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

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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.

13Aug2026

Premium 'Ultra' Handwriting Font Service

Pre­mi­um Ultra’ Hand­writ­ing Font Ser­vice cre­ates ultra-real­is­tic True­Type hand­writ­ing fonts from your nat­ur­al writ­ing using Scrip­tal­iz­er soft­ware with up to 318 char­ac­ter vari­a­tions. Avail­able as cus­tom fonts or pre-made options, com­pat­i­ble with inkjet, laser print­ers, and pen plot­ters, with com­mer­cial licens­ing includ­ed in a sin­gle pay­ment. Sup­plied as True­Type fonts for Windows/​Mac or SVG fonts for pen plot­ters, requir­ing only the free Scrip­tal­iz­er web appli­ca­tion.

13Aug2026

Single-Line Handwriting Fonts

About Sin­gle line (open con­tour) True­Type hand­writ­ing fonts for use with the NextDraw and Axidraw pen-plot­ters and oth­er CAD draw­ing and engrav­ing equip­ment.

12Aug2026

guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover: Strip multi-vendor AI provenance marks: Unicode text hygiene, statistical rewrite hooks, and C2PA/metadata from PNG/JPEG/SVG/PDF/DOCX/HTML/MD

Open-source tool to remove AI water­marks, meta­da­ta, and prove­nance marks (C2PA, EXIF, XMP) from text and files includ­ing PNG, JPEG, PDF, DOCX, and HTML. Han­dles invis­i­ble Uni­code, sta­tis­ti­cal text water­marks, and marks from Claude, Gemini/​SynthID, and Ope­nAI. Avail­able as Python scripts or Grok agent skill.

12Aug2026

Stroke Font Studio - Single-line font editor for pen plotters - DrawingBots.com

Stroke Font Stu­dio is a brows­er-based edi­tor for cre­at­ing and mod­i­fy­ing sin­gle-line SVG fonts designed for pen plot­ters, CNC routers, and engravers. It includes bun­dled font col­lec­tions, tools for edit­ing glyphs with pan-zoom can­vas, kern­ing adjust­ment, and the abil­i­ty to trace bitmap or TTF/OTF fonts. Exports stan­dard SVG 1.1 font files and keeps all work local to your device.

12Aug2026

The REVDANCATT Homepage V3.0

REVDAN­CATT is a col­lec­tion of pen plot­ter tools and gen­er­a­tive art sketch­es, includ­ing cal­i­bra­tion util­i­ties, land­scape gen­er­a­tors, and geo­met­ric pat­tern cre­ators like spi­rals, cir­cles, and snowflakes. The site is cur­rent­ly under recon­struc­tion with arti­cles planned for future addi­tion.

11Aug2026

Kruszoneq/macUSB: The all-in-one bootable USB creator for Mac

macUSB is a free, guid­ed macOS app for cre­at­ing bootable USB media on Apple Sil­i­con and Intel Macs. It sup­ports macOS installers (includ­ing lega­cy ver­sions), Lin­ux, and Win­dows images, with built-in macOS down­loader, check­sum ver­i­fi­ca­tion, and auto­mat­ic media prepa­ra­tion fea­tures.

11Aug2026

Introducing Unsloth Desktop | Unsloth Documentation

Unsloth Desk­top is a free, open-source desk­top appli­ca­tion for run­ning and train­ing AI mod­els local­ly on macOS, Win­dows, and Lin­ux. It sup­ports LLMs, dif­fu­sion mod­els, and audio gen­er­a­tion with fea­tures includ­ing accu­rate tool calls, image/​video gen­er­a­tion, code exe­cu­tion, and remote deploy­ment via HTTPS.

10Aug2026

gvzdv/claudish-to-english

A Claude Code plu­g­in that rewrites Claude’s assis­tant mes­sages into plain Eng­lish using a local LLM via olla­ma. The rewrit­ing is dis­play-only and does­n’t affect Claude’s actu­al rea­son­ing or saved tran­scripts. Requires olla­ma, a pulled mod­el like gemma4, jq, and curl to func­tion.

07Aug2026

Coral Pixels - Google Fonts

Coral Pix­els is a col­or font inspired by sub­pix­el ren­der­ing tech­niques. It enhances the retro pix­el font style com­mon­ly seen in games and dig­i­tal art by adding col­or, cre­at­ing a more vivid dig­i­tal aes­thet­ic.

07Aug2026

Programming principles for self taught front-end developers - Piccalilli

Kil­ian Valkhof explains prac­ti­cal pro­gram­ming prin­ci­ples for self-taught front-end devel­op­ers, focus­ing on action­able rules-of-thumb like YAG­NI and DRY that improve dai­ly cod­ing deci­sions with­out requir­ing for­mal com­put­er sci­ence train­ing. Based on 20+ years of expe­ri­ence, the arti­cle trans­lates abstract con­cepts into use­ful habits for writ­ing bet­ter code incre­men­tal­ly.

06Aug2026

scroobius-pip/fudge-design-md: DESIGN.md guides generated from real website references captured by Fudge

A GitHub repos­i­to­ry con­tain­ing auto-gen­er­at­ed DESIGN​.md guides cre­at­ed from real web­site ref­er­ences using the Fudge tool. The project focus­es on design sys­tems, design tokens, and design doc­u­men­ta­tion for web projects. It includes assets, scripts, and work­flows to help design­ers and devel­op­ers stan­dard­ize design prac­tices.

06Aug2026

drdnar/GortonDigital: A revival of a 20th century interwar typeface

Gor­tonDig­i­tal is a dig­i­tal revival of the Gor­ton type­face, a 20th-cen­tu­ry inter­war font orig­i­nal­ly used by the George Gor­ton Machine Com­pa­ny for engrav­ing machines. The repos­i­to­ry con­tains tem­plate splines and tools to gen­er­ate mul­ti­ple font weights (light, nor­mal, medi­um, bold) using Font­Forge’s stroke expan­sion. Free for non-com­mer­cial use; com­mer­cial licens­ing requires a dona­tion to a US-based edu­ca­tion­al non-prof­it.

03Aug2026

qwen3.6

Qwen3.6 deliv­ers sub­stan­tial upgrades in agen­tic cod­ing and think­ing preser­va­tion than pre­vi­ous Qwen mod­els.

01Aug2026

I Hate Adobe

A crit­i­cal arti­cle attack­ing Adobe as an exploita­tive, monop­o­lis­tic soft­ware com­pa­ny that forces users into expen­sive sub­scrip­tions while deliv­er­ing poor­ly opti­mized prod­ucts with bloat­ed lega­cy code. The author argues that Adobe’s dom­i­nance in cre­ative indus­tries makes their soft­ware inescapable for pro­fes­sion­als despite wide­spread frus­tra­tion with their per­for­mance and design.

27Jul2026

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models | Claude by Anthropic

Anthrop­ic’s blog post explain­ing how they sim­pli­fied con­text engi­neer­ing for Claude 5 mod­els by remov­ing over 80% of Claude Code’s sys­tem prompt. The arti­cle pro­vides best prac­tices for build­ing effec­tive gen­er­al prompts and guid­ance for advanced Claude mod­els, includ­ing lessons on reduc­ing unnec­es­sary con­straints and lever­ag­ing new tools like mem­o­ry and skills.

27Jul2026

Nice <mark>

My take on styling the ele­ment for an easy to colour and slight­ly more real­is­tic look­ing high­light­ing option. Uses an SVG fil­ter for the rough e…