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https://linkage.lol/
Linkage is Lou Plummer's daily links blog, curating interesting websites from across the internet with the self-imposed rule of sharing at least one link every single day. Beyond the links, Lou's hub connects to his app reviews, life blog, Appalachian Trail honeymoon journal, and various social media presences, painting a picture of a GenX educational IT professional with wide-ranging curiosity.
https://pixelhugger.com/
Pixelhugger is a pixel art and web graphics resource site offering fonts, ASCII art, desktop wallpapers, icons, and games. The collection of pixel-focused freebies and tools makes it a charming destination for fans of retro digital aesthetics and old-web design resources.
https://shostack.org/archive/2012/03/does-1password-store-passwords-securely
Adam Shostack's professional blog covers security, privacy, threat modeling, and application security with technically rigorous posts like this deep dive into 1Password's encryption vulnerabilities. The site spans topics from cloud security to AI and serves as both a personal research outlet and a resource for security professionals.
https://forum.melonland.net/
MelonLand Forum is a thriving online community run by Melonking.Net, dedicated to celebrating personal homepages, web crafting, and the indie/old-web spirit. With over 3,000 members and active boards covering hyperlinks, web design help, web projects, and digital art, it serves as a lively hub for netizens who build and cherish handcrafted websites.
https://squarefree.com/bookmarklets
Jesse's Bookmarklets Site, created by Jesse Ruderman, is a comprehensive collection of browser bookmarklets organized into categories like Link, Form, Zap, Web Development, and Validation tools. Each bookmarklet is a free utility designed to help users debug pages, fix annoyances, manipulate forms, or analyze web content directly from their browser toolbar.
https://sqlite.org/flextypegood.html
An official SQLite documentation page that makes a detailed case for the database engine's flexible typing system, explaining why storing any value in any column is a feature rather than a flaw. It covers practical use cases like attribute tables, dirty data storage, and dynamic languages, while systematically rebutting common objections to flexible typing.
http://zensur.freerk.com/
Created by Freerk, this comprehensive tutorial covers dozens of techniques for bypassing internet censorship, including proxies, shell accounts, JAP, and circumventing blocked ports in schools, workplaces, and countries with restrictive filtering. It documents specific censorware products like NetNanny, WebSense, and DansGuardian, making it a rare and detailed reference for anyone facing restricted internet access.
https://tilde.club/~4mvrs
Greg Sainsbury's minimal tilde.club page, where he reflects on finally figuring out how to edit it and pays homage to a terrible personal webpage he had in the late 1990s. The username '4mvrs' is a deliberate callback to his old qlink.queensu.ca address, giving the page a nostalgic nod to early web culture.
https://goodmode.neocities.org/freestuff
GOODMODE's free stuff page offers downloadable HTML/CSS templates and code snippets for anyone learning to build websites, with helpful comments baked into the code itself. The creator shares resources like floating animation demos and full site themes, paying forward the kind of free tutorials they used to learn web development.
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities_Project
The Archive Team wiki page documenting the GeoCities Project, a coordinated mass effort to rescue and preserve data from Yahoo's GeoCities before its shutdown in October 2009. It covers the technical details of the crawl, the volunteers involved, and the parallel efforts with archive.org, making it a valuable historical record of one of the web's most significant preservation projects.