A collection of pages from across the internet I wanna hang onto, and I figure other people might benefit from knowing about. Updated whenever I find something neat.
Tools
- justaqrcode.com - A simple, no-frills QR code generator that runs locally in the browser
- scritch - Bandcamp-style music player for itch.io
- kill-sticky - A bookmarklet to remove annoying sticky headers / modals on websites
- Asemulator - Aseprite extension for testing character sprites in-editor
- Decker - Hypercard for the modern age
- cobalt - Download video, audio, images, etc, from social media platforms
- yt-dlp - A command-line tool to download Youtube videos, music, whatever
- copyparty - An insanely feature-packed free and open-source file server accessible over any browser, all in a single <1MB python script.
- chawan - A shockingly capable terminal-based web browser
- Freetube - Private, local YouTube client
- magic-wormhole - Fast and easy file transfers between computers
- Phantomake - A static site generator, what this website is made with!
- micro - My go-to terminal text editor. Extremely intuitive and easy to use
Blog Posts
- The rise of Whatever - "But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless."
- Frame of preference - Beyond being an exploration of UX and the control panel of early Mac computers, this post is just technically wild to me. More than just a page of text, this is an interactive museum of UX.
Companies & Services
- Bear & Beagle - A small, furry-owned custom vinyl sticker printing company based out of Las Vegas.
Code
- rxi's lua libraries - I love Lua, especially in conjunction with LÖVE, and I find myself using rxi's libraries on nearly every project nowadays
- LÖVE - A free, open-source framework for making 2d games (or 3d, if you're stubborn) in Lua. Probably best known for being the framework Balatro was made in.
Stories
- Lena, by qntm - A fake Wikipedia-style article about the first successful emulation of a human brain in software. I love this kind of sci fi presented as dry academic text, very SCP adjacent (not like qntm has any history there...) and horror presented more through implications than outright stated.
- Togore Time, by Miggs Perez - A collection of comics about Togore, the fake Dreemurr sibling dreamed up by the fandom, in the lead up to the events of Deltarune. Originally a joke character, Perez' comics make Togore feel like a real individual.
- Lily, the Immortal
- How To Die On The Planet Earth - A story about mech pilots and humanity, extremely funny, knows when to be serious when it needs to be.
Comics
- Val & Isaac - One of my favorite webcomics about bounty hunters and wizards and robots having wacky adventures.
- What happens next - at age 15, milo was convicted for his involvement in the murder of haylie gorski. the internet never forgets. A webcomic that really understands the culture of online spaces. I've heard it described as 'Bojack Horseman, but about queer people on Tumblr'. Content warning for... a lot. It's a lot. Highly reccomend.
Videos
- Cabel Sasser, Panic - Xoxo Festival (2024) - A really incredible video on an artist you may not have heard of, and the legacy we leave behind.
SCPs
The SCP Foundation is an online writing project where anomalous, often horrific supernatural objects and phenomena are documented by a shadowy globe-spanning organization. It has thousands of articles, these are some of my favorites.
- SCP-3034 - 3034 is a classic, and somehow 'The Great Hippo's first SCP. Great Hippo has a lot of great SCPs, but if you're gonna read any of them, this is a good place to start.
- Straight to VHS: Sunday Dinner - I think all of Hippo's SCP work is worthy of attention, but this Parawatch article just leaves a really gross feeling in me. Really effective creepypasta. And like, it's about snuff films so, fair enough. Content warning for dismemberment and general unpleasantness in this one. I'd post pretty much everything he's written but that'd take too much space.
- SCP-8000-EX - Explained SCPs are really interesting to me, given the obvious narrative challenge of justifying why something is no longer considered supernatural. A common approach people take is to say the original phenomena was accidentally classified as an SCP due to biases of the original author, sometimes as a result of historical precedent. SCP-8000-EX explores this especially well. Content warning for transphobia.
- SCP-3000-EX - Another explained. This one is just, very unpleasant, in a good way. Content warning for gore.
Other Stuff
- Cohost CSS Crime Compilation by YellowAfterLife - Cohost was a cool little social media site that had, among other features, the ability to embed HTML and inline CSS in your posts. People did incredible things with this, ranging from small animations to embedding entire games and applications in their posts. The practice gained the nickname 'css crimes', and after the site went down, YellowAfterLife put together a compilation of some of the best out there.