Web Excursions are select bookmarks from my travels around the interwebs, because I'm always thinking about you while discovering other people's cool stuff. You mean that much to me. You can see all of my (public) bookmarks on my LinkDing, and visit the bookmarks archive for curated lists across the last few years.

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Cloakshot
Cloakshot by Spawn Lau is a screenshot redaction app for iPhone, iPad, and Android (works on Mac just fine). Scan and edit on your device; export with an eligible trial or one-time Pro purchase.

I use CleanShot X for most of my redaction work, but the automatic scanning and simplified redaction in Cloakshot works really well and could be a real timesaver if you share a lot of images that need redaction.

Smol
Really solid neural image compression and conversion, now with an extensive CLI for integrating into workflows. In their public 24-image benchmark, Smol’s AVIF was 15–21% smaller than Apple’s at the same quality score. 100% local, $29 once.
Nautilus

Nautilus is a free, native iOS reader for Hacker News. On-device AI thread summaries, a private briefing, Story Rules, Radar watchlists, offline reading, and hand-tuned Editions — no ads, no tracking, no account required.

This is really nice. I never could keep up with Hacker News very well.

Doctor Paradox Wiki: Civics vs. Oligarchy
This is an insane accomplishment.

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