bookmarks
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web neighbors
Soon (tm).
other personal sites
SOON. (tm)
tools
- online ocr is an online ocr. yea
- terms of service didn't read, for good summarizations of sites' TOS
- searXNG is a good alternate search engine
- justbeamit, easy file transfer
- onelook, reverse dictionary - insert a description and find a word
- cobalt allows to download media from a lot of social media that doesn't let you do that
- czkawka finds duplicate files in your computer
linux & tech
- arch wiki, library of alexandria for arch and arch-based distro users + useful for many other cases
- portable apps, all using AppImage. easy to use, can be brought anywhere that uses a linux distribution
- open source alternatives for popular products that don't always have support for linux
- this is a very interesting guide on self hosting .onion sites
- twiiit auto-redirects you to working nitter (an alternate twitter frontend) instances
- delim is a lifesaver for transforming a whole list of items into something you can pop into an array
- hydrus network is a file management system that lets you tag everything
- virustotal analyses suspicious files, urls, etc to detect malware
images
- photopea, as powerful as photoshop and available for free in-browser. i use it all the time it's so good
- dither me this is one of these sites i almost want to gatekeep. allows you to carefully change settings for dithering any image - including colors, method, and more! it even has presets for ~aesthetics~
- irasutoya is the site with all these cute cliparts they mostly use in japan
- same energy is a "visual search engine" - input an image and find more with the "same energy"
- reference angle helps with drawing busts at different angles
- cari institute is an archive of consumer aesthetics - i find that they're awesome for getting inspired
- vertex meadow is more on the 3d side, but... you can make a little 3d world! how fun!
html & css
- foollovers is well known for a good reason. really good materials and templates to use
- w3schools is also linked everywhere because it's awesome. linked here is the howto page with a lot of tricks and snippets of code you can use for your website
- magicpattern has great css-only backgrounds in this link! also has other features, but most of them require signing in
- cssportal also generates cool patterns, and has loads of other tools that can help you with your site
- teppy's layouts are a nice source of inspiration
- neo-himeism is up since 2004 with web resources... some of them are outdated but it's still very cool
- hover.css has free to use css hover effects for buttons and whatnot
- this post on 32bit cafe has a huge link collection of resources
game specific
- akgcc, features story reader, recruitment calculator, and other fun stuff
- arkwaifu is a gallery of ingame images
- oldwell maps resources per arknights event
- penguin statistics provides indepth drop rates for items and farm planning
- arknights game data (non-CN) repository. because i'm nosy
- limbus company organized assets, huge folder with rips from the game
- gesellschaft beautifully collates an insane amount of data from the game
- abnormality encounter compendium
- limbus storylogs
- hsr showcase, my preferred character showcase service for honkai: star rail
- the asenheim project features a lot of classic vns that can be played inbrowser
- openguessr, free alternative to geoguessr
fun
- ascii play lets you play with shaders and ascii inbrowser
- hyperbeam is a website that lets you watch things with friends!
- noclip.website
- colnect,a catalog for collections that also features a marketplace
- paxtongate has bones, taxidermies, specimens etc. for sale
- ultimate mushroom, guide for identifying and foraging mushrooms! also has a section for slime molds :D
- sakugabooru, booru just for scenes from anime
- ... and their sister blog with so much insight into the anime industry
- i get my artbooks from this tag on e-hentai. many are SFW, especially if you go look for something specific, and there's no images unless you hover, but viewer discretion advised anyway
- peelopaalu, another humongous link directory
- 2ch-aa, fun source of kaomoji and ascii art
- DAN-BALL is still up and the day i found out was one of so much joy. very charming browser games
- the html review is "an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web", with awesome art installations
- myfigurecollection is a database of merch for anime, manga, and videogames, along with a marketplace! ... dangerous for wallets.
- nuwa hanfu is a store based on traditional chinese fashion and modernizations of it
- anime themes is pretty fun!