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https://robert.accettura.com/blog/2007/01/20/secrets-in-websites
Robert Accettura's tech blog digs into the hidden easter eggs, jokes, and quirks that developers embed in website source code, HTTP headers, and HTML doctypes. The post examines real-world examples from Yahoo, Digg, Slashdot, IBM, and others, making it a fun and nerdy tour through the secret side of web development.
https://tilde.club/~pfhawkins
P.F. Hawkins maintains one of the most thorough directories of tilde servers on the old web, tracking active, new, and defunct tilde communities with careful curation and personal commentary. The site also includes a defunct tildes memorial list, tips and tricks for tilde server users, and a disk usage leaderboard, making it a valuable hub for the tilde community.
https://bucketfish.me/
Bucketfish is the creative hub of a developer and artist who makes games, websites, tools, music, and toki pona projects. Her latest work includes Box Arena, a cute roguelite, and Glowkeeper, a luminescent puzzle game coming in 2025.
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.
https://blissfully.neocities.org/
A Neocities personal page by a creator called Blissfully that is currently under construction, with just a friendly greeting and a promise that new content is coming soon. There is almost nothing here yet, but it signals a handcrafted personal site in the making.
https://owlman.neocities.org/
OwlMan is a personal Neocities page from a British creator based in England and Wales, describing itself as an archive and personal site. The page is sparse in visible content but self-identifies as a UK-based personal archive with a distinctly irreverent tone.
http://designdetector.com/demos/text-shadow-test.html
Created by Christopher Hester in 2007, this demo page tests CSS text-shadow property variations across different blur radii, offsets, and multiple shadow combinations. It includes browser compatibility screenshots comparing Safari 3 and Opera 9.5, making it a handy reference for web developers exploring cross-browser CSS support at the time.
https://delyo.be/blog
Delyo's blog covers digital freedom, open tools, counter-culture, and the indie web, with posts ranging from Cyrillic typography history to Linux font tricks and Fediverse explainers. Written in both English and French, it reflects a thoughtful commitment to open-source values and reclaiming the web from corporate platforms.
http://1x-upon.com/
Created by net artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, this project recreates three significant contemporary websites as they might have appeared in late 1997, complete with dial-up speed throttling, frames-based HTML, and a recommendation to view on Netscape Navigator 4.03 under Windows 95. It is a nostalgic and conceptual art piece that lovingly preserves the aesthetic and technical spirit of the early web era.
https://raphael.computer/blog/openorb-curated-search-engine
Raphael Kabo, a software engineer and poet, writes here about building OpenOrb, a curated RSS and Atom feed search engine designed to search only over hand-picked blogs and feeds as a public service. The post dives into IndieWeb philosophy, alternatives to mainstream search engines, and the appeal of small-scale handmade web tools.