curiosity cart 05-25-25
- compost.party ๐
...a repurposed smartphone running on solar power. It's a web server pieced together from scraps, humming in the attic of an apartment building.
- Places to Read ⇦
Parks around the world handpicked by the internet that are perfect to sit down in and enjoy a book.
- Reilly Spitzfaden, Composer | Works
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) is a composer who likes noise, code, electronics, and nostalgia. They build handmade electronic instruments, design interactive software interfaces, and repurpose audio and telecommunications equipment as instruments.
- Mused* ⇦
We build immersive experiences for city planners, analysts, educators, corporate training programs, and urban and transport workers around the world to simulate people and places to a high degree of detail.
- Learning Synths – Playground* ⇦ ๐
Learn about synthesizers via Abletonโs interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.
* some commercial content
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- wilding.radio ๐
Tune in to the sounds of nature recovery
- If nothing is curated, how do we find things? ๐
Although technology has made information vast and reachable, it's also turned the entire internet into a sludge pile.
- ClipJS (github)
Edit your videos from your PC or phone no downloads, no registration, no watermarks. Online, Free and Open Source.
- The good colors ๐
Generate perceptually uniform color palettes with OKLCH, ensuring consistent lightness and chroma. Supports wide gamut displays, checks contrast ratios using APAC, and is optimized for color blindness.
- Portapps (repositories) ๐
Collection of portable apps for Windows
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โlearning hotspotsโ anywhere
Internet in a Box (github) (wiki) (FAQ)
...a project that provides individuals and organizations with a way to create their own offline version of the internet. This can be done by installing IIAB on an old laptop or PC, or more commonly, on a Raspberry Pi computer. Once installed and configured, IIAB will provide users access to a wide variety of content, including websites, articles, electronic books, Wikipedia in any language, thousands of Khan Academy videos, zoomable OpenStreetMap, WordPress journaling, Toys from Trash electronics projects, and more.
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- Hyvector (beta) ๐
Your friendly vector graphics editor
- ! 10,000 Drum Machines ! ๐
๐ฎWhy 10,000? I don't know. I was trying to come up with a name for a collection of drum machines and "10,000 DRUM MACHINES" was all that came to mind.
- diagram.page ๐
an easy flowchart builder...
...which lets you build, save, share, and embed diagrams with a clean and minimal ui.diagram.page is a zen diagramming tool that takes the thinking away from building flowcharts, so you can spend less time editing, and get on with sharing your ideas.
- Vystery ๐
Unveil the mystery image, one click at a time
- Smallweb โ Your Internet Folder (github) ๐
...a new take on self-hosting. The goal is to make it as easy as possible to host your own apps. To achieve this, it uses a "file-based hosting" approach: every subfolder in your smallweb folder becomes a unique subdomain.
- Synthia ๐
a free, online space to create music, sounds, and synthesizers
- Noise Tools ๐
...allows you to effortlessly add noise textures to your images
Oh my: โClippy, now with some AI โ
Clippy Desktop Assistant (github)
You might be wondering: Whatโs the point of all this? Why? Clippy is basically art. Donโt get me wrong, I donโt think that this little app is all that magnificent or something that belongs in a museum, I mean โartโ in the sense that Iโve made it like other people do watercolors or pottery - I made it because building it was fun for me...
[rona25]
Note: Perhaps a few lessons would be helpful in deciding how to use the new Clippy.
