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A deep dive into rendering images as ASCII, which is both ancient terminal magic and modern browser craft.
The Linux kernel archive's 404 page, because it's beautiful. Maybe check other pages too
Preview classless CSS themes on the same markup and pick a stylesheet without opening twenty tabs.
The legendary CSS Zen Garden design archive, proof that one HTML file can wear a hundred different souls.
Fast offline-friendly documentation search for a pile of programming languages, APIs, and frameworks.
A personal site with soft webcore energy and the usual lovely signs of someone making the internet their room.
A lovely chiptune music editor for making NES and Famicom sounds without fighting ancient trackers.
Flipboard's topic sitemap, a strangely browsable map of what a social magazine thinks the world is made of.
A self-hosted personal knowledge app that treats notes as programmable, queryable things.
Click one button and get thrown into a random post from someone's personal blog, like IndieWeb channel surfing.
Turn email newsletters into rss/atom feeds, rescuing reading from the inbox swamp.
A Robb Knight tool for checking a site's meta tags, icons, feeds, colors, and other tiny pieces of web plumbing.
A practical love letter to writing HTML carefully, semantically, and without turning the page into soup. Also main page has a lovely lofi radio
Daily game where you guess the animal by walking their evolutionary tree.
A serious map tool for routes, tracks, layers, and the kind of geography fiddling that needs better than default maps.
A Russian wiki of internet lore, memes, drama, and cultural debris from the online swamp.
A Neocities links page with the hand-curated feel that makes web wandering good again.
A recommender for GitHub repositories, because the good weird projects are always hiding two links away.
Solaria shows no-JS filtering with radio buttons, classes, :checked, :has(), and CSS selectors.
Solaria's personal guide to adding a theme switcher, for giving one hand-coded site multiple moods.
Live-code music patterns in the browser and make the page behave like an instrument.
Ambient soundscapes and music for tabletop games, writing, work, or pretending your room has a quest in it.
Tailscale explains NAT traversal with UDP hole punching, STUN, DERP, WireGuard, QUIC/WebRTC, and port mapping.
A human-curated web directory from the omg.lol community, built for browsing good links like it is the old web again.
AWK is still cool: a compact little language for slicing text, making reports, and doing useful command-line data magic.
A tiled little web toy that feels like poking at a strange interactive mosaic.
Celebrate a bit of Wikipedia history through a beautiful interactive site with playful retro design.
A browser pixel-art editor for sprites, animations, and tiny images.
Preview colors and fonts on a site mockup, check contrast, tune type, and export CSS, Tailwind, SCSS, or tokens.
Paste, inspect, optimize, and preview SVGs without opening a whole design app.
A museum of web design history, back when every era of the internet had a visibly different accent.
Upload a font mystery and let the machine guess what typeface you are staring at.
A music rabbit hole where you jump between samples, covers, and remixes until listening turns into play.
Ever wondered how minimalists live? Here are all the things one of them owns.
Yes. DOOM rendered in CSS. Modern web capabilities remain 100% cursed and wonderful.
Old-school Unix grumpiness with a clean moral spine: complexity is the enemy, taste is a weapon.
A list with the energy of someone replacing half your computer setup with smaller, stranger things.
Find Your Spirit Animal... In Body Fat!
This article inspired me to start this site in plain HTML. But "HTML is unpleasant to write", so I switched to Markdown.
Search engine for shadow libraries. Wanna find some knowledge? :)
Find, inspect and visualize control codes for terminals.
File hosting with a beautiful HTML-only design.
Best practices for building scalable, and maintainable cloud-native applications.
Beautiful ANSI/ASCII graphics gallery.
Crazy concept - store entire file up to 350KB straight in URL. Yes, it works, and even has encryption.
Pick a sound and explore what scales, intervals, and chords are most consonant or dissonant. Also video: The Physics Of Dissonance
Tool for discovering software alternatives with people review.
A reminder about old days on the web - when browser compatibility was the hard feature to add.
GitHub lists are awesome and this is awesome way to view them.
Ben Hoyt on the small web: less algorithmic sludge, more handmade corners with a human pulse.
Modern web capabilities are 100% crazy
Finally, a way to avoid work with a Windows update screen even when you are sitting on Linux.
Audiobooks for free. That's it. That's cool.
Draw diagrams like it is 1987, except your browser is doing the tedious box-drawing bits.
Tim Berners-Lee's reminder that URLs are infrastructure, not confetti. Every broken link is a tiny protocol betrayal.
Extremely oldschool human-made web directory. Like Yahoo remembered to keep a candle lit.
l33t l1ttl3 h4ck0r club with shells, services, member pages, and proper terminal fumes.
Regex tester that draws the expression as a diagram, which is often the only sane way to read one.
The Linux distro scoreboard does not really work, so naturally everyone treats it as the source of truth.
DOS games in the browser. No dusty beige box required.
A personal blog rebuilt as a whole desktop OS, which is ridiculous, excessive, and honestly really cool.
Paste a shell command and get every flag explained from the relevant man pages.
Plain text walks in, dramatic Unicode text walks out wearing twelve unnecessary hats.
Clippy got dragged into Electron AI bullshit and somehow that is exactly the cursed future we deserved.
A manually animated almost-infinite pixel canvas stuffed with culture references.
A whole interactive website squeezed into 18 by 18 pixels. Absurd, tiny, and somehow usable.
The HTML Standard is surprisingly readable, not some forbidden tech scroll guarded by browser wizards.
The fun way to remember even the most obscure HTTP codes before they vanish back into server-room fog.
Autoformats your messages into chatroom-style roleplay by itself, which is very silly and weirdly funny.
Josh Comeau explains Flexbox with interactive demos that make the weird parts finally click.
A tiny technodemo that smartly uses CSS hiding to create a PWA-feeling app without a single drop of JavaScript.
A filing cabinet for your whole life, with the calm severity of someone who has finally defeated folder chaos.
Web advice delivered like a slap on the desk: stop summoning machinery and write the page.
Search with the suspicious luxury of not feeling like the product being minced behind the curtain.
A tiny old personal portal that feels like it has been patiently waiting since 1996 for the web to come back around.
Git explained as a little puzzle box instead of a haunted command line you only touch during emergencies.
Whole life made into little squares, which is sad, useful, and weirdly soothing.
The Hacker News social graph turned into a small doorway, for when usernames start feeling like actual people.
Glittery handmade-web maximalism, like a forum, a garden, and a tiny internet town sharing one bedroom.
The web reduced until only the bones remain, then reduced a little more for moral reasons.
It literally moans your IP address in a deeply objectified phone-sex voice. Internet as cursed performance art.
A page yelling that the html is enough, and annoyingly, it has a point.
Brooklyn art collective/product studio making cursed drops, games, fashion stunts, auctions, and lawsuit-ready jokes.
View .msg in browser. Thank you.
Music history as a sprawling subway map where every genre looks like it has family drama.
A flea market of personal websites: messy rooms, bright buttons, strange shrines, and real people everywhere.
Tiny etiquette with a hard stare: say the thing, skip the ceremony.
Git first aid written for the exact moment your stomach drops and the terminal looks personally disappointed.
Retro-computing basement energy: old hardware, old games, and the glow of machines that refuse to leave.
The oldschool font showcase whose beautiful glyphs and text art inspired the font choice on this site.
A tiny website with a single-use curse, making one click feel weirdly ceremonial.
A personal homepage from the Cookie Clicker dimension: experiments, toys, and odd little systems bubbling away.
No idea who needs this, but here is the madman guide to writing a whole operating system in Rust.
An artish, viby little fortune teller wrapped in vaporwave aesthetics and soft old-computer energy.
Strange, playful games and interactive projects from Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei.
A daily pixel art and gaming web magazine, wholly made out of pixel art, which makes it special.
A visual essay on Japanese web design, with screenshots, clustering, and cultural context.
Sam Rose's site, full of visual interactive explainers about software and systems.
Animated terminal scroll art, preserved as tiny loops of characters.
The world's worst sign-up process, carefully engineered to make account creation absurd.
Rich Hickey draws a clean line between simple and easy, then quietly ruins half your architectural opinions.
A gamey, alchemy-inspired profile that pushed me to play with that vibe on my own website.
A cool book-summary library with audio, PDF, and EPUB options when you want the shape of an idea fast.
Soham Saha's generative art experiments: little procedural systems where math turns into texture, motion, and pattern.
A 3D music clip in the browser. I have never seen a music video object quite like this before, and it rules.
systemd won. cope harder, init script enjoyers.
The old BitTorrent cockroach of the web: magnet links, rough edges, and distributed-systems lore.
A lovely communal web place where lots of people share tiny personal sites, gigs, notes, and small internet presence.
Decade-hopping broadcast archaeology. Pick the 50s through 90s and let old TV leak through the time machine.
Interactive data visualization work across maps, science, archives, and public datasets.
A minimal timer for deliberately doing nothing.
The classic W3C validator for checking whether your markup is actually valid.
An explorable gaussian splat of San Francisco's Sutro Tower, complete with orbit controls and interest points.
Random early iPhone YouTube uploads with default IMG_XXXX filenames, turned into an accidental video time capsule.
Tiny-web speed sermon: squeeze the page under one TCP packet and make every byte count.
A workout builder where you pick equipment, muscles, and exercises, then get a custom training session.
If you hate JavaScript but do not know why yet, here are more than a hundred reasons.
Weather as a terminal-native web service: curl it, pipe it, script it, skip the forecast dashboard.
The SSR/static engine I use for this site. Fast, flexible, and it does not force its config shape on you.
Do not know what to feel? Watch the most tear-squeezing part of a movie and cry, of course.
Home of Marginalia Search, plus essays and experiments around independent web discovery.
A detective SQL game where the clues are in the database and the case is solved with queries.
A weird little browser game about a website that insists there is no website. Very silly, very cool.
An alternate-universe operating system in the browser, full of fake apps, games, cursed nostalgia, and clickable chaos.