Bookmarks

You know how sometimes you have hundreds of tabs open in your web browser because you found a bunch of stuff that is so useful that you have to keep them open? This is that for me, only I take the things that were in my tabs and put them here for safekeeping.

Reading

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• Where To Buy Books Other Than Amazon
• Moby Dick Big Read: a free audiobook reading of Moby Dick narrated by big names in the acting world.

Writing

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• Writing Month: a community driven, grassroots alternative to NaNoWriMo created by @amin .
• Writer Beware: a blog dedicated to exposing scamsters, vanity presses, and hustlers who prey on writers and publishers.

The Indie Web

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• IndieWebCamp: the ultimate resource for learning about the IndieWeb and how to join the community.
• indiewebify.me: a tool used to test your site for compatability with the IndieWeb.

Cool Software

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• GrapheneOS: a security-enhanced, de-Googled, operating system based off of Android. Can currently only be used with Google Pixel phones.
• CalyxOS: a de-Googled operating system based off of Android for more kinds of phones. Privacy focused, security enhanced.
• /e/OS: a heavily de-Googled operating system based off of Android that maintains its own software ecosystem.
• LineageOS: a de-Googled, Android based operating system.
• eza: a drop-in replacement to the Unix ls command written in rust but with a bunch of cool new features.

Web Manifestos & Web Books

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• Resilient Web Design: a book created by Jeremy Keith ( @adactio ) on the principles and approach to enhance web usability and accessibility using a technique called Resilient Web Design.
• Social Cooling: a book describing the ways in which big data companies and social media are causing a phenomenon called “Social Cooling.”
• Processed World: a 1980’s era publication founded by San Francisco tech dissidents about the continued dangers and struggles of the tech industry.
• modalzmodalzmodalz: a quick read on the hows and whys of UX’s most despised tool.
• Manifesto For A Humane Web: a call to action on how design web focused on human experiences instead of ad revenue.
• Use Plaintext Email: Half instructional, half call-to-action, this one page website informs readers on the reasons and means to use plaintext emails instead of HTML.

Design

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• The B612 Font Family: a free, highly legible open source font designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.
• Nervous System: a design studio focused on procedurally generated art including jigsaw puzzles, wood carving, CAD fabrication, and custom sculptures.

Linux Stuff

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• Mythic Computer: a high-end crafter of computers that border on art objects. Excessively beautiful computers that run off of NixOS and GNU Emacs.
• Liliputing: a news blog focused on mobile technology with an emphasis on low cost, ultra-portable computers.
• Darling: an open source tool for running MacOS software on Linux.

Web Tools

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• Moby Thesaurus: an excellent open source thesaurus that has a knack for suggesting a long list of unusual synonyms to help find the right word.
• SimpleLogin: a free, anonymous, email aliasing service.
• Protomaps: a free and open source map of the world. Can be embedded on a web site as an alternative to Google Maps or Mapbox.
• CHMOD Calculator: a tool that helps you formulate the perfect chmod command for any given use-case.
• Nightshade: a tool designed to poison AI robots and web scrapers that try to steal images for training generative AI models.
• &udm=14: a web site dedicated to the self-described “disenshittification Konami code”. Search Google in an AI-free context. Part of the Open Web Engine project.
• GoatCounter: a free, privacy respecting, analytics platform for personal web sites.
• DuckDB Shell: a public web shell for DuckDB, a local transient in-memory database.
• Web Check: a free tool for analyzing your web site from the perspective of attackers to assess vulnerabilities.
• Radar: a free text-based generative AI detection tool created by researchers.
• Colors.fyi: a collection of free color tools, notably Compare Colors.

Feeds & Newsletters

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• Weekly OSM: a weekly blog that keeps up with additions to OpenStreetMaps, a free-to-use collection of community maintained maps for the entire world.
• Design Spells: a web site dedicated to bite-sized CSS tricks and tips.

Web Oddities

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• The Library Of Babel: a complete collection of every possible combination of the letters in Latin alphabet, plus spacing and punctuation. This is an exhaustive collection of everything ever written, everything not yet written, and any private thought you have ever had or will have. Have fun! Read the about page to get a sense of what is going on here.
• Killed By Google: a digital graveyard dedicated to the long list of discontinued (and often beloved) Google products and services.
• Neal.fun: a free collection of bizzare web toys, games, and puzzles that you can explore for hours on end. All designed by Neal Agarwal, whose own home page is worth a visit.
• Tiled.art: an entire website dedicated to tessellation art. Has lots of fun animations and user contributed art.
• watabou: game dev and creator of Pixel Dungeon. Watabou focuses on procedural generation games and has created some of the most impressive procgen games and tools I’ve ever seen, many of which you can play in your browser.
• Scoundrel: a rogue-like card game you can play in your browser.
• bukk.it: a huge collection of bizzare GIFs, memes, and reaction faces from all over the Internet curated by a seemingly anonymous owner.
• Picotron: a retro-styled fantasy workstation and operating system that can run Lua. Can be used to make small programs and display them as standalone HTML apps. People use this software to make low-res video games, animations, and other fun things.