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https://chrisritchie.org/kilroy/archive/2024/05/wandering.html
Chris Ritchie's 'Kilroy' is a long-running blog chronicling purposeful and aimless walks across the internet, curating and commenting on blogosphere discoveries, IndieWeb culture, and the open web. With archives stretching back to 2016 and over a thousand indexed pages, it serves as a personal link-log and meditation on web culture, blogging, and technology.
http://firevox.clcworld.net/
Fire Vox is a screen reading extension for Firefox developed by Charles L. Chen, designed to make web browsing accessible to visually impaired users. The site offers installation guides, tutorials, a user's manual, and developer information for this open-source accessibility tool that supports multiple platforms including Mac OS X Leopard.
https://www.laurennishizaki.com/projects/2018/04/personal-website
Lauren Nishizaki documents how she built her personal website from scratch using Jekyll, covering her journey from Blogspot frustration to a fully self-hosted static site with a travel blog, photo gallery, and projects section. The writeup is a detailed technical walkthrough touching on CSS, HTML, hosting with Digital Ocean and Caddy, domain setup with Namecheap, and the resources that helped her learn web development.
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https://tilde.club/~tweska/gallery
Created by tilde.club user ~tweska, this gallery archives over 1000 screenshots of tilde.club member homepages, organized alphabetically for easy browsing. It's a fascinating snapshot of the tilde community's creative personal web presence, complete with an automated scraper that keeps pages updated.
https://softwareangel.neocities.org/
Software Angel's Computer Heaven is a cheerful personal page by Angel, a retro tech enthusiast who collects vintage computers, games, and gadgets spanning Windows, Linux, and Macintosh systems. The site features sections for art, gaming, reading, plushies, shrines, and a dedicated retrotech area, making it a cozy corner of the old web full of personality and nostalgia.
http://cat-v.org/
Cat-v.org is a hub for Plan 9 and Inferno operating system enthusiasts, hosting documentation archives, manual pages, software repositories, and the infamous 'Considered Harmful' essays on software complexity. Built around a contrarian philosophy toward bloated software and protocols, it brings together projects by luminaries like Rob Pike alongside community resources for those interested in Bell Labs-era computing culture.
https://kevquirk.com/
Kev Quirk's personal blog covers web development, blogging platforms, and open web advocacy, with posts ranging from project launches like Pure Blog and Pure Comments to opinions on browser features and internet culture. The site reflects a hands-on web enthusiast who builds and shares tools for the indie web community, including the well-known 512kb Club project.
https://caliban.org/ruby/rubyguide.shtml
Originally written by Ian Macdonald for internal use at Google, this guide covers Ruby coding style and best practices for system administration scripting. It offers detailed guidelines on code organization, exceptions, indentation, debugging, benchmarking, and unit testing, making it a practical reference for Ruby programmers seeking a consistent stylistic vocabulary.
https://codes.crd.co/
Codes.crd.co is a CSS and HTML snippet resource packed with text effects, scrollbar customizations, image tricks, link styles, and music player tutorials for personal websites. Created by a hobbyist coder, the site offers ready-to-use code for effects like rainbow text, glowing text, bouncy letters, and cursor-following tooltips, making it a handy toolkit for anyone building old-web style pages.
https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/atlas/info_maps.html
Martin Dodge's Atlas of Cyberspaces presents a remarkable visual collection of information space maps, showcasing how researchers and designers have attempted to render the geography of the internet as navigable, two-dimensional cartographic representations. Spanning work from 1997 to 2004, this archived academic project features dozens of cybermaps including PeopleGarden, WEBSOM, and Map.Net, illustrating how information landscapes can be visualized to aid browsing and document retrieval.