🇸🇬 Another national month - 🥫 #24
This is pretty much the (Singapore) national day month with lots of events and promos + presidential election news everywhere 🫣.
Highlights of the month
🌳 Did a little 3D trees tinkering.
☕ Attended the 55th KopiJS hangout.
Interesting discoveries
A little unusual, someone made an online incense burner web game during this Hungry Ghost Festival. 🔥
Mapbox released a new map style called “Standard”, with 3D models of landmarks and trees, soft shadows, emissive strength, flood light, ambient occlusion and rounded roofs! 🤯🗺️
Story Time
Recently found 2 really cool macOS apps.
MediaMate (trial, paid) — it makes the HUD display for sound/brightness change more iOS-ish. Feels like it should’ve been part of macOS. Coolest feature would be the “Now Playing” HUD expanding from the notch (I’m using MBA M2) 🤩
EasyDict (free) — surprisingly powerful translation app, works when selecting text, has OCR, has multiple translation providers (Google Translate, DeepL, etc) and implements a nice sidebar UI 🤯. This seems to work for me now as I’ve always been using quite a lot of translation apps (from macOS/iOS Shortcuts, Raycast extensions, Automator scripts, to random paid OCR apps 😅).
Neat bookmarks
Odd Contrast — color contrast checker 🎨
Colorfle — Like Wordle, but for mixing colors 🌈
Alt Text Half of Fame — everything about alt text 🌅
GPT Unicorn — draw a unicorn every day 🦄
OpenFarm — open database for farming & gardening knowledge 🧑🌾
Places to Read — List of parks around the world, for reading 🏞️