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Websites
Disclaimer
I don't agree with everything on every website listed here. Obviously, it is impossible for my views to be wholly the same as anyone else's, but it's worth noting that a significant portion of the following websites contain content I disagree with (sometimes vehemently). And that's great! Those websites have given me things to think about and added nuance to my opinions, even if we continue disagreeing. I hope you find stuff you disagree with too.
That being said, I have no interest in platforming any flavor of right-wing reactionary. If your link has disappeared from this page, either I made a mistake or you did something that didn't sit right with me (because I actually read websites instead of linking them because they're cute). I don't care whether you self-identify as a right-wing reactionary.
If I have removed your link but you have mine up, you're welcome to treat me in kind. I'm not in the business of transactional linkage, so it doesn't matter to me. I probably didn't notice you had me linked in the first place.
Personal websites
- Armaina
- Desert Jaguar
- Disability Visibility Project
- Fueled by Clouds and Coffee
- Giocities
- Gurney Journey
- Hola, Papi
- Nicky Bay
- Oatmeal
- Olive Octopus
- Pol Clarissou
- Southern Rockies Nature Blog
- Starbreaker
- Stitch's Media Mix
- Veronica with Four Eyes
Directories
- Accessible Net
- Bukmark.club
- Focus First
- Link Lane
- List Me
- Neocreatives
- Nightfall City (Writer's Lane)
- Responsive website directory
- Smooth Sailing
Webcomics
Learn stuff
Art
- Art Tutorial for the Intermediate Painter
- Devin Elle Kurtz
- Hex Kit
- James Gurney
- Posemaniacs
- Softcover Coptic bookbinding
- Watercolour World
Guidance for people who have already been painting for a while and want to learn more.
Pay-what-you-want brushes and digital art video tutorials.
A program for making your own maps for tabletop games or worldbuilding.
Paint-along videos, tutorials, and insights on painting. Gurney paints in gouache, but his advice applies across media.
An online library of 3D pose models.
A guide adapting the Coptic bookbinding method for softcover books.
A massive gallery of watercolor paintings, many of which are tagged with the location in which they were painted.
Citizen science
- Birdata (Australia)
- BugGuide (USA and Canada)
- Bumblebee Watch (USA)
- FrogWatch USA and FrogWatch Canada
- HerpMapper (Worldwide)
- iNaturalist (Worldwide)
- Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper (Western USA)
Share bird sightings in Australia.
Share insect sightings in the US and Canada.
Share bumblebee sightings in the US.
Share frog sightings in the US and Canada.
Share amphibian and reptile sightings all over the world.
The king of citizen science databases. Share sightings of any living thing from anywhere in the world.
Share monarch and milkweed sightings in the Rocky Mountain states (Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico) westward.
Computers
- Build Your Own X
- Host your own Raspberry Pi website
- Interneting is Hard
- Python for Everybody
- Raspberry Pi tutorials
- Shell Novice
- Simple Programming Problems
- W3 Schools
Step-by-step guides for DIY computer projects like games, emulators, neural networks, search engines, and more!
A guide to setting up your own web server via Raspberry Pi.
An illustrated guide to HTML and CSS.
A free online Python course aimed at complete programming beginners.
Fun Raspberry Pi projects for beginners.
Get started with shell scripting.
Simple programming exercises to work through and test your knowledge with as you learn.
Coding reference library with examples and tutorials.
Databases and encyclopedias
- Atlas of Places
- Public Domain Review
- Springer Open Access
- Standard Ebooks
- Things and Stuff Wiki
A collection of educational materials curated "according to continuously evolving philosophical, social and cultural beliefs."
A digital library of public domain work.
Free college-level textbooks.
A library of ebooks that have been corrected and formatted to work on modern e-readers.
A wiki of... everything! Good luck leaving.
Home economics
- Antique Pattern Library
- Container Gardening
- Grim Grains
- Woks of Life
Scanned public domain craft patterns.
A blog about gradening in small spaces.
Simple plant-based and tree nut-free recipes.
Approachable Chinese recipes.
Life sciences
- An Atlas of Insect Morphology
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- The Cockroach Homepage
- Crab Database
- Creatures of the Deep
- EBird
- Featherbase
- Insect Identification
- Merlin Bird ID
- Wildflower Search
An illustrated textbook about insect morphology for entomologists (and aspiring entomologists).
A free digital library of public-domain biodiversity literature and illustrations.
Troves of literature and information about cockroaches.
Crabs! There are so many.
A lovingly-illustrated database of deep sea animals.
The Cornell ornithology database for birds across the world.
A tool for identifying birds by their feathers.
A database of North American insects and arachnids, categorized by color, location, and taxonomy to help you identify them.
A phone app that helps you identify the birds around you by sound, photo, or description.
Helps you identify wildflowers using their location, color, shape and time of year.
Math
- Calculus Made Easy
A classic book with an approach to calculus you might not have seen before. And it's available for free online!
Tech resources
You may also be interested in the links listed under Learn something/Computers.
Browser tools
- 12ft.io
- Bit font maker
- Breeze Wiki
- Flowchart.fun
- Guerilla Mail
- Marginalia search engine
- News Literacy Quiz
- Scihub
- Simple opt-out
This is definitely not a tool for evading website paywalls.
Make your own pixel fonts.
A website that will unfuck any Wikia (Fandom.com) page so you can actually read it.
Online flowchart generator.
Stop giving out your email address to annoying services - use a disposable one!
A search engine that prioritizes obscure text-based content.
Should you really share that article?
This is definitely not a tool for evading academic journal paywalls.
Easily opt out of data sharing from different services.
Software
- 7zip (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- Deskspace (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- LibreOffice (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android)
- OneTab (Firefox extension)
- Switching.Software
- Tape (Windows, Mac, Linux)
A free open-source file archiver.
A simple self-care desktop program with reminders, a to-do list, mood tracker, and a function that reminds you to take breaks.
Open-source office alternative.
An extension that collapses all the tabs you have open into a list for later.
A resource for switching to open-source versions of commonly-used programs.
A simple to-do list program.
Website-making
- Awesome Selfhosted
- Bear Blog
- Comic Control
- Chyrp Lite
- Glitch
- Interneting is Hard
- Mozilla developer docs
- Mozilla Observatory
- Responsive design overview
- Smol.Pub
- Static Site Generators
- Web host lists
- W3 Schools
- Zoner
A list of things you can host on your own website or web server.
A free, simple, privacy-oriented blogging service.
A PHP-based content management system for comics (a lightweight alternative to Wordpress/ComicsPress).
A lightweight PHP blogging engine. Has post types like Tumblr.
A free host for small web projects.
An illustrated guide to HTML and CSS.
Reference books for HTML, CSS, Javascript, HTTP, and common web APIs.
Checks your website for security vulnerabilities.
A summary of best practices for responsive websites.
A free text-based, privacy-oriented blogging service. Blogs can be accessed through HTTP, Gemini, and Gopher.
A list of static site generators, tagged by language.
A list of web hosting options for small websites.
Coding reference library with examples and tutorials (not just for web design, either).
A static generator for Javascript-free Zonelets-system blogs.
Web design
- 0 to 255
- Clippy
- Color contrast checker
- CSS Diner
- CSS hover effects
- CSS3 patterns
- Fancy border radius
- Flexbox Froggy
- Google webfont helper
- How to center in CSS
- Randomally
- Transparent Textures
- Vanilla Javascript list
- Water.css
Find lighter and darker versions of any color.
Generates CSS clip-path codes for whatever shape you want.
Checks your foreground and background colors for contrast, then suggests a new color if accessible contrast standards aren't met.
A game for learning CSS selectors.
Cool CSS transitions when you hover over things.
Tiling backgrounds done in CSS.
Make fun shapes with border-radius in CSS.
Learn Flexbox with a cute frog game!
Helps you use Google web fonts without the Google part.
Tell this website what you want to center and it gives you the CSS to do it.
Randomly generates color pairs with good contrast.
Transparent tiling backgrounds.
Lightweight Javascript that doesn't use JQuery or other external libraries.
A classless CSS file that gives you an easy way to beautify plain text pages.
Fun webpages
- 1-Bit Pixels Encoded in E. Coli for the Display of Interactive Digital Media
- Ace Attorney Online
- Album of the Day
- Apple Rankings
- FromSoft image macro generator
- Isopods Eat
- Objection.lol
- Postcrossing
- Vimm's Lair
- Wild Bread
- Window Swap
A deep dive into how one could theoretically run Doom on cells.
Make and play fanmade Ace Attorney cases in your browser.
Shows a random album each day. You can submit albums to the pool it uses!
Detailed reviews of different apple cultivars.
Make FromSoft-style (Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc) text overlays and put them on images.
Videos of isopods eating human food.
Make your own Ace Attorney videos with game assets.
Exchange postcards with people around the world!
A website dedicated to classic video game preservation.
One person's documentation of bread they found on the ground.
Webcam feeds of windows around the world.