Weekly Links 26-39

Annie Dillard and the Writing Life — A lovely essay full of excellent advice for writing. Apple's Dimensional Drawings — Beautiful and useful should you want to… say 3D print something to fit an Apple product. How Anne Rice Channeled Grief Into ‘Interview With the Vampire’ (archive.ph) — Essay by her son, Christopher Rice. Slop-free FOSS — catsalad's Mastodon starter pack of “FOSS apps, projects, and services with accounts on the Fediverse that do NOT use AI, LLMs, Claude, vibe coding, etc.” Glazy — “A free, open-source library of ceramic glaze recipes and materials. Browse thousands of glazes, search by chemistry, and share your own recipes.” Not a ceramicist, but this is very cool. Thorsten-Voice — Thorsten Müller made a “free to use, offline working, high quality German TTS voice” using his own vocal cords. Don't understand German, but I love this. If I ever figure out how to do this properly I might attempt to release an English and Norwegian version of my own. I am a bit dialecty…