Curated discovery

Hidden Gems Directory

A bilingual discovery engine for useful, weird, under-linked places on the web.

Public domain assetsHuman reviewed

Public Work

A compact search surface for public domain images from museum and library collections.

Why worth a look: it makes public-domain archives feel browsable while keeping source context close.
One Useful Rabbit Hole30 minutes

Build a Small Local AI Workbench

A short path for trying local models, comparing hosted options, and adding one repeatable eval.

  1. Start with a small local modelUse Ollama Library to choose a model that your machine can run comfortably.
  2. Compare against hosted modelsUse OpenRouter Models to compare context, price signals, and provider availability.
  3. Turn one prompt into a testUse promptfoo to capture three inputs and one behavior expectation before changing models.

Featured hidden gems

Small but dense: every gem needs source context, a use case, and a way to start.

Topics

Public Work

public.work

A compact search surface for public domain images from museum and library collections.

public-domainimagesmuseums

Data Commons

datacommons.org

A public knowledge graph for statistical data about places, demographics, economics, health, and climate.

datastatisticsapi

Datasette

datasette.io

An open source tool for publishing, exploring, and sharing SQLite-backed data as a small web app.

open-sourcedatasqlite

Distill

distill.pub

A publication of clear, visual essays about machine learning research and interpretability.

machine-learningvisualizationresearch

Every Time Zone

everytimezone.com

A simple visual way to compare time zones for remote teams.

productivityremote-worktime

Excalidraw

excalidraw.com

An open source whiteboard for sketchy diagrams, quick architecture maps, and collaborative visual thinking.

open-sourcediagramscollaboration

GBIF

www.gbif.org

An open biodiversity data network for species occurrence records, datasets, and taxonomic context.

databiodiversitymaps

Have I Been Pwned

haveibeenpwned.com

A practical breach lookup service for checking whether an email address appears in known data breaches.

securityprivacyaccounts
This week’s brief

Week 28 Lucky Brief

A compact weekly note for one useful public domain image source and one source-checking rabbit hole.

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