this page is for collecting links to various cool, fun, useful or just plain fascinating sites i find on the occasional dives down the internet rabbit hole i like to do. links are sorted by category for your convenience!
the one and only. keep at LEAST one tab of this site open at all times when you're working on a website.
handy little website that reads through your html code and tells you what you can improve. run your site through this at least once!
same thing as above, but for CSS.
a database for EVERY unicode symbol. all of em. even ones you've never heard of. ESPECIALLY ones you've never heard of.
this website lets you import SVGs for all sorts of symbols! i've used it in a couple places on this site :)
this website helps you generate CSS animations of all kinds! a genuine lifesaver. i've used it in a lot of places here.
a website that lets you generate all sorts of graphics! i used this for the neat little orbiting text on my about section :3
oh, CSS gradients, where would i be without you? ...probably still on this couch, but with a slightly less interesting website. lmao.
you could use the above site for this, but this site is made specifically just for making stripes.
shoutout to a real one. this dude's got all sorts of fun visual effects here for your website. an older version of this website used the cursor sparkles!
lotsa good resources for building a website here.
lot of good stuff here too! honestly their whole website is worth a look.
open source blogging platform!
an open source wiki software!
there's so many 88x31 buttons here it'll make your head spin.
go nuts!
almost four thousand of those lil web badges here. literally so fucking many.
for when you can't find the specific one you want on the above site.
once i eventually switch off of hosting thru neocities, i'll probably be using caddy.
free programming resources!
more open source programs than you could ever need.
free to use audio and video materials from the library of congress. pretty cool stuff, ngl.
a website that makes every masterclass lesson free to access, with a funny twist: they're all formatted like wikihow articles.
tons of programs you can download and host yourself. i've downloaded one two of these myself!
more freeware, because there's no such thing as too much freeware :)
free ebooks!
free access to scientific journals. link changes occasionally, just google sci-hub if this one doesn't work.
abandonware! lots of it!
an atlas of the skies. collaged together from photos from NASA!
listen to meteor pings, the sound that happens when terrestrial VHF signals get reflected by the ionized trails small meteors leave behind when they burn up in earth's atmosphere.
a collection of information about cyberpunk- the genre, the subculture, all of it.
fullscreen terminal emulator that looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. i'm absolutely checking this out after i finish writing this page.
"hello world" programs for every language you can think of!
exactly what it says on the tin. about as free as a license can get.
yeah idk man. i think this is someone's personal site? words fail to describe it. HUGE FLASHING IMAGES TW I AM NOT FUKCING JOKING THIS SITE WILL GIVE YOU A SEISURE IF YOU ARE PHOTOSENSITIVE!!
you can find every book that has been, will be, or could be written here... if you know where to look!
a website that lets you download videos/audio from any site. one of the best out there, imo!
like cobalt, but a standalone program. i'm pretty sure this one has more capabilities as well.
man, i should really fool around with imagemagick one of these days...
a website dedicated to showing what browsers support which features.
HUGE list of links for all sorts of resources for programming.
a png compressor. this is a MUST for websites.
learn to code (for free!)
a program to free up disc space. like ccleaner but open source!
a page all about how to maintain your privacy online.
a video game console where the games' info is all stored in the png of the digital cartridge! super neat!
a recreation of stumbleupon! you can find some cool stuff on here.
a cellular automaton, all within a website!
a fun website with a sort of vaporwave aesthetic.
a toki pona dictionary! very handy if you're trying to learn toki pona :)
a super interesting (and pretty) writing system
where the pointer becomes the pointed.....
exactly what it says on the tin.
webGL shaders!
lol. lmao even.
sweet jesus (potential eyestrain warning)
need a good rabbit hole to go down? say no more.
fuck yeah dude
wasn't originally gonna include this one but then my sister visited it out of curiosity and we found some song called "autismusik" from some german artist with genuinely fucking INSANE bars. so.
explore through genres and artists!
exactly what it says. go nuts.
a classic. i've used this plenty of times when i was at a loss for what to name something (which is often)
tons of free sfx, for all you animators out there.
a page covering all sorts of concepts used in comics.
rotate a 3d skull and find photos of an animal of your choice facing that direction!
photoshop, but in your browser!
glitch images!
this site's GOOD. like REALLY good. i tried this out with a bunch of different pictures and it was genuinely impressive.
surprisingly effective!
so so many pose refs.
hungry for more? try one of these sites (that i totally didn't steal links from...)