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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

View .msg in browser. Thank you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Find, inspect and visualize control codes for terminals.

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

Tool for discovering software alternatives with people review.

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

Beautiful ANSI/ASCII graphics gallery.

File hosting with a beautiful HTML-only design.