Weekly Links 26-08
preFlight — Open-source slicer which the devs refer to as “The Engineer’s Slicer”.
The World Factbook — A community-maintained successor to the CIA World Factbook which was shuttered recently.
xkcd 2501 generator — All the rage on Mastodon this week. It’s a great comic panel, and being able to tailor it is a beautiful thing. Foone's xkcd 2501 generator lets you have plural topics!
Setting up a Discourse server — Another Neatnik guide!
Breaking Down My Process — Matthew Bogart shares his process of how a page from his graphic novel series comes into being. I love stuff like this!
Coreyartus Imagery's "Night Heron" — I also love speedpaint videos! Both mesmerising and educational. Wish I could leave a like on a PeerTube video without having to be logged in though.
I built a robot to fix my comic lettering — Another great post from Matthew Bogart. This one includes a nifty Keyboard Maestro macro to fix comic scripts in Clip Studio Paint.
SingleFile — Open source browser extension to save an entire web page, including all resources, as a single HTML file. Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari!
uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist — A manually curated blocklist of sites containing AI generated content, for cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing). Used with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist. I’m mainly on Safari so haven’t tried this yet.
Digital Escape Tools — Directory of secure, open-source, and privacy-respecting tools to help avoid surveillance-based software and Big Tech ecosystems. Not had a good look yet.