 330+ brands, from the tools in your garage to the pans in your kitchen. Who owns them, what they used to be, whether they're still worth buying.

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/

Investigative essays on corporate enshittification — how the brands you trusted made everything worse on purpose, and who profits when they do.

https://clipart.studio/

Digital collage studio. Pick a magazine from the Internet Archive, clip the pieces you want, arrange them on the page.

https://jamesgurney.substack.com/p/tools-and-techniques-of-show-card

Show-card writing, which I introduced a couple days ago, was done mainly with the pen and brush.

https://papertexture.co/

Art Surfaces - Professional digital papers that add paper texture lighting and shadow to your digital artwork.

https://wiki.hackmanhattan.com/How_to_Back_Up_Your_Blu-Rays_and_DVDs

https://george.hotell.ing/2025/01/07/rss-tricks/

Some of my favorite tricks for finding RSS Feeds to follow: Reddit Get the feed for the top posts of the month for a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com//r/simpsonsshitposting/top/.rss?t=month (Replace simpsonsshitposting with a subreddit you want to monitor) This gives you the top posts from the month, so it’s not a firehose of stuff flooding your reader–just about a post a day. The downside is that sometimes you see posts late. This is my number one tip for monitoring noisy subreddits where I don’t want to miss out on the best posts.

https://dnd-stats.streamlit.app/

https://www.powermobydick.com/

Full text of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, with notes to help the reader

https://www.dressdeveloper.com/

Find a whole wardrobe worth of free sewing pattern which can be easily adjusted to your own body measurements.

https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/

Free web app that helps fantasy writers, game masters, and cartographers create and edit fantasy maps

https://fourble.co.uk/

Fourble generates podcasts from lists of existing .mp3 files.

https://lastmuseum.com/

The Last Museum is a semantic search engine for 5.8 million artworks from the world's great museums. Search by theme, style, subject, or any description you can imagine.

https://cmu-devlab.github.io/knitting_machine/

An inexpensive modular knitting machine

https://clickdose.io/en/

Count clicks on your injection pen and calculate your dose. Free online tool for Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro dose-splitting.

https://qr.jim.sh/

https://framefitchecker.com/

Instantly check if your print fits IKEA frames. Calculate mat openings for RIBBA, HOVSTA & more. Perfect ratio matching for a luxury gallery wall fit.

https://legoaudioinstructions.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/26/human-animal-communication-step-closer-scientist-wins-prize-for-decoding-birdsong

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signatures

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian's Shoelace Site” is the place!

https://github.com/golanlevin/p5-single-line-font-resources/tree/main

An archive of monoline vector fonts, and p5.js code to render them. - golanlevin/p5-single-line-font-resources

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.