Bookmarks
Logs
- Fair Pay Calc: Fair pricing commission calculator (price per worked hours)
- YellowLab Tools: Measure a static site’s performance; get detailed reports
- Dither It: Web tool for image dithering with live preview and palette adjustments
- Marginalia: Opinionated, curated search for the small web
- telo misikeke: toki pona grammar checker
- You feel like shit.: Interactive self-care guide for when you don’t know where to begin
- toWEBP: WebP image converter; a little slow, since it’s a web tool, but good for on the go
- Seasonal Clock: Cross-timezone planning tool
- Champion Pool Designer: Stats-based League of Legends tool for tweaking champion pools per role.
Learning and Research
- Connected Papers: Explore related academic papers from an initial node
- Comics Devices: Visual devices to aid the narrative in comic-adjacent storytelling
- Quickposes: Reference photos for figure drawing, has an optional timer tool and other settings
- Renshuu: Japanese lessons through spaced repetition, games, and forums
- Knitting 101 (video) Explanations of basic knitting stitches and techniques
- Knitting Help: Basic knitting techniques with brief explanations and expansion links
- Proko: (video) Figure drawing basics
- Lernu: Open and accessible Esperanto online course
- Alt Text as Poetry: Workshop for exploring alt text as a medium for artistic expression.
- A Philosophy of Blindness: Essays on the ontology and semiotics of blindness and visual impairment at large.
- Legends of Localization: Essays on the process of localizing various pieces of media.
Reference
- Lospec: Collection of color palettes, sortable by amount of colors among other things
- NeoDB: Media tracker; not tied to a specific format, so it’s very helpful as a baseline log
- iFixIt: Repair manuals for most mass-market devices
- Digital Love Languages: Course materials and experiments on how humanity shapes and is shaped by the medium it works with to communicate love.
- ColorSym: Symbolic shorthand for basic colors; colorblind-friendly design.
Activities
- Sunday Sites: Ideas for sites to prompt your creativity and exploration with HTML and CSS.
- Nestlé Menu Planner: Ovo-lacto-vegetarian recipes planned in a weekly fashion; good menu inspiration
- The Quiet Year: Build a post-apocalyptic wide lens narrative with prompts.
- Linxicon: Link two words with a chain of semantical proximity.
- SneakerWeb: Peer-to-peer, offline-first protocol for sharing websites.
Small Web
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