i.webthings hub

linkylove.webpath 10-14-26

• amanda in wonderland →
• Crypty's Brain Crypt →
• lobstermandan →
• Lumen's Website! →
• ratwalks →
• hope is in the stars →
• snowy hiccup ●～* →
• inaka →
• hat's 猫コミコン →
• incessantpain →
• Unimaginable Heights →
• Goodboyjojo →
• Minifeed (listed at Indieseek.xyz Indie Web Directory)

twofer 10-12-26

• UnicodeChecker – Explore and convert Unicode (macOS)

  Mac application to explore Unicode. Analyse and convert Unicode strings for HTML or programming.

  [ 📌xcession ]

• Museum of Numbers

  Open the cabinet of oddly specific numbers

  Every number here gets treated like a small exhibit label. Some come from mathematics, some from physics, some from the strange edges of computing, and a surprising number come from history, money, or pure coincidence.

  [ 📌fileformat ]

mixed bag 10-10-26

• croc (github)

  Easily and securely send things from one computer to another 🐊 📦

  [ 📌braveterry ]

• How to build a printer

  While looking for a nicer way to send things to it, a thought struck me. If it looks like paper, it should act like paper.

  I should be able to print on it.

  [ 📌lazysoundsystem ]

  This detailed write-up is a bit technical - a cool idea,imo!

• Canvas Browser

  Open many websites side by side on one infinite canvas, each one running in a remote browser in the country you choose. Free, no account, nothing to install.

  [ 📌angusf ]

  Note: A bit glitchy, but interesting.

• How LLMs & Chatbots Are Bad For the Indie Web

  Large language models and their associated bots are bad for the indie web in at least three ways: 1) their logistical consequences are bad for bandwidth, 2) their social consequences are bad for guides, and 3) their citational consequences are bad for surfability.

  [ ⇦ IndieNews ]

• NovaOS (demo)

  A fully-client side web desktop system for any device - zero backend, zero frameworks.

  [ 📌tdjones ]

twofer.obsidian 10-08-26

Currently available in Obsidian’s Settings > Community plugins:

• Note Gallery (alpha)

  Displays notes or images using a masonry gallery by defining a code block in your note.

  [ 📌maadhattah ]

• Callout Manager

  An Obsidian plugin that makes creating and configuring callouts easy.

  [ 📌aleksip ]

‘A lightweight ActivityPub server’

littleFedi

One binary.
A whole fediverse server.

littleFedi is a small ActivityPub server written in Go. It ships as a single static executable with a server-rendered web interface, a Mastodon-compatible client API, a durable federation queue, moderation tools, and optional PostgreSQL and S3 support. No runtime to install, no services to wire together.

[littleFedi - Jack Baty being social]
(Jack’s excellent write-up/demo) 👏 😎

linkylove 10-04-26

• project c190 ⇦ Angels Are Mathematical →
• iwillneverbehappy.neocities.org →
• saddleblasters →
• Michaelmas →
• clearglass →
• loneliwish →
• Maggotgirl

a viewpoint from academia regarding AI

It’s not the (Super) Intelligence, Stupid!

Artificial intelligence means different things to different people, ranging from neural networks used for image recognition to algorithms that generate an image, a video or a text when given a prompt describing the desired output. Text generating algorithms are commonly known as Large Language Models, LLMs for short. And this blog [post] mostly concerns this type of AI...

[Wouter « bbbhltz]