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A weekly newsletter of thoughtful links on design, technology and cities, with every past issue readable on the site without signing up.
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Dense Discovery sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: The other directories, random buttons and curated indexes. We are one of these; it would be dishonest to pretend the others are not worth your time.
Yes. Dense Discovery is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Dense Discovery without signing up for anything.
Yes. Dense Discovery works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
A long, community-kept list of software and services with genuinely free tiers: hosting, databases, email, monitoring and much more.
A weekly, hand-picked digest of the best Hacker News links, with an archive of past issues you can browse straight from the site.
Shows one fresh post at a time from a hand-picked list of personal blogs. Press next and you are reading a stranger's corner of the internet.
A community weblog running since 1999 where members share the best thing they found online today, with thoughtful threads underneath each post.
A graphing calculator good enough that people make art with it — type a function and drag its parameters about.
Machine learning journal where every paper is an interactive diagram; publication has stopped, the back catalogue has not aged.
Turns any image into one-bit dithered grain, with a choice of classic algorithms and a two-colour palette picker.
Serious dithering workbench with dozens of algorithms, custom palettes, live preview and a video mode as well.
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