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Content & Blogs · score 88.0

Reference Plate: The Consumer-Tech Measurement Desk

referenceplate.com ↗
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An independent testing desk that measures consumer health-tech products against named references, then publishes the difference.

Personal Pages · score 88.0

Rohan Vimal — The Engineer at the Test Stand

rohanvimal.com ↗
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A propulsion engineer’s personal account of building liquid rocket engines, control systems, and the programmes around them.

Weird Finds · score 88.0

Rust@venture: the dungeon crawler where your spells are Rust programs

rustaventure.com ↗
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A bilingual Windows game in which players write real Rust code to cast spells, solve dungeon puzzles, and defeat monsters.

Useful Tools · score 88.0

Should I self-host it? — the honest math of running software yourself

shouldiselfhost.com ↗
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A decision desk that rates 100 paid apps YES, KINDA, or NOT REALLY according to the real cost of self-hosting them.

Content & Blogs · score 88.0

Salido, Enclave Tambang Kolonial

silida.org ↗
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An Indonesian-language historical research project about Salido’s colonial gold mines, VOC archives, maritime routes, and the Cingkuk site.

Civic & Public Life · score 88.0

SismoAyuda Colombia: Structural Triage by Photograph

sismoayudaco.com ↗
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A volunteer platform lets people report earthquake damage by submitting building details and photographs for remote review by civil engineers and architects.

Weird Finds · score 88.0

Storeyline, a Tower With a Management Problem

storeyline.net ↗
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A playable tower-management simulation where you stack offices, homes, hotels, cinemas, shops, elevators, and parking across a hundred storeys.

Content & Blogs · score 88.0

THE BEACON — a screenplay

thebeaconfilm.com ↗
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A feature screenplay about a grieving man who builds a message on nickel plates for anything that might exist ten thousand years from now.

Learning & Exams · score 88.0

The Thinking Machine

thethinkingmachine.dev ↗
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An interactive essay tracing artificial intelligence from symbolic systems in 1972 to the agent era, while explaining neural networks, transformers, training, labs, and compute infrastructure.

Civic & Public Life · score 88.0

The Undocumented Hour

theundocumentedhour.com ↗
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A reported investigation into how small human-services nonprofits lose reimbursement for care they delivered but failed to document.

Useful Tools · score 88.0

Underfloor Heating Designer

ufhdesigner.com ↗
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A browser-based planner for drawing underfloor-heating zones and generating pipe layouts, circuit lengths, and heat-output estimates.

Human Services · score 88.0

Ukrainian Homecoming: Find the Village Your Family Left

ukrainianhomecoming.com ↗
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A genealogy and heritage-travel service that traces Ukrainian family origins, visits ancestral villages on film, and guides descendants on private journeys.

Weird Finds · score 88.0

Vector Zero: The Internet's Only Fan Page for a Dam-Based Thriller

vectorzerofilm.com ↗
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A lovingly maintained fan archive for the obscure 1987 direct-to-video action film Vector Zero.

Developer Corner · score 88.0

Vilanel: a game engine built from scratch

vilanel.com ↗
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Vilanel is a C++ 3D game engine for Vulkan, with its own renderer, dockable editor, node graph, physics, animation, audio, and asset pipeline.

Oddly Specific · score 88.0

Wattplot — One bed. Two harvests.

wattplot.org ↗
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An open-source raised garden bed whose canopy is also a working solar panel, with plans for irrigation, sensing, and power generation.

Developer Corner · score 88.0

Weft: when verification becomes the merge gate

weftgate.com ↗
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Weft is an open-source, self-hosted execution ledger for autonomous coding agents, combining concurrent work, signed provenance, scoped capabilities, and machine-checkable evidence before changes land.

Content & Blogs · score 88.0

WILD CREATURE: Fashion Journalism from the Animal Drag World

wildcreaturemag.com ↗
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An independent magazine of fashion, culture, gossip, and behind-the-scenes dispatches from a vividly imagined animal drag scene.

Useful Tools · score 88.0

World Train Map: 1,250 Routes, One Atlas

worldtrainmap.com ↗
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An interactive railway atlas covering 1,250 notable passenger routes across 120 countries.

Content & Blogs · score 88.0

The Antique Wrench Patent Archive

wrenchpatents.com ↗
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A searchable historical archive of 140 nineteenth-century wrench patents, organized by date, inventor, type, and mechanical idea.

Useful Tools · score 88.0

AdPlaybook Tries to Prove Your Ad Wrong

adplaybook.app ↗
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A Mac app that turns a product page into an ad campaign, then checks its claims, platform limits, audiences, exclusions, and measurement plan before launch.

Personal Pages · score 88.0

Abhishek Jonathan Ling’s Wind Tunnel Portfolio

ajling.com ↗
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An interactive portfolio spanning architecture, industrial design, branding, creative technology, and digital experiences.

Civic & Public Life · score 88.0

Ask Spokane, a multilingual guide to getting through a hard day

askspokane.com ↗
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A free Spokane County assistant that connects people with food banks, shelters, utility help, health care, legal aid, crisis support, and other community services.

Weird Finds · score 88.0

The Auldmere Chronicles: A MUD You Read and Answer in Words

auldmere.com ↗
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An accessibility-focused text-world revival that lets players explore four realms, fight, craft, join factions, and play through an iPad or a terminal.

Content & Blogs · score 88.0

AuxiLab, a cheerful research lab with a correction policy

auxi.cafe ↗
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Auxi's public journal documents open machine-learning experiments on alternative neural-network substrates, with pre-registered runs and linked whitepapers.