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https://whimsical.club/
The Whimsical Web is a curated directory of websites that feature delightful, playful, and creative interactive elements, from monorail navigation to shrinking dogs to ASCII art guestbooks. Maintained as a celebration of joyful web design, it highlights personal sites and portfolios that go beyond the ordinary to spark wonder in their visitors.
https://erikjohannes.no/
Erik Johannes Husom is a research scientist who blogs about technology ethics, AI sustainability, digital minimalism, and outdoor pursuits like mountain running and couloir skiing. The site blends thoughtful technical writing on topics like plain text tools, dotfiles, and machine learning with personal posts about nature, fitness, and low-tech living.
https://kilkakon.com/shimeji
Kilkakon hosts his personal fork of Shimeji-ee, an open source Java desktop pet application that lets tiny animated characters roam around your Windows screen. The site offers downloads, new character packs drawn by artists worldwide, tutorials, and source code for this charming little utility.
https://chriskirknielsen.com/
Christopher Kirk-Nielsen is a front-end developer and self-described CSS nerd whose personal site showcases his blog, design work, and projects with an impressively customizable theme picker featuring multiple named color schemes. The site itself is a demonstration of advanced CSS craft, with thoughtful accessibility features, creative per-theme styling, and 47 blog posts covering front-end development topics like Eleventy templating.
https://lordmatt.co.uk/
The personal blog and creative playground of Matthew Brown, known as Lord Matt, a self-described multipotentialite covering web development, SEO, WordPress, WebMentions, and IndieWeb topics. With posts dating back to 2004, the site blends technical experimentation with personal musings, featuring code snippets, a blogroll, and quirky side projects like a pixel wall and an emoji-based date toy.
https://paritybit.ca/
Jake Bauer (jbauer) runs this thoughtful personal site and blog focused on Linux, open source software, self-hosting, and the philosophy of simple, sustainable computing. Highlights include opinionated posts on IRC, email, free software, and old tech, plus a digital garden wiki, projects, and co-hosting the Linux Lads Podcast.
https://lookaround123.com/
Phil Viger of Meriden, Connecticut built this sprawling 166-page web portal packed with over 4,500 categorized bookmarks, MIDI music, HTML design tips, cartoons, and a wide range of curated internet resources. A true artifact of the mid-to-late 1990s web, it serves as both a personal homepage and a hand-crafted link directory covering everything from search engines to sports to education.
https://blog.yaxley.in/
Yaxley Peaks runs this personal tech blog covering Linux internals, Emacs Lisp, sysfs hacks, and quirky programming discoveries like strace printing an Arthur C. Clarke quote. The site also showcases small original projects including a VT browser for Emacs and a Polish notation calculator, all wrapped in a charming old-web aesthetic with webrings and retro buttons.
https://neatnik.net/
Adam Newbold's personal hub at neatnik.net showcases his portfolio of internet projects, including omg.lol, a web directory called URL Town, a PHP learning resource, and a DNS hosting service. Running since 2001, the site serves as a launchpad for a constellation of small-web tools and services built by this prolific indie developer.
https://rarst.net/software/movefile
Rarst.net is Andrey 'Rarst' Savchenko's personal tech blog offering practical tips on Windows utilities, scripting, and software tools. This particular post covers how to use Sysinternals MoveFile to schedule file moves or deletions on reboot, complete with a handy drag-and-drop script for non-technical users.