My first website was in 1997, a UFO mystery link aggregation. I was really into it at the time and found hundreds of small homepages around the web that were also just as into
it. So I learned HTML, added a bunch of links and the X-Files theme MIDI background sound and there I had it. Since then, the web and me,
consequently, has become less ‘web.’ I want to bring that rabbit-hole back to my small corner here, and so below is an offering of what I find interesting in all
aspects of my life. Some sections will point to other places in this site that will list out more links, so feel free to browse and discover what you didn’t realize you
were looking for.
A proposal, dear reader: Create a list of bookmarks linking to websites you find interesting, and publish it for the world to see. You decide what constitutes “interesting”.
The model is as recursive as it is simple. There is nothing preventing a list of bookmarks from linking to another list of bookmarks.
The creation of a bookmark list is a surprisingly fun project, it has some of the appeal of scrapbooking; and the end-result is also appealing to browse through.
It’s a bit strange, almost nobody seems to be doing this. Looking through a sample of personal websites, very few of them has links to other personal websites. A hyperlink isn’t a marriage proposal. It is enough to find some redeeming quality in a website to link to it. It costs nothing, and helps bring traffic to pages that you yourself think deserve it.
Small web, Indie web
- Marginalia One of the best small web search engines today. Dedicated to finding the content on the fringes that can go forgotten otherwise.
- Neocities Awesome host and community for static websites.
- Plain old webpages still matter
- Brutalist Web Design Keep it simple.
- My Website is a Personal Museum - sizeof(cat)
- permacomputing
- Goodbye!
- Folk search engines - by Elan Ullendorff
- The 88x31 GIF Collection A collection of 4540 classic 88x31 buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and today in GIF format.
Creativity
- Copying is the way design works || Matthew Ström: designer & developer
- National Park Typeface
- ExifTool by Phil Harvey Read, write and Edit meta information from digital photography files.
- A Comparison of Linear Gradients in Different Colourspaces
- ColorSpace Just Enter a color and generate nice color palettes.
- PlayPhrase.me Find clips from hundreds of sources of particular phrases.
Generative Art
- Generative Artistry A range of interactive tutorials, exploring ideas and techniques used in generative art.
- Weave Silk Beautiful generative art project.
The Archives
- textfiles.com My all-time favorite repository of all things old-school computing and telephony. Seriously one of the best examples of how to keep the archeological record of a by-gone era alive.
- artscene by textfiles.com An extension of textfiles.com focusing on the art scenes of the computing past.
Journalling
Music
- Mark Snow: The X-Files
- SomaFM One of my first Internet radio loves, and it’s still around with such a huge selection of music.
- norns.community A collection of open source software for the monome norns sound computer. (And a beautiful permacomputing website.)
- Zune Update Get your old Zune working on modern PCs.
Misc
- The website of joppiesaus I just adore this lovely indie homepage.
- A picture of Ira Glass
- XXIIVV — home
- “I’ll take eight!”
- OctoPup A personal site with lots of road trip reports.
- GPS Visualizer
- earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
- Cameron’s World
Vintage Software
- Windows 98 Icon Viewer
- Old windows icons A huge collection of old-school pixel icons.
- The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack “The world’s biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles - preserving raster typography from pre-GUI times”
Health
- Marathon Training for Beginners A site I used to understand what I was getting into in 2011.
Electronics & Robotics
- Ray Wu’s LED Store One of the more trusted ways of getting direct from manufacturer LEDs.
- LCD Custom Character Generator A great tool to generate the custom characters on common LCD displays.
- RGB LED Panel Driver Tutorial
- Web MIDI test page Useful for finding out the MIDI messages your device is sending.
- Industrial Alchemy Lots of information on old incandescent digital displays.
- Adafriut One of the best indie companies for electronics projects.
- Love Hulten Amazing physical interface designs.
Burning Man
Fiction & Media
- Ex Astris Scientia So much detail about the Star Trek universe.
- Sci-fi Interfaces A great collection of sci-fi media and their computer interfaces.
- INTERFACE LOVE. More great fictional interfaces.
3D Printing & Modelling
- OpenSCAD Cheat Sheet
- JSCut A CAM in your browser!
Local
- Public Permit Information for Seattle
- The Last 6000 A civic campaign to locate Seattle’s remaining majestic trees.
- Roman Susan Art Foundation I used to live near here.