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On the highest floor, you find a room of vast windows looking out at the world ahead of you... A treasure chest lies at your feet, full of trinkets, tools and guides to web sites far and wide. Happy adventuring!
Music
My 5 favorite songs in a playlist in case you don't feel like exploring a specific genre.
- Electric / Pop
- ใชใใ? - Acoustic calm meets ethereal synth ๐น
- Princess of China by Coldplay - I love the synth + violin vibe, very 2011
- Belden Towers by Starjunk 95 - Perfect for taking the L on a cloudy morning!
- Indie
- If You Love Her by Tokyo Tea Room - Open waves
- Billie Toppy by Men I Trust - Bass or electric guitar?
- Timeless by Pulefor - Drive through a forest
- Driving Woman by Japanese Breakfast - Novel soft electric guitar shredding?
- Breakcore / Jungle
- You Can Fly by Sui Uzi - Breakcore jazz ๐ท
- Fine Night by Goreshit - Piano meets snare
- GIRL HELL 1999 by Femtanyl - It's pretty out there but also a bop
- Big Time Freq by Machine Girl - I would love to make a montage to this
- Shoegaze
- Mass Anaesthesia by Mediavolo - Spacious, dreamy ๐
- Whirlpool by Chapterhouse - Upbeat, sea breeze feel ๐
- Annie Blue by Launder - Ethereal, warm ๐
- Pur by Cocteau Twins - I love the electric guitar break (my fav personally) โจ
- Classic / Abstract Rock
- Good Morning Texts by bl4ck m4rket c4rt - The morning sun on a fresh spring morning
- Great Gig in the Sky by Pink Floyd Woah Woaha Woahya WOAAAAAAA
- B.I.L.L.S. by Towa Bird I forgot to put Chappell Roan earlier so here's Towa
- Ain't No Rest for the Wicked by Cage the Elephant Distorted guitar + didgeridoo
- How Soon Is Now? by The Smiths
- Random
- Shokolade by TokTokTok - Perfect for dancing!
- Granny In Da Club by Nik Nocturnal - yeah
- IT Girl by Ailyah's Interlude - I like to do system updates with this playing
- telepatรญa by Kali Uchis - It's written all over your face times two...
Notes
More academic than the ones in /articles.
Tools
- General Productivity
- Obsidian: Open source markdown note taking app I really like
- Content production
- Fullscreen Color Picker (turn your phone into a handheld light, helpful for filming in dark areas w/o extra equipment)
- Cobalt: extensible open-source media downloader by Imput
- FFMPEG: convert any media format to any other media format
- Cad & Engineering
- FreeCad - Make just about anything, there's lots of tutorials available online!
- Webdev
- Free, public APIs
- Pika.page - Make your own weblog without code! I highly recommend learning some HTML though :)
- Pixel Sea - 88x31 & 32x32 button search engine!
- Neocities HTML tutorial - A collection of great resources, and a course for Neocities members. (Neocities is also a great place to explore people's personal sites!)
- Pages.dev, hosting websites here is efficient and easy to configure. Between Vercel and Railway they're currently my preference.
- System Management
- WinUtil - Get a new windows system up and running effortlessly, de-bloat, and finally wrangle the update system.
Links
Looking to explore the web a bit more? Here are a few sites I've found through my surfing! If you want to search, I also recommend Wiby or SearchMySite!
- Guides
- Harvard- Hidden Curriculum: Advice for physics students (extremly helpful reguardless of your focus)
- Games
- OverTheWire games (I recommend bandit!)
- Arts
- Arthur Tress: Rambles, Dreams, and Shadows - One of my favorite photographers, I'm frequently inspired by his work
Sites to explore
- Melon's site - There's so much to see here, I love the elevator animation, sound effects, and side pages / caverns to explore every which way
- m15o's website - Lots of resources for making a simple site + Atom feed, they also created status.cafe! (one of my favorite sites to visit)
- status.cafe - wowwww who saw this coming (genuinely everything Twitter couldn't have ever been and more)
Blogs (link โ endorsement)
- Ludicity's blog - Refreshingly real insights into the madness of modern development work (my favorite is "I will dropkick you if you use that spreadsheet")
- Maia's Site - First she leaked the do not fly list, now what?
- Maggie Appleton - Visual essays about programming, design, and anthropology. I especially recommend her article on the Dark Forest of the web.
- Petra Pixel has a really good section on debugging and asking questions about code!
- Retro Web
- Maximum Linux magazine archive - Extremely edgy and very 1999
- Obsolyte - A site about the joys of Antique Junk from the good ol' days
- Motherf*cking website - A satirical website about unnecessary web design complexity
- Yesterweb: Say NO to Web3 - Article illustrating the lack of accessibility of Web 3 and the importance of having a personal space on the web.
- Digital Philosophy
- The Small Website Discoverability Crisis - Discussion of search engines and human relevancy in an increasingly dense web (especially w/ AI content).
- Designed to last - Websites aren't forever, this is about the fleeting nature of the internet and the importance of reaching out. (If you want, you can save this site as a PWA and keep an offline copy forever)
- Things which are silly
- Linux users removing bloatware - So you have enough room to install neofetch right?
- Do What The F*ck You Want to Public License - Finally a legally binding licence we can all can read and understand
- Myip.wtf - A silly way to get your IP address and info in a helpful format
- Activate Linux - Finally getting the important windows features ported tbh
- Fuck off (as a service) - People finally found a use for SAAS
- We-are-jammin! A silly way to get your IP address with style, also really funny to prank people with
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