SF-isms: A Field Guide to San Francisco Vernacular
A living lexicon of San Francisco tech terminology, mixing definitions, origins, examples, and cultural observation.
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A living lexicon of San Francisco tech terminology, mixing definitions, origins, examples, and cultural observation.
A privacy-conscious browser tool that measures whether shoppers are shown different prices for the same product.
A free Windows tool that audits a folder of Word, PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint files before they are used to build an enterprise knowledge base.
A Japanese marketplace for properties that bundle a place to live with an operating small business.
SCL is an offline, AI-assisted tool that organizes, searches, paraphrases, and cross-links the PDFs already stored on your machine.
An early-access Android app that proposes using phones in a school or building to detect possible gunfire and alert a paired guardian.
An AI creative workshop for making card decks, sticker sheets, picture books, zines, films, voice experiments, and product mockups.
A Chrome side panel that gathers tabs, downloads, pins, notes, clipboard history, translation, and Spotify in one searchable hub.
Sieve is an on-device Chrome extension that judges pages against a goal you describe and soft-blocks the ones that do not serve it.
Simposeum offers conversations with historical thinkers, grounded in their own public-domain writing and accompanied by citations.
A free visual builder for Astro that composes pages on a canvas and writes ordinary .astro files into your repository.
A free browser-based toolkit for merging, converting, editing, securing, and compressing PDFs and images without uploading files.
A one-person Pittsburgh paper shop selling hand-printed botanical postcards, mailed with handwritten notes or shipped as blank sets.
An Android medication reminder for elderly parents, with large text, two-button senior mode, full-screen alarms, and caregiver dose sharing.
A Japanese household-disaster calculator that estimates shortages of water, food, emergency toilets, and cassette-gas canisters.
Spinalog is a physical lumbar-spine simulator for practising palpation and spinal mobilisation on realistic, varied conditions.
A public media-literacy campaign with image, video, and audio quizzes, verification guidance, and free educational materials for public spaces.
A browser-based toolkit for merging, splitting, compressing, converting, signing, and otherwise working with PDFs, images, video, and files.
A finite-life website where payments buy minutes of survival and a place in the flame’s permanent roll of keepers.
An operations platform for dance studios that organizes routines, competition schedules, call times, costumes, packing lists, and family acknowledgments.
Super Evil is a record label and workshop offering releases, handmade pedals and objects, recording sessions, sample packs, merch, and live nights.
KHONA is a desktop voice tool that turns spoken Darija, French, and technical English into professional French inserted directly into email, WhatsApp Web, Word, or a CRM.
SyncPilot checks Gmail, classifies each new message into one of seven actions, and sends worthwhile replies to Signal for approval.
A mock-exam platform for Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools students preparing for Cambridge International exams.