tools/resources

1. Excalidraw: virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard
2. YT video finder: find deleted/private youtube videos.
3. SVG Wave Generator: Generates customisable waves with SVG.
4. Tabler Icons: Huge collection of vector icons.
5. 3dicons: Icons, but 3D.
6. Puter: A cloud-based desktop environment.
7. Simple Icons: Huge collection of vector icons.
8. The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack: Old crunchy PC fronts.
9. Device Info: A web browser security testing, privacy testing, and troubleshooting tool.
10. css.glass: Glassmorphism CSS generator.
11. Feather Icons: Huge collection of vector icons.
12. Mixkit: Stock footage.
13. Unsplash: Stock photos.
14. Oh Shit, Git!?!: A guide to un-fucking your Git mistakes.
15. 98.css: Windows 98 style CSS design system.
16. XP.css: Windows XP style CSS design system.
17. 7.css: Windows 7 style CSS design system.
18. Laws of UX: Collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces.
19. Meet the Ipsums: Various placeholder texts.
20. Realtime Colors: Visualise colours and fonts in context on a site.
21. Flexbox Froggy: A way to learn CSS flexbox.
22. Pexels: Stock photos and videos.
23. The League of Movable Type: Open-source font foundry.
24. IT Tools: Handy tools for developers.
25. Fontshare: Fonts for personal and commercial use.
26. Merklemap: Search subdomains.
27. PWA Install Demo: Installation dialog for Progressive Web Applications (PWAs).
28. HTML De-crapulator: Does what it says on the tin.
29. time.fyi: Time related tools to help you stay productive and organised.
30. RedditDB: Shows the time when subreddits are most active.
31. magick.css: Minimal CSS framework.
32. Uiverse: Community-built library of UI elements.
33. The Bézier Game: Game that teaches use of the pen tool.
34. Uisual: Library of website components and templates.
35. Wakamai Fondue: Answers the question “What can my font do?”.
36. SQLZoo: Teaches SQL step-by-step.
37. OSINT Framework: Provides tons of open source intelligence resources.
38. Photopea: Photoshop clone.
39. Learn X in Y Minutes: Teaches various things quickly and simply.
40. NandGame: Teaches how to build a computer from basic components.
41. CodePen: Online front-end playground.
42. Anna's Archive: Huge open library.
43. What length CSS unit should you use?: Informs what CSS unit you should select in various use cases.
44. srcl: Open-source component and style repository with terminal aesthetics.
45. Kenney: Free game assets.
46. Scale: Colour scale generator.
47. OpenGameArt.org: Tons of art available for commercial use.
48. Freesound: Stock sounds.
49. Kay Lousberg: Game assets.
50. Quaternius: Game assets.
51. Overlay Fact Sheet: Information about web 'accessibility' fact sheets.
52. WikiApiary: Information about MediaWiki websites.
53. Remix Icon: Huge collection of vector icons.
54. Free Music Archive: An archive of free music.
55. CopyPalette: Create consistent monochromatic colour palettes.
56. LandChad.net: Information on how to get your own place on the internet.
57. Iconic: Huge collection of vector icons.
58. VERT.sh: Comprehensive file converter.
59. Color and Contrast.com: Interactive guide to color and contrast.
60. ambientCG: Free textures, HDRIs, and more.
61. BGJar: SVG background generator.
62. ColorSpace: Generate a palette from a colour.
63. Cool Backgrounds: Backgrounds that are cool.
64. fffuel: Collection of colour tools and SVG generators for gradients, patterns, textures, shapes, and backgrounds.
65. Color Hunt: Colour palettes for designers and artists.
66. Undesign: Collection of free design tools and resources for makers, developers, and designers.
67. Mossaik: Graphic generator.
68. Tabbied: Generate patterns from templates.
69. Patterninja: Create tiled patterns from icons.
70. Eva Design System: Generate colour pallets using deep learning powered algorithm.
71. Duotone: Convert images into duotone versions.
72. archives.design: Archive of graphic design related items available on the Internet Archive.
73. CallToInspiration: Huge amount of UI/UX inspiration.
74. collected: New web design inspiration on every visit.
75. Palette List: Database of palettes.
76. Curated Design: Curated web design inspiration catalog.
77. Design Everywhere: An ever-growing collection of carefully curated works from around the world.
78. iOS Icon Gallery: Gallery of iOS app icons.
79. 60fps: UI/UX design animation inspiration for mobile and web apps.
80. Unblast: Selective free design resources to download.
81. CSS Spring Easing Generator: Generate springy CSS animations.

blogs

1. Josh W Comeau: Web development articles, interactive tutorials, and goodies.
2. Gwern: Academic writings on AI, psychology, and statistics.
3. Coding Horror: Programming blog focussing on human factors.
4. Robert Heaton: Development and tech with an emphasis on privacy.
5. Citation Needed: Coverage of the cryptocurrency industry and broader technology issues.
6. Web3 is Going Just Great: Tracking of how web3 projects are actually going.
7. The Evil Skeleton: Tech, primarily regarding Gnome.
8. Bryce Wray: Primarily web development.
9. Terence Eden’s Blog: Technology, reviews, and assorted musings.
10. Andrew Chan: Mostly programming related.
11. GioCities: Tech and wider web culture.
12. Ahmad Shadeed: Web development articles with interactive elements.
13. iio.ie: Random ideas and personal ramblings from a disgruntled techie.
14. Darek Kay: Front-end development.
15. ajkprojects: Developer relevant psychology.
16. Articles & Experiments by Roman Komarov: CSS experiments and explorations.
17. LMNT: Short write-ups, often about design and Apple.
18. meyerweb.com: Assorted content, often about the web platform.
19. Stephen Wolfram: Data-heavy analysis with a focus on mathematics and statistics.
20. Michael Dickens: Philosophy, investing, and altruism.
21. Paul Graham: Start-up culture.
22. Håvard Brynjulfsen: Web development and design.
23. Ryan Mulligan: Front-end development experimentation, learning, and discoveries.
24. Clagnut by Richard Rutter: Design and typography with a focus on the web.
25. samwho: Visual, often interactive, computer science introductions and traditional development posts.
26. Jan Miksovsky’s Blog: Development and project notes.
27. Jim Nielsen's Blog: Web development and thoughts.
28. blakewatson.com: Web development.
29. Karolina Szczur: Assorted tech industry related commentary.
30. Adam Argyle: CSS and other aspects of the web platform.
31. Ben Myers: Web development.
32. Ryan Trimble: Web development and weekly roundups.
33. Werd I/O: Intersection of technology, democracy, and society.
34. Birchtree: Technology.
35. Adactio: Development and tech industry.
36. That HTML Blog: Web standards and standards-adjacent technologies.
37. Computers Are Bad: Explains why computers are bad.
38. Maggie Appleton: Visual essays about programming, design, and anthropology.
39. CSS { In Real Life }: CSS, front-end development, the web, and beyond.
40. Aleksandr Hovhannisyan: Programming, life, and other topics.
41. Ashlese M Boyer: Accessibility, disability, and software engineering.
42. Sara Joy: Web development and life.
43. Moth Monster: Technology.
44. Mayank: Web development.
45. Heather Buchel: Web standards and accessibility.
46. Seirdy's Home: Accessibility, security, privacy, and software freedom.
47. Scott O'Hara: Web development, largely focusing on accessibility.
48. Waxy.org: Various web things.
49. Simon Willison's Weblog: Artificial intelligence.
50. LessWrong: Community blog of sorts discussing rationality and AI.
51. brr: Records of interesting things about Antarctica from someone who lived there.
52. ribo.zone: Assorted miscellany.
53. oimo.io: Development with an emphasis on graphics.
54. Bartosz Ciechanowski: In-depth explanations of general concepts with visualisations.
55. Henry From Online: Tech and life.
56. Stillness.Digital: Short little reflective somethings.
57. Strange.Website: Pontificating about conceptual website vibes.
58. Anthony Fu: Development.
59. Faster and Worse: Technology.
60. maya.land: Tech menacery.
61. 30fps.net: Computer graphics and programming.
62. elle's homepage: A lovely little site to visit.
63. Ray's Miscellany: Completely indescribable.
64. HTMHell: HTML crimes and how to rectify them.
65. Shellsharks: Information security, technology, and life.
66. In Two Minds: A digital garden exploring philosophy, ethics, and systems thinking through multiple lenses and personas.
67. Bram.us: A rather geeky/technical weblog.
68. Matthias Ott: User experience design, design engineering, and web development.
69. Zach Leatherman: Web development (specifically 11ty) stuff.
70. JakeArchibald.com: Technical web development.
71. Eric Bailey: Web development with a focus on accessible and inclusive design.
72. Elliot Jay Stocks: Design and typography.
73. Max Böck: Front-end development.
74. hidde.blog: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, and browsers.
75. Lea Verou: Product design and web technologies.
76. Salma Alam-Naylor: Software engineering and developer education.
77. Amelia Wattenberger: Novel interfaces, web development, and data visualisations.
78. Una Kravets Online: Web platform and development.
79. Scott Jehl: Web design and development.
80. utilitybend: Web development and accessibility.
81. Tyler Sticka: Web development.
82. Kilian Valkhof: Web development.
83. Chen Hui Jing: Chronicles of a self-taught designer and developer.
84. Miriam Eric Suzanne: Web development and industry analysis.
85. Tobi's Website: Web development.
86. Sia Karamalegos: Web performance, web development, and Eleventy.
87. Marko Bajlovic: Software development and design.
88. @lachlanjc/notebook: Assorted tech stuff.
89. jakelazaroff.com: Web development.
90. Willy Brauner: Web development.
91. CSS Wizardry: Web performance and CSS architecture.
92. Stephanie Stimac's Blog: Web, design, product management, and little bits of life.
93. Elly Loel: Web development, accessibility, and industry analysis.
94. Paul Kinlan: Web platform.
95. Cassidy Williams: Software development.
96. Keith Cirkel: Software development with focus on web engineering.
97. leanrada.com: Software engineering and artsy stuff.

miscellaneous

1. Neal.fun
2. Library of Babel
3. Music-Map
4. The Million Dollar Homepage
5. Slow Hot Computer
6. Don't ask to ask, just ask
7. no hello
8. Jeff Lee Johnson's Gallery
9. Planet eBook
10. Standard Ebooks
11. rawtext.club
12. Dwitter
13. Cameron's World
14. Google Graveyard
15. A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
16. Dark Pattern Games
17. Spaghetti Audio
18. WebGL Fluid Simulation
19. Land of Lost Toys
20. Valve Time
21. Suicide Linux
22. The Jargon File
23. Monkeytype
24. End of the Internet
25. DustSim
26. tilde.town
27. The Old Net
28. Slide Ventura
29. gail.com
30. Boil the Frog
31. This Word Does Not Exist
32. Famous Cases and Criminals - FBI
33. Write Shareware!
34. Web Design Museum
35. How Many Days Since The Montague Street Bridge Has Been Hit?
36. Firesky
37. The Blob Toy
38. Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
39. ikeryou.jp
40. Putting the 'You' in CPU
41. Zombo.com
42. I Know What You Download
43. /uses
44. Micro Survivors
45. LiquidFun
46. aem1k
47. Where is the Sloth?
48. 84-24
49. Sabby
50. FirefoxCSS Store
51. Acid Pattern Generator
52. Botwiki
53. Your Name in Landsat
54. sixtyfour
55. Beautiful Public Data
56. Web Browser Engineering
57. ambient.garden
58. Listen to Wikipedia
59. MelonLand Project
60. Retrocomputing Archive
61. Poolsuite™
62. Windows93
63. Windows 96
64. Floor796
65. Open Directory Project
66. Sombras.app
67. Wikipedia Unusual Articles
68. Bushism
69. Wikipedia Silly Things
70. Spaghetti-tree Hoax
71. The Internet Ray Tracing Competition
72. The Official Jackie Chan Website
73. Internet Explorer is EVIL!
74. The San Francisco FogCam!
75. Heaven's Gate
76. 3D ISS Tracker
77. The Mosaic Communications Universe
78. Mu Mirror
79. Lock the Taskbar
80. FlagWaver
81. Old'aVista
82. OldWeb.Today
83. Emoji Simulator!
84. Retrocampus BBS Online
85. Koalas to the Max dot Com
86. Pointer Pointer
87. ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇ `^^^^^~ ░ ui▀┳╲ ☺ .info ▓
88. elgooG
89. Staggering Beauty
90. endlessHorse
91. GifCities
92. ZOMG ZUFALL!
93. Watching Grass Grow
94. How Many People Are In Space Right Now?
95. The Eye
96. Let Me Google That
97. Zoomquilt
98. Binary Music Player
99. Find the Invisible Cow
100. Hakim El Hattab
101. emojimix
102. Radio Garden
103. Silk
104. VOLE.wtf
105. The Kingdom of Loathing
106. About Ideas Now
107. Discuo
108. Pokémon Cards CSS Holographic Effect
109. Monster Breeder
110. Bad Cafe Web Jungle
111. Fluid Particles
112. Anything But Metric
113. PackardBell95
114. ZYRA
115. ever dream this man?
116. Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue
117. PIXELS FIGHTING
118. it will never be the same
119. inner interior
120. Chicken on a Raft
121. The Restart Page
122. Iso
123. Ian's Shoelace Site
124. Akiyoshi's illusion pages
125. the Free Movie
126. Marble Place
127. NUCLEAR.CODES
128. Optical Toys
129. %Location
130. Million Pixel Dash
131. Comparea
132. maxwellcat.world
133. Calculator Soup
134. The Nicest Place On The Internet
135. Letters
136. Audio-motion interface
137. MinuteLabs.io
138. Spirograph
139. zen photon garden
140. MelonKing
141. Multiplayer Piano
142. textfiles.com
143. HandLand
144. Something/Nothing
145. The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
146. ProsePlay
147. Link-Site Prototype
148. Wikenigma
149. Away Messages
150. They Thought You'd Say This
151. Adel Faure
152. Demographics of the Titanic Passengers
153. Stories from the Internet
154. y2kid here!
155. noclip
156. Origami Taxonomy
157. Digital City
158. Dragon Fruit Obsession
159. Skrrrt
160. Furby Autopsy
161. self noise
162. The Original Mojave Phone Booth Site
163. ShadeMap
164. Heavens Above
165. fUSION Anomaly
166. Drivey.js
167. keygenjukebox.net
168. Drive Me Insane!
169. Telehack
170. musicForProgramming();
171. Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?
172. What's The Harm?
173. Wide-band WebSDR
174. Cyberlife
175. User Intyerface
176. Chris Johnson's Ascii Art Collection
177. Ink Blot Mazes
178. Website Review
179. Wxyz Webcams
180. Terminal 00
181. Dark Site Finder
182. Visualising World Birth and Death Rates
183. Orb.Farm
184. The Simulator
185. Memory of the World Library
186. textmode.art
187. URL Poetry Club
188. Nokia Design Archive
189. Dancing Boss
190. Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
191. SITO.org
192. Art Crimes
193. Scott Pakin’s automatic complaint-letter generator
194. The Barney Fun Page!
195. Astroboi Game
196. Fluid Paint
197. Outsmart the AI
198. TRASH LOOP .COM
199. CC
200. Aphantasia
201. Praise Obadiah
202. This to That
203. The Engineering ToolBox
204. Erowid
205. restorativland
206. Star Trek + Design
207. ●●●●●✺✺✺✺✺✹✹✹✹✹✸✸✸✸✸✷✷✷✷✷✶✶✶✶✶
208. The Sound of Love
209. Touch for Luck
210. Rotating Sandwiches
211. Nothing: Simply Do Nothing
212. Only Visit Once
213. Is my blue your blue?
214. Infinite Flowers Zoomquilt
215. Out of Thin Air
216. Smash The Walls
217. Observing Time
218. Looped for Infinity
219. OOOooo
220. Strobe Illusion
221. Segmentation.Network
222. Scroll-O-Meter
223. HEEEEEEEEEY!
224. jack.black
225. Agora of Flancia
226. tv.garden

avery mensch and vishnu bachani's research

• Guide to Finding Articles/Books — includes comprehensive instructions on how to use Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, WorldCat, Google Scholar, Internet Archive, Z-Library, Memory of the World, The Eye (eBook database), The Philosophical Underclass (Facebook group for free philosophy-related material), and reddit.com/r/Scholar. You can also join the private Facebook group, Ask for PDFs from people with institutional access.
• Information Sharing database — includes sites for books and articles, directions on how to use sci-hub, how to convert PDFs, how to remove DRM on Internet Archive, and how to batch download pdf chapters and combine them into one file.
• Airtable — where to look for articles, books, repositories.

other resources

• PDF Drive — hosts free book PDFs and epubs. You don't need an account to start downloading.
• 12 ways to get past a paywall — instructions on using free extensions and tools, resetting browser cookies, etc. (Tip: the GitHub extension by iamadamdev can help: bypass-paywalls-chrome). For copying text from sites that block it, try Chrome → Site Settings → JavaScript → Block.

textbooks for college

I do not own these textbooks and do not solely collate them here. They are various students' existing PDFs, listed here for convenience.

• Economics
• Business and Management
• Finance, Fraud, Data Analysis
• Mechanical engineering

trackers

• Global protest tracker
• Global conflict tracker
• Global soft power tracker
• Indian internet shutdowns tracker
• Our World in Data
• Yemen data project
• BBC country profiles (chronological)

archives

• Internet Archive — free audio, video, text, and Wayback Machine.
• Text File Directory — text files from the BBS era (1980–1995).
• erowid.org — repository of recreational drug use-related knowledge (harm reduction, slang, laws, etc.).
• Reading material on Kashmir
• Citizenship Amendment Act archives (reading + visual)

documentaries and audio

• Free documentaries and films (links tested October 2020): Documentary Mania. Also check: Moving Image Archive, Top Documentary Films, Documentary Heaven, documentary.net, Documentary Storm.
• LibriVox — audiobooks from the public domain.
• BBC Sound Effects — 16,000 audio clips (RemArc Licence; personal/educational use). Also: Freesound (Creative Commons audio samples).

notes

1. personal web map, website building: used for Neocities
2. Su Bingtian: fastest asian