A blog prob­a­bly of inter­est only to nerds by John F Mor­ton.

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SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.

Link List

Wel­come to my link library. These are not links to con­tent I have cre­at­ed unless you see that men­tioned in the link’s descrip­tion. These are links I found inter­est­ing enough to want to keep track of. If you read Craft Link List, the Craft CMS newslet­ter I used to write, this page is a replace­ment of sorts for that exer­cise. Enough talk. Let’s hit the links.

15Oct2026

PhotoCraft: The image editor you already know how to use. — ArtCraft

Pho­toCraft is a free, open-source image edi­tor built in Rust with a famil­iar inter­face fea­tur­ing lay­ers, masks, adjust­ment lay­ers, and non-destruc­tive edit­ing. Avail­able for macOS, Win­dows, Lin­ux, and web, it offers native GPU ren­der­ing, PSD file sup­port, and pro­fes­sion­al col­or man­age­ment. Down­load stand­alone or via the Art­Craft Launch­er.

14Oct2026

Paper Mono

Paper Mono is a free, open-source mono­space font fam­i­ly fea­tur­ing 800 glyphs across 8 weights, designed for head­lines, UI, and code. It includes vari­able font sup­port, box-draw­ing char­ac­ters, cod­ing lig­a­tures, and styl­is­tic alter­nates like duo­space glyphs and sin­gle-sto­ry ​‘a’. The font com­bines clas­sic sans-serif char­ac­ter with prac­ti­cal fea­tures for both design and devel­op­ment use.

14Oct2026

Animotion Media Group Expands International Presence with Tubi Through Janson Media | Janson Media

Ani­mo­tion Media Group is expand­ing its chil­dren’s con­tent port­fo­lio to Tubi through dis­tri­b­u­tion part­ner Jan­son Media, bring­ing shows like The Fix­ies, BabyRi­ki, and Detec­tive Finnick to over 110 mil­lion month­ly users across the US, Cana­da, Latin Amer­i­ca, Aus­tralia, and the UK. The edu­tain­ment-focused line­up spans ages 0 – 12 with con­tent designed to enter­tain while teach­ing STEM, cre­ativ­i­ty, and life skills.

11Oct2026

Lumen — Free font preview

Lumen is a free vari­able sans serif font avail­able in 8 files, designed by The Lumen Project Authors and licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1. The font sup­ports weights from 100 to 900 and includes mul­ti­ple vari­ants (Round and Square) in both WOFF2 and TTF for­mats. It’s free for per­son­al and com­mer­cial use.

07Oct2026

Handbooks Moderators Absentee Ballot Counters Recanvass and Audit

Con­necti­cut’s Office of the Sec­re­tary of the State pro­vides com­pre­hen­sive hand­books and man­u­als for local elec­tion offi­cials, includ­ing guides for mod­er­a­tors, absen­tee bal­lot coun­ters, poll work­ers, and elec­tion audit­ing pro­ce­dures. Resources cov­er ear­ly vot­ing oper­a­tions, vot­er reg­is­tra­tion sys­tems, and recan­vass pro­to­cols. Mate­ri­als are avail­able in mul­ti­ple for­mats to sup­port prop­er elec­tion admin­is­tra­tion.

28Sep2026

Impeccable: The missing design vocabulary for agents

Impec­ca­ble is a design tool that pro­vides AI agents with design exper­tise to build and improve user inter­faces while main­tain­ing design sys­tem con­sis­ten­cy. It works with mul­ti­ple cod­ing plat­forms and AI tools to trans­form poor­ly designed AI-gen­er­at­ed inter­faces into pol­ished, pro­duc­tion-ready designs. The tool helps devel­op­ers ship bet­ter UI faster by elim­i­nat­ing design guess­work and reduc­ing visu­al incon­sis­ten­cy.

27Sep2026

Meet the New Microsoft Kindle App for Windows: Kindle for Windows 11

Ama­zon’s new Kin­dle app for Win­dows 11 replaces the dis­con­tin­ued lega­cy Kin­dle for PC appli­ca­tion as of June 30, 2026. The Microsoft Store ver­sion offers cus­tomiz­able read­ing fea­tures includ­ing adjustable fonts, high­light­ing, book­marks, and offline access to your Kin­dle library. This guide explains how to install, use, and remove DRM pro­tec­tion from books in the updat­ed Kin­dle app.

27Sep2026

Maxroll - Tools, Guides and News

Maxroll is a com­pre­hen­sive Dia­blo IV resource site offer­ing build guides, tier lists, boss strate­gies, and farm­ing tips for all class­es. It fea­tures lev­el­ing and endgame con­tent, craft­ing infor­ma­tion, sea­son­al updates, and tools like D4planner to help play­ers opti­mize their game­play.

26Sep2026

Ollaya · Run decision models locally

Ollaya is an open-source tool for run­ning deci­sion mod­els local­ly on your hard­ware. It answers typed ques­tions about text or JSON data in mil­lisec­onds with high accu­ra­cy, offer­ing pri­va­cy and speed com­pared to host­ed APIs. Com­pat­i­ble with Type­Safe’s API, it includes sev­er­al pre-built mod­els opti­mized for dif­fer­ent use cas­es like clas­si­fi­ca­tion, safe­ty screen­ing, and deci­sion-mak­ing.

11Sep2026

Output styles - Claude Code Docs

Claude Code’s out­put styles con­trol Claude’s role, tone, and response for­mat for soft­ware engi­neer­ing tasks. The doc­u­men­ta­tion explains four built-in styles — Proac­tive, Con­cise, Explana­to­ry, and Learn­ing — and how to con­fig­ure them via ter­mi­nal, VS Code exten­sion, or desk­top app. Users can also cre­ate cus­tom out­put styles using Mark­down files with front­mat­ter and instruc­tions.

11Sep2026

Using maths to balance your heading styles - Craig Abbott

Craig Abbott explains how to use math­e­mat­i­cal mod­u­lar scales to style HTML head­ings acces­si­bly and con­sis­tent­ly. The method mul­ti­plies a base font size by a fixed ratio to cre­ate visu­al­ly dis­tinct head­ing lev­els with­out rely­ing on prob­lem­at­ic tech­niques like ital­ics or col­or alone, ensur­ing read­abil­i­ty for peo­ple with dyslex­ia and col­or vision defi­cien­cies.

08Sep2026

Sonos MCP Server

An MCP Serv­er for Sonos that enables Mod­el Con­text Pro­to­col-capa­ble AI assis­tants to inte­grate with Sonos devices. Users can con­nect their AI assis­tant by pro­vid­ing the serv­er URL https://​mcp​.ws​.sonos​.com/mcp and should con­sult their assis­tan­t’s doc­u­men­ta­tion for set­up instruc­tions.

08Sep2026

claude-style-patch

A GitHub repos­i­to­ry con­tain­ing a cus­tomiz­able style guide (CLAUDE​.md patch) designed to improve Claude AI’s prose qual­i­ty by elim­i­nat­ing ver­bose, dense writ­ing pat­terns. The patch pro­vides con­crete rules with exam­ples and rewrites to address habits like unnec­es­sary announce­ments, colon-hinged sen­tences, and com­pressed phras­es. Users can install it glob­al­ly or scope it to indi­vid­ual projects.

05Sep2026

FontBase — a Free, Beautiful, and Fast Font Manager

Font­Base is a free, cross-plat­form font man­ag­er for design­ers offer­ing pro­fes­sion­al fea­tures like col­lec­tions, Open­Type sup­port, Google Fonts inte­gra­tion, and a beau­ti­ful inter­face. It enables font acti­va­tion with­out instal­la­tion, includes a CSS play­ground for web projects, and pro­vides fast per­for­mance with auto­mat­ic updates across Mac, Win­dows, and Lin­ux.

03Sep2026

Vellumproof — Your novel, entered into evidence

Vel­lumproof cre­ates tam­per-evi­dent records of man­u­script drafts with cryp­to­graph­ic seals and time­stamp­ing to prove human author­ship and writ­ing pro­gres­sion. Writ­ers upload files as they work; each ver­sion is chained to the pre­vi­ous one, pre­vent­ing back­dat­ing or alter­ation. The ser­vice gen­er­ates ver­i­fi­able proof pages for pub­lish­ers and con­tests while keep­ing man­u­scripts pri­vate and nev­er using them to train AI mod­els.

02Sep2026

superwhisper/s1-mini · Hugging Face

S1-Mini is a com­pact lan­guage mod­el avail­able on Hug­ging Face that sup­ports func­tion call­ing and mul­ti-turn con­ver­sa­tions with sys­tem prompts, tools, and rea­son­ing capa­bil­i­ties through a spe­cial­ized chat tem­plate for­mat.

01Sep2026

Laravel Boost | Laravel 13.x - The clean stack for Artisans and agents

Lar­avel Boost is a Lar­avel 13.x devel­op­ment tool that enhances AI-assist­ed cod­ing by pro­vid­ing guide­lines, agent skills, and a doc­u­men­ta­tion API with over 17,000 pieces of Lar­avel-spe­cif­ic infor­ma­tion. It inte­grates with AI agents like Claude Code and Cur­sor to help write high-qual­i­ty Lar­avel appli­ca­tions fol­low­ing best prac­tices. Instal­la­tion is done via Com­pos­er with the boost:install com­mand.

29Aug2026

MakeMKV Beta Key

This web­site pro­vides the cur­rent MakeMKV beta key, which is valid until Octo­ber 1, 2026. The key loads via JavaScript from an API and can be copied direct­ly from the page. An auto-update tool and mul­ti­ple API for­mats are avail­able for devel­op­ers who want to retrieve the key pro­gram­mat­i­cal­ly.