Links

  • Moments - A small home for your photos. A simple photo journal on your own domain. No algorithm, no ads, no pressure to grow. Post a photo, add a caption if you feel like it, and move on with your day.
  • BreezePDF - A complete PDF toolkit — edit, sign, merge, and 30+ more tools, all in one editor. Runs entirely in your browser, no signup required. The web editor is completely free with 3 downloads per month.
  • Games That Weren’t (GTW) is a large archive dedicated to documenting and finding lost, unreleased and cancelled video games across many different platforms.
  • MTV Rewind brings back 24/7 music television streaming classic hits from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.
  • Postcrossing is a project that allows you to send and receive postcards from random people around the world.
  • DaVinci Resolve 21 introduces the Photo page, bringing Hollywood's most advanced color tools to still photography!
  • Drawing for Nothing is a free compendium for the artwork of the world's canceled and troubled animated films. The purpose of this book is to not only properly appreciate the work put into things that never got the chance to be appreciated, but to give artists another source of inspiration.
  • Blogosphere brings together over 1,000 independent and personal blogs in one place. Rediscover the personal web.
  • Pico CSS - A minimalist and lightweight starter kit that prioritizes semantic syntax, making every HTML element responsive and elegant by default. Write HTML, Add Pico CSS, and Voilà!
  • Practical Typography is an online book about typography written by Matthew Butterick. The principles in this guide can be applied to any modern page-layout program, word processor, or web browser. The book is reader-supported and ad-free.
  • About Ideas Now - Find people to collaborate with by searching through the /about, /ideas and /now pages of 1000s of personal sites.
  • Toy Tales is North America’s premier independent toy journalism website with a nostalgic focus, documenting the toys, games, and playthings that shaped childhood experiences and continue to resonate today. 
  • Kagi Small Web - Discover personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet. We are committed to revitalizing a digital space abundant in creativity, self-expression, and meaningful content - a more humane web for all.
  • Bubbles - Community voting applied to thousands of personal, independent blogs, with identity and discussion routed through the Fediverse. Good stuff bubbles up. The rest pops.
  • Notes.Art - Since late 2021, Chris Silverman has done daily drawings in his iPhone’s Notes app. He draws with his finger on a screen the size of a 3-by-5 card and explores a wide variety of themes: alienation, technology, internet culture, and the overall sense of being adrift in an alien world.
  • Fonts In Use is a public archive of typography indexed by typeface, format, industry, and period. 
  • WeatherStar 4000+ - This project aims to bring back the feel of the 90s with a weather forecast that has the look and feel of The Weather Channel at that time but available in a modern way.
  • Owls In Towels - Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls in fabric so they can be weighed, treated, and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap. This site exists to document and share stories of owls in towels to as many eyes as possible. If nothing else, to add momentary cheer simply by showing owls receiving treatment. No ads. No sponsors. Just owls being rescued, treated and rehabilitated by people who care.
  • Atlas of Space - an interactive visualization to explore the planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in the Solar System.
  • 8bitdash - A community platform for pixel artists and fans. Explore stunning pixel art, upload your work, and build your personalized dashboard.
  • Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font inspired by the constraints of early command-line and graphical user interfaces, the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s/early 00s, and sci-fi concepts from film and television.
  • Floor796 is an animated scene showing the lives of characters from various works on the 796th floor of a huge space station. The animation is regularly expanded with new blocks (rooms) and characters from movies, TV series, games, anime, memes, etc.
  • Tree.fm - People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, and unwind wherever you are. 
  • Modern Illustration is a project by illustrator Zara Picken, featuring print artefacts from her extensive personal collection. Her aim is to preserve and document outstanding examples of mid-20th century commercial art, creating an accessible resource for understanding illustration history.
  • 50 Watts is a growing archive of weird and wonderful visual ephemera from around the world.
  • Accidentally Wes Anderson (AWA) is an online community, website, and book series that curates photographs of real-world locations resembling the visual style of director Wes Anderson.
  • 300 Baud Magazine was a print-only publication aimed squarely at retrocomputing enthusiasts. Covering everything from the glory days of the mainframe to the home computer revolution, 300 BAUD contains an entertaining and informative blend of expert opinion, enthusiast ramblings and archival tidbits. 300 BAUD is 100% volunteer operated by people who care about dusty old computers. Ran for 3 issues.
  • The History of the Web - A twice monthly dispatch about the web's history, the incredible people that built it, and all the websites, code, and browsers you've never heard of.
  • Webbed Briefs are brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them. 
  • Old Book Illustrations offers a wide range of public domain, royalty-free restored images scanned from old books.
  • JS Paint - a pixel-perfect remake of Microsoft Paint that runs in the browser.
  • Spectral Codex - a travel journal, photography portfolio, geospatial database, digital garden, and personal blog curated by Alexander Synaptic.
  • Blipfoto - Keep a simple record of your life, with just one photo a day.
  • Blogger's Toolbox - A living hub of blogging resources curated by Robert Birming. It's well organized and updated often with good stuff.
  • Standard Ebooks - a volunteer-driven effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.
  • Tiny Helpers - A collection of free single-purpose online tools for web developers.
  • powRSS - Public RSS feed aggregator with a mission to support the open, independent web. The feed features daily updates with the latest from independent blogs and websites to help you discover a different side of the web.
  • Smallweb is a carefully curated collection of neat indie websites that get less attention than they deserve. The goal is to showcase the creativity and diversity of the personal web.
  • Cybercultural chronicles internet history and its cultural impact, from the pre-web era to the dot-com boom, Web 2.0, and beyond. Written by pioneering tech blogger Richard MacManus.
  • Internet Phone Book - An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators.
  • Public Domain Image Archive - a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse. It's an ever-growing portal to discover more than 2000 years of visual culture.
  • Colorpeek - Quickly preview, share and convert one or more CSS color values. Supports Hex, HSL, Lab, LCH, Oklab, Oklch, P3, sRGB and color keywords.
  • RobotWig's Miniverse Gallery - Award winning miniature photography, all shot practically using real figures, lighting and miniature sets.
  • The Hydrant Directory is a free design resource created from public infrastructure. Each hydrant has been processed into color palettes for free use by artists and designers.
  • Bear Library - A collection of Bear themes, add-ons, and color palettes by Robert Birming. Even though everything was made with Bear in mind, a lot of it works just fine on other blogging platforms too. It's a great resource if you like to tinker with CSS.
  • mood.camera - Beautiful, natural photos, straight out of the camera. No more over-sharpened, artificial looking, 'phone camera' photos. mood.camera uses a custom ProRAW image processing pipeline to recreate the look and feel of film.
  • Blogs Are Back - A privacy-focused RSS reader bringing back the joy of following independent blogs. No algorithms deciding what you read. No surveillance of your habits. No platform lock-in. Just writers and readers, the way it should be.
  • Miniroll - Create and manage your blogroll. Import from OPML, share publicly, embed on your site, and discover what others are reading. Every blog gets its own page showing which blogrolls feature it and similar blogs.