20 random bookmarks

2025-06-24

47.

Substack Did Not See That Coming

newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/substack-did-not-see-that-coming

Let’s set Substack’s “Nazi problem” aside for a moment. What if the bigger issue is being stranded on a collapsing platform... with a bunch of Nazis?...

2025-06-15

45.

The families hiring 'private bobbies' to police their homes

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gr103y3leo

Security officers from private firms are being paid to patrol some UK neighbourhoods in an effort to deter burglars - but how much can they really do?

2025-05-27

44.

Wikipedia seven-millionth topic pool

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Seven-millionth_topic_pool

What do you bet it'll be?

2025-05-23

43.

A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/alex-chinneck-a-week-at-the-knees

Alex Chinneck reimagines a Georgian townhouse facade into a playful portal for Clerkenwell Design Week 2025.

Cool art

2025-05-19

42.

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app | Tor Project

blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.

Very cool stuff!

41.

Octopus, solar & e-paper energy dashboards

interactionmagic.com/Octopus-solar-energy-dashboards

I built a custom energy dashboard for my house using this beautiful, 2-bit colour, e-paper display. Hardware, software, data and design.

2025-05-07

40.

linkhut - a social bookmarking site

linkhut.org

Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using linkhut.

Discovered from post by Drew Devault.

2025-05-06

39.

The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care

haacked.com/archive/2012/07/05/turkish-i-problem-and-why-you-should-care.aspx

The Turkish capital I is dotted, İ. This can trip up seemingly simple code!

2025-05-03

35.

inCARceration by Crayon, kit bloodgutters

crayonmelon.itch.io/incar

drive your life back.

Insane stuff.

2025-05-02

34.

The Infamous ‘You Wouldn’t Steal a Car’ Anti-Piracy Font Was Pirated. But By Who?

www.404media.co/the-infamous-you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-anti-piracy-font-was-pirated-but-by-who

You wouldn't download an illegal font ... unless you wanted to use it to sell a modem for the Sega Genesis?

32.

Ending hunger and hardship could benefit the UK economy and public finances by over £75 billion each year | Trussell

www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-research/news/ending-hunger-and-hardship-could-benefit-the-uk-economy-and-public-finances

Trussell is calling on the UK government to take action to alleviate pressure on our already stretched public services and lift millions of people out of hunger and hardship.

2025-05-01

29.

roons — show hn – whomtech

whomtech.com/show-hn

Welcome, weary traveller from the orange site! Let me tell you the tale of roons — a kit for building mechanical computers.

2025-04-30

28.

I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

2025-04-27

27.

Your smartphone is listening to you

www.independent.co.uk/tech/smartphone-apps-listening-privacy-alphonso-shazam-advertising-pool-3d-honey-quest-a8139451.html

Software from a company called Alphonso can be used to listen in to the environment around a user, to work out what they’re watching

2025-04-19

25.

Digital Logic Sim by Sebastian Lague

sebastian.itch.io/digital-logic-sim

​A minimalistic digital logic simulator

2025-04-18

24.

Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr75wypg0vo

The social platform is testing age checks using facial scanning for access to sensitive content.

2025-04-17

23.

About smolweb

smolweb.org

smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.

2025-04-10

12.

Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’

www.politico.eu/article/eu-gdpr-privacy-law-europe-president-ursula-von-der-leyen
9.

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute

www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont

Free but needs email to get. Apparently SIL Open Font licensed.

2025-04-09

7.

TrainPlanner by Toffee

toffee.itch.io/train-planner

Make your own rail network!

Hatzune Miku delivers leeks