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alberti42/Volume-Control: Successor of iTunes Volume Control
Control Music.app or Spotify volume (and not the system volume) with your Mac’s keyboard’s volume controls.
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Insulate Britain! Yes, but by how much? | EssaysConcerning
On the different objectives when insulating houses and changing to heat pumps, and how much you need to insulate, and when, before getting a pump. (via @economicalnick)
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The FBI is going crazy stringboard crazy.
Crazy walls in Slate, with a quote from me.
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Wordle Sold to the NY Times. And That’s a Good Thing.
I have zero interest in Wordle but this is a lovely piece by Jason Kottke.
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Slingshot Organizer – Slingshot
I’d never heard of this diary. “…with radical dates for every day of the year, space to write your phone numbers, a contact list of radical groups around the globe, menstrual calendar, info on police repression.”(via All My Stars)
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Best Practices Around Production Ready Web Apps with Docker Compose — Nick Janetakis
Such a good, detailed explanation of how and why things are done in Docker, in his several example GitHub repos.
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Onlooker Postcards | Flickr
Fantastic collection of postcards that all feature a person looking out at the view. Oddly eerie. (via Web Curios)
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Clair Wills · Life Pushed Aside: The Last Asylums · LRB 18 November 2021
Very long and good history of a psychiatric hospital in the 20th century, outsider art, and the authors’ mother and grandparents who worked there. More interesting than I initially expected.
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Adam Tooze · Ecological Leninism: Drill, baby, drill · LRB 6 November 2021
A second article on Andreas Malm in the same issue. Makes me think I should read ‘White Skin, Black Fuel’ and/or ‘How to Blow up a Pipeline’.
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James Butler · A Coal Mine for Every Wildfire: Where are the ecoterrorists? · LRB 6 November 2021
On the climate crisis, Andreas Malm, direct action, “fossil fascism”, where we’re trying to get to, and how.
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Robert Elms + Christina Wilson (@high_in_the_sky_2021) • Instagram photos and videos
Chronicling their (now finished) reconfiguring and rebuilding of a Barbican tower flat.
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Processed World
Archive of a magazine created by temp workers in San Francisco’s financial district in the 1980s. (via Web Curios)
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My Inky Dashboard - Matthew Somerville
I didn’t know you could get colour e-ink screens, and this project looks nice and do-able.
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Do the verdicts in the trial of the Colston 4 signal something wrong with our jury system? 10 things you should know – The Secret Barrister
A really clear description of all the possible reasons the verdict could have been “not guilty”. (via FaveJet)
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London Cafes in The 1980s - Flashbak
Lots of nice photos by Peter Marshall. (via FaveJet)
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Map Finder - with Outlines - National Library of Scotland
I’m sure I’ve seen this before, but I always forget it. Browsable historical Ordnance Survey maps of the UK.
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Bench Mark Database
Database of bench marks that were used by Ordnance Survey to position their levelling staves.
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hartator/wayback-machine-downloader: Download an entire website from the Wayback Machine.
Ruby script. I can see this being useful one day. (via Ask MetaFilter)
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GlitchTip
Open source alternative to Sentry’s error tracking. Host it yourself, or hosted plans starting from free.
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We Analyzed 425,909 Favicons • iconmap.io
What a mess. (via Michael Tsai)
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The Gloucester Road Story
Nice. What business was in each location on the road (in Bristol) since 1870.
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The Safe Withdrawal Rate Series – A Guide for First-Time Readers – Early Retirement Now
A 49-part (!) series of blog posts about safe withdrawal rates for retirement. (via Monevator)
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Muffy Van Moof’s Maiden Voyage — GS
All the photos of ebikes in a sunny San Franciso gave me major yearnings for the place.
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Said the Gramophone: BEST SONGS OF 2021
Never forget the true meaning of Christmas.
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Doppler Music Player for Mac and iOS
I’m always on the verge of trying an alternative to Apple’s Music.app and this looks good. Maybe…
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Advent of Bloggers (Series) | James’ Coffee Blog
A nice idea, because aside from links to specific posts, it’s rare for people to write about and recommend entire blogs. (via Adactio)
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New to EDC? Start Here. — Everyday Commentary
Just a nice, pragmatic summary of the best torches, pens and knives.
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Modern CSS Reset / Global Styles
This not only seems like a good modern version (which I could do with) but it’s extremely nicely explained. (via Adactio)
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“Democratic Architecture” — GS
I like these small Donald MacDonald houses in San Francisco.
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Test for modern Internet Standards like IPv6, DNSSEC, HTTPS, DMARC, STARTTLS and DANE.
Handy automated checklist for web and email domains.