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I made a website with free and low-cost resources for web development, game development, privacy, graphics, small web, etc
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I just feel very satisfied about finally organizing a bunch of links and resources I've been hoarding over the years. I even put together a couple of basic HTML tutorials. And I'm excited to join the small web.
If you're interested in un-enshittification, making/customizing your own fun little webpage, DIY tech/creative stuff, then you might find my site useful.
Maybe you have a cool website I can link to?? Suggestions I can add here? Will try to update my site every now and then.
Self-promotion disclosure: Some of my recommendations use affiliate links. I plan to sell an ebook (related to web development) on this site later on.
I love this, thanks for sharing! Also a big fan of the theming of your site :)
Thanks so much! Was def inspired by tildes' minimalist web design :D I almost left my links blue too, but then decided to go with my fave color.
https://marginalia-search.com/ might be something up your alley. It's increasingly useful and very small web focused.
And seconding adding a menu/TOC and RSS.
Thank you! Yes, Marginalia is already there :D
I have all sorts of tools/etc I've bookmarked. This is not the absolute full list but one I cut down slightly for this post. Hopefully someone here finds these useful- and of course OP (or anyone) feel free to add these to your own sites/lists/etc. I've been meaning to make my links/tools page on my site way more robust by adding a lot of these but hadn't yet.
Some of these are lists or big grids/"many in one" tools too, so some of these sites can probably be looked through for more things to link to individually
Earthbound Text Box Gif Generator
blinkie maker | generate blinkie gifs with custom text!
html.earth: Markdown to HTML Converter & Site Generator
Video Game Screens with Custom Text - "The Death Generator"
DOODAD.dev - Tools for making websites fast, expressive, accessible, and green.
Dither it!: a web application for dithering images
Gradients ⋅ Gradient re-sampler for web for smoother gradients
Winamp Skin Museum - old winamp skins for preview/download (works with music software like Audacious)
Zero Data Apps - A repository of privacy respecting tools/apps that run locally in-browser such as Idiomatic
PixelCraft: A Pixel Art Editor
themer - free and open-source development environment theme creator
BeyondLoom's dithering tool
Excalidraw - Locally stored browser whiteboard
Easy/fast timezone reference (click to highlight columns/etc)
IT Tools - Handy online tools for developers
nifty.tools - List of small/terminal/etc tools
REXPaint (Win/Linux via WINE) - A powerful ASCII art editor
Tooooools.app - Image effects tools
CSS Layout Generator
delphitools - tons of private online tools/converters/etc
Alembic - procedural/algorithmic image generation and text aesthetics tools
BumpMesh - free meshing tool to add textures to 3D prints/files
I'm so excited to go through all of these, thanks for sharing! I made a beeline for the Winamp museum... that brings back memories :)
Sure thing! Yeah the Winamp museum is so fun to just look through. Some of them are very much "of a particular era" whether it's design language or pop culture references haha. I have a few downloaded that I still use from time to time.
I always love to find more of these kinds of tools/links, so I've been going through the ones on your site. Always some neat new little corner of the web to discover where people are still making cool and useful things
Cool stuff! I really enjoyed the (even 2026-updated!) email obfuscation article, since I’ve dealt with that topic before personally (and didn’t think scraping mechanisms would still be this dumb/cheap, so was more concerned than I perhaps needed to be :P).
The more things you add, the longer this page will become. Maybe you could consider adding a table of contents, at least for the bigger overarching categories?
I'll definitely have to add a table of contents at some point, thank you!
And yes-- personally using the text conversion JS method for obfuscation myself. I'm so happy it's easy.
This is an awesome resource! Thanks for putting it together and sharing - I'll have fun looking through them! Some quick suggestions for additions:
Thanks so much! I'll see if I can get into SSGs and RSS too. That reminds me, I do have an old minimalist PHP flatfile CMS I made years ago... maybe I'll dig it up and rework it!
Thanks, I love this site and its calming layout/design!
I recommend adding DaVinci Resolve on the video/audio section! The free version is almost fully featured in a user-friendly way - only serious pro users need the few features that come with the paid version and the license is a one time, reasonably affordable fee. (The company's business model is to make money by selling hardware and the software is more a perk that attracts users to the ecosystem.)
I just learned that they even added photo editing features for the new version! Which blows my mind because colour grading for video is so good that I always secretly hoped I could process still photos with it. Haven't checked it out yet but it's very promising.
While I'm at it, here's a YT channel with extremely professional tutorials for Resolve. I was kind of stunned to find material like this available for free! I guess a good quality non-shitty piece of software attracts good hearted people who want to do their part and help that community grow.
I'm adding this (as well as the YT), thanks so much for the recommendation!
Yay! I'm pleased that the channel got a mention. I've watched some of this guy's tutorials that I don't even have the need for, just because I enjoy his personality and admire how well he explains things in a no-nonsense way and his ability to teach complex techniques with clarity. :)
This is a great resource hub, thank you for making and sharing it :)
I'd recommend adding The Odin Project (free full-stack web dev pathways) and Njalla (pro-privacy domain registrar and VPS/VPN provider)
I've added these, thanks so much!
Wanted to look but it doesn't seem to be loading at all for me right now. Is it down?
Edit: finally loaded but it was very slow loading from the Netherlands with a gigabit connection. (Like 30 seconds -> 1min)
Thanks for letting me know! I just checked DNS propagation and there do seem to be issues in some areas currently, including Netherlands.
[EDIT] I just mirrored the homepage on Github Pages in case this helps :)
I'm curious why Mullvad VPN makes these lists when Windscribe's build-a-plan option is cheaper and just as private from what I can tell? No email required and you can pay with cryptocurrency if that's your cup of tea.
In my case I just hadn't heard of Windscribe before, so thanks for letting me know! I will add it :)