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little things that make your clocks tick

Classless CSS Previews

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

CSS Zen Garden Designs

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

DevDocs

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

FamiStudio

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

SilverBullet

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

Indieblog.page

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

Kill the Newsletter

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

Lens

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

Nakarte

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

GitHub Recommender

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

Strudel

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

Tabletop Audio

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

Piskel

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

Realtime Colors

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

SVG Viewer

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

WhatFontIs

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

Stuff that rocks

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

Anna's Archive

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

ANSI Escape Codes

Find, inspect and visualize control codes for terminals.

0x0.st

File hosting with a beautiful HTML-only design.

16colo.rs

Beautiful ANSI/ASCII graphics gallery.

64.surf

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

Dissonance - aatishb

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

AlternativeTo

Tool for discovering software alternatives with people review.

Awesome Explorer

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

Free Audiobook Search

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

CASCII

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

Curlie - The Collector of URLs

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

Debuggex visual regex tester

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

DistroWatch.com

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

explainshell.com

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

Fancy Cool Text Generator

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

John Doe's page

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

Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine

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

Learn Git Branching

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

meet.hn

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

Free in-browser .msg viewer

View .msg in browser. Thank you.

Oh Shit, Git!?!

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

Oldschool PC Font Pack

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

The Scroll Art Museum

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

SoBrief

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

The Pirate Bay

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

The W3C Markup Validation Service

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

Workout Cool

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

Weather report

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

Eleventy

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

www.marginalia.nu @marginalia.nu

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

SQL Noir - A Detective SQL Game

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