• desmos - good little graphing calculator website
• zooniverse - citizen science crowdsourcing project. like amazon turk but for public research.
• gibber - a wild interactive audiovisual programming environment
• orca - dwarf fortress meets vim meets a MIDI sequencer
• hundredrabbits - the very cool site of Rek and Devine (person behind Orca + much more) who sail around the world creating software
• realistik studios - ♥♥♥
• libgen - book piracy
• sci-hub - journal piracy
• arxiv - open journal for physics/maths/compsci/astronomy preprints. (convert any article to html5 by changing the URL to use https://ar5iv.org/ instead)
• virtual ANS - turn pictures into music
• ipfs.io - seamless decentralized web protocol for creating an open internet
• awesometapes.com - a huge collection of music from africa
• ubu.com - an archive of avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music
• tekgnostics library - a huge directoy of weird web
• monoskop - art + humanities wiki
• 0100101110101101 - eva & franco mattes' works (i like BEFNOED)
• wordnik - the best free online dictionary & thesaurus i've found
• lvllvl - cool browser based pixel art thing
• nopaint.art - press Paint if you like what you see or No if you don't.
• robert hodgin - some inspirationally aesthetic simulation projects
• what can a technologist do about climate change? - an article by bret victor written in 2015
• does x cause y? - pitfalls of social science
• cryptii - encrypt and decrypt messages
• nicky case - creative interactive animations and games
• the general index - An enormous database of journal metadata
• everything shii knows - the only reliable source
• national gallery of art - public domain art repository
• met museum - art repository
• europeana - art, fashion, & natural history repository
• play.ertdfgcvb.xyz - really cool generative ASCII art
• HORG - a taxonomy of breadbag clips
• byrne's euclid - an animated reproduction of oliver byrne’s elements from 1847
• quantum country - an explanation of quantum computing with a built-in spaced repetition system
• why books donʼt work - an essay on learning from the maker of the above, andy matuschak
• parametric press issue 02: carbon history - an interactive article that engages you in the history and context of climate change
• the nutrition source - a succinct overview of evidence-supported best practices for food and health
• aesthetics for birds - a blog on art criticism and philosophy
• strong towns - urbanism advocacy
• bartosz ciechanowski - beautiful interactive long-form concept-explaining articles
• seeing theory - probability visualized and explained
• how many plants - a beautifully designed houseplant care resource
• nutshell - inter-site snippetting
• telescopic text - a fun interactive text experiment
• library of babel - the last website you will ever need
• shell check - bash shell script automatic analysis
• koch method to learn morse - learn morse code
• which emoji scissors close - ✂️
• numbers aplenty - fun facts about natural numbers
• everynoise - a scatterplot of snippets of thousands of genres of music
• tero parviainen's website - many cool generative music projects, including a music mouse implementation and beautiful exploration of In C.
• musicForProgramming(); - a collection of minimal musical mixes
• ooh. directory - a community-sourced repository of blogs
• wiby - a search engine for indie websites
• screenplays.io - a large repository of screenplays. read 'em before it gets taken down!
• PTT - the taiwanese bbs
• quote investigator - snopes for quote attribution
• marginalia - indie web search
• squares in squares - square packing world records
• shelby.cool - website #goals
• solarpunks.net - a blog at the intersection of technology, politics, and environmentalism
• solarprotocol.net - a internet network protocol based on serving from whichever server has the most solar power at any given time
• the pequod - an enormous collection of book reviews written by a man named jeffrey smith
• web curios - a regular(-ish) newsletterblogtypething all about stuff on the internet that its author finds interesting and thinks you might too
• openstax - high quality open source web textbooks on loads of subjects
• open syllabus - an amazing compilation of western university syllabi, a portal into the foundational texts of any subject you're curious about
• wavacity - a port of audacity that runs entirely in the browser