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.

23May2026

Introducing Shortcuts Playground: Create Apple Shortcuts with Claude Code or Codex - MacStories

Short­cuts Play­ground is a free, open-source plu­g­in for Claude Code and Codex that gen­er­ates Apple Short­cuts using nat­ur­al lan­guage prompts. Users can request any short­cut and receive a ready-to-import file with­in min­utes. The Mac­Sto­ries Short­cuts Archive has been redesigned with new cat­e­gories and now includes 100 AI-gen­er­at­ed short­cuts ver­i­fied by the cre­ator.

24Apr2026

NETRonline: Historic Aerials

NETRon­line’s His­toric Aeri­als is the largest online data­base of U.S. his­tor­i­cal aer­i­al imagery dat­ing back to the 1920s. Users can explore an inter­ac­tive map view­er to see how loca­tions have changed over time, with orthorec­ti­fied imagery avail­able for down­load in mul­ti­ple for­mats or as phys­i­cal prints. Sub­scrip­tions offer addi­tion­al fea­tures like ad-free view­ing, anno­ta­tion tools, and access to Geo­T­IFFs for pro­fes­sion­al use.

16Apr2026

Solarus

Solarus is a light­weight, free, open-source 2D game engine writ­ten in C++ with Lua script­ing. It fea­tures a graph­i­cal edi­tor and launch­er, sup­ports mul­ti­ple plat­forms, and has an active com­mu­ni­ty cre­at­ing games. Cur­rent sta­ble ver­sion is 2.0.4.

14Apr2026

Image Colors

Image Col­ors is a Craft CMS plu­g­in that auto­mat­i­cal­ly extracts dom­i­nant col­or palettes from images across six regions, offer­ing weight­ed col­ors, focal point aware­ness, and mul­ti­ple access meth­ods includ­ing a field type, Twig API, and GraphQL sup­port. Fea­tures include auto­mat­ic extrac­tion on upload, asset index swatch­es, and a con­sole com­mand for bulk pro­cess­ing. Free to use and com­pat­i­ble with Craft 5.

13Apr2026

I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI

Gem­ma 4’s dra­mat­i­cal­ly improved tool-call­ing capa­bil­i­ty (up from 6.6% to 86.4% on bench­marks) makes local agen­tic cod­ing viable for the first time, though set­up requires non-obvi­ous con­fig­u­ra­tion on both Apple Sil­i­con and NVIDIA hard­ware.

13Apr2026

Productive procrastination

Max van IJs­sel­muiden explores pro­duc­tive pro­cras­ti­na­tion” — doing enjoy­able, pro­duc­tive work that avoids nec­es­sary tasks. He exam­ines why we choose new­er projects over over­due work, ana­lyzes a pro­duc­tiv­i­ty matrix from Casey Nei­s­tat, and inves­ti­gates the brain sci­ence behind pro­cras­ti­na­tion, includ­ing how neg­a­tive emo­tions trig­ger avoid­ance behav­ior.

10Apr2026

Anthropic Courses

Anthrop­ic Acad­e­my offers a com­pre­hen­sive suite of cours­es cov­er­ing Claude AI usage, API inte­gra­tion, devel­op­ment work­flows, and AI flu­en­cy across mul­ti­ple domains. Cours­es range from begin­ner tuto­ri­als like Claude 101 to advanced top­ics includ­ing Mod­el Con­text Pro­to­col imple­men­ta­tion and agent skills devel­op­ment. The plat­form uses Skill­jar, a learn­ing man­age­ment sys­tem, to deliv­er inter­ac­tive con­tent, track progress, and pro­vide com­ple­tion cer­tifi­cates.

10Apr2026

Unsloth Studio Documentation

An open-source, no-code web UI for train­ing, run­ning, and export­ing open mod­els in one uni­fied local inter­face.

07Apr2026

Codesight: Universal AI context generator.

This GitHub page presents code­sight, a uni­ver­sal AI con­text gen­er­a­tor. It saves thou­sands of tokens for AI tools by build­ing a per­sis­tent knowl­edge base direct­ly from your code­base.

05Apr2026

Stereogram Generator

This stere­ogram gen­er­a­tor cre­ates hid­den 3D images. Use pre­set or cus­tom depth maps and pat­terns, adjust­ing inten­si­ty and res­o­lu­tion.

04Apr2026

Stephen King | The Plant: Zenith Rising

This page details Stephen King’s unfin­ished eBook, The Plant” (2000). It’s about a sin­is­ter plant offer­ing a pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny suc­cess for human sac­ri­fices, dis­trib­uted via hon­or sys­tem.

31Mar2026

OB1/skills at main · NateBJones-Projects/OB1

Open Brain — The infra­struc­ture lay­er for your think­ing. One data­base, one AI gate­way, one chat chan­nel — any AI plugs in. No mid­dle­ware, no SaaS. — OB1/​skills at main · Nate­B­Jones-Pro­ject­s/OB1

31Mar2026

Beat Cancer Off

Help save lives by encour­ag­ing men to take prostate can­cer pre­ven­tion into their own hand.

30Mar2026

Welcome to Learn AI!  |  web.dev

This course helps web devel­op­ers inte­grate AI into web­sites and apps. It focus­es on plan­ning and respon­si­ble sys­tem design, not spe­cif­ic tools.