Bookmarks
Behold, my bookshelf of webbed sites. For best effect, read these in a candlelit chamber with a blanket and a warm drink. This is a personal collection, and not an exhaustive list. These are things I consistently use. This is more a collection of hypertext curiosities, with an obligatory spooy lean.
I find these links through hours of link-hopping, crawling, scuttling, and being a bit of a Fraidycat. I'll also attest to a few rounds with Claude, who covers the contemporary SEO-hellscape side of the net while I hand-curate things from the underground. I give further credit to Lutzbug for taking some of the excess off my paws; as a policy we don't host the same links as to keep things extra interesting for you readers. So if some truly ancient stuff is on the agenda, please by all means check them out!
Bookmarks \ The Magazine Rack
Computing
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| A Guide to Web Curation | A guide on how to sort your link pages for maximum efficiency. |
| Alex Schroeder: Keep Archives | LOREM IPSUM |
| Alex Wilchan: Digital Decluttering | LOREM IPSUM |
| Alex Wilchan: Social Media Scrapbook | LOREM IPSUM |
| Blog Microfeatures | LOREM IPSUM |
| Chris Hannah: Some Thoughts on Social Media | LOREM IPSUM |
| Content is Dead. Long Live Filler. | LOREM IPSUM |
| CrimethInc: Doxcare | LOREM IPSUM |
| Dan Luu on SEO Spam | A discussion on the deluge of SEO. |
| Death of the Old Web | LOREM IPSUM |
| Defensive Computing Checklist | LOREM IPSUM |
| Design Tenets of my Website | If I had to summarise why a lot of old sites feel that way, it would be this article. |
| End Times: Why Your Website Should Work Without JavaScript | LOREM IPSUM |
| Fire Exits | Websites need easy means of exit when they fail. |
| Herman: Messing with Bots | LOREM IPSUM |
| Herman: Slow Social Media | LOREM IPSUM |
| How to Be a Good Critic (Agre) | LOREM IPSUM |
| I'm Afraid to Die, So I Made a Website | LOREM IPSUM |
| IndieWeb Does Not Need to Take Off | The Indieweb does not need mainstream approval to thrive. |
| IndieWeb Principles | LOREM IPSUM |
| Internet Corpse Management | LOREM IPSUM |
| IRC is the Only Viable Chat Protocol | IRC is still an incredible, versatile tool in the modern age. |
| Just Put It on Your Blog | LOREM IPSUM |
| Karl Voit: Digitizing Paper | LOREM IPSUM |
| Karl Voit: Managing Digital Photographs | LOREM IPSUM |
| Linkrot, or Website Existentialism | A very heartfelt essay on the mortality of websites, and how to make the most of their losses. |
| Not Incompressible | LOREM IPSUM |
| On the Futility of Using Microsoft as an Email Provider | LOREM IPSUM |
| Permacomputing (Viznut, archived) | The original text for longterm computing. |
| Practical Betterments: Backup Your Vital Data | LOREM IPSUM |
| Sanding off Friction from Indie Web Connection | LOREM IPSUM |
| Smallweb Survival | LOREM IPSUM |
| The Death of DeviantArt | A post-mortem on deviantART and the dearth of a successor. |
| The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette | A decades' old guide on Internet manners. |
| The Public Domain | The Public Domain is inevitable, and not that scary. |
| The Slow Web | A call for a slower, more intentional internet experience. |
| The Small Way | LOREM IPSUM |
| The Website Obesity Crisis | Contemporary websites are bloated and inefficient. |
| This Page is Designed to Last | How to make your webpages last for years at a time. |
| Unsung Heroes: Flickr's URL Scheme | LOREM IPSUM |
| We Can Have a Different Web | LOREM IPSUM |
| Why I Release Things into the Public Domain | One webmaster's list of reasons to forfeit copyright. |
| Why We're Helping More Wikis Move Away from Fandom | LOREM IPSUM |
| Word Rot | LOREM IPSUM |
| You Are Not Late | You're just in time to do things online. |
| YOU are the Dead Internet | If it's not the robots, it's us making the internet so dull in places. |
Good Living
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| Blog: More Pull | You're more interesting than you think you are. |
| His Virus Ness: Long Live the Interwebz | Things don't die if you put effort into them. |
| How to Stop Being Boring | LOREM IPSUM |
| In Good Hands | LOREM IPSUM |
| Julia Evans: Tactics for Writing in Public | LOREM IPSUM |
| Make Art for You, Not Likes | LOREM IPSUM |
| Daniele63: Terrariums | LOREM IPSUM |
| Making a Terrarium in a Demijohn | LOREM IPSUM |
| Oliver Burkeman: The River | Learn to move more leisurely through your To-Read list. |
| Passive Suicidality Scale | LOREM IPSUM |
| Re: Re: Go Fail at Some Hobbies | LOREM IPSUM |
| Real Life Mag: The Great Offline | "The Wilderness" and "The Offline" are similar concepts with similar logical fallacies. |
| Taming the Mammoth | Don't worry about what people think of you. |
| The Trouble with Wilderness | Nature is not separate from humanity, and treating it this way causes problems. |
| William James's Advice | A general list of life advice. |
Newsletters
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| Good Internet Magazine | A newsletter on homelabs and independent webmastery. |
| Shellsharks Scroll | A newsletter of discoveries from the Small web. |
| TorrentFreak | An online publication on torrenting and piracy. |
Bookmarks \ Webbed Sites
Archives
General
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| 16colors | An archive of early ASCII and ANSI art. |
| Bibliotheca Anonoma: 4chan History | LOREM IPSUM |
| Classic Horror | The remains of an old horror-movie review website, kindly kept online as an archive. |
| Contemporary Home Computing | The dormant remains of a web archeologist. |
| Dark Realms: USENET | LOREM IPSUM |
| Do History: Graveyard Toolkit | LOREM IPSUM |
| DOSBox | LOREM IPSUM |
| Goodbye Domains | Eulogies for dead domains, overly ambitious projects and other cyberghosts. |
| Hallowdaze | LOREM IPSUM |
| Halloween Collector | A collector of vintage Halloween decorations discusses his decades-long journey through the hobby. |
| Halloween Monster List | LOREM IPSUM |
| Halloween Retrospect | A 600+ and still-growing collection of vintage Halloween ephemera. |
| Haunting Grounds | LOREM IPSUM |
| Hello World Collection | A compilation of "Hello World" programs in over 600 programming languages. |
| Horror.net | LOREM IPSUM |
| Killed by Google | A cemetery of failed Google products. |
| Komar Halloween | LOREM IPSUM |
| LP Archive: Dwarf Fortress — Boatmurdered | LOREM IPSUM |
| OldUse.net | LOREM IPSUM |
| OldVersion.com | LOREM IPSUM |
| Ravensblight | LOREM IPSUM |
| Scooby Museum | A collection of Scooby-Doo things, from the expected to the oddly specific. |
| The Gallery of Monster Toys | A 90s-style site for midcentury monster toys. |
| U.S. National Archives | LOREM IPSUM |
Wikis
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Ardalambion | Text-heavy guides on J.R.R. Tolkien's conlangs, which specialises in his Elvish Quenya. |
| Blood Wiki | A wiki for the 1997 first-person shooter and its sequel. |
| Diablo Wiki | A wiki for the progenitor action-fantasy title and its first sequel. |
| Esolang | A wiki for unusual programming languages. |
| IFDB | A catalog for the Interactive Fiction genre of video games. |
| Interactive Fiction Wiki | A wiki for the Interactive Fiction genre, the "GET LAMP" sorts. |
| Petz Wiki | A wiki for the PFMagic Petz titles and their modding scenes. |
| Privacy Guides | LOREM IPSUM |
| Tolkien Gateway | A wiki for J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic and the rest of its world. |
Wayback Machine
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| AFN Collection (Archived) | LOREM IPSUM |
| ASCII Tutorial: Hayley Wakenshaw (Archived) | LOREM IPSUM |
| ASCII Tutorial: Normand Veilleux (Archived) | LOREM IPSUM |
| ASCII Zoo (Archived) | LOREM IPSUM |
| Dark Links (Archived) | LOREM IPSUM |
| GeoCities SoHo 7373 (Archived) | LOREM IPSUM |
| Lorrie's ASCII Art (Archived) | LOREM IPSUM |
| Permacomputing (Viznut, archived) | The original text for longterm computing. |
Art
ASCII
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Alan W. Smith's ASCII Art | LOREM IPSUM |
| ASCII Art Website | LOREM IPSUM |
| ASCII Artist | LOREM IPSUM |
| ASCII.co.uk | LOREM IPSUM |
| FUNGI | A gallery of user-submitted ASCII fungi and other such whimsical things. |
| Joan Stark ASCII Art Archive | LOREM IPSUM |
| Roy's ASCII Corner | LOREM IPSUM |
| Stone Story ASCII Tutorial | Tutorials from the creator of Stone Story. |
| Unicorn and Butterfly | A webcomic made entirely from ASCII. |
| Xero's ASCII Gist | LOREM IPSUM |
Art Resources
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Calligraphr | A site that lets you create custom fonts from your own handwriting. |
| AdorkaStock | A deviantART pose-reference darling with a wide array of models. |
| Animal Photo Art References | A selection of posable animal skulls for artistic reference. |
| Animal Photo Reference Repository | A personal gallery of zoo animals, photographed for artistic reference. |
| Dwellings | A procedural generator of tiny homes and their floor-plans. |
| Free Nature Stock | Free-to-use pictures of nature scenes. |
| Procgen Mansion | A procedural generator of not so tiny homes and their floor-plans. |
| Pomodoro | An in-browser version of the famous timer. |
| Smolghost: Zine Resources | LOREM IPSUM |
| Wikimedia Commons | Wikipedia's image galleries and a viable source of artistic reference. Just mind all the oddly-specific sections. |
Games
Browser
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Colossal Cave Adventure | A seminal work of the Interactive Fiction genre, and direct inspiration to Roberta Williams, the creator of Sierra-Online. |
| DiabloWeb | A port of Diablo 1 in your browser. |
| Monster Match | A Space-Invaders clone where you match monsters to blast them. |
| Party Cemetery | A Space Funeral-like game where you attend a monster party and collect autographs of its most famous guests. |
| PETSCII Fireplace | A screensaver that's a virtual fireplace, complete with toggles for particle effects and music. |
| Powder | A childhood favourite where you play with various chemicals, liquids, and powders. |
| WebGL Fluid Simulation | I love this one. |
Downloadable
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| How to Raise a Dragon | Play as a captured dragon that breaks free and turns the tables on its humans, or doesn't, because you can decide! |
| KittyToy | Run a virtual cat shelter and give stray cats a loving home. |
| Monster Breeder | A choose-your-own-adventure where you capture and breed monsters to make grisly hybrid things. |
| Space Funeral | The famous horror-surrealist game where you, a man in pyjamas, set off with your horse made of legs to save the world. |
Novelty Sites
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Cats on Routers | A gallery of cats sitting on internet routers, simply because they can. |
| Creepy Link | Turns your links freaky. |
| Gwil's Internet Time | A website that tells you what swatch time it is. |
| Kitten War | A site for voting on the cutest kittens. |
| Sounds of the Forest Soundmap | An interactive sound map of the world's forests. |
| TombZone | Make your own ASCII tombstones. |
Other Netizens
Collectives
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| 100 Rabbits | A pair of creatives operating from a tiny boat. |
| Anticopyright | A copyright abolishment website. |
| Copyfree | A website for the term "Copyfree", a sign denoting the free distribution of media. |
| Cult of the Dead Cow | A decades-old hacker group with some really cool ASCII art. |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | A nonprofit organisation for digital privacy. |
| Low Carbon Software | A collective dedicated to environmentally-friendly software. |
Individuals
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| 2bit | A site dedicated to 2-bit media. |
| Bogleech | A site that celebrates all things monstrous, grotesque and halloween-ish, complete with its very own monster bestiary. |
| Catstuff | LOREM IPSUM |
| Dinosaur Dracula | A site that reviews 80s to 90s media with a playful style and a spooky lean. |
| Ritual Dust | A site for folklore and fantasy. |
| The Hermitary | A website about hermitdom. |
Technology
Datahoarding
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Archive Team | A long-running Archival project that always needs a helping hand. |
| Beautiful Soup | LOREM IPSUM |
| Beautiful Soup 4 (Docs) | LOREM IPSUM |
| EasyOCR | LOREM IPSUM |
| ExifTool | LOREM IPSUM |
| FFmpeg | LOREM IPSUM |
| gallery-dl | LOREM IPSUM |
| Ghost Archive | A wayback-machine styled website. |
| ImageMagick | LOREM IPSUM |
| Qbittorrent | My torrent client of choice. |
| Wget | LOREM IPSUM |
| yt-dlp | LOREM IPSUM |
IRC (For Users)
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Aaron Swartz IRC Style Guide | A humourous guide on speaking in IRC. |
| Bash Archive | An extremely funny archive of IRC chatlogs. |
| Chat IRC Quote Database | Another funny archive of IRC chatlogs. |
| Don't Ask to Ask | LOREM IPSUM |
| FreeBSD Wiki - IRC | FreeBSD's IRC documentation and community information. |
| Freenode | A 30 year old IRC network for the FOSS communities. |
| IRC History | An abridged version of IRC's origins. |
| IRC History (GitHub) | A Github repo that retells important events in IRC-istory. |
| IRC Newbies | Another vintage guide on the IRC protocol. |
| IRC.org | The official website of IRCnet, last updated in 2005. |
| IRCHelp.org | A classic IRC resource since 1996. |
| Libera.Chat | A newer IRC network for the FOSS communities. |
| Linux IRC Mini-HOWTO | A Linux-centric IRC guide from 2005. |
| Netsplit | A search-engine for IRC networks. |
| TFTB IRC Guide | A lighthearted anecdote on the various perverts of IRC. |
IRC (For Operators)
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Ergo IRC Server | My daemon of choice, written in Go. |
| IRC Docs Hub | A large and precise guide on the state of IRC today. |
| irc3 | A pluggable IRC client library based on Python's asyncio. |
| IRCv3 Specifications | GitHub repository containing all IRCv3 draft and stable specifications. |
| IRCv3 Working Group | Official IRCv3 working group for standardizing IRC protocol extensions. |
| Kiwi IRC | A web-based client for IRC. |
| Modern IRC | A suggestion and guide rolled into one. |
| Ncat | LOREM IPSUM |
| Python IRC Library | A full-featured IRC client framework for Python. |
| Sopel | A simple, easy-to-use, open-source IRC bot written in Python. |
| Wholok IRC Guide | An old and (self-admittedly) outdated guide on creating bots for IRC. |
Linux (General)
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| ArchWiki | A wiki for Arch Linux and its derivatives. |
| Awesome Linux | A part of Github's "awesome" series, for all things Linux. |
| CommandLineFu | LOREM IPSUM |
| Debian Wiki | A wiki for Debian. |
| DistroWatch | A catalog of over 900 Linux distributions and their resources. |
| Gentoo Wiki | A wiki for Gentoo. |
| Terminal Trove | A catalog of freeware for your terminal. |
Linux (Raspberry Pi and Raspbian)
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Awesome Raspberry Pi | A part of Github's "awesome" series, this time for the Pi. |
| docs.pi-hole.net | The official documentation on network-wide ad-blocking with your Pi. |
| eLinux.org Pi Hub | The Embedded Linux Wiki's page on the Raspberry Pi. |
| Ozzmaker | Local man does insane things with Pis. |
| Pi Documentation | The official documentation for all Raspberry Pi hardware and software. |
| Pi Magazine | The Pi's very own magazine studded with tutorials, projects, and community efforts. |
| Pi Repository | Raspberry Pi's official Github repo. |
| Scott: Solar Hosting with a Raspberry Pi | LOREM IPSUM |
| Waveshare Wiki | A wiki for Raspberry Pi hardware, most notably the UPS HAT. |
Website Building
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| 13th Track: Add Music Player | LOREM IPSUM |
| 98.css | A stylesheet modelled off Windows 98's UI. |
| Before You Buy a Domain, Check if it's Haunted | LOREM IPSUM |
| Catppuccin | A pastel theme for your projects. |
| CSS Tabs with Default Open Tab | A javascript-less approach to tabs. |
| Dracula Theme | The beloved dark-theme used in many a program, and also the inspiration behind this site's colour scheme. |
| Esoteric Codes | Various articles on unusual programming languages. |
| File Garden | A file hosting tool for your browser. |
| Fraidycat | A browser extension and software that lets you follow people from afar. It's like social media without the pain and suffering. |
| John Doe Layout | My favourite one-page website layout, all on one HTML file. |
| Just Fucking Use HTML | LOREM IPSUM |
| Kalechips Layouts | A variety of accessible, mobile-friendly layouts with a web 2.0 touch. I'm currently using its Fun with Flexbox layout. |
| Limegreen Wikitable | A wiki layout for your character listing needs. I use this for Dancing with the Dead's wiki pages. |
| Petrapixel's Layout Generator | A layout generator with lots of things to customise. I used this on a previous version of my Dungeon Keeper 2 Shrine. |
| Rarebit | A JavaScript display for webcomics. Word of advice though, use it for small, completed webcomics. |
| Read Time | Gives you the time it takes to read any plaintext you show it. |
| Waterfox | A fork of Firefox and my main desktop browser. |
Website Guides
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Neurodiversity Design System | A site for neurodivergent-friendly web design. |
| The A11Y Project | A site for accessible design. |
| W3schools | The premier site for code tutorials for HTML, CSS, Javascript and more. |
Web Portals
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| AllChans | A directory of imageboards, from the classics to the disturbing. |
| Diagram Website | A diagram of different cultural regions of the small web. |
| Petz Site Directory v2 | A directory of websites in the Petz modding scene. |