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The following links, and many more, can also be found in my Bookmark Collection archives, on the following app’s (kept in sync via IFTTT).

Raindrop.io is my primary Bookmarking app, and the links are categorised in folders, covering many topics, so is an easier browsing experience.


Links & Bookmarks as of: 10th July, 2025

The Architecture of Silence

https://architectureofsilence.com/

This site is about silence. Keep it to yourself and only speak when you are ready to act. Not before, not after. Learn to speak and provide a valid, useful opinion only when the time is right.

Roytang.net 

https://roytang.net/

Roy Tang’s blog. Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. Randomly amazed.

Sightless Scribbles 

https://sightlessscribbles.com/

A fabulously gay blind author.

Personal blogs are the best, I love yours and I’ll try and tell you why – Nothing Original Here

https://nothingoriginalhere.com/

A favourite thing to do on a Sunday morning is to make a coffee and then sit catching up on the part of my rss feed containing personal blogs

SearchSystem™ 

https://searchsystem.co/

An ever-growing collection of references and tools for designers. Curated by Julien Van Havere,…

Luke Davis: technical SEO, music producer & creator 

https://lukealexdavis.co.uk/

The digital home of Luke Davis: a senior technical SEO, music producer, and blogger based in Nottingham, UK.

Miriam Eric Suzanne 

https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/

writing & speaking & music & theater & cetera

Devon.LoL 😆 

https://devon.lol/

Get out of my house! Nah, just kidding. I’m glad you’re here. Instead of getting this site from a CDN somewhere near you, you’re now downloading each of these files from a server right here in my home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I’ve been working for several months now to minimize my personal data footprint on the corporate-controlled walled gardens of the internet, and I’ve made quite a bit of progress.

JSON Canvas | Infinite Canvas Tools 

https://jsoncanvas.org/

An open file format for infinite canvas data.Infinite canvas tools are a way to view and organize information spatially, like a digital whiteboard. Infinite …

Estimating Digital Emissions 

https://sustainablewebdesign.org/

Learn why calculating digital emissions is so challenging and how we arrived at a formula for estimating emissions from digital products.

12seasons.nyc 

https://12seasons.nyc/

New York ACTUALLY HAS 12 SEASONS

Kerning, the Hard Way 

https://home.octetfont.com/

The letterforms are reversed out against a vertically striped background. In a manner similar to Schaeffer Versalien. The graphic effect is inspired-by/stolen-from Schaefer Versalien, but the letterforms are modified from my found stencil font Arugula.

Readymag 

https://readymag.com/

The design tool for outstanding websites. Enjoy easy workflow The intuitive drag-and-drop interface gives you everything you need. Designers can switch to Readymag seamlessly, and marketers quickly get used to it.

Norko Font – YouWorkForThem 

https://www.youworkforthem.com/

Discover Nutgame, the versatile Sans Serif font that effortlessly elevates your designs with a captivating 70s retro flair. Norko: A Sharp-Geometric Sans Serif with a Cinematic Twist Norko, a YouWorkForThem Exclusive, is a geometric sans serif with a distinctive twist. It introduces subtle flared terminals that add personality to its sharp, structured form. This unique detail makes it ideal for bold applications like movie titles, social media graphics, and editorial headlines where a modern voice with character is needed.

hypernormalization | Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real 

https://www.theguardian.com/

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

Trying To Change, Or Changing The Subject? How Feedback Gets Derailed 

https://www.npr.org/

The first episode of Hidden Brain explores switchtracking: a common pattern in conversations you’ll be accusing your partner of in no time! Plus speedy science, a cup of tea and a song from Adam Cole.

Slashes | shellsharks.com 

https://shellsharks.com/slashes

A list of all my slash pages

annie’s blog 

https://anniemueller.com/

annie’s blog is a blog on the Pika blogging platform

gobino’s bites 

https://gobino.be/

The microblog of Steven, a tech and app enthusiast who also loves running and photography.

In praise of creating crap – annie’s blog 

https://anniemueller.com/

See also: Share your shit, and Don’t wait for tomorrow – Start now, and Please please please please please please share your big dumb beautiful self with the worldHumans are easy…

Cartographer | procedurally generated persistent multiplayer exploration game. 

https://v-os.ca/cartographer

Cartographer is a procedurally generated persistent multiplayer exploration game. Cartographer is an exploration game centered around navigating biomes, exploring a generated world, and reading and leaving pins for other visitors of the world to read.

TypeTrials𛲅 | Powered by Pangram Pangram Foundry 

https://typetrials.com/

TypeTrials is a tool designed for testing variable fonts and much more! Powered by Pangram Pangram Foundry

DESIGNERCIZE | Retro prompt generator for whiteboard design practice. 

https://designercize.com/

Designercize Random prompt generator for whiteboard design practice. Choose a difficulty Reload until you’re happy Choose duration Hit 

Post Secret Voicemail

https://www.postsecretvoicemail.com/

Tell a secret, hear a secret. “If you could have a conversation with someone who’s no longer alive, who would it be, and what would you talk about?”

Roobix – PLAYCANVAS

https://playcanv.as/p/V9B7k46n

A new approach to a classic.
Welcome to Marco Del Valle’s personal portfolio. I’m a creative developer specializing in 3D visualizations, game development, and animated sites. I’ve worked in the automotive, entertainment, consumer-product, and advertising industries, where I have built several award-winning websites.

Rhythm in Web Typography | Better Web Type

https://betterwebtype.com/

Horizontal rhythm mostly impacts the legibility, while vertical rhythm impacts the readability of the text and establishes a sense of visual hierarchy.

Explaining Code using ASCII Art – Embedded in Academia

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653

This piece is about pictures drawn using a text character set and then embedded in source code. I love these! The other day I asked around on Twitter for more examples and the responses far exceeded expectations (thanks everyone!). There are a ton of great examples in the thread; here I’ve categorized a few of them. Click on images go to the repositories.

Bill Gates, Man United and 20 other sites that ban linking to them – Malcolm Coles

https://malcolmcoles.com/

10+ years ago I created an annual list of websites that FORBADE you from linking to them, DEMANDED you write to ask for permission or LIMITED links to only their home page. Royal Mail even promised…

Making computers make art | Chase McCoy

https://chsmc.org/

Chase McCoy explores, builds, & writes about the web

Smooth Sailing Listings

https://smoothsailing.asclaria.org/

Smooth Sailing Listings is a web directory or listing for websites of any kind.

Visual design rules you can safely follow every time

https://anthonyhobday.com/

You do not have to follow these rules every time. If you have a good reason to break any of them, do. But they are safe to follow every time.

Announcing WordPress Export to Markdown v3 / Coder’s Block

https://codersblock.com/

WordPress Export to Markdown is a CLI tool (a Node script) that helps you migrate from WordPress to a static site generator (like Eleventy, for example)

Links • Cory Dransfeldt

https://www.coryd.dev/links

These are links I’ve liked or otherwise found interesting. They’re all added manually, after having been read and, I suppose, properly considered.

Linkding | self hosted Bookmarking

https://linkding.link/

A self-hosted bookmarking service that is designed to be minimal, fast and easy to set up.

A Brief history of Apple Macintosh Firmware

https://eclecticlightt.co/

From the Macintosh ROM of Classic days, to Open Firmware in Power Macs, and on to (U)EFI with Intel, and ending up with LLB and iBoot in Apple silicon Macs.

The old internet – rebeccatoh.co

https://rebeccatoh.co/

The old internet — the internet we first fell in love with — was a weird and wild and unregulated country. It was experimental, free for all, exhilarating, creative. The browsers in tho…

Hedy’s home

https://home.hedy.dev/

hedy’s home: hedy’s canonical web presence including contact information and a blog

The Old Net

https://theoldnet.com/

Welcome to the Old Internet Again!

pketh.org

https://pketh.org/

Making things simple, radical and beautiful

Alternative Layout System

https://alternativelayoutsystem.com/

This research rethinks paragraph formatting, inspired by techniques from Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts to challenge conventional layouts. Funded by the Leenaards Foundation and supported by Adobe’s plugin tools, the project led to the “Alternative Layout System” plugin, now available for free download on the website. A publication showcasing designers’ experiments with these scripts is also accessible on the website’s “Publication”

24HourHomepage: The Best Time Online

https://24hourhomepage.com/

MillionDollarHomepage was a phenomenon in the days of the early social Internet. How many projects have tried to repeat its success?

The TymeSqr Experiment

https://www.tymesqr.com/

Welcome to the TymeSqr Experiment. The Rules: Anyone can buy a Square to publish any image they want. The price of a Square doubles each time it is bought, awarding x1.5 to the previous owner +1% on all the future transactions for that Square. EU citizens only

HyperTextHero

https://hypertexthero.com/

HyperTextHero’s no hero but plays one on the web, flying between work and play to brighten days.

WiseType® | Typefaces

https://wisetype.nl/typefaces

WiseType is an independent digital type foundry run by Jacob Wise

You’ve reached a future link!

https://ineedmore.coffee/future-link/

This page represents a destination for links that do not yet exist! When I think of projects or formulate material for this site, I often find myself thinking of multiple posts at the same time, intertwined with each other. As a result, I place this “future link” where I would link to a future post that hasn’t been published yet, and then I can later find the spots where I need to update links using a simple grep command.

LN 019: Notifications

https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/019/

Notifications stand to be one of the most important things in our personal computing domain. But today, this sacred space fails to achieve that ideal because it is home to others’ priorities over our own.

Nintendo Logo Evolution: From Playing Cards to Gaming Giant – Indieground Design

https://indieground.net/

Since the 1980s, Japanese company Nintendo has become one of the most famous brands worldwide for its legendary video games and consoles. Join us as we explore how changes in their logo accompanied their huge success.

A simple website

https://simplesite.ayra.ch/

This website is a trip down memory lane. I’m not trying to tell you to stop modern web development. This website uses technologies not available at the time the content here is about. It works on mobile (tested in Firefox for Android) but you miss out on the background image.

How to build a digital garden with TiddlyWiki – Ness Labs

https://nesslabs.com/

Learn how to create your own digital garden using Tiddly Wiki with this step-by-step guide.

Notes & Links on monospace, fonts, ascii, unicode usage

wonger.dev

Notes on monospace, fonts, ascii, unicode. A collection of TILs and resources. Inspiration for monospace webpage aesthetic:

Wiby – Search Engine for the Classic Web

https://wiby.me/

Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet.

How to deploy a static website for free in just 3 minutes straight from your Google Drive, using Fast.io

https://www.freecodecamp.org/

In this article, I’ll show you how to deploy a static website for free in only 3 minutes, using a cloud storage service like Google Drive or Dropbox. And no – fast.io didn’t pay me or freeCodeCamp to create this article. We don’t have any relationshi…

Mental Nodes

https://www.mentalnodes.com/

Hello there! I’m Anne-Laure Le Cunff, founder of Ness Labs and a PhD researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, where I study how different brains learn differently.I created this public notebook / digital garden because I believe the only way to learn in public is to build in public.

Max Böck

https://mxb.dev/

Max Böck is a professional front-end developer based in Vienna, Austria

The IndieWeb for Everyone | Max Böck

https://mxb.dev/

Many people are looking for alternatives to Twitter. Can the IndieWeb step up? How can we build better social media for people without technical knowledge?

Digital gardening

https://robinrendle.com/

Build a garden, not a feed.

Notes on monospace, fonts, ascii, unicode

https://wonger.dev/

Notes on monospace, fonts, ascii, unicode. A collection of TILs and resources. Inspiration for monospace webpage aesthetic:

Text Only Websites | Are.na

https://www.are.na/elliott-cost/

Directory of Text Only Websites saved in Are.na

/markdown • heracl.es

https://heracl.es/

Design technologist, digital maker, and architect based in Athens, Greece. Works in the fields of cultural production, design, media arts, web development, and architecture.

/valgrind • heracl.es

https://heracl.es/valgrind

A local, tracker-free, minimal yet customizable startpage.

vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media – nfraprado

https://nfraprado.net/

vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media

/markdown Tutorial | heracl.es

https://heracl.es/markdown/

A tutorial on the workflow from Markdown texts to beautiful PDFs

Lighthouse – The feed reader for finding actionable content

https://lighthouseapp.io/

A reimagined RSS feed reader, optimized for people who are serious, intentional, and proactive about their content consumption.

LinkLonk

https://linklonk.com/

LinkLonk is your personal news aggregator. Submit links to articles you liked and LinkLonk will show fresh articles from the same websites and from other users who share your interests. The more you rate👍 the better your recommendations will become.

Simple RSS Reader – Fast Web Based RSS Reader

https://simplerssreader.com/

We bring you the best RSS reader and no more, no less. You’ll be able to browse, read, star, and search your stories — all within a clean interface. Take a look at the previews to the left for a glance at the interface that’s as fast and clean as can be. In fact, we can even import all your feeds with one click so you don’t miss a thing.

RSS Ground

https://www.rssground.com/

Streamline your content discovery & sharing Manage your content, blogs & social networks more efficiently SIGN UP NOW Free plans available

GitHub – AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS: A list of RSS related stuff: tools, services, communities and tutorials, etc.

https://github.com/AboutRSS/

A list of RSS related stuff: tools, services, communities and tutorials, etc. – AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS

Links & Bookmarks as of: 6th July, 2025

End of the Internet  

https://hmpg.net/

You have finally reached the end of the internet! There’s nothing more to see, no more links to visit. You’ve done it all. This is the very last page on the very last server at the very far end of the internet. You should now turn off your computer and go do something useful with the rest of your life.

Identity – Manu  

https://manuelmoreale.com/

I, like you, am many things. The person I currently am is the product of a multitude of factors: my environment, my parents, the culture around me, …

Raindrop.io Links by AlongtheRay  

https://raindrop.io/alongtheray

Great selection of links and bookmarks directly accessible via Ray’s Raindrop.io Shared Album.

We ❤️ RSS | Matthias Ott  

https://matthiasott.com/

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Highlighting Blogging on Mastodon | Matthias Ott  

https://matthiasott.com/

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Into the Personal-Website-Verse | Matthias Ott  

https://matthiasott.com/

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Fontstand News  

https://fontstand.com/

We are here to promote in-depth debate about type. Fontstand News includes contributions from many authors. We’re always looking to expand our number of collaborators. Want us to publish your voice?

Words of Type | Encyclopedia  

https://wiki.wordsoftype.com

Multilingual encyclopedia of typographic terms.

Links | Daniël van der Winden  

https://www.daniel.pizza/links/

A curated collection of noteworthy articles, videos, and podcasts about design, technology, and culture. Updated regularly with RSS feed available.

On building a home on the web (I) | Daniël van der Winden  

https://www.daniel.pizza/

About the decline & revival of the personal website, and on the progress our tools have made.

How blogging is different from tweeting | markcarrigan.net  

https://markcarrigan.net/

Over the last few years I’ve gradually given up on Twitter. This has been a long term process because of how deeply my professional and intellectual life was embedded into the service. Not on…

Not By AI — Add the Badge to Your Human-Created Content  

https://notbyai.fyi/

Download and add the Not By AI badge to showcase your AI-free & human-first approach to content creation (writings, art, photos, paintings, videos, and music)

The Tumbler by Andrew Hoyer.  

https://andrew.wang-hoyer.com/

A simple physics simulation/meditation/relaxation experiment.

Creating Autistic Suffering: The AuDHD Burnout to Psychosis Cycle- A deeper look  

This article was co-authored by Tanya Adkin and David Gray-Hammond Monotropism is a theory of autism. It is used interchangeably as a theory and also a trait that describes a style of attention. It suggests that Autistic people tend to have singular but highly detailed tunnels of attention, as opposed to spreading their attentional resources

I got the ADHD, too | Dave Rupert 

https://daverupert.com

This month I got my official diagnosis for Adult ADHD. It’s fun to share experiences with friends. While ADHD presents some new waters to navigate, it isn’t exactly news to me. Thanks to Dr. TikTok, I’ve suspected this outcome for a few years now. It’s nice to have a proper diagnosis though. If I’m struggling to focus or feeling overwhelmed, I know the probable root cause is how my brain processes dopamine and norepinephrine impacting my executive function.

That health is mental  

https://fasterthanli.me/

Disclaimer: Trigger warning: depression, talk of suicide. It’s been a while since I wrote a mental health piece — but I think it’s important to occasionally stop, take a breather, and think about h…

RuSShdown RSS Feed Generator for non-coders. 

https://chaiaeran.github.io/

An RSS feed generator for non-coders. Part of the Eggbug Memorial RSS Feed Project Eggbug! Created by Chaia Eran & Viv Lim

Building community out of strangers: /Blogroll – Tracy Durnell  

Last week, I updated my blogroll to include everyone in my RSS feed reader. While I read a lot of topical blogs and newsletters, I also follow a goodly number of interesting people I don’t know as well as acquaintances. I didn’t include these personal blogs on my blogroll before, but decided it was time to add them.

Links by axxuy.xyz  

https://axxuy.xyz/

Links to cool stuff I’ve read. Updated whenever I remember to. Subscribe to the feed for updates.

Default Activity  

https://axxuy.xyz/

Lately I’ve started to think about blogging whenever I’m bored.

Intentionally Left Blank  

https://fyr.io/

Why did I make an intentionally blank page on this website?

rssrssrss – Combine Multiple RSS Feeds into One  

https://www.rssrssrssrss.com/

Free tool to merge and combine multiple RSS feeds into a single unified feed. Perfect for news aggregation, blog following, and content curation.

FeedCity | RSS feed reader  

https://feed.city/

FeedCity is a RSS feed reader. It offer a stress-free way to consume content you care about and it encourages exploration and sharing.

Add Your Email Address to Your RSS Feed  

https://florianziegler.com/

Adding your email address to your RSS/Atom feed makes it very convenient for me to reply to your posts.

Blogroll | Frank Meeuwsen 

https://frankmeeuwsen.com/

Nothing breathes more Early World Wide Web than a blogroll…

Notes on Managing ADHD  

https://borretti.me/

Strategies and tactics for staying productive.

Cool Self  

https://www.workingtheorys.com/

A theory of life about searching for your best.

Search My Site | Search Engine for personal and independent websites  

https://searchmysite.net/

The open source search engine and search as a service for user-submitted personal and independent websites. The searchmysite.net search engine is a niche search, focussing on the “indieweb” or “small web” or “digital gardens”, i.e. non-commercial content, primarily personal and independent websites. If you want to research people’s personal experiences of or deep-dives into certain topics, hobbies or interests, then you may find the searchmysite.net public search useful.

Against Platforms by Mike Pepi | PenguinRandomHouse.com  

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com

A bold and imaginative critique of the hidden costs of digital life – and a manifesto for a better future . . . At the turn of the millennium, digital technologies seemed to have immense promise…

I Deleted My Second Brain  

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/

Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

FL Prefere | Contemporary Type 

https://contemporarytype.com/

Prefere is an edgy display serif typeface ready to raise some eyebrows. The variable serif font family comes in 5 weights and corresponding italics, meant for big-sizes: posters, headlines, websites, and so on — you know the drill. Download Free Demo Fonts.

Hued – Daily Color Puzzle  

https://playhued.com/

Match today’s color in three guesses. Can you find the perfect match?

Links & Bookmarks as of: 29th June, 2025

Notebook Love

https://wonger.dev

I love writing in my notebook. Don’t you? My notebook is my mind, splatted over many pages. Journal entries, charts, sketches, lists, schedules, goals, code, math, mind maps, outlines, itineraries, …

It’s about getting your thoughts out in the purest way possible. Nothing is freer than writing and drawing on paper. You’ll form new ideas. Reinforce the important ones. Release the messy ones.

How to ADHD / by Alexey Botkov

https://nomand.co

I created a 3D tool for How To ADHD, a youtube channel dedicated to knowledge about and advice living with ADHD. Part of the channel’s style is animated cartoons of their main character depicted as a brain. To suit their 2D workflow using AfterEffects, I created a 3D model for their new logo and made a utility that could render it out from any angle.

Space Email | an indirect communication platform

https://space.galaxybuster.net

What would you say if you didn’t know anybody was listening? Space Email is an indirect communication platform that allows for a unique exchange of conversation over space and time. You will never know who sent the things you receive, or why.

Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours

https://www.c82.net/

A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook with new cross references, photographic examples, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

A Blog Post With Every HTML Element

https://www.c82.net

After learning a little bit more about web accessibility last year I had been exploring some of the less common HTML elements, and making changes to this website, like wrapping the text of the posts on this blog in <article> tags and adding a <main> tag in the website’s layout templates (this website is built using Eleventy).

ETC – Etcetera Type Company

https://etceteratype.co/

Open source variable fonts

Web App Manifest Generator

https://tomitm.github.io/appmanifest/

Web App Manifests are one of the key pieces to making your web app look and feel like a native app.

TX-02 Berkeley Mono™ Typeface | US Graphics

https://usgraphics.com/

Berkeley Mono™ is a love letter to the golden era of computing. The era that gave rise to a generation of people who celebrated automation and reveled in the joy of computing, when transistors replaced cogs, and machine-readable typefaces were developed, for when humans and machines truly interfaced on an unprecedented scale.

4 Hidden iPhone features you should know

https://digitalminimalist.com

These features can help you use your iPhone more positively.

ADHD Productivity Fundamentals | 0xFF

https://0xff.nu/

I’m not some self-proclaimed productivity guru, and this little post is not going to change your life, water your lawn, boost your memory, improve your relations with the opposite sex or revolutionize your productivity.

31edo | how many notes are there?

https://www.31edo.com/

How many notes are there? Of course the answer is infinite, because there will always be new ones as high or low as you want. But really, humans can only hear frequencies of about 20-20,000 hz, which encompass about 120 standard notes.

archive stories

https://archive-stories.com/

Archive Stories is a website about how to work with creative and non-traditional archives. We wanted to create a space for conversations about archiving beyond institutional archives, to think through the possibilities that open up when we imagine the archive as expansive and as encompassing everything around us.

How to Build an Archive

https://howtobuildanarchive.com/

This website is a tool & space that shares knowledge on how to build your own archive. For my transnational families, immigrants, and displaced people who are separated and fragmented from their family histories, I see you, I feel you, and I hear you. This is for you. I hope these templates can be filled with your stories celebrating moments of joy, your histories and cultural practices, and your own experiences that can get passed down generations or act as a space for healing.

Fabled.day

https://fabled.day/

Remember the internet? One millennial’s jaded digital nostalgia.

You Might Not Recover from Burnout. Ever. – Devon Price

https://drdevonprice.substack.com

What grows from the ashes of your old life? Hea has been unemployed for a little over two years, and she can’t see that ending anytime soon. Her burnout has been catastrophic — and so far, bottomless. 

Bookmarks I should have shared a long time ago

https://ohhelloana.blog/

Blogroll Network Map

https://alexsci.com

Websites can programmatically define a blogroll using OPML. These blogrolls help people who read your blog discover other websites you think are worth promoting. A diagram showing how an OPML blogroll can link to RSS feeds, which in turn can each link to another OPML blogroll, and so-on. This project maps connections between websites, web feeds (RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds), and OPML blogrolls.

One reason to record – Smart People I know

https://smartpeopleiknow.com

Over at my other blog, I recently asked myself, “why record at all”. I didn’t have an answer to it until I looked at some old photos like the one above.

Micro Digital Tools

https://mdigi.tools/

Web based digital tools that work inside your browser.

The case for a better web – La màquina de Turing

https://lamaquinadeturing.su/

There is a growing discontent around the current state of the World Wide Web. Web 1.0 felt like a place of freedom and creativity. Maybe I’m being romantic, for sure had to have its issues… But remember the whimsical sites in Geocities, the simplicity of email discussion lists or the anonymity of IRC?

Links & Bookmarks as of: 30th June, 2025


WriteFreely

Minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform.

Ichi: Your home on the Internet

You’ve found a friendly little internet community where you can create your homepage, explore your creativity, and disco…

Links – paritybit.ca

Useful links that I’ve collected and wish to share or remember for the future. Everything from Internet culture, useful…

The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again | ANIL DASH

The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their…

Subway Builder ~ build your own realistic subway system

What is Subway Builder? In Subway Builder, you’re tasked with managing a city’s transit system. Build tracks, stations,…

Portable thoughts | A single-file blog

This blog is a single HTML file. It simply uses URL #fragments and the :target CSSselector to show and hide “pages”. The result is a self-contained website, digital book, interactive document, or whatever you want to call it. Get portable-php to generate the HTML from Markdown files.

emotional.codes

emotional.codes is a collection of tools that I’ve found useful for processing emotions and having interpersonal interac…

Links & Bookmarks as of: 29th June, 2025


Yellow | Make small websites

Datenstrom Yellow is for people who make small websites.

John Doe’s Page | A simple way to make HTML websites  

This website is a single HTML file. It simply uses the #anchor suffix (from 1992) and the :target CSS selector to show and hide pages/content.

Class Collection | Are.na 

Handmade Web
Composite Class Collection
Share websites and resources :-)

Webdesign as architecture 

An attempt at modelling digital design as a form of psychological architecture, taking the form of a single HTML document.

Resources – Handmade Web 

The hand has become increasingly less present in the web as we know it today. Most websites today are built from templates on website-building platforms, and the knowledge of how to make a website from scratch is relegated to a select few. It has only grown easier to learn how to make websites, but the perceived requirements and expectations for a website have become so convoluted and arcane that many avoid the subject.

Alt Text Selfies | Welcome 

An alt text selfie is any written self-portrait. This project takes a well-known practice—the selfie—and approaches it through a disability lens.

Tiny Awards 

This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

Die With Me 

Die With Me – The chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery. Die together in a chatroom on your way to offline peace.

threads.garden 

threads.garden – a small site for making threads on the internet

Reaching Out, Circling Back 

Let’s swipe together. Forever.

PixelFlags – R74n 

A collection of 634 tiny 32×18 pixel art flags. It was originally only 362 flags I created in 2020 during the pandemic, and was expanded 3 years later.

Untitled by Michal Zelazny 

The personal website of Michal Zelazny. Reflections on life, society, technology and the connections between them.

100 Days To Offload 

Can you publish 100 posts on your blog in a year?

What’s Trending in Type · Typewolf 

Typewolf helps designers choose the perfect font combination for their next design project—features web fonts in the wild, font recommendations and learning resources.

In defense of unpolished personal websites | Ana Rodrigues 

For a while now, I’ve been slowing working on a refactor of the codebase of this blog. At one point, I got caught in exciting world of performance and I wanted to make sure I had a super fast pageload. Currently, my CSS is added inline in the HTML and I found myself thinking “no one will be able to read this”.

The Design System Ecosystem 

What does a mature, end-to-end design system look like in a big, complex organization? What are all the moving pieces, and how do they hang together as a well-considered architecture? What’s required and what’s optional? Hold onto your butts, because we’re going to go deep on this one.

GT Planar Typeface 

Brutalita is an experimental font and font editor, edit in your browser and download OTF.

The Slow Web | Jack Cheng 

A popular old essay about finding calm and rhythm online.

Why we are still using 88×31 buttons – ultrasciencelabs 

introduction If you surf the modern “small web” to any extent you’ve encountered 88×31 buttons – a staple of late 90s and early 2000’s websites under…

Links | Hidde’s blog 

Hidde’s blog about web accessibility, standards, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.

Directory | websites accessible to older computers.

The Web Directory is a collection of websites and communities accessible to vintage, and modern computers. Our main focu…

How To Grow Your Digital Garden With Subdomains

a post from alan w. smith

On Self-Expression: My Quarter Century Of Blogging

It’s with a near certainty and small sense of frustration that I say there was something that came before, but memory is…

sourcehut pages

sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git rep…

Museum of Obsolete Media | Floppy Disk Collection

he floppy disk collection is part of the Museum of Obsolete Media, which comprises over 800 media formats spanning audio…

Flithos — Rediscover the Web

A decentralized discovery network where websites promote each other through intentional, trust-based links.

Scrolls

Arcane curation focused on the convergence of the IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity

Mac History 85.10 – Welcome to Macintosh

The creation of the original Macintosh has been extensively studied and written about, but what happened after it launch…

A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox | Henrik Karlsson

When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.

Kill your Feeds – Stop letting m dictate how you think

We are being boiled like frogs. It happened gradually, one algorithmic tweak at a time. What started as a way to connect…

refern. | The all-in-one curated image reference platform

refern. is an ad-free, Pinterest-like image organizer, reimagined for creatives — save, find, organize, moodboard, study…

Computers as I used to love them

File synchronization can be fun and painless if you don’t have to deal with corporate bullshit.

Logo Nature – a site to compare logos

Logo Nature is a site to compare logos

JUnited – A Blog Love Letter

JUnited is all about supporting other bloggers (and their work) that I’ve come to appreciate. Some may know that I exist…

To Blogroll, or to not?

My thought process about not having a Blogroll, and the introduction of a Postroll.

LessWrong

A community blog devoted to refining the art of rationality

Blogging Streaks & Freaks | Tom Critchlow

I’ve been writing at least one blog post a week for the last 10 weeks. This idea of streaks is completely inspired by Ma…

Evergreen notes | Andy Matuschak

Evergreen notes are written and organized to evolve, contribute, and accumulate over time, across projects. This is an u…

Crayons, craft paper, and CSS | Chase McCoy

Chase McCoy explores, builds, &amp; writes about the web.

Evolution of the Scrollbar

Some iconic scrollbars recreated as faithfully as possible.

Links & Bookmarks as of: 23rd June, 2025


  • Publish Something Online
    How to make things that live on the internet.
  • Link Punk: A Linkblog
    Just a linkblog, mainly for articles and individual blog posts that I find and want to share. I think of this as me being a DJ only playing articles rather than songs.
  • bouncepaw’s links 
    Link blog
  • blogroll | mire 
    This is a fork of the excelent vore.website (source) RSS feed reader. You can find the source code for Mire on Codeberg. Any contributions are welcome! 
  • vore.website / a minimal web-based rss/atom feed reader. 
    vore.website is a minimal web-based rss/atom feed reader. – subscribe to feeds – view posts chronologically – save stuff that interests you no unread indicators, no choresome tagging system – no bullshit. 
  • smallweb directory 
    a manually curated collection of neat indie websites.
  • All Light, Expanded: Interactive Companion 
    Explore an interactive companion of articles, quotes, links, and archival materials that inspired the 2021 documentary All Light, Everywhere.
  • url.town 
    url.town is a web directory curated by the omg.lol community. 
  • Miniflux – Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader 
    Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader. 
  • Libravatar :: federated avatar hosting service 
    The Open Avatar Service Libravatar is a service which delivers your avatar (profile picture) to other websites. If you create an account with us, your photo could start popping up next to forum posts or blog comments on any site where you left your email address. 
  • The Independent Variable 
    The latest entries posted on The Independent Variable.
  • txt.fyi 
    Welcome to the dumbest publishing platform on the web. Write something, hit publish, and it’s live. There’s no tracking, ad-tech, webfonts, analytics, javascript, cookies, user accounts, comments, friending, likes, follower counts or other quantifiers of social capital. The only practical way for anyone to find out about a posting is if the author links to it elsewhere. 
  • Words of Type 
    Words of Type Events offer a series of lectures and workshops with various topics about typography and typeface design, in English and other languages, hosted on the WoT community.
  • Extraset Type Foundry 
    Extraset is an independent Swiss type foundry established in Geneva, jointly led by Alex Dujet (Futur Neue), Xavier Erni (Neo Neo), Roger Gaillard (Cécile + Roger) and David Mamie (TM Todeschini + Mamie). Extraset publishes professional typefaces made by graphic designers for graphic designers. 
  • A Declaration of the Interdependence of Cyberspace 
    Collectively authored and backed by the citizens of the Pluriverse.
  • Paint Toys | A small playground of creative canvases 
     Fun interactive painting toys to help learn and expand your creative mind. Draw and paint with us today! Paint Toys A small playground of creative canvases to bring out your creative side with a few beautiful limitations inspired by the art world! 
  • Medieval Fantasy City Generator | Watabou’s Procgen Arcana 
    Watabou’s Procgen Arcana is a collection of free map generators for tabletop role-playing games and worldbuilding. Currently, it consists of six generators, all of them are in active development. 
  • Good Email Code | Email code resources website  
    Welcome to the arrogantly named library of, Good Email Code. 
  • Nadia Asparouhova 
    Personal writing, links, and other things by Nadia Asparouhova. 
  • The Slab markup language 
    Slab is a programmable markup language that simplifies the creation of HTML. It combines concise notation with standard programming constructs to create reusable web content more efficiently. 
  • Happy Hues – Curated colors in context 
    See color palette inspiration on a real example website. As you click on different palettes every color on this site updates to give you context of how that color could be used for your design or illustration projects. 
  • Nick Noble Works | Portfolio 
    Design, dev, cats, mgmt, tarot. 
  • bukmark.club — sites with a links / bookmark pages 
    A collection of web pages from across the Internet that have a curated collection of bookmarks and/or links. 
  • no-JS.club | Promenade for JavaScript freed websites 
    The no-JS Club The no-js.club is upNow maintained by shruub, Frank Homburg, but not much changed otherwise! This project was inspired by websites like the 250KB club, the 512KB club, the 1MB club and the former noJS club. The no-JS Club is the successor to Karan Goel’s now archived project, The noJS Club.
  • Links by Kwon.nyc 
    A collection of interesting links.
  • Matt’s Weird Little Garden 
  • Design Is 
    For you to define.
  • typo/graphic posters 
    typo/graphic posters is a platform on behalf of design through the poster medium. it focus exclusively on typographical and graphical posters, those that challenge type, colors and shapes to express its message.
  • Forest – Stay focused, be present 
    Forest is an app helping you stay away from your smartphone and stay focused on your work.
  • Pedro del Corro 
    Pedro del Corro is a designer and design director specializing in various fields including identity systems, art direction, design strategy, campaigns, events, iconography, product visuals, print, and the intersection of product design and brand.
  • Indie Web & Small Web Website Directories List 
    There are many such Indie Web & Small Web Website Directories out there, and I have quite a few saved in my Raindrop Bookmarks, bur here are the most recent.
  • Aphantasia 
    Social network for graph enthusiasts.
  • The Collection 
    Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  • Hyperspace 
    Hyperspace finds files with identical contents and then reclaims the disk space taken by all but one of the identical files—without removing any of the files. To learn more about how Hyperspace works, please read the FAQ. Hyperspace is available i
  • A system to organise your life
    Johnny.Decimal is a system to organise your life. Find things, quickly, with more confidence, and less stress. It’s free to use and the concepts are the same at home or work.
  • List, App Default, Default Apps | Indieweb
    A list is a feature on personal sites, often a page (not a post), for collections of specific kinds of posts or things that may not need separate posts, and distinct from a listicle.
  • App Defaults
  • My default apps and services in late 2023
    Jan-Lukas Else To join another trend, here’s my list of default apps and services in late 2023.
  • Sun Clock
    24-hour clock that shows sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for your current location. It also shows the current position and phase of the moon, and its rising and setting times.
  • Digital Zen Garden
    My Digital Garden, my Zettelkasten notes, a place to holds my thoughts…
  • special fish
    fish are like thoughts and premonitions
  • The View from Here – Christopher Butler
    There are many reasons to make things and share them, to write and publish, to speak and record. So many reasons, most unknown; far be it from me to.
  • Sharing online as an activity
    Christopher on sharing online and how he approaches it.
  • Helsinki Design System | Home page
    Documentation for the Helsinki Design System
  • Frontend Practice | Become a better frontend dev
    Take your frontend skills to the next level by recreating real websites from real companies.
  • Creating your own federated microblog | Fedify
    In this tutorial, we will build a small microblog that implements the ActivityPub protocol, similar to Mastodon or Misskey, using Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework.
  • Modern iOS Navigation Patterns · Frank Rausch
    An unofficial bonus chapter for the iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Learn how to structure iPhone apps with drill-downs, modals, pyramids, sequences, and more.
  • Dense Discovery – Thoughtfully curated links from a noisy web
    A weekly dispatch of curated links worth your time. No buzzwords, hype or FOMO.
  • Kill the Newsletter!
    Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
  • You’ve been summoned to the tarot terminal
    See the unseen.
  • Paper Website: Start a tiny blog from your journal
    No tech. No distractions. Pure Creativity. Publish your ideas to millions just using pen & paper.
  • snormal: a wonderfully normal social network
    For all the bits that didn’t make it to the highlight reel. Discover new people and great content.
  • Grab browser links and titles in one click A bookmarklet to copy browser tab URLs with titles as rich text and Markdown.
  • Styling RSS and Atom Feeds Some notes on how to style RSS and Atom feeds with XSLT stylesheets
  • Blogroll A collection of other webdevelopment and design blogs I like to read.
  • Using Webmentions in Eleventy How to pull interactions from social media platforms like Twitter back to your own site, using Webmentions, webmention.io and Bridgy.
  • Ctrl-C.club! Ctrl-C.club is a Linux server offering free SSH and web accounts to users who want to build webpages, chat online, learn Linux, play text console games, or fiddle around writing software.
  • Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden – Thinking and Learning In Public
  • Infinitown | A WebGL Experiment by Little Workshop A randomly generated endless city built with WebGL.
  • The Miracle of Photography The two most revolutionary technological advances in human consciousness are the invention of writing and the form of photography.
  • Calendar Collective Calendar Collective is a living archive of alternate calendars.
  • A brief history of Mac firmware From the Macintosh ROM of Classic days, to Open Firmware in Power Macs, and on to (U)EFI with Intel, and ending up with LLB and iBoot in Apple silicon Macs.
  • How the Blog Broke the Web I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan
  • Project Gemini Gemini is a new internet technology supporting an electronic library of interconnected text documents. That’s not a new idea, but it’s not old fashioned either. It’s timeless, and deserves tools which treat it as a first class concept, not a vestigial corner case. 
  • swissmiss swissmiss is an online garden (aka design blog) run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a Swiss designer gone NYC.
  • bucket webring! a webring for cool people who like to make things!
  • FreshRSS FreshRSS is a self-hostable RSS aggregator and reader. It allows you to read and follow several news websites at a glance without the need to browse from one website to another. FreshRSS is lightweight, configurable, and easy to use.
  • Obsidian Publish Obsidian Publish is the easiest way to publish your wiki, knowledge base, documentation, or digital garden.
  • Mailtolink.me | The Mailto Link Generator Mailto link code and markup generator with subject, body, cc and bcc. Quickly and easily generate code for those annoying mailto links.
  • blog – catskull.net mostly harmless
  • How to start a newsletter blog with Cloudflare Email Workers I’ve often been asked what the best way to start blogging in [current year] is. It turns out, that’s a pretty difficult question to answer!
  • Nearly Perfect Book Nearly Perfect is a focused, illustrated guide to building enduring products. Why do certain products effortlessly dominate their competition? Why do some seemingly sophisticated products flounder and fail? This book explains why.
  • BlogFlock BlogFlock is a social network for reading, discovering, and sharing your favourite blogs and feeds with friends. Create lists of blogs you love, and follow lists created by others.
  • Ambient Co-presence Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
  • Webbed Briefs Brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them
  • Open Color Color scheme for UI design
  • Ytoo.org Your gateway to all things retro!
  • Viralwalk Teleport to amazing webpages all over the internet and discover new content
  • Pliko Pliko microblogging. Welcome to Pliko! Our network is a retro micro-blogging website similar to what early versions of Twitter were. Share whatever you’re doing at any moment in a message of only 140 characters
  • Owler The Old Twitter is back…
  • Aresluna Marcin Wichary Designer, writer, & typographer
  • The hardest working font in Manhattan A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
  • The IndieWeb Doesn’t Need to “Take Off” – Susam’s Maze
  • Blogging Tips & Tools Having trouble coming up with blog ideas? Check out these …
  • Type Design Resources Everything from learning the basics to running your own foundry.
  • Webspaces. This is the home of Webspaces, a new kind of website that uses HTML to create 3D worlds in addition to 2D pages. Webspaces are made up of static HTML files – this webspace is hosted on GitHub Pages. If you want, you can fork it as a starting point for your own
  • Exclave Urban Railway
  • LOW←TECH MAGAZINE This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline
  • How blogs shaped the web | Chase McCoy Chase McCoy explores, builds, & writes about the web.
  • How to Start Your Blog in 2023 Running your own blog helps you keep an online journal of your life and thoughts that doesn’t depend on unreliable tech platforms like Facebook or Twitter. But this process is still needlessly complicated and certainly not user-friendly for regular people.
  • An Illustrated Dictionary of Emotion Emotions guide our lives. Exploring how we feel is a worthy endeavor for anyone hoping to understand themselves or even build a successful brand.
  • ✱ Blogging is romantic – Andrea Contino – Go With The Flow I found this post by ava about the parallelism between blogging and romanticism magnificent: Blogging that’s personal and reflective (and not just how-to’s.
  • is blogging romantic? talking about romanticising and Romanticism (two different things).
  • PJ Onori’s blog
  • VOIDNET Interactive Wiki of Naratives / by Victor Ivanov VOIDNET is a wiki of narratives. VOIDNET is an interactive web application housing hundreds of pages of inter-connected science fiction stories presented through an in-world interface. The VOIDNET terminal is the primary method for users to interact with VOIDNET, situated at the bottom of the standard user interface.
  • list.supply List!! Laugh!!! Love!!!!!
  • supply ur own lists by emailing lists [at] shen dot land..
  • niceinter.net Personal Website
  • Olia Lialina. A Vernacular web. Indigenous and Barbarians When I started to work on the World Wide Web I made a few nice things that were special, different and fresh. They were very different from what was on the web in the mid 90’s.
  • A Website Is A Room Text Only Website
  • Publish Something Online How to make things that live on the internet.
  • How to make things that live on the internet.
  • Why I Have a Website and You Should Too · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer A persuasive look at the many reasons why you should have your own website, and some of the benefits it will bring you.
  • Home · wargaluk The personal website of wargaluk, a conscious physical being and a person
  • John Richard Hewitt This has always been a non-linear journey.
  • What is wrong with me The personal website of wargaluk, a conscious physical being and a person.
  • The Design Issue 2016 25 original thinkers solve all your problems
  • Archive of Interestingness The archive of interestingness is my attempt to create a tool to augment our own creativity and problem-solving by putting this idea to the test. The tool offers us three unrelated, but interesting, concepts and an invitation to make our own connections.
  • Airport Typeface My digital interpretation comes in two flavors, Airport and Airport X. Both subfamilies offer seven upright weights, with identical character sets and OpenType features. I started with the boldest weight, Airport Bold, which stays close to Carter’s original design, and added lighter weights.
  • ET Book Typeface · Edward Tufte on GitHub ET Book A webfont of the typeface used in Edward Tufte’s books.
  • caffeine.wiki | Personal Website
  • HOTGLUE.ME :: unique tool for web publication & samizdat HOTGLUE is a visual tool for creating websites directly in the web-browser. Whether you want to make a personal webpage, online gallery or a website for your band.
  • You Can Make A Website If you have any doubts, then you’re the target audience of this guide.
  • Daring Fireball, by John Gruber Commentary on Apple, technology, design, politics, and more.
  • mnmlist This blog is Uncopyrighted. Its author, Leo Babauta, has released all claims on copyright and has put all the content of this blog into the public domain.
  • tildeverse we’re a loose association of like-minded tilde communities. if you’re interested in learning about *nix (linux, unix, bsd, etc) come check out our member tildes and sign up!
  • ~tilde.club~
  • Subreply.com Welcome to an online platform designed to encourage meaningful connection and engagement. It eliminates distractions and clutter, allowing users to focus on meaningful conversations and content sharing.
  • Smol Pub Smol Pub is tiny blogging service. Web interface and CLI to manage your posts. Accessible from Web, Gemini and Gopher. Storage for your images. Write custom CSS for web. Attach your custom domain with SSL.
  • sourcehut hub Welcome to sourcehut! This suite of open source tools is the software development platform you’ve been waiting for. We’ve taken the wisdom of the most successful open-source communities and turned it into a platform of efficient engineering tools.
  • What is the Small Web? Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about:
  • How I write my blogs in Obsidian and publish instantly I’ve been using Obsidian for all my writing lately, and it’s been a game changer. The local-first model means everything lives as plain text on my machine, and with the Minimal theme, the interface stays clean and distraction-free.
  • George Nance About I’m a full-stack developer, AI enthusiast, and problem-solver who loves creating impactful digital experiences.
  • Bruce Lawson’s personal site I’m a 50-ish year old guy living in Birmingham U.K.
  • GT Standard Typeface GT Standard is a contemporary response to the modernist pursuit of standardization. The typeface is systematic yet expressive, built for clarity, adaptability, and precision across every scale and medium.
  • Mac OS X Lion CSS3 by Alessio Atzeni Mac Os X Lion with CSS3 Experiment – I wanted to create with only use of CSS3 the boot, the login page and finally the desktop of the Mac OS X Lion.
  • Sharing links This blog has a new section where I share links to posts I read in other places.
  • The internet is a natural network, just build your own website. I’ve committed myself properly this to building my own personal platform. No fancy tech. No new tools. No distractions with the latest fad. It’s taken me longer than expected.
  • How to generate color palettes for design systems A guide on how to generate color palettes for design systems
  • Personal website of Gwern Branwen (writer, self-experimenter, and programmer): topics: psychology, statistics, technology, deep learning, anime. This index page is a categorized list of Gwern.net pages.
  • Ping-o-Matic!
  • Bookmarks by Flamed Fury What’s going on Internet? fLaMEd fury is the personal website of fLaMEd.
  • fLaMEd fury What’s going on Internet? This is my homepage. I write about the web and stuff.
  • Relearn CSS layout Learn to write better, resilient CSS If you find yourself wrestling with CSS layout, it’s likely you’re making decisions for browsers they should be making themselves.
  • Link Punk: A Linkblog Just a linkblog, mainly for articles and individual blog poststhat I find and want to share. I think of this as me being a DJ only playing articles rather than songs.
  • Bookmarks · Chris Burnell All of my bookmarks.
  • Links • Cory Dransfeldt These are links I’ve liked or otherwise found interesting. They’re all added manually, after having been read and, I suppose, properly considered.
  • Ooh.Directory: A place to find good blogs that interest you. A collection of 2,366 blogs about every topic.
  • Indieseek.xyz Directory A search directory of the Independent Web.
  • A Blog Directory A home for everyone’s blog and post rolls.
  • Minimal Gallery – Website Design Inspiration Hand-picked design inspiration, curated daily.
  • Index v1 You found my Website!But this is not a regular site… What you are looking at is a .txt file.    
  • Follow.it — The Ultimate News Platform Never miss important news again, without information overload. As publisher, turn your news into revenue and increase traffic.
  • Blogtrottr — Free RSS and Atom feed to email service. Get RSS and Atom feeds from your favourite websites and blogs sent to your email account in real time, for free.
  • Feedrabbit – RSS and Atom web feed to email service Follow your favorite blogs, news sites and comics by email. No apps to install, no extra sites to visit, your email is never shared, you are in control.
  • The Endless Doomscroller An endless stream of doom, without all the specifics.
  • Get Blogging! A blog is an easy way to write on the web. Here’s how to get started.
  • Fraidycat Follow blogs, wikis, YouTube channels, as well as accounts on Twitter, Instagram, etc. from a single page.
  • Vertex Gallery Vertex gallery is a gallery that shows new art each 24 hours.
  • Dark Web Links | Dark Web Sites | Deep Web 2025 Ultimate collection of dark web links to browse tor network/darknet/deep web in 2025. Dark web sites are listed with description & .onion sites URL.
  • The Monospace Web – Minimal Design Exploration by Oskar WickströmMonospace fonts are dear to many of us. Some find them more readable, consistent, and beautiful, than their proportional alternatives.
  • 1br: pico-mac-nano Fully assembled, tested and working pico-mac-nano plus new USB splitter cable and hex key.
  • 1-bit rainbow 1-bit rainbow provides resources for enthusiasts and collectors of Vintage Apple computers. Our name and logo were inspired by the curious beauty of retro technology.
  • Dear Designer Technology, typography and tomorrow: a love letter to graphic designers
  • Letraflex Font Family A retro hype type for the future! Letraflex is a bold retro-inspired typeface with a slightly futuristic style. The family is based on old computer lettering and Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR), with a little contemporary twist including nice ink traps. Available at MyFonts. Demo video :
  • Align: The Time Blocking App Elevate your time management with Align: a visual time blocking app. Plan, prioritize, and stay organized effortlessly. Conquer your day with ease.
  • The Punctuation Guide The web’s most comprehensive guide to American punctuation.
  • Poline — Esoteric Color Palette Generation Library is lightweight, dependency free and fast JavaScript function written in TypeScript. It draws lines between anchors over polar coordinates to generate pleasing color palettes.
  • Showcase Curate your life
  • Historical Tech Tree Interactive visualization of technological history
  • YouSim they’ve simulated websites, worlds, and imaginary CLIs… but what if they simulated *you*?
  • Web 1.0 Hosting Free Web 1.0 static Hosting
  • Newsletters by Robin Rendle 
  • turning a bearblog into a microblog i talk about design choices i made to turn a bearblog into a microblog.
  • yourselfhosted/slash: streamline your link management. An open source, self-hosted platform for sharing and managing your most frequently used links. Easily create customizable, human-readable shortcuts to streamline your link management. – yourselfhos…
  • Komments Welcome to Komments. A simple way to allow comments for any web page. Firstly, register as a user. We will send you a link to access your account. This will allow you to add pages and generate a unique link to offer comments for your own page.
  • inward.garden a compendium of self, a tiny internet home, a quiet digital garden
  • Blogging Without A Blog – Your Blogging Classroom on the Web On March 30, 2007, the first post was published, and this blog was born. This site was never meant to be more than a place where I could go to post what I had learned about blogging, but blogs have a way of taking on a personality of their own, and just like many others that stood the test of time, this site has been no different.
  • bouncepaw’s links Link Blog
  • LMNT My name is Louie Mantia. I’m an artist and designer, with a 20-year focus on icon design and illustration.
  • The Monospace Web — Oskar Wickström Monospace fonts are dear to many of us. Some find them more readable, consistent, and beautiful, than their proportional alternatives. Maybe we’re just brainwashed from spending years in terminals? Or are we hopelessly nostalgic? I’m not sure. But I like them, and that’s why I started experimenting with all-monospace Web.
  • Radix Colors An open-source color system for designing beautiful, accessible websites and apps.
  • NASA Graphics Standards Manual A full-size reissue of the NASA Graphics Standards Manual. Designed by Danne & Blackburn in 1975 and rescinded by NASA in 1992.
  • barnsworthburning A commonplace book.
  • We are Good Enough. Good Enough builds useful, well-made products. We hope you enjoy them.
  • LinkLane.Net The web directory has been open since January 28, 2004 and is a place for all kinds of sites to be listed in various categories.
  • Agora Road Feeds Explore the latest updates and articles from the Agora Road folks!
  • KindSpace A spacebar press away are kind words left like ink on a napkin, just for you.
  • Relativistic Space Sheep | MinuteLabs.io We’ve sent the MinutePhysics sheep into space to investigate the effects of non-inertial reference frames! In our case, that’s a fancy way of saying: “accelerating rocket”. You’ll be able to see the Equivalence Principle in action. 
  • Revenge Font Someone vandalised our building and we made a font out of it. Download it and donate towards local initiatives that will improve the art in East London.
  • Nucleus — A tribute to Studio Olafur Eliasson Human connection is what makes life special, yet modern times often seem to divide us. This little webpage aims to evoke a tiny sense of connectedness, no matter the physical distance between us.
  • Where have all the websites gone? It feels like all the cool websites from the late 2000s are gone. But maybe we are looking at this the wrong way. Maybe it is us who vanished.
  • RSS Anything Transform any old website with a list of links into an RSS or Atom Feed
  • RsS iS dEaD LOL Explore RSS feeds in your network.
  • Robin Rendle A British writer and designer from San Francisco.
  • CANABALT Escape the destruction of your city with just one button! The game that popularized the infinite runner genre is back with two-player mode, new challenges, new music, new achievements, and new leaderboards!
  • The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck Cap Watkins
  • PhotoPrism: Browse Your Life in Pictures PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. on a private server, or in the cloud.
  • Write Alt Text Like You’re Talking To A Friend “There was this dog wearing safety glasses, surrounded by chemistry equipment, saying ‘I have no idea what I’m doing.’”
  • An iOS App for Capturing Notes as Text Files Design and development notes for Bebop.
  • We can have a different web Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
  • ShareOpenly Easily share content to social networks across the web.
  • Analog.Cafe — A Film Photography Blog Reviews, guides, and essays.
  • Chicago Kare by Duane King A faithful reproduction of the bitmap version of the Chicago typeface created by Susan Kare for Apple Computer in 1984
  • “The File Folder Structure Every Designer Needs,” an article by Dan Mall Keep it clean.
  • The One Line Mobile theme. Art meets zen. In your pocket. — Loooop StudioMake your iPhone screen a unique space, cut the noise, and save energy with our One Line Mobile theme, featuring 160+ minimalist icons and 10 wallpapers. Available for iOS.
  • Notion Faces New year, new you. Create a custom self-portrait in Notion, the workspace shaped by you.
  • Typography in Severance Typography in Severance Typography plays an important role in establishing the visual look of a piece of art, and Severance is no exception. This page is an overview of significant instances of typographic design and font use throughout Severance, with additional information about the typefaces and where to obtain them.
  • Eject disk. A manifesto for everyone stuck in the system that keeps crashing you. What follows here isn’t a framework or a fix—it’s a declaration. A reckoning. And a call to return to ourselves before we try to rebuild anything else. We’re all watching the wheel spin, hoping
  • Bookmarks – Chris Glass 
  • Postal Birds – Alex Tomlinson POSTAL BIRDS — A USPS LOGO FOR EVERY STATE BIRD
  • Blogroll — Chris Glass I don’t know all these folks, but visiting personal websites and blogs is my favorite part of the day. By no means exhaustive of the RSS feeds I’ve collected over the years, I went through and picked out these that still get updated with some frequency.
  • Typography for Lawyers This book is based on three core principles: Good typography is part of good lawyering. Legal documents are professionally published material and thus should be held to the same typographic standards. Any lawyer can master the essentials of good typography.
  • Matter. About Matter Less noise, more focus. Matter is a task manager that visually highlights what matters most to you. No account needed. Your tasks are stored in your browser (localStorage). Your data will persist until your computer explodes or you delete your browser.
  • unit. 8px grid design system 8px grid based design system hihayk.github.io/unit
  • Type.lol 🔤 Type Foundry Index – Discover independent type foundries.
  • Hug Contents – A simple, beautiful portfolio builder. Create your portfolio in minutes with Hug Contents. Showcase your work directly from Figma without any coding hassle.
  • MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown. – MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit
  • Scunthorpe Sans 🗯🚫 profanity-blocking font A s*** font that f***ing censors swearing automatically
  • Pieter™ A Windows 3.11 computer with working dial-up internet that lives inside your browser by @levelsio
  • Visual design rules you can safely follow every time every time You do not have to follow these rules every time. If you have a good reason to break any of them, do. But they are safe to follow every time.
  • Leaky Ring Webring
  • Own Your Web Own Your Web is a newsletter by Matthias Ott about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the Web. Every other week, I send out an exclusive email full of actionable insights, best practices, hacks, links, books, tools, and other high-quality insights I found or explored.
  • Forgotten Shapes The assortment of commercially available fonts is in constant flux. Typeface design is inevitably informed by media-specific conditions and the aesthetic discourse of the day.
  • Vintage Logos — World of Logotypes | Flickr Collection of vintage logos from a mid-70’s edition of the book World of Logotypes. NOTE: I did not create any of this work! This book is out of print but can probably be found with some scouring.
  • Bookmarks robins own little space on the internet
  • Indie Aisle — Connect directly to your audience Own your web persona… Break free of onerous platforms, fully control your content, and connect directly with your audience Use future-proof standard web protocols for a centralized profile with status updates and options for your audience to follow you without the middle-man.
  • BlocksEdit.com — Web campaigns at scale Use any email or landing page design to build, edit, and review content with your team.
  • Odyssey—Interactive Video A research preview of AI video you can both watch and interact with in real-time.
  • Threnody for a Reed Organ Threnody for a Reed Organ is an endlessly generative piece of music, composed and developed by Jay Tobin
  • ABSURD.website – We are creating absurd products and services absurd.website is a playground of creative experiments, blending art, fun, and unconventional ideas into digital experiences that challenge the norm.
  • Trip to mars – You will need seven months (210 days) to complete it!
  • I have found my favourite Markdown editor, again I love the sensation of finding a new app that delights me.
  • Where I Find Links Justin Hall, Melanie Hoff, and Are.na.
  • Taking an Internet Walk Taking an Internet Walk by Spencer Chang & Kristoffer Tjalve THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT In futuristic and cyberpunk media, we were promised a technological world “indistinguishable from magic:”…
  • ҉ .。⋆° (𝓌𝑒)𝒷𝓈𝒾𝓉𝑒 ˚。⋆ ◌ (we)bsite (we)bsite is a living collection of internet dreams from people like you, inhabitants of the internet. It aims to create space to hold, show, and uplift everyday visions and hopes for the internet.
  • Everest Pipkin Hand Coded Personal Website
  • build your own screenshot garden i’ve been keeping a screenshot garden for about a year- a handmade place on the internet for my screenshots to live. it is somewhere between a diary, a work-in-progress blog, and my notes.
  • nightnight.みんな Do your part to improve world health by putting your website to sleep.
  • Git from the inside out — Code Words This essay explains how Git works. It assumes you understand Git well enough to use it to version control your projects.
  • A 1000-Hour Head Start: Introducing The _s Theme Have you checked out the Toolbox theme? Up until recently it was the starter theme we used to build free and premium themes on WordPress.com. Toolbox was (and is!) a great theme, but it could be be…
  • meyerweb.com The web home of Eric A. Meyer, CSS guy; and his wife Kathryn, doctor of nursing.
  • A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.
  • Annotation Mono A lovingly crafted handwriting-style monospace font. Oh yeah… and it’s variable! Annotation Mono is an idealized handwriting; using letter forms inspired by monospace bitmap fonts, legibility is maximized while retaining a hand-written character.
  • i.webthings hub i.webthings – an independent, noncommercial web initiative.
  • Trivium: Link Blog Welcome to Trivium, my new blog that aims to merge the best parts of a tumblelog and a “classic” blog full of editorial, essayish content (which is not that classic at all, but this will be the topic of a later post).
  • The Basics of Legibility – A Short Guide for Non-Typographers The scope of this piece, therefore, cannot be to teach you everything there is to know about typography. It cannot even be to teach you everything there is to know about legibility. For that reason, I will concentrate mainly on the shapes of letters and how their design can be conducive – or detrimental – to legibility.
  • SuperTunnel Simulator Simulate a hole through Earth and learn where you would end up if you were to dig in that direction. Read this: https://ift.tt/dqenLmJ
  • Fontjoy — Generate font pairing using neural nets Fontjoy helps designers choose the best font combinations. Mix and match different fonts for the perfect pairing.
  • vore.website  is a minimal web-based rss/atom feed reader. – subscribe to feed – view posts chronological – save stuff that interests you, no unread indicators, no choresome tagging system – no bullshit.
  • blogroll | mire This is a fork of the excelent vore.website (source) RSS feed reader. You can find the source code for Mireon Codeberg. Any contributions are welcome!
  • Essays – Jack Cheng A collection of popular essays written here and elsewhere.
  • barnsworthburning.net A website by Nick Trombley.
  • Glasp: PDF & Web Highlighter for Researchers & Learners Glasp is a social PDF & Web highlighter that allows you to collect, organize, and share insightful ideas from the web. With your highlights and notes, you can build a personalized AI clone, creating a dynamic, collective knowledge-sharing experience.
  • Glitch: The friendly community where everyone builds the web Simple, powerful, free tools to create and use millions of apps.
  • Gossip’s Web The directory of handmade websites.
  • Tom’s Homepage A personal website, journal and playground.
  • Workspaces Newsletter Explore the workspaces of creative individuals — sent directly to your inbox every Saturday.
  • Bookmarks by ttntm.me A directory of websites that I find interesting and that I can recommend visiting.
  • Modern Adversary Thinking right arbout security
  • HTML.cafe – a realtime HTML editor and host Edit HTML in realtime, save your page and access it from anywhere!
  • In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
  • ALL-about-RSS: list of RSS related stuff: tools, services, communities and tutorials, etc.
  • Do you know color-scheme? It will certainly look familiar, as prefers-color-scheme has been around for longer and is clearly related.
  • at.hn This is a richer way to display your hacker news bio. See an example: padolsey.at.hn.
  • Scripting News Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It’s even worse than it appears.
  • A fresh look at blogrolls — Dave Winer Real-time updates, list sorted by name or time, expand a blog to see recent posts and more.
  • Three Kind Words Send a friend three anonymous postcards, each revealing one word at a time. With every card, the message unfolds, building anticipation and emotion. The final postcard unveils your identity, turning a simple gesture into a meaningful moment of connection and kindness.
  • 𝓽𝓲𝓷𝔂 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓽𝓼 What does a more natural, soft, and cozy internet look like?
  • Icônes ⚡️ Icon Explorer with Instant searching, powered by Iconify
  • How to Get Into Film Photography (And Why You Should) Shooting film is expensive, slow, and incredibly inconvenient. That’s what makes it so magical.
  • Kinopio – Thinking Canvas Kinopio is a spatial note taking tool for visually collecting and connecting your thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
  • Create Your Notion-Style Avatar with Avatartion | Customizable Avatars Avatartion is the perfect tool to generate a personalized Notion-style avatar. With Avatartion, you can create a unique avatar by choosing different facial features, clothing, and accessories.
  • Screely – Generate Website Mockups Instantly turn your screenshot into a beautiful website mockup. Customize the browser mockup window, background and much more.
  • special fish fish are like thoughts and premonitions
  • uchū — the color palette for internet lovers by NetOperator Wibby.
  • Library of Babel A project towards a universal library. By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters.
  • Nothing Breaks Like A.I. Heart An essay about artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence, and finding an ending
  • Mutant Standard Emoji’s The tools we use to communicate are not neutral or universal – it’s a particular way of seeing the world. When it comes to emoji, that way of seeing the world is decided by one organisation – Unicode, and the megacorporations in Silicon Valley that are a part of it. Mutant Standard is an offshoot of the Unicode Standard.
  • You Are Atlas You are Atlas. You hold up the sky. If no one is on this page, the sky will fall. There is 1 other user online. The sky has fallen 10941 times.
  • 24HourHomepage The best time online.
  • 147 Colors Grid – CSS Color Names This is a tool to help web designers and developers learn the 147 CSS color names that are available today. The 147 Colors consist of 17 standard plus 130 more.
  • Shaarli The personal, minimalist, super fast, database-free, bookmarking service. Do you want to share the links you discover? Shaarli is a minimalist bookmark manager and link sharing service that you can install on your own server. It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast and handy.
  • 1MB Club: A collection of web pages weighing in less than 1MB An exclusive membership for web pages weighing less than 1 megabyte.
  • 1kB 1kB Club is a list of web pages weighing less than 1 kilobyte (1,024 bytes).
  • Hyperlink Cafe A curated list of websites that have a links page akin to the blogrolls of old.
  • The Personal Web With the death of the Yesterweb and “The Web Revival” movement being sorta splintered imo. I wanted to make this thread as an opportunity to: – Introduce what I believe to be some of the core ideas to anyone fresh-faced and interested. – Share some of my personal knowledge and strategies.
  • HN Buddy – About About HN Buddy and why it was created.
  • Gossip’s Web The directory of personal handmade websites.
  • A Global Design System TL;DR: This is a call to action to create a Global Design System that provides the world’s web designers & developers a library of common UI components. A Global Design System would improve the quality and accessibility of the world’s web experiences, save the world’s web designers and developer
  • Markwhen A markdown-like journal language for plainly writing logs, gantt charts, blogs, feeds, notes, calendars or anything happens over time
  • Links | datagubbe.se
  • The Small Website Discoverability Crisis There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites. Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can stumble onto them with my search engine, it is not in a very directed fashion. It is an unfortunate state of affairs.
  • Somebits.com Linkblog Interesting web links, a few a day.
  • Automate your outgoing webmentions Platform agnostic outgoing webmention service
  • The micro guide to microformats Why you should use microformats and some examples of how they work.
  • Indieweb Pages theme for creators Free standard components for building your website.
  • The indie web in action My work on Indie Aisle: made for indie creators, based on indie web principles.
  • The Creative Independent The Cre­ative In­de­pen­dent is a re­source of emo­tional and prac­ti­cal guid­ance for cre­ative peo­ple.
  • Continue & Persist Letter | BOONDOGGLE & DOGGLE PARTNERS LLP Send someone you appreciate an official ‘Continue and Persist’ Letter Every day, thousands of Cease and Desist letters are issued, telling people to stop what they’re doing (Looking at you, David Chang). What a bummer!
  • ZOMBO Welcome to Zombo.com. Welcome. Anything is possible at Zombocom. You can do anything at Zombo.com, anything at all. The infinite is possible… Yeees, this is Zombo.com.
  • Open Graph Meta Tag Generator | imgsrc An up-to-date, well-tested tool to generate Open Graph meta tags for your website.
  • The branding style guidelines documents archive Welcome to the brand design manual documents directory. Search over our worldwide style assets handpicked collection, access to PDF documents for inspiration.
  • Rediscovering the Small Web – Neustadt.fr Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and ‘convert’. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.
  • iA Writer has three custom made writing fonts that are available for download iA Writer 5.2 comes with three custom made variable writing fonts that are available for download on GitHub.
  • Bring Back Blogs! Hi! Ash and Ryan here. In the twilight of Twitter, we’re running an experiment. Can we all bring back blogging, together? Artists, writers, inventors, tinkerers, illustrators, designers—all makers are welcome here.
  • linkpost – Tangible Life All of the entries posted on Tangible Life tagged linkpost
  • Links on web design tech – Distinctive Quality Recommended links for designing, coding, and writing for the web and email.
  • Linkage updated daily because if I can’t find at least one website to share every day, I need to turn in my Internet license! {{ posts|limit:10 }} | Pronoun…
  • PersonalSit.es Personal sites are sick as hell, so this site was built so we can all discover each other’s. This directory of links are by folks that want to share their site with the world.
  • smallweb smallweb is a carefully curated collection of neat indie websites that get less attention than they deserve. our goal is to showcase the creativity and diversity of the personal web.
  • Juha-Matti Santala – Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer. The home of a developer community specialist.
  • Digital Gardening | Chris Armstrong is miscellanious. Random thoughts & ideas.
  • Digital Garden : Juha-Matti Santala Digital gardens are note systems (usually published ones although some people talk about private digital gardens but to me that’s just notes) where instead of sequential publishing, …
  • Colors & Fonts – Home Discover Colors & Fonts, a platform offering a wide range of color and typography tools for web developers and digital designers.
  • BIG-ASS MESSAGE The most useful single-serving website on the internet.
  • Five Future Roles for Designers Possible career directions for designers working in an AI-driven world.
  • Command Line Interface Guidelines An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.
  • IRL HTML IRL HTML is a web app that hosts HTML web pages created from photographs of HTML code.
  • The Designer’s Journey The Designer’s Journey is a growing list of 900+ goals and achievements for designers of all experience levels, disciplines, and career phases to accomplish.
  • bleuje — Animations by Etienne Jacob @etiennejcb Making gifs with code; Almost all of my animations are created with the constraint of keeping the GIF file size under 5 MB. My primary goal is for them to be appreciated solely for their visual appeal, not for the process behind their creation.
  • The Smallweb Subway — Subway Style Network of Webrings The Smallweb Subway is an experimental project that seeks to connect communities online using webrings. The map above shows a subway style network of webrings! Each line represents a themed webring…
  • Awesome Emacs on macOS Update: Added macOS Trash integration. While GNU/Linux had been my operating system of choice for many years, these days I’m primarily on macOS. Luck…
  • What is mnmlist.com? mnmlist It’s a site by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. It’s about minimalism, and why it’s important today. It’s about stuff, and how it has come to overwhelm us. It’s about distractions and commitments and a neverending task list. It’s about the culture of more, of bigger, of consumption. It’s about how less is the answer.
  • IBM Design Language – Rebus The IBM logo is one of our most valuable corporate assets and is among the most recognized identities in the world. It’s the tangible symbol of our brand.
  • How to pick the least wrong colors An algorithm for creating color palettes for data visualization
  • The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — surma.dev I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostalgia and none of Lena.
  • Smallweb – Your internet folder A personal cloud contained in a single directory.
  • The case for using a web browser as your terminal I don’t actively use a terminal emulator app on my computer anymore, and use tweety instead from my web browser. I think you should consider doing the same.
  • The Creation of a Self The Creation of a Self is a series of visual art and quotes inspired by the notion of booting a computer, creating a self, programming its memories and destroying memory monsters created from those memories, where the action of psychological death equals the discovery of love, truth, or what J. Krishnamurti calls “the awakening of intelligence.”
  • Moodboard Creator | Juan Ignacio Rios Moodboard Creator | Juan Ignacio Rios “The AI tool to kick-off your next branding project. Moodboard Creator helps designers to ditch the blank page and spark their creativity by generating stunning moodboards from simple inputs.”
  • Every Default macOS Wallpaper – in Glorious 6K Resolution – 512 Pixels Every major version of Mac OS X macOS has come with a new default wallpaper. As you can see, I have collected them all here. While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in the world of 5K and 6K displays.
  • Lumon Industries
  • Telescopic Text An extension of telescopictext.com, providing tools for writing expanding narratives, and a collection of texts
  • 8BitDashboard 8 Bit style images as a home page. The perfect dashboard. 8-bit Gifs with a clock, bookmark hotkeys, and a greeting. Ready to be your start page!
  • Graduum | Free Mesh Gradients by Niklaus Gerber A collection of one hundred free high-quality mesh gradients suitable for desktop and mobile use.
  • Iceberger Draw an iceberg and see how it will float.
  • A Pure CSS Game – You Must Build a Lighthouse. 100% CSS. No artificial colours or ingredients. First person to screenshot a lighthouse wins! 
  • The Casual Optimist Books, Design and Culture
  • Particulate Medusae Soft body jellyfish simulation. Built with Particulate.js and Three.js
  • Blue Ball Machine Try and keep track of a ball as it makes its journey downwards.
  • powRSS – Find and read RSS feeds powRSS updates daily with new posts from independent blogs and websites. The list of known sites is curated manually, but the feed is generated automatically by picking new sites each month, giving every site a fair chance to be featured. Made by Pablo Enoc.
  • Recapturing the magic of the early blogging days At work today someone asked today about how we recapture the magic of the early days of blogging. I have some ideas. First, I don’t think that magic is gone! Sure, a lot of people moved to so…
  • Savee The best way to save and share inspiration.
  • Your World of Text Write on an infinite text canvas.
  • BlogScroll – Personal Blog & Site Directory An open directory of personal sites and blogs, maintained entirely on GitHub.
  • Open RSS Open RSS is a nonprofit organization that provides free RSS feeds for websites that don’t have them
  • The Joy of Silly Useless Software | The Candybox Blog Software can be silly, useless, and dumb, just like games! Software can bring joy to our otherwise cold and utilitarian digital world. I am talking about the things that exist just to brighten up our otherwise impersonal productivity related spaces…
  • Pal Apply eight-color palettes to any image. Use keyboard controls to choose a theme, set thresholds, and cycle hues.
  • Image Hues – Vaisakh Pradeep Natural, fresh color palettes from random beautiful images
  • I need my space — Saron Yitbarek A scientific approach to line-height
  • wwwtxt.org | 1980-1994 Revisit the early Internet with real online conversations (1980-94) ⟨hand-selected вy KYRA OCEAN 
  • minifeed Minifeed search for Indieweb
  • Slingcode Slingcode is a personal computing platform in a single html file. – You can make, run, and share web apps with it. – You don’t need any complicated tools to use it, just a web browser. You don’t need a server, hosting, or an SSL certificate to run the web apps. 
  • Montague Projects Print Series: 1970’s Cars This started out as a series of 20 car prints for Printcollection.com. I was invited by 3sec Gallery in Breda, Netherlands to expand the series for the 52 poster cases they curate in a Rem Koolhaas designed parking garage in Breda. The colors go from red to blue and back as one drives past.
  • mmm.page — Your Corner of the Internet Welcome! I created mmm.page to have more fun online — to create a tool that lets people create richer websites
  • Timeline – The History of the Web Learn your (web) history This project began with a timeline. In the years I’ve been doing this, I’ve continued to add to it. And each week, I add a bit more.
  • MinuteLabs.io Put simply: Interactive science apps and explanations you can play with. MinuteLabs.io is an extension of what MinutePhysics and MinuteEarth do, but instead of YouTube videos, it’s interactive. We want to make things you can play around with and explore.
  • Design books for non-designers
  • Stripe Press — Ideas for progress Stripe Press highlights ideas that we think can be broadly useful. Some books contain entirely new material, some are collections of existing work reimagined, and others are republications of previous works that have remained relevant over time or have renewed relevance today.
  • CLI Club: Command-line Interface Tools & Alternatives  A collection of the best CLI/Ncurses software covering a wide range of categories from messaging, music, text editing and more.
  • HTML Recipes A collection of quick copy HTML snippets for a variety of common scenarios.
  • TinyList Create and share notes and checklists, without sacrificing your privacy. A PWA notes/checklists application that syncs instantly across devices.
  • Design Systems Database & Gallery Best-in-class Design Systems collection with a repository of Components and Foundations references from top-tier tech companies and leading UI teams.
  • The Terminal – For Noobs (Like Me), Part One If you’re like me, from time-to-time you’ll come across tasks that should be done in the terminal.The guide might also assume you know a bunch of concepts, that you don’t really understand. Like, why do some commands start with $?
  • Announcing WordPress Export to Markdown v3 WordPress Export to Markdown is a CLI tool (a Node script) that helps you migrate from WordPress to a static site generator (like Eleventy, for example)
  • Commit Mono. Neutral programming typeface. Commit Mono is an anonymous and neutral programming typeface focused on creating a better reading experience.
  • Colors – A nicer color palette for the web by @mrmrs_Accessible color combinations for prototyping on the web https://clrs.cc/a11y/ via
  • How I org in 2023 I’ve been pretty much living in org-mode for 6 or 7 years now1. The features and tools I use as well as how I organize my files has changed quite a bit over this period of time and I thought it would be nice give myself (and anyone else who cares) a reference of what it was like in 2023 so here it is.
  • Use plain text email Before you know it, your little babies have started school, you celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park, and that little blog you started have now been going for 15 years.
  • Minimalism and the Art of Photography I have a serious passion for classic black-and-white photography, and I blame my friend Sean in New Zealand.
  • How to Host WordPress as a Static Site Static site hosting for WordPress in 2024 – combining the best features of WordPress with the effectiveness of the JAMStack
  • Hum – A Personal URL shortener for WordPress While I haven’t had much time over the last year or so to spend actually writing code for DiSo, I’ve been really interested in the new direction Tantek has been taking things with his DiSo 2.0 concepts. Many of the early
  • SystemTalk Exploring the history of systems design.
  • Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks – Shady Characters
  • RSS is still pretty great What the **** does that mean?
  • Color The Small File Photo Festival is a mini festival encouraging and celebrating small size photography!
  • Matrix digital rain
  • Some blogging myths Julia Evans
  • personal websites with a /now page
  • Tiny Factories Tiny Factories is a tribe of people supporting each other to establish their creative footing
  • Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick On the architecture of blogging A personal site, or a blog, is more than just a collection of writing. It’s a kind of place – something that feels like home among the streams. Home is a very strong mental model.
  • Typography Principles
  • Nicheless | Think. Write away Nicheless is a micro-blogging platform for raw, unfiltered thought..
  • Read Something Great Timeless articles from the belly of the internet. Manually curated. Served 5 at a time.
  • GitHub Profile Readme Generator
  • The Cody Computer Site The Cody Computer is an 8-bit home computer intended to be built as a DIY project. Inspired by (but not compatible with) the Commodore home computers of the 1980s, it’s built around the Western Design Center’s 65C02 and 65C22 and the Parallax Propeller microcontroller
  • omg.lol: an oasis on the internet – blakewatson.com
  • Org Mode – Organize Your Life In Plain Text!  GNU Emacs major mode for keeping notes, authoring documents, computational notebooks, literate programming, maintaining to-do lists, planning projects, and more — in a fast and effective plain text system.
  • What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS) A feed is also known as a “web feed” and the technical term (which you’ll see a lot) is “RSS feed.” A feed contains the latest content in a form that your newsreader app understands. (Your newsreader checks the feed automatically, every few hours.)
  • unthinking.photography Unthinking Photography is The Photographers’ Gallery’s online resource that explores photography’s increasingly automated, networked life.
  • Small File Photo Festival The Small File Photo Festival is a mini festival encouraging and celebrating small size photography!
  • Pigment by ShapeFactory | Simple Color Palette Generator
  • AI Index | Stanford HAI The mission of the AI Index is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced data for policymakers, researchers, journalists, executives, and the general public to develop a deeper understanding of the complex field of AI.
  • Nord — An arctic, north-bluish color palette.
  • Metric Time vs Standard Time
  • Design Everywhere An ever-growing collection of carefully curated works from around the world.
  • The 10 Megabyte Manifesto This site is hosted on Neocities.org. Neocities imposes limitations on what you can host and serve. For one, your files may only be HTML, images, markdown, javascript, or CSS. That means no PHP or Rails or databases or anything like that. Furthermore, you only get 10 megabytes of space (though this limit may be raised in the future
  • Hello from 8Bit Computers | 8Bit Computers Retro computer history from Atari 2600 to NES (1980-1985)
  • RSS Parrot Turn Mastodon into your feed reader
  • Emoji under the hood tonsky.me
  • GenCup — Generative posters from FIFA Women’s World Cup
  • Cohesive Colors Tool that can help you to create cohesive color palette
  • This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
  • Web Badges World
  • Color and Contrast.com
  • gridless.design “Blasphemy, I need structure and order!”
  • Find Out Your Chinese Name
  • Kleroteria What would you write to ten thousand people? Kleroteria is an email lottery. Periodically, a subscriber – who may remain anonymous – is randomly chosen to write to all the other subscribers.
  • Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.
  • Memos – Open Source, Self-hosted, Your Notes, Your Way
  • Zero Data App Own your data, all of it.
  • itty bitty Itty bitty sites are contained entirely within their own link. (Including this one!) This means they’re… Portable – you don’t need a server to host them Private – nothing is sent to–or stored on–this server Easy to share as a link or QR code
  • Meishi: a tiny productivity system When Dieter Rams said “less but better”, he probably wasn’t thinking about todo lists. Yet, as I stared at three different overcrowded digital task lists a month ago, I realized that’s exactly what I need. I call it Meishi, after the Japanese words for business card.
  • Forever ✱ Notes – A free framework for Apple Notes Simplify your knowledge management with Forever  Notes; is not an app, but a simple framework and scalable digital note-taking method for Apple Notes. It’s free and created to last—forever.
  • Indiewebifying a WordPress Site 2022 Edition – David Shanske
  • De-Mystifying IndieWeb on a WordPress Site | CSS-Tricks

Recent’ish Links to Sort 1st June

At the moment the following are single line text links, but I’ll be adding a description to each one; as above. You may also see some duplicates whilst I continue to sort and merge all my bookmarks.


First Draft of Links — May, 2025
The following will eventually be merged into above, and duplicates removed.