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The Web Beyond Platforms

マリウス Belongings

Ever wondered how minimalists live? Here are all the things one of them owns.

WINDOWS93

An alternate-universe operating system in the browser, full of fake apps, games, cursed nostalgia, and clickable chaos.

WhoSampled

A music rabbit hole where you jump between samples, covers, and remixes until listening turns into play.

WhatFontIs

Upload a font mystery and let the machine guess what typeface you are staring at.

Web Design Museum

A museum of web design history, back when every era of the internet had a visibly different accent.

There Is No Website

A weird little browser game about a website that insists there is no website. Very silly, very cool.

SVG Viewer

Paste, inspect, optimize, and preview SVGs without opening a whole design app.

SQL Noir - A Detective SQL Game

A detective SQL game where the clues are in the database and the case is solved with queries.

Realtime Colors

Preview colors and fonts on a site mockup, check contrast, tune type, and export CSS, Tailwind, SCSS, or tokens.

Piskel

A browser pixel-art editor for sprites, animations, and tiny images.

www.marginalia.nu @marginalia.nu

Home of Marginalia Search, plus essays and experiments around independent web discovery.

Cry Once a Week

Do not know what to feel? Watch the most tear-squeezing part of a movie and cry, of course.

Eleventy

The SSR/static engine I use for this site. Fast, flexible, and it does not force its config shape on you.

Weather report

Weather as a terminal-native web service: curl it, pipe it, script it, skip the forecast dashboard.

wtfjs

If you hate JavaScript but do not know why yet, here are more than a hundred reasons.

Workout Cool

A workout builder where you pick equipment, muscles, and exercises, then get a custom training session.

Wikipedia 25

Celebrate a bit of Wikipedia history through a beautiful interactive site with playful retro design.

Webtiles

A tiled little web toy that feels like poking at a strange interactive mosaic.

Website under 14kB

Tiny-web speed sermon: squeeze the page under one TCP packet and make every byte count.

awk.info

AWK is still cool: a compact little language for slicing text, making reports, and doing useful command-line data magic.

IMG_0001

Random early iPhone YouTube uploads with default IMG_XXXX filenames, turned into an accidental video time capsule.

Sutro Tower in 3D

An explorable gaussian splat of San Francisco's Sutro Tower, complete with orbit controls and interest points.

The W3C Markup Validation Service

The classic W3C validator for checking whether your markup is actually valid.

Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

A minimal timer for deliberately doing nothing.

url.town

A human-curated web directory from the omg.lol community, built for browsing good links like it is the old web again.

TULP interactive

Interactive data visualization work across maps, science, archives, and public datasets.

Time Travel Television

Decade-hopping broadcast archaeology. Pick the 50s through 90s and let old TV leak through the time machine.

Welcome to ~tilde.club~

A lovely communal web place where lots of people share tiny personal sites, gigs, notes, and small internet presence.

The Pirate Bay

The old BitTorrent cockroach of the web: magnet links, rough edges, and distributed-systems lore.

How NAT Traversal Works

Tailscale explains NAT traversal with UDP hole punching, STUN, DERP, WireGuard, QUIC/WebRTC, and port mapping.

Tabletop Audio

Ambient soundscapes and music for tabletop games, writing, work, or pretending your room has a quest in it.

systemd complete success

systemd won. cope harder, init script enjoyers.

Stuff that rocks

A list with the energy of someone replacing half your computer setup with smaller, stranger things.

Strudel

Live-code music patterns in the browser and make the page behave like an instrument.

Sounds of System Breakdown - Afloat

A 3D music clip in the browser. I have never seen a music video object quite like this before, and it rules.

Theme Switch Guide

Solaria's personal guide to adding a theme switcher, for giving one hand-coded site multiple moods.

CSS Filter Guide

Solaria shows no-JS filtering with radio buttons, classes, :checked, :has(), and CSS selectors.

Generative Art Experiments

Soham Saha's generative art experiments: little procedural systems where math turns into texture, motion, and pattern.

SoBrief

A cool book-summary library with audio, PDF, and EPUB options when you want the shape of an idea fast.

so1o.xyz

A gamey, alchemy-inspired profile that pushed me to play with that vibe on my own website.

Simple Made Easy - Rich Hickey

Rich Hickey draws a clean line between simple and easy, then quietly ruins half your architectural opinions.

Sign Upp - World Worst Sign Up Process

The world's worst sign-up process, carefully engineered to make account creation absurd.

The Scroll Art Museum

Animated terminal scroll art, preserved as tiny loops of characters.

samwho

Sam Rose's site, full of visual interactive explainers about software and systems.

sabrinas.space -

A visual essay on Japanese web design, with screenshots, clustering, and cultural context.

Retronator Daily

A daily pixel art and gaming web magazine, wholly made out of pixel art, which makes it special.

GitHub Recommender

A recommender for GitHub repositories, because the good weird projects are always hiding two links away.

Playables

Strange, playful games and interactive projects from Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei.

Fortune

An artish, viby little fortune teller wrapped in vaporwave aesthetics and soft old-computer energy.

A Neocities links page with the hand-curated feel that makes web wandering good again.

Writing an OS in Rust

No idea who needs this, but here is the madman guide to writing a whole operating system in Rust.

Orteil's homepage

A personal homepage from the Cookie Clicker dimension: experiments, toys, and odd little systems bubbling away.

A website you can only visit once

A tiny website with a single-use curse, making one click feel weirdly ceremonial.

Oldschool PC Font Pack

The oldschool font showcase whose beautiful glyphs and text art inspired the font choice on this site.

OLD-HARD.RU

Retro-computing basement energy: old hardware, old games, and the glow of machines that refuse to leave.

Oh Shit, Git!?!

Git first aid written for the exact moment your stomach drops and the terminal looks personally disappointed.

nometa

Tiny etiquette with a hard stare: say the thing, skip the ceremony.

Neolurk

A Russian wiki of internet lore, memes, drama, and cultural debris from the online swamp.

Neocities - Browse

A flea market of personal websites: messy rooms, bright buttons, strange shrines, and real people everywhere.

Nakarte

A serious map tool for routes, tracks, layers, and the kind of geography fiddling that needs better than default maps.

Musicmap

Music history as a sprawling subway map where every genre looks like it has family drama.

Free in-browser .msg viewer

View .msg in browser. Thank you.

MSCHF

Brooklyn art collective/product studio making cursed drops, games, fashion stunts, auctions, and lawsuit-ready jokes.

Motherfucking Website

A page yelling that the html is enough, and annoyingly, it has a point.

MoanMyIP

It literally moans your IP address in a deeply objectified phone-sex voice. Internet as cursed performance art.

minimal web

The web reduced until only the bones remain, then reduced a little more for moral reasons.

Metazooa

Daily game where you guess the animal by walking their evolutionary tree.

MelonLand Project

Glittery handmade-web maximalism, like a forum, a garden, and a tiny internet town sharing one bedroom.

meet.hn

The Hacker News social graph turned into a small doorway, for when usernames start feeling like actual people.

Write HTML Right

A practical love letter to writing HTML carefully, semantically, and without turning the page into soup.
Also main page has a lovely lofi radio

Life in Weeks

Whole life made into little squares, which is sad, useful, and weirdly soothing.

Lens

A Robb Knight tool for checking a site's meta tags, icons, feeds, colors, and other tiny pieces of web plumbing.

Learn Git Branching

Git explained as a little puzzle box instead of a haunted command line you only touch during emergencies.

Lars Petrus Portal

A tiny old personal portal that feels like it has been patiently waiting since 1996 for the web to come back around.

Kill the Newsletter

Turn email newsletters into rss/atom feeds, rescuing reading from the inbox swamp.

Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine

Search with the suspicious luxury of not feeling like the product being minced behind the curtain.

Just fucking use HTML

Web advice delivered like a slap on the desk: stop summoning machinery and write the page.

Johnny.Decimal life system

A filing cabinet for your whole life, with the calm severity of someone who has finally defeated folder chaos.

John Doe’s page

A tiny technodemo that smartly uses CSS hiding to create a PWA-feeling app without a single drop of JavaScript.

Interactive Guide to Flexbox

Josh Comeau explains Flexbox with interactive demos that make the weird parts finally click.

Indieblog.page

Click one button and get thrown into a random post from someone's personal blog, like IndieWeb channel surfing.

Impersona

Autoformats your messages into chatroom-style roleplay by itself, which is very silly and weirdly funny.

HTTP Cats

The fun way to remember even the most obscure HTTP codes before they vanish back into server-room fog.

HTML Standard

The HTML Standard is surprisingly readable, not some forbidden tech scroll guarded by browser wizards.

All software sucks

Old-school Unix grumpiness with a clean moral spine: complexity is the enemy, taste is a weapon.

guimp.com: smallest website

A whole interactive website squeezed into 18 by 18 pixels. Absurd, tiny, and somehow usable.

SilverBullet

A self-hosted personal knowledge app that treats notes as programmable, queryable things.

Floor796

A manually animated almost-infinite pixel canvas stuffed with culture references.

Flipboard Topics

Flipboard's topic sitemap, a strangely browsable map of what a social magazine thinks the world is made of.

Clippy Desktop Assistant

Clippy got dragged into Electron AI bullshit and somehow that is exactly the cursed future we deserved.

Fancy Cool Text Generator

Plain text walks in, dramatic Unicode text walks out wearing twelve unnecessary hats.

FamiStudio

A lovely chiptune music editor for making NES and Famicom sounds without fighting ancient trackers.

explainshell.com

Paste a shell command and get every flag explained from the relevant man pages.

daedalOS

A personal blog rebuilt as a whole desktop OS, which is ridiculous, excessive, and honestly really cool.

duducat.moe

A personal site with soft webcore energy and the usual lovely signs of someone making the internet their room.

DOS Zone | DOS games in browser

DOS games in the browser. No dusty beige box required.

DistroWatch.com

The Linux distro scoreboard does not really work, so naturally everyone treats it as the source of truth.

DevDocs

Fast offline-friendly documentation search for a pile of programming languages, APIs, and frameworks.

Debuggex visual regex tester

Regex tester that draws the expression as a diagram, which is often the only sane way to read one.

Cyberia Computer Club

l33t l1ttl3 h4ck0r club with shells, services, member pages, and proper terminal fumes.

Curlie - The Collector of URLs

Extremely oldschool human-made web directory. Like Yahoo remembered to keep a candle lit.

CSS Zen Garden Designs

The legendary CSS Zen Garden design archive, proof that one HTML file can wear a hundred different souls.

cssDOOM

Yes. DOOM rendered in CSS. Modern web capabilities remain 100% cursed and wonderful.

Cool URIs don't change

Tim Berners-Lee's reminder that URLs are infrastructure, not confetti. Every broken link is a tiny protocol betrayal.

Classless CSS Previews

Preview classless CSS themes on the same markup and pick a stylesheet without opening twenty tabs.

CASCII

Draw diagrams like it is 1987, except your browser is doing the tedious box-drawing bits.

Audiobooks for free. That's it. That's cool.

Fake Windows 10/11 Update Screen

Finally, a way to avoid work with a Windows update screen even when you are sitting on Linux.

CSS Minecraft

Modern web capabilities are 100% crazy

The small web is beautiful

Ben Hoyt on the small web: less algorithmic sludge, more handmade corners with a human pulse.

Awesome Explorer

GitHub lists are awesome and this is awesome way to view them.

kernel.org 404

The Linux kernel archive's 404 page, because it's beautiful. Maybe check other pages too

Viewable with Any Browser: Campaign

A reminder about old days on the web - when browser compatibility was the hard feature to add.

ANSI Escape Codes

Find, inspect and visualize control codes for terminals.

Anna’s Archive

Search engine for shadow libraries. Wanna find some knowledge? :)

Writing HTML in HTML

This article inspired me to start this site in plain HTML. But "HTML is unpleasant to write", so I switched to Markdown.

Animal Body Fat Match

Find Your Spirit Animal... In Body Fat!

AlternativeTo

Tool for discovering software alternatives with people review.

ASCII Rendering

A deep dive into rendering images as ASCII, which is both ancient terminal magic and modern browser craft.

Dissonance - aatishb

Pick a sound and explore what scales, intervals, and chords are most consonant or dissonant. Also video: The Physics Of Dissonance

64.surf

Crazy concept - store entire file up to 350KB straight in URL. Yes, it works, and even has encryption.

16colo.rs

Beautiful ANSI/ASCII graphics gallery.

The Twelve-Factor App

Best practices for building scalable, and maintainable cloud-native applications.

128KB

A creative-coding archive for tiny 128x128-ish moving works, each squeezed under 128KB with tags.

0x0.st

File hosting with a beautiful HTML-only design.