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.
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.