Links of interest the most useful page on this website
#Neat Blogs & Personal Sites
#Lists of sites
- The 250KB club, 512KB Club and 1MB Club
- /now pages, /uses pages
- /about, /ideas, OR /now pages
- PersonalSit.es
- Web Desktops known to the software engineer Simone
#Web (technologies, design & development)
- taylor.town
- Rachel Andrew, Google technical writer
- Mark Boulton, product designer
- Aleksandr Hovhannisyan (note his article on font fallbacks without layout shift)
- rsapkf
- Amelia Wattenberger (check out: fish eyes)
- Neil Panchal
#*nix
#Retro Computing
#Humor
#Aesthetic & Music
- Poolsuite / Poolside FM
- Windows 93
- CoolModFiles and chiptune3.js demo
- Cameron’s World, a love letter to GeoCities
#I just think they’re neat
#Live
#Animal Cams
- Aquariums: Georgia, Monterey Bay, of the Pacific, Shedd, Seattle
- Cats: Kittentaz Siamese
- Zoos: Chattanooga
#Radio
#🏴☠️ Sharing 🦜
Consult your local laws before using the following websites to retrieve copyright-protected content.
- 📚 Anna’s Archive seems to have most every ebook and PDF
- 🍁 Mapple.TV, paired with an ad blocker, has a lot of TV and movies (see also: fmovies0)
- ❗ h!anime [alts] is likewise comprehensive and easy to use
- 🦈 Grooveshark (no relation) is an ad-free YouTube Music proxy
- 🔗 Meta: Yarrlist, awesome-piracy, megathread, /u/nbatman wiki
#Development
- The Grug Brained Developer, a layman’s guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained
- Command-Line Interface Guidelines
- Free for Developers - a list of tools & platforms with a free tier
- CSS Context-Aware Colors
- Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
#IT & SysOps
#VPS & Hosting
- LowEndBox has a bunch of promotions for cheap VPS, dedicated, and shared web hosting
#Stories & Humor
- BOFH API and the excuse generator using it
- The case of the 500-mile email
#Typography
- Modern Font Stacks for the web, without any downloads
- Matthew Butterick’s Practical Typography, a good online book about the subject (though he is wrong about underlines)
#Collections
#Sans-serif Typefaces
- Alegraya Sans feels a bit older and more hand-etched than most sans-serifs
- Marcellus, a Trajan-esque title font with lowercase that feels a bit like Optima
- Averia Sans, the averages of every sans-serif on Dan Sayer’s computer
- National Park looks like router-cut signs with perfectly rounded ends
- Rubik has rounded ends that feel more squircle than circle
- Wolf Sans bears a striking resemblance to the legends on the IBM Model M keyboard
- Nunito is a nicely balanced rounded sans-serif as is its derivative SN Pro
- Nunito Sans lacks the aforementioned rounding
- Red Hat Display and Text are lovely readable sans-serifs formerly used on this very site
- Inter is variable and pleasant, if a bit vanilla. Helvetica-esque
- Open Sauce (demo) is another Helvetica-esque with distinctive inktraps
- Metropolis (used for Mozilla Firefox titling) and VMware’s version Clarity City are nice. The author seems to have gotten in some sort of spat with Jonathan Hoefler about its resemblance to Gotham
- IBM Plex Sans has a bit of personality. Corporate, computery, and very safely playful. On-brand.
#Serif Typefaces
- STIX Two Text is a true rarity: a Times-based font that I don’t find ugly. Designed for scientific journals, but looks nice most anywhere.
- Averia & Averia Serif are the averages of every font on Dan Sayers’ computer
- Vollkorn is beefy & homegrown, like a stew
- XCharter nicely extend’s Matthew Carter’s simple screen font, Charter
- Source Serif is in a very similar vein to Charter, but with more characters and weights. I love its distinctive ‘?’ glyph
- Libre Caslon Condensed invokes memories of old Apple print ads
- Instrument Serif is likewise a vintage-feeling condensed display type
#Monospace Typefaces
- Cascadia Code. Yeah, I know it’s M$ and it’s now a default font, but it’s pretty and readable.
- Block Mono
#Display Typefaces
- alagard - a readable bitmap gothic font
#Tools
- Variable font helper to select, compress, and host variable fonts from Google fonts
#Themes
#Syntax highlighting
#Tools
#Emulation
#In-browser
- v86 by Fabian (copy.sh) lets you run a variety of OSes in an emulated P4 class machine, in browser
- JSLinux by Fabrice Bellard is quite similar, emulates Windows 2000 impressively in addition to RISC-V Linux
- Infinite Mac emulates Mac up to OS X Tiger
- PCE.js by James Friend emulates a Mac Plus, Atari ST, or IBM PC
- MartyPC is a cycle-accurate IBM PC 5150 emulator for your browser
#Unsorted Items
- Sad Servers
- Zola & Tera docs
- ffmpeg by example
#Encoding, Compression, & File Formats
#ffmpeg
#Lists of Lists
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