Links
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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.
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Frinton Park Estate Mini Guide | Modernism in Metroland
“The 48 page guide includes 37 colour images of the surviving houses, plus a history of the estate and a map.” (via Things Magazine)
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Brionvega
Very nice re-makes of old hi-fi equipment. That 50th anniversary Totem system is only… €15,000! (via WowHaus)
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Elvineclothing.com - Official Webshop
Nice simple-looking coats (and other things). (via @flaneur)
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Catalog all your data on Disks, DVDs, and CDs with NeoFinder!
Looks pretty impressive, for organising music, video, photos (Exif, IPTC, XMP data, and a map). For Mac, plus iOS apps for searching your database. (via Ask MetaFilter)
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Ye Olde Blogroll - Blogroll.org
“No one blogs any more,” they say. And yet…
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German resources - A language learners’ forum
Lots of courses, exercises, exams, etc. (via Ask MetaFilter)
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German exercises - practice grammar online
More of this. It helps me just to keep doing exercises but I soon exhaust any individual site. (vis Ask MetaFilter)
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Teaching Materials • Lehrmaterialien
Low-tech but good and extensive German-language-learning worksheets and tests.
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The Yesterweb
A Discord “… made up of netizens who acknowledge that today’s internet is lacking in creativity, self-expression, and good digital social infrastructure.” Seems a nice place. (via maya.land)
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RhetTbull/osxphotos
“Python app to export pictures and associated metadata from Apple Photos on macOS. Also includes a package to provide programmatic access to the Photos library, pictures, and metadata.” (via Colin Devroe)
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Marc’s Place - SetEXIFData
Mac app front end to exiftool, for setting Exif data on photos and videos, including using a map to set their location. A bit harder to see existing Exif data nicely. (via Colin Devroe)
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My current photo library management solution – Colin Devroe
Using the Mac Photos app for viewing only, and keeping the originals in dated folders.
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Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Looking for Tether’s Money - Bloomberg
Explaining how finance works. I’m glad he didn’t write economic text books decades ago because I might have stuck with economics A Level.
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Are your students struggling this semester? | Ask MetaFilter
Interesting to read how consistently (US) students are struggling to work, pay attention, etc, this year.