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https://brutalistwebsites.com/
Brutalist Websites is a curated gallery showcasing websites that embrace the brutalist design philosophy, celebrating raw, uncomfortable, and unconventional web aesthetics as a counterpoint to polished mainstream design. With over a thousand examples from studios, artists, and creative projects, it serves as both an archive and a manifesto for a distinct school of web design thinking.
https://ikebukuro.crd.co/
Ohayo Ikebukuro is a Carrd-focused resource site packed with CSS snippets, code tips, and design tricks for building stylish Carrd pages, including effects like TV flicker, rain backgrounds, custom scrollbars, and draggable elements. The site also covers mobile responsiveness, font embedding, and other practical techniques, making it a handy reference for anyone customizing their Carrd layout.
https://apaddedcell.com/web-fonts
A Padded Cell is a web design help site featuring a comprehensive guide to pre-installed fonts across Linux, Mac, and Windows, authored by Megan McDermott in 2007. The guide covers font availability by operating system, CSS font stacking techniques, and foreign language fonts, making it an invaluable reference for designers seeking to move beyond the basic core web font set.
https://snails.town/
Snails.town is a richly built personal archive by a creator who writes about web development, device modding, JavaScript experiments, gaming, and travel, all housed in a charmingly organized site with shrines, a museum, a toybox, and a guestbook. The site leans noticeably into web-building topics, with tutorials, code snippets, articles on Eleventy, Kindle jailbreaking, and graphics automation making up a substantial portion of its content.
https://collections.nekoweb.org/
Collections is a federated archive site offering curated sets of old-web assets including 88x31 buttons, blinkies, music files, and MIDI tracks. Though the project is winding down after its host geocities.club announced closure, it amassed 50,000 visits and remains a nostalgic resource for retro web decoration materials.
https://cexx.org/craputer.htm
A sharp-tongued critique of budget consumer PCs from manufacturers like eMachines and Compaq, coining the term 'craputer' to describe bloatware-laden, corner-cutting machines that frustrate users with pre-loaded junk and missing OS discs. The site documents specific grievances including desktop sponsor icons, mystery startup programs, and the infamous 'Recovery Diskette' trap that undoes all your cleanup work.
https://nelson.cloud/
Nelson Figueroa's technical blog covers a range of developer-focused topics including Go programming, Docker, cybersecurity exploits, and macOS tooling. Posts blend practical tutorials with candid opinion pieces about tech workplace culture, making it both a useful reference and an honest read.
https://soundbible.com/
SoundBible.com is a free sound effects library offering hundreds of downloadable audio clips in WAV and MP3 formats, covering everything from airplane landings and rainstorms to Morse code and motorcycle engines. Created largely by Daniel Simion, the collection targets video editors, game designers, and filmmakers with clearly licensed, royalty-free sounds available via straightforward download buttons.
https://tilde.club/~ve3zsh/til/index.html
Run by ve3zsh on tilde.club, this 'Today I Learned' blog features thoughtful, opinionated commentary on programming, software complexity, operating systems, security, and tech culture. Each entry digs deep into topics like Linux adoption, software bloat, embedded systems, and privacy, making it a rewarding read for anyone who thinks seriously about how technology actually works.
https://moose.at/
Moose.at was an Austrian web search engine that operated for over 15 years before being shut down at the end of January 2024. This farewell page preserves screenshots of its interface, links to alternative search engines, and documentation including FAQs and crawl bot information, offering a glimpse into an independent regional search project built on open-source tools like Debian, MySQL, and curl.