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Unheard.FM

unheard.fm

Unheard.FM is a music discovery web app for Spotify that generates fresh playlists based on your rules, not your listening history. It delivers unbiased, non-sponsored content by focusing on what you want to hear—not what an algorithm thinks you want.

Music discovery in Spotify suuuucks, yet another algorithmic taste echo chamber. I think this might be the missing tool to break the cycle.

Byte

byte.tsundoku.io

Before Hackernews, before Twitter, before blogs, before the web had been spun, when the internet was just four universities in a trenchcoat, there was BYTE. A monthly mainline of the entire personal computing universe, delivered on dead trees for a generation of hackers. Running from September 1975 to July 1998, its 277 issues chronicled the Cambrian explosion of the microcomputer, from bare-metal kits to the dawn of the commercial internet. Forget repackaged corporate press releases—BYTE was for the builders.

YouTube Ads At Their Best

youtube.com

Unhinged script, mannerisms that don’t reflect the words, and the usual AI artefacts. The fuck did I just watch?

Edit: I’m not even sure what this was trying to scam. Linked through to a website with a loooong video of “celebrities” talking about erections. No links.

Cuptone Teacup

cuptone.com

August 2025

The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius

theatlantic.com

When Caron Morse’s 9-year-old daughter asked for a smartphone last year, her reaction, she told me, was unambiguous: “A hard ‘Hell no.’” Morse is a mental-health provider in the Portland, Maine, public-school system, and she was firmly against smartphones, having seen how social media and abundant screen time could shorten students’ attention spans and give them new anxieties. But she wanted her children to have some independence—to be able to call friends, arrange playdates, and reach out to their grandparents on their own. She also needed a break. “I was so sick,” she said, “of being the middle person in any correspondence.”

So when her daughter turned 10, Morse did get her a phone: a landline.

A Low-Cost, Quickly-Deliverable Modular Signage System

handheart.com.tw

What Are OKLCH Colors?

jakub.kr

OKLCH is a newer color model that is designed to be perceptually uniform. This means that colors are much more accurate in terms of how humans perceive them and it makes working with them much easier.