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mixed bag 11-13-26

• FilePizza (github)
  “Your files, delivered.”

  Peer-to-peer file transfers in your web browser.

  [ 📌cogdog ]

• Kibernetyk Mono (github)

  Kibernetyk [kʲibɛrˈnɛtɪk] Mono is a geometric monospace inspired by the pioneering spirit of the Ukrainian Cybernetics School. Its rigid, pared-back letterforms recall early mainframe interfaces and the ink-stamped texture of fax transmissions...

  [ 📌jimcmcdonald ]

• Internet Cul-de-sac
  “a dead end worth visiting”

  One button. It shows you a small personal site somebody made.

  [ ⇦ IndieNews ]

• CSS Text Effects (ads)
  “123 CSS Text Effects & Animations — Free Copy & Paste”

  ...built with pure CSS — aurora gradients, glitches, split-flap boards, liquid fills and other lesser-seen tricks. No JavaScript, no dependencies...

  [ 📌angusf ]

• C64 Keyboard — Font specimen (github)

  A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps, with cleaned-up shapes and consistent proportions.

  [ 📌koolinus ]

‘a conversation with someone who loves to make websites’

Wonders of Web Weaving

Whether you are on a train and want something to listen to while you watch the world go by, at home and in need of inspiration for your next web weaving adventure, or somewhere else -- this podcast is for you.

[ ⇦ laze.net ⇦ indienews ]

twofer.tools 11-09-26

• Uncommon Web
  “a field guide to stylistically unusual web libraries”

  462 live demos of stylistically unusual web libraries: dither shaders, DOM-free text layout, retro OS stylesheets, hand-drawn charts, WebGL, motion and live-coding.

  [ 📌sachaa ]

• Normal Tools
  “Useful online tools, no nonsense”

  193 focused calculators, converters, checkers, generators, and hardware tests. No account, no download, and no clutter.

  [ 📌koolinus ]

linkylove.neo 11-07-26

• The BIG List of Neocities RSS Feeds
• welcome! :)
• Club✰Bugg✰
• : ᨳ𐔌՞҂ ˕ ֊՞𐦯ᜊ
• lullabels' mooncave

exploring something cool 11-05-26

If you love a website, back it up

By the way, for disclosure: the tools I’m going to mention in this blog post are made by the company I work for, but that’s not because they’ll pay my salary (most of them are free!). I just happen to think these are the best tools there are for personal web archiving.

😎 Note:
I’ve started exploring the tools mentioned in the blog post. The free tools (Options 1 & 2) require manually browsing the site to be archived, and they both do the job. Option 3, which is more automated, involves a free, 7-day trial that turns into a monthly subscription at a price far too high for my blood, so I won't be exploring that option (I’m not fond of the subscription model for software, especially at such a high monthly cost). See "The Tools" section of this post below for more details.

All of the tools I’ll be showing off in this post use standard web archiving formats like WARC. You don’t have to worry about any of the technical details, but I’m telling you that because it means there are a lot of really great tools to do whatever you want with them...

Footnotes from article:

WARC: Most of the tools I’m mentioning also use the WACZ format, which packages up WARC files along with extra metadata.
technical details: For those who want a little extra technical detail, though: one of the things that makes WARC special is that it records complete information about requests and responses, including all headers. This gives WARC a much more complete view of the whole process of visiting a website, and makes it possible to archive even complicated sites with client-side JavaScript that make a ton of requests.

[ ⇦ @misty@digipres.club, author, The Future is Now ]

The Tools

• Option 1:
  ArchiveWeb.page browser extension (requires Chrome or Chromium based browser)

• Option 2:
  standalone archiveweb.page app

  [ + 📌cogdog ]

• Option 3:
  Browsertrix
  (Note: “Free for 7 days, then $30/mo.”)

• Optional Archive Viewer:
  ReplayWeb.page (embeddable)

  [ + 📌cogdog ]

mixed bag 11-03-26

• The Endless Museum
  “3D Wikipedia Game”

  Every article is a room, every hyperlink a doorway. Wander Wikipedia as an endless museum - or race friends through it.

  [ 📌arnicas ]

• Cherry (github)

  An open source self-hostable bookmark service

  [ 📌dbuscher ]

• Welcome to Wildebeest (github)
  “the Fediverse on Cloudflare”

  ...an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server built entirely on top of Cloudflare's Supercloud. If you want to run your own spot in the Fediverse you can now do it entirely on Cloudflare.

  [ 📌peterkaminski ]

• medialab/xan
  “The CSV magician”

  ...a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell.

  [ 📌dbuscher ]

• Mystery Chart
  “The daily chart guessing game”

  Five real charts every day, built from live public data. The title is redacted. Can you work out what you're looking at?

  [ 📌arnicas + 📌tdjones ]

twofer 11-01-26

• Links and Notes

  We're bootstrapping a network of twitter-like systems built out of components of the web and nothing more. Every part replaceable.

  [ ⇦ John's World Wide Wall Display: Life in Links – 70 ]

  😎 cool!

• Bloffy
  “Your blog, your markup. No server to manage.”

  Write in Markdown and HTML, customize with CSS and JavaScript, and publish on your own domain.

  [ 📌jimcmcdonald ]