Glicol is a free music programming environment that runs in your web browser — no installation needed. As someone who dabbles in music coding, I like how it lets you connect audio nodes (like ...

A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded ...

The Art of Trolls by Jerry Schmitz Cameron + Company 2016, 160 pages, 11.2 x 0.8 x 10.2 inches, Hardcover ...

Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here.

After one too many frustrating calls trying to spell out airline confirmation codes (“No, B as in Boy, not D!”), I built this simple web tool. Type in any text and it instantly converts it to NATO ...

If you want to geek out on which countries are serving adventure travelers best, check out the just-released Adventure Tourism Development Index, the first one put together since the pandemic. Among ...

Vietnam has its first underground train system now after it opened on December 22 in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). For now it’s only one line, but more branches are under construction and will follow.

Martha Burzynski is a writer, photographer and full time nanny. She lives in Brooklyn.

Machine generated video is coming fast. Google just released their version, Veo 2, this month, which is now one of a dozen apps that turn text instructions into cinematic video, in your choice of ...

You can spend a lot of money on an acoustic guitar these days and end up with an instrument that doesn’t improve with age, either tonally or aesthetically. With CNC machines and other robotic aids, ...

Sublime is an inspiration engine for ideas, a Pinterest for knowledge, and one of the most useful tool I came across in 2024. Wether you are a creative who would like more output, or you just need a ...

Our subscriber base has grown so much since we first started eight years ago, that most of you have missed all our earliest recommendations. The best of these are still valid and useful, so we’re ...