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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

Directories

Webcomics

Learn stuff

Art

  • Art Tutorial for the Intermediate Painter
  • Guidance for people who have already been painting for a while and want to learn more.

  • Devin Elle Kurtz
  • Pay-what-you-want brushes and digital art video tutorials.

  • Hex Kit
  • A program for making your own maps for tabletop games or worldbuilding.

  • James Gurney
  • Paint-along videos, tutorials, and insights on painting. Gurney paints in gouache, but his advice applies across media.

  • Posemaniacs
  • An online library of 3D pose models.

  • Softcover Coptic bookbinding
  • A guide adapting the Coptic bookbinding method for softcover books.

  • Watercolour World
  • A massive gallery of watercolor paintings, many of which are tagged with the location in which they were painted.

Citizen science

Computers

Databases and encyclopedias

Home economics

Life sciences

  • An Atlas of Insect Morphology
  • An illustrated textbook about insect morphology for entomologists (and aspiring entomologists).

  • Biodiversity Heritage Library
  • A free digital library of public-domain biodiversity literature and illustrations.

  • The Cockroach Homepage
  • Troves of literature and information about cockroaches.

  • Crab Database
  • Crabs! There are so many.

  • Creatures of the Deep
  • A lovingly-illustrated database of deep sea animals.

  • EBird
  • The Cornell ornithology database for birds across the world.

  • Featherbase
  • A tool for identifying birds by their feathers.

  • Insect Identification
  • A database of North American insects and arachnids, categorized by color, location, and taxonomy to help you identify them.

  • Merlin Bird ID
  • A phone app that helps you identify the birds around you by sound, photo, or description.

  • Wildflower Search
  • 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
  • This is definitely not a tool for evading website paywalls.

  • Bit font maker
  • Make your own pixel fonts.

  • Breeze Wiki
  • A website that will unfuck any Wikia (Fandom.com) page so you can actually read it.

  • Flowchart.fun
  • Online flowchart generator.

  • Guerilla Mail
  • Stop giving out your email address to annoying services - use a disposable one!

  • Marginalia search engine
  • A search engine that prioritizes obscure text-based content.

  • News Literacy Quiz
  • Should you really share that article?

  • Scihub
  • This is definitely not a tool for evading academic journal paywalls.

  • Simple opt-out
  • Easily opt out of data sharing from different services.

Software

  • 7zip (Windows, Mac, Linux)
  • A free open-source file archiver.

  • Deskspace (Windows, Mac, Linux)
  • A simple self-care desktop program with reminders, a to-do list, mood tracker, and a function that reminds you to take breaks.

  • LibreOffice (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android)
  • Open-source office alternative.

  • OneTab (Firefox extension)
  • An extension that collapses all the tabs you have open into a list for later.

  • Switching.Software
  • A resource for switching to open-source versions of commonly-used programs.

  • Tape (Windows, Mac, Linux)
  • A simple to-do list program.

Website-making

  • Awesome Selfhosted
  • A list of things you can host on your own website or web server.

  • Bear Blog
  • A free, simple, privacy-oriented blogging service.

  • Comic Control
  • A PHP-based content management system for comics (a lightweight alternative to Wordpress/ComicsPress).

  • Chyrp Lite
  • A lightweight PHP blogging engine. Has post types like Tumblr.

  • Glitch
  • A free host for small web projects.

  • Interneting is Hard
  • An illustrated guide to HTML and CSS.

  • Mozilla developer docs
  • Reference books for HTML, CSS, Javascript, HTTP, and common web APIs.

  • Mozilla Observatory
  • Checks your website for security vulnerabilities.

  • Responsive design overview
  • A summary of best practices for responsive websites.

  • Smol.Pub
  • A free text-based, privacy-oriented blogging service. Blogs can be accessed through HTTP, Gemini, and Gopher.

  • Static Site Generators
  • A list of static site generators, tagged by language.

  • Web host lists
  • A list of web hosting options for small websites.

  • W3 Schools
  • Coding reference library with examples and tutorials (not just for web design, either).

  • Zoner
  • A static generator for Javascript-free Zonelets-system blogs.

Web design

Fun webpages