• 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