Tessera

I’m 100% sure @aresluna.org is going to love this. Gates (who makes a belt transmission for bikes) has an app that uses the phone mic to adjust the belt tension like a guitar tuner: www.gates.com/us/en/knowle... It’s a genius way of solving a pretty complex problem!

Gates Belt Drive Mobile App

This mobile app measures the Gates Carbon Drive™ belt tension on your bicycle or motorcycle sonically.

gates.com

The description for this job position on LinkedIn is a great summary of the current state of the tech industry:

Absolutely deranged word salad that is either a random sequence of words, a puzzle, a code, a joke, or all of the above

I hope you don’t have anything important to do today before clicking this link (new word puzzle from Wordle’s creator)

Parseword - A tricky wordplay game

Transform phrases through wordplay to solve cryptic crossword puzzles.

parseword.com

“A visual field guide to the chili peppers of the world, from wild origins to cultivated forms, illustrated with 176 hand-drawn peppers.”

Chili Peppers of the World: Cultivars, Species, and Heat

An illustrated guide to chili peppers of the world, organized by Capsicum species and cultivar, with notes on origin, heat, form, domestication, and global food history.

notesfromtheroad.com

I just read this on the docs for a documentation framework: “a new type earns existence only when no existing recipe’s contract fits without breaking it” My brain:

Pulp Fiction: English Mother******

ALT: Pulp Fiction: English Mother******

static.klipy.com

I was reading @hono.dev's documentation, and I kept thinking about Sinatra (which made me *very* happy back in the day, and shares this quality of ’small is beautiful’ with Hono)

Sinatra

sinatrarb.com

Someone has recreated Lemmings in PICO-8, and made it available for download for *free*, not only for PICO-8 but also for Mac, Linux, and Windows. I know what I’ll be doing today:

Lemmings by Buzzard

The Classic, Recreated in PICO-8

buzzard1337.itch.io

I’m working on a mini web app for my phone, and when adding it to my iPhone’s home screen, iOS automatically adds a shadow to the icon that’s not there on the original. Is there any way to avoid this?

The icon on iOS’s home screen, where a shadow gets added

Original icons, with a simple, flat style

Scott Hanselman 🌮@scott.hanselman.com · 3w ago

According to GitHub, their sponsors program has contributed $100M to open source over the last 7 years. Which is more or less what the AI industry has spent in the last *50 minutes* (source: isaiprofitable.com)

$100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community

Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.

github.blog

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source! The IRC client that turned conversations into comic panels with illustrated characters, speech bubbles, and expressions — and introduced the world to Comic Sans. opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07...

Today’s plan: listen to @choan.es’s latest album on rotation because it’s beautiful and soothing. You can do the same (which I definitely recommend doing) and buy the album at: choan.bandcamp.com/album/dream-...

If you are young, you may have never heard of Readmill, the absolute best ebook reading experience ever. Today I was looking for information about it to show it to someone, and came across this goldmine of information, straight from one of the founders: david.kjelkerud.com/work/readmill/

David Kjelkerud - Readmill

david.kjelkerud.com

🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

A Sentient Works Griffyn Full Suspension Cargo Bike, which is hot AF. More details at https://sentient.works/products/sentient-griffyn

The best setting in mu.social:

mu.social’s settings allow you to change the accent colour in the app, and choose between Pink (the default), Blue (a safe second choice), and Orange (the best colour in the world).

PSA: si vas a comprar o has comprado una bici eléctrica en la Comunidad de Madrid, hay subvenciones de hasta el 50% del precio (máximo €600). Tardan en darlas, pero llegan (yo compré la bici en julio y me dieron la pasta en diciembre). Comenta si conoces iniciativas similares en otras comunidades!

Ayudas movilidad sostenible y accesible

Ayudas para adquirir vehículos eléctricos y para achatarrar vehículos (2024)

sede.comunidad.madrid

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don’t need another keyb… 🥵

Pastry Keyboards Cassini 3000, in a very nice yellow color

If you’re ever lost in the wilderness, just build a cycle path because someone is bound to pull up in their car and park in it.

Today I’m playing with an idea that’s been on my mind for too long: storing design systems tokens on the #Atmosphere My proof of concept works, and that Makes Me Happy™

Playdate’s Design Guide is a pretty nice read, even if you’re not interested in developing games for it. I wish more systems (including design systems!) included docs like this. help.play.date/developer/de...

Designing for Playdate - Playdate Help

Advice on making your game accessible, pleasant to use, and at home on Playdate—from the UI to performance, and more.

help.play.date

If you’re looking for a job, you’ve probably found yourself looking for something that outputs nice PDFs of your CV. I did, so I made this small tool that I’m enjoying very much. I hope you like it and it helps you land your dream job: github.com/bomberstudio...

github.com