A public library in Ohio is celebrating the life of one of its most loyal patrons, a retired social worker named Dan Pelzer.

Enter an address, get a 3D file to print or order. I love this. Helps make the world more independently accessible to the blind and partially sighted. h/t Chris Glass

Private group newsletters where the readers are the writers too.

This resonates with me. I’m having trouble finding new non-fantasy sci-fi to read these days, too. I’ll have to dig more into smaller, boutique publishers. Any recommendations?

I love reading people’s approaches to digital gardening!

Good explainer of bridging vs cross-posting with graphics. Not sure where I land on this personally… I’m doing a bit of both, but it is haphazard. I think occasional cross-posting makes more sense for me personally, but it is nice to understand the trade-offs, which are laid out in this post.

In the United States, approximately 9,000 people per year suffer a snake bite, but only five deaths occur. Interestingly, poison center data shows that one in 736 patients who suffer a rattlesnake bite actually dies. Oftentimes, the victim of a rattlesnake bite is a young intoxicated male.

Remote Data Blocks allows you to integrate remote data into posts, pages, patterns, or anywhere else on your site where you use the block editor.

I can’t wait to give this a try on a project. Check out the use cases.

Later edit: My wife informed me that Gates is probably on the Epstein list and this may be a distraction tactic. Not good. Still better to have that money going to under-researched women’s health than to some AI startup, though.

Render every road in a city, customize colors, and export as PNG or SVG. Fun little tool.

I love this interview format! Good kid book recommendations, too.

This looks useful, bookmarking for future use.

A vision for community-hosted Web 2.0 utilities.

Clickbait title, good tips.

This is fun! Go draw a fish.

Manuel Moreale’s People & Blogs series reached 100 interviews. Congrats! Excellent series.

Easy way to include atproto calls in your Apple Shortcuts. I’ll get some use out of this! h/t Eric Davis

Good info for new owners of old Shopsmith machines. This would have been useful for me six years ago when I got started with my machine.

Good, very open post about turning Medium around.

ChatGPT and other AI services are basically killing @Iconfactory and I’m not exaggerating or being hyperbolical.

Fun account posting screenshots from the early days of the web. Reminds me a lot of the Internet Atlas book I found a couple years ago at the used bookstore.

New Yorkers are lucky to have at least 40 species of fireflies sharing the state with them. You may know that fireflies are not flies, but rather beetles in the family Lampyridae. Most, but not all of them, flash to communicate. There are three different groups of flashing fireflies that can commonly be seen in New York in the Photuris, Photinus, and Pyractomena genera. 

Manton says, “I don’t delete posts. They are a snapshot of how I was thinking about a topic. Sometimes the world moves on and the old posts are no longer relevant. Sometimes the world moves closer and the old posts are gold.”

I completely agree.

In my opinion, this is the drink of the summer. Low ABV, refreshing, and easy to riff on. I like smashing up blackberries or peaches in there.

Lightweight tool for extracting sections from ePubs.

Leaflet looks pretty cool, but I probably won’t use it because I’m all-in on WordPress and publishing on my own domain. The examples they show do make me think I should expand the use cases of my digital garden, though. And make the pages more playful!

Projects like this are good for the ecosystem. I don’t plan on using it right now, but I am glad it exists.

Something to watch from a previous BuddyPress lead and longtime core contributor.