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As a free-spirited font recommendation, today I present “Darwin”. This typeface is well suited for extended passages of text, such as in books or articles. Darwin is released under the Open Font License, which makes it particularly accessible and user-friendly. Darwin is a free and open-source typeface project aiming to cover a wide range of languages and specialist (including medievalist and linguistic) usage, coming in several optical sizes and with an accompanying math font. – Emily de Oliveira Santos ...

As an enthusiastic user of the Plex software, I find it ideal for centrally managing movies, TV shows and audiobooks on my home server. However, I run into a small problem: audiobooks aren’t indexed very well1. But thanks to the plugin Audnexus I can work around this issue. It’s been running here for about six months and has been working perfectly. So it’s my clear recommendation to anyone who wants to centralize their audiobooks in a similar way. ...

For those hunting for an offbeat Lego set that stands out from the standard kits, the “iMac G3” by user Terauma on ideas.lego.com could be just the thing. A real hidden gem for Apple nerds and Lego lovers alike. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Occasionally I need illustrations in the .svg format. Rather than collecting useful links in my browser, I prefer to save them here. That way others can benefit from them too. Manypixels Illlustrations Glaze Open Doodles Lukasz Adam undraw The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Anyone who’s used the Internet for a long time has probably noticed that, contrary to widespread belief, the web actually does forget. This finding is echoed by the Pew Research Center in their piece “When Online Content Disappears” by Athena Chapekis, Samuel Bestvater, Emma Remy, and Gonzalo Rivero. They call for more sustainable ways of preserving content, because even the Internet Archive can’t capture every page. ...