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Actual Budget is a local-first personal finance app built around envelope budgeting. It supports syncing across devices with optional end-to-end encryption, and offers bank sync through goCardless in the EU/UK and SimpleFIN in the US/Canada.
Actualité juive publishes newspaper reporting, headlines and current-affairs coverage in France.
Guide recommending beginner-friendly Linux distributions with practical notes and context.
L'actualité is a magazine publishing features, commentary and specialist editorial coverage in Canada.
The AI assistant that actually does the work, not just writes drafts. See how one entrepreneur manages 5 businesses with 15 hours per week.
A web tool that locates the center of the screen both in the middle and along the edges. It displays an actual 1:1 size ruler. The site states it is useful for aligning webcams and other equipment, or calibrating an aim dot for pro gaming. A window support option is shown.
CodeAnalogies is a series of tutorials that explain CSS and JavaScript topics with visual guides, analogies and diagrams. Its lessons cover basic web development concepts, and tutorials are described as including a high-level analogy to a real-world concept, diagrams, and examples using actual code.
Email Dossier is a validation tool that checks an email address by walking through the process of sending email without actually sending any. It checks address syntax, looks up the domain's mail servers and tries contacting them. It reports a confidence rating from 0 to 3, error codes, a canonical address and MX records.
This site lists files from Microsoft Corporation with their family, version, language, hashsums (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512) and actual size. It states that file downloads are partially available. The service describes itself as providing information on files only.
Film on Paper is a personal poster archive holding over 2,000 film posters, programmes and other paper-based film artefacts from the UK, USA, Japan, Thailand and elsewhere. Every item comes from the owner's own collection, and the photographs show the actual posters and paper ephemera rather than digital copies.
GB Dot Converter is a web tool for converting photos and illustrations into GB-style pixel art. It offers size trimming for compatibility with actual Game Boy hardware and a unique tile count checker. The interface can be set to English or Japanese. It was created by Deepblizzard for making pixel art for homemade games.
HackTyper is a web-based tool launched in 2011 that generates pseudo hacker code in real time as users type on their keyboard. It is designed to mimic the hacker typing scenes commonly seen in movies and pop culture. The tool offers customizable settings for font, text color, and typing speed, and supports fullscreen mode for enhanced user experience. The developer explicitly states the tool does not provide actual hacking services, and permits use of the tool in personal projects, videos, and images.
Heavyweight generates professional-looking demand letters through document formatting. It is made by artist WTTDOTM and lawyer Kendra Albert, and is described as making letters that never actually claim legal authority. Templates include landlord repair requests, workplace examples, overdue client letters and security deposit requests.
A freeCodeCamp handbook for developers on organizing AI agents for real business cases. It covers prerequisites, large language models, definitions of AI agents, and a decision algorithm for creating optimal agents, including checking budget, starting with one agent, and measuring performance. It uses a Google Research, Google DeepMind, and MIT paper as its primary source and code examples in a Google Colab notebook.
An interactive map showing about 200,000 galaxies with their actual position and color, from the Milky Way to the edge of the observable Universe. It was created from 15 years of Sloan Digital Sky Survey data by B. Ménard and N. Shtarkman at Johns Hopkins University. The visualization shows a thin slice of the Universe about 10 degrees thick.
Spurious Correlations is a website that displays thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables. The site exists to demonstrate that correlation is not causation, with example pairings including the distance between Saturn and the moon, the number of movies Jessica Biel appeared in, and the number of hearing aid specialists in Maryland.
Termible is a subscription service for embedding an actual Linux terminal into a website, letting visitors try a CLI tool, REST API or programming language without installation. It launches Docker-powered containers as users connect, and supports executable code examples, embedded terminals and session recording. The service is in private beta, and plans list free, startup and enterprise tiers with concurrent terminal limits.
tree.fm is a site for listening to forest recordings made by people around the world. The recordings are intended for relaxing, meditating or escaping into nature when unable to travel. The sounds come from Sounds of the Forest and aporee; cover images come from unsplash.com and do not always represent the actual forest.
Base repository for the Xonotic project. It contains build scripts and tools to manage the other repositories, which hold the actual code and assets. The repository also links to the project wiki and a Doxygen report, and lists GNU GPLv3 licensing. Game and menu issues are reported separately from engine issues.
A userscript for youtube.com that shows buttons when a thumbnail is hovered, allowing direct clicks without navigating the menu, including Not interested and Don't recommend channel. The buttons are pulled from the actual menu for the video, so the number shown varies. It is authored by woxxom and licensed MIT.