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https://pxxels.neocities.org/
The landing page for pxxels, a personal Neocities site by a creator known as px, featuring thoughtful accessibility options including dark/light mode toggling, two font choices, and tab navigation support. The site emphasizes inclusive design details like alt text for images and readable CSS grid layouts, hinting at a creator genuinely invested in the craft of building personal web spaces.
https://nshjck.github.io/
Jack's personal corner of the internet celebrates the old-web spirit, with a focus on webrings, handcrafted pages, and reclaiming the web from corporate monotony. The site is still under active construction and features fun touches like rain effects and cursor animations alongside a guestbook and links collection.
https://valhut.neocities.org/station
Val_hut Central Station is the hub page for val_hut's Neocities site, styled as an ASCII-art train station where visitors can board webrings or depart to explore the wider web. The creative transit metaphor, hand-crafted ASCII terminal aesthetic, and curated bookmarks section make it a charming example of old-web personal site culture.
https://q.pfiffer.org/
Quinlan Pfiffer's personal site blends programming projects, outdoor adventures, and eclectic writing under the banner 'Malevolent Cartography.' Notable projects include OlegDB, a transactional datastore, a C micro web-framework called 38-Moths, and a Google SparseHash reimplementation, alongside blog posts about packrafting, skiing, and car living.
http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600
Irish UX and web designer Paddy Donnelly argues against the outdated 'above the fold' rule in web design, making a case for scrolling, white space, and readable layouts. The article is a concise, opinionated piece that challenges conventional client demands and encourages designers to prioritize quality content over cramming everything into the top of a page.
http://dayid.org/comp/tm.html
Dayid's tmux and screen cheat-sheet offers a side-by-side comparison table of keyboard shortcuts and commands for two popular terminal multiplexers, GNU screen and tmux. Originally created in 2009 when tmux was still new, it covers essential actions like session management, window navigation, and pane splitting in a compact, easy-to-scan format.
https://lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1927=
Luke Wroblewski's design resource site covers mobile and web interface design with in-depth articles grounded in real research and usability data. This particular entry examines how to design for large-screen smartphones with one-handed use in mind, referencing studies, OS-level solutions, and practical UI placement strategies.
https://11ty.rocks/posts/creating-and-using-11ty-collections
11ty Rocks! by Stephanie Eckles is a dedicated resource hub for the Eleventy static site generator, offering tutorials, quick tips, and configuration samples. This particular post dives deep into creating and using Eleventy collections, covering tags, directory data files, front matter grouping, and filtering techniques with clear code examples.
https://www.scannedinavian.com/
Shae Erisson's technical blog covers Haskell programming, NixOS, SMT solvers, custom keyboards, and functional programming experiments with a hands-on, exploratory spirit. Posts range from building Android apps in Haskell to open-source hardware hearing aids, making it a rich resource for programmers who enjoy diving deep into niche technical rabbit holes.
https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/tag/meta
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age is Olia Lialina's research blog documenting her deep dive into the GeoCities torrent archive, analyzing and celebrating the aesthetics, culture, and quirks of early web personal homepages. Posts cover everything from MIDI files and under-construction GIFs to ontologies of old-web design patterns, making it a fascinating scholarly and nostalgic excavation of 1990s-2000s internet culture.