j-james' collection of links
Software
- Fraidycat - follow from afar
- slides.com and reveal.js - presentations on the web
- Manim - mathematical animations
- Asciinema - record and share your terminal sessions
- 0x0.st - temporary file hosting
- Let's Board - collaborative online whiteboards
- JSPaint - simple paint tool
- Photopea - online photo editor
- remove.bg - remove image backgrounds
- unscreen - remove video backgrounds
- TinEye - reverse image search
- OpenStreetMap - the wikipedia of mapping
- Windy - real-time weather patterns
- Gemini Proxy - browse the textual web
- sdl.org and teknik.io - public access services
Knowledge
- Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia
- Internet Archive - universal access to knowledge
- Library Genesis - modern library of alexandria
- Sci-Hub - public access research
- Project Gutenburg - free ebooks
- Standard Ebooks - nicely typeset, public domain ebooks
- Moby Thesaurus - the most comprehensive english-language thesaurus
- 3Blue1Brown - visualized mathematics
Tutorials
- Khan Academy - a free and online K-12 curriculum
- The Organic Chemistry Tutor - simply the best basic chemistry resource
- 3Blue1Brown's Essence of Linear Algebra - linear algebra, visualized in the R^n
- Interneting Is Hard - friendly html+css tutorial
- The Modern JavaScript Tutorial - how it's done now, from the basics
- The Rust Programming Language - the rust book
- The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
Websites
- The Library of Babel - every book ever or to be written
- HTTP Cats - appropriate status codes
- colors.lol - overly descriptive color palettes
- Picular - The color of anything
- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
- This Word Does Not Exist
- Word Histories
- Talk Obama To Me
- This Website Will Self Destruct
- superbad.com
- beesbeesbees.com
- scamdaddy.net
Articles
- Simple, correct, fast: in that order
- A brief rant on the future of interaction design
- How can you not be romantic about programming?
- How to write a spelling corrector
- Donut math: how donut.c works
- State machines are wonderful tools
- Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
- Userscripts are fun and are very much still relevant
- Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out
- Old CSS, new CSS
Aesthetic
- Simon Ser
- Simon Højberg
- Thea Flowers
- Julien Voisin
- Catherine Zeng
- Leonora Tindall
- Victoria Drake
- Kiëd Llaentenn
- Christine Dodrill
- Derek Meer
- Julian Lehr
- Abhinav Sarkar
- Lea Verou
- Josh Comeau
- Steven Wittens
- Gwern Branwen
- Alicia Neptune
- marginalia
- alun
- Seattle Kraken