links 🔗
i love surfing the web, these are some of my favourite links
cool sites
collection of websites that i find useful for various interests.
| discogs |
album information, largest music database online. huge market
place for music reselling, love it for tracking down vinyl.
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| genius |
huge lyrics database. used to be just rap music, but now offers
all genres. use it for checking out what the actualy lyrics are
after singing something completely wrong for days after listening
to a song.
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| imdb |
have used imdb for decades to check out movie infomation, cross
reference actresses and check to see if that was actually them in
that movie.
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| fandom |
huge database of pop culture. |
| tmdb |
movie and television meta data. |
| bandcamp |
an online record store and music community for fans to discover,
connect with, and directly support the artists making awesome
music.
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| a book apart |
brief books for people who design, write, and code. have been a
fan of this crowd ever since first stumbling upon a list apart way
back when. these books are fantastic if you're into writing,
designing or coding!
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neofriends
| sadness |
my favourite is reading through sadgrls manifesto and new old web
pages. sadgrl has a bunch of fun projects on the go so be sure to
check them out. a fun site to explore and get lost in.
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| teddie |
a whimsical collection of shrines, dreams and other nostalgic
stuff. my favourite is to read the meomoirs which recount memories
of a web of yesterday.
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| cinderpeach |
a wonderfully crafted homepage full of flashing glittery graphics.
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| cinni |
another whimsically styled homepage with shrines, graphics, and
other web goodies to explore and download.
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| grafo |
self described symphonic metal & midi romance. packed full of
homemade music and short stories to explore.
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| eris |
complete with an esoteric design, a homepage full of poems,
original graphics and essasy.
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lulu
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cleverly put together! love the punk show bathrooms page. |
the small web
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make your own independent website
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victoria explores the joys of creating your own personal website.
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internet homesteading
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this page is part of an online course run through the hyperlink
acadamy. displayed here are the results of the participants
lovingly hand crafted projects from the course. some interesting
sites to explore.
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interesting articles
a small collection of articles that i've read and found interesting
enough to share so that you can all read them as well.
digital gardens
digital gardens are all about cultivating thoughts and ideas in public.
i guess a lot of what we're doing in handcrafting our websites in the
yesterweb community are similar to this, but with less structure. these
are the resources i found during my resarch into the idea.
link directories
what the world wide web was made for. pages on pages hyperlinking
hypertext in as many ways possible.
| href.cool |
the final heartbeats of our beloved www. a hand curated list of
links in the style of old yahoo. lots of interesting homepages to
get lost in.
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smooth sailing
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a web directory and listing for all kinds of websites |
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weird wide webring
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not quite a link directory, however it is a great little
collection of interesting links to mostly personal homepages.
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archive of our own
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an archive featuring a huge collection of fandom type content. i
don't even know where to begin with this one.
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| xxiivv webring |
a webring collecting hand-crafted wikis and portfolios. designer,
developer focused. 157 listens with some gems in there.
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| webring |
a webring collecting hand-crafted wikis and portfolios. designer,
developer focused. 157 listings with some gems in there.
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december communications, inc
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a rather large, long running, website. includes a hand curated (i
think) web directory. wow. so many links to all corners of the
world wide web. let me know if you find anything awesome in there.
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| gossip's web |
a decent directory of handmade webpages. some really interesting
and clever pages in there.
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| terra |
a decently sized directory with like 98 categories? so many pages
to explore!
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interesting weblogs
a collection of blogs that i've come across during me travels across the
world wide web. some are active, some are not, but each of these has
contained at least one or two articles or posts that i have found
interesting.
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| laura kalbag |
laura is a designer who has published a book covering
accessibility. she is one part of the small tech foundation. her
blog is full of some great interesting stuff.
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| patrick collison |
really simple blog with an interesting range topics making up the
content. patrick is very thoughtful. not your typical dev blog...
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| sirodoht blog |
a few interesting articles, the most interesting to me was the one
on ideal blog platforms and the other on the mataroa webring.
materoa seems to be a simple blogging engine the author has
created.
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| scott hanselman |
looks like an old blogger template. lots of great articles on
various topics. i enjoy their yearly developer and power user tool
lists.
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elliot's computer
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a really interesting wild take on how to hand craft your homepage!
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| static/blog |
a few posts on various developer things. my fav was the 10 things
i've learned while building this website, touches on some 11ty
topics
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| tom hackshaw |
not sure if i should categorise this one as a blog as it's so
much more. a manifesto (which is awesome by the way), a living
wiki, a bookshelf (yay) as well as a blog.
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| dennis mai |
a nice looking website where dennis shares a bunch of his
projects, webrings and a selection of articles.
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| paul graham |
simple looking website with a heap of content. some really
interesting essays amongst a bunch of other stuff.
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