Google, Mojeek, and Yandex let you add directives to search for pre-2024 results, which filters out AI slop. (Though it also filters out recent news events.) For Google and Mojeek, this filters out any pages updated in 2024 or later. For Yandex, it filters out pages that have a listed publication date of 2024 or later. (Though a web page can always list whatever publication date it wants.) I've created a separate web page that autofills the pre-2024 directives for these search engines so you can download it or set it as your New Tab default page. Or you can use the form in this post.

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The nominees for the Python Software Foundation's Board of Directors 2026 election have been announced. You can find a full list on the nominees page. I've gon through the candidate list and have chosen to endorse folks based on their organizational experience, list of nominations, history of contributions, and consulting with other members of the Python community. I'm pleased to announce I'm endorsing the following nominees for PSF Board: Calvin Tsang, Cecilia Tivir, Christopher Neugebauer, Ee Durbin, Elaine Wong, Georgi Ker, Jeremy Tanner, Karo Ladino-Puerto, Keith Murray, Kojo Idrissa, Laís Carvalho, Nina Zakharenko Also this year is the inaugural Python Packaging Council election. I'm please to announce I'm endorsing the following nominees for PPC: Bernat Gabor, Brett Cannon, Donald Stufft, Henry Schreiner, Pradyun Gedam, Ralf Gommers, William Woodruff

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A minimal, offline Graphviz renderer contained in a single HTML file. It has the dot, neato, fdp, sfdp, twopi, circo, osage, and patchwork tools just the command line version. I generated this because I wanted a simple Graphviz editor without ads. Think of it as a text editor with a Graphviz preview, along with some examples to help remember Graphviz syntax. Paste the Graphviz source, open or drop an .dot file, inspect the result in a sandboxed preview, pan and zoom, tidy the source, and export the image again as SVG, PNG, or WebP. Run the app in your browser. This app works offline and you own it forever. No ads. No registration. No subscriptions. No trackers. Just right-click and save the .html page.
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That familiar SVG (scalar vector graphics) image of a tiger is the Ghostscript tiger: a vector image that has shipped with the Ghostscript PostScript interpreter for decades. The artwork itself predates its Ghostscript fame. The original tiger.ps / tiger.eps file says it was created in Adobe Illustrator 1.2d4 for OpenWindows 2 on April 12, 1990. The file does not identify the artist, and its exact origin is still unclear. (source)

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A minimal, offline mermaid diagram renderer contained in a single HTML file. I generated this because I wanted a simple mermaid diagram editor without ads. Think of it as a text editor with a mermaid diagram preview, along with some examples to help remember mermaid diagram syntax. Paste the mermaid diagram source, open or drop an .mmd file, inspect the result in a sandboxed preview, pan and zoom, tidy the source, and export the image again as SVG, PNG, or WebP. Run the app in your browser. This app works offline and you own it forever. No ads. No registration. No subscriptions. No trackers. Just right-click and save the .html page.
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A minimal, offline SVG viewer contained in a single HTML file. I generated this because I needed a quick app to view, zomm in on, and make minor edits to SVGs without having to launch InkScape. Think of it as a text editor with an SVG preview, but it also has some basic SVG examples to refresh your memory on SVG syntax. Paste SVG source, open or drop an .svg file, inspect the result in a sandboxed preview, pan and zoom, tidy the source, and export the image again as SVG, PNG, or WebP. Run the app in your browser. This app works offline and you own it forever. No ads. No registration. No subscriptions. No trackers. Just right-click and save the .html page.

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I am now... of a certain age... and there's a ton of anecdotes in the history of computer science and software development that I've heard, but I wondered if there's more. I had an LLM compiler a list (though I've carefully reviewed and fixed a bunch of the links). Many of these I had heard before but some were new to me. Click through them if you're interested. Most of the links go to Wikipedia; I've made sure the links at least don't go to slop content farm websites.

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I wanted to get a local mirror copy of a website, but there's a lot of Python packages (as of August 2026) to do this. I decided to test 21 of them. This blog post is a human-written report of my experience using each one of these packages (as of August 2026). After reviewing them, I recommend website-downloader because it's a simple tool that does a simple task simply.

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Try out Mars Globe in your browser. This is an browser app that gives you a Mars globe with several labelled landmarks. The landmarks have links to their respective Wikipedia pages. The app has several customizations for what to display, and you could simply have it as a full screen rotating Mars globe for science displays. There is no registration or subscriptions. It just works. Git repo.

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Try out Make It Tiny in your browser. This is an browser app that shrinks the file sizes of images. You can optimize png, webp, jpg, and avif images in your browser without having to upload them to somebody else's server. Your images stay on your machine. There is no registration or subscriptions. It just works. Git repo. To run on your machine, you'll need to download make-it-tiny-offline.html and the other support .wasm and .js files from the git repo.

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