List of Nice Websites and Links

>Tools

• cobalt - an all-purpose downloader
• Lucida - a tool to download music with
• Dithermark - an online dithering app for images
• Onelook - English dictionary, Extensive thesaurus, semantic search engine
• Monkeytype - a very extensive and fun minimalistic typing test.
• Playlist randomizer - cool website which actually randomizes your youtube playlists - u can watch from there et
• Pages(dot)gay quick easy and gay way to set up a static site - website has docs
• Trope Spinner for the stuck or uninspired writer
• Beets(dot)io - music player and organizer
• Yunohost - a debian-based operating system aiming to simplify server administration
• Zoom Earth - an interactive (and almost live) weather map of the whole world
• Obsidian - one of my favourite note-taking apps; supports graphs and inter-linking and folders. Look here for a guide/overview
• OpenStreetMap - solid and open-source alternative to Google Maps
• RealtimeColors - see how colors would look like on a website -- RandomA11y is another beautiful website for this, lithe and with with many descriptions about the colours you're using, and CSS :)
• FlightRadar24 - see planes go brr in the world real-time
• Color-hex - check colours and find related ones
• Wormhole - A website to send files over the internet with end2end encryption and a self-destructing link, up to 10GB!
• LocalSend - A cross-platform application to send files over the same wifi. Incredibly useful if you need to send something between your devices quickly and without using other platforms. All's local!
• Pinetools - quick tools to do whatever. Flip images, reverse lists, split files, calculate stuff, etc. Haven't felt the need to use this one but sharing this in case someone finds this useful
• TraceMoe - Insane website which recognizes any screenshot from an anime back to its original episode and frame. It can tell the anime, the episode and the exact time that scene appears

>Archives

• The Poetry Foundation - Poetry Archive
• Every Noise at Once - immense music genres archive
• INaturalist - a living beings and organisms archive, and social network of naturalistic observations in the world
• The Old Net - an archive about old style (90s to early 2010s) internet and websites based on an Internet Archive API
• Smithsonian Open Access - milions of open access and freely usable images
• Gif gallery almost 10k gifs in here!
• Trans Reads - library of texts from and for the trans community, has both fiction and nonfiction
• Human body poses and references - with penis havers (naked people alert) -- same but for breasts havers (also naked people alert) -- same but for different kinds of beasts and animals
• Descriptionary - a lot of descriptions of emotions and more
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - brilliant and peer-reviewed resources to look up authors, philosophies, and currents of thought, a must go-to for philosophy enthusiasts
• ACM Digital Library- a research, discovery and networking platform about computer science and mathematics. There are a lot of papers available
• The Storygraph - best alternative to Goodreads. it has cool stats too
• National Gallery of Art Public Domain - This has an open access policy for images of works of art in their permanent collection, all in public domain. Available for download free of charge for any use!
• Library of Congress Public Domain - Same for the LoC! Public domain things
• Peelopaalu - Where I got a bunch of these, and there's more
• Medieval Music & Arts Foundation - as the name suggests, has a wholee lot of things on medieval music. Very old website! (30+ yo!)
• Manuscript Miniatures - an image collection of miniatures from the medieval period, before the 1450s. Goldmine of such things

>Computer Science, Tech world, Mathematics

• Rosalind - A platform for learning bioinformatics through problem solving
• Algorithm Visualizations by Chris Laux
• Huffman Coding website and encoding tool, by Ayman Ydelo
• asc-paint - an ascii art painting program by Jonathan Brodsky
• Commonmark - proposal for a standard, unambiguous syntax specification for Markdown by a group of Markdown fans - website has tutorials and reference guides
• Calculus made easy - a very good math book about calculus entirely available online
• The Odin Project - An open-source programming course which takes you from zero to fullstack in reasonable and entertaining ways
• LearnXinYminutes - a website full of cheatsheets of every programming language you can (and can't) think of
• Quantum Country - An introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics
• Project Based Learning - Curated list of project-based tutorials
• Every Programmer Should Know - A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know about
• Papers for Software Engineers - A good and curated list of papers for Software Engineers (from 1950s to today!)

>Games

• 17776 - not really a game, but click anyway. trust me.
• ZType - a fun typing game where you vanquish enemy spaceships by typing
• jklm(dot)fun - a place where to play either bombparty (think of a word given a syllable) or popsauce (pop culture quiz)
• Tetris - play Tetris (official website)
• BrantSteele website - ye olde hunger games survivors sim game, among others
• Daily Crosswords - from boatload puzzles
• Worldle - wordle but with country shapes - same website has also links to other fun geography games
• Sporkle quiz with "progressively tougher" world capitals - fun and an opportunity to learn. Here is the random capitals one, and Here is my alltime fav flags-of-the-world one
• Lichess - best alternative to Chess dot com
• NoClip - This website lets you 3D (and 2D) explore the empty rooms extracted from so many videogames files, you can go around in there with WASD keys and everything...
• No-one-has-to-die - a 2013 narrative-driven sci-fi puzzle game by Sammy Madafiglio
• Disco Reader - An unofficial search engine and text visualization tool for Disco Elysium
• Catfishing - Guess 10 wikipedia pages from their categories only

>Whatever. go my scarab

• PetitTube - This website shows you 1 random video from youtube which has less than 50 views from a tiny channel. Created by Yann van der Cruyssen
• Cloudhiker - hike through completely random websites around the old and new web!
• Blåhajs doing human activities
• The Library of Babel - quote: "Every possible permutation of letters is accessible at this very moment in one of the library's books, only awaiting its discovery."
• How Close To Black Mirror - This site monitors how close real-world technology and society are to the scenarios depicted in each episode of the Black Mirror series
• End of the Internet - That's it. that's the last page. you're done. we're free.

>Wikipedia Pages - (hover your mouse on these!)

• List of unsolved problems in PhysicsThe following is a list of notable unsolved problems grouped into broad areas of physics.
  
  Some of the major unsolved problems in physics are theoretical, meaning that existing theories seem incapable of explaining a certain observed phenomenon or experimental result. The others are experimental, meaning that there is a difficulty in creating an experiment to test a proposed theory or investigate a phenomenon in greater detail.
• The RCA 1802 COSMAC (Complementary Symmetry Monolithic Array Computer) 8-bit microprocessor familyThe COSMAC (Complementary Symmetry Monolithic Array Computer) is an 8-bit microprocessor family introduced by RCA.
  
  It is historically notable as the first CMOS microprocessor.
• List of angels in theologyThis is a list of angels in religion, theology, astrology and magic, including both specific angels (e.g., Gabriel) and types of angels (e.g., seraphim).
• Sieve of EratosthenesIn mathematics, the sieve of Eratosthenes is an ancient algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to any given limit.
• Rogue PlanetsA rogue planet is an interstellar object of planetary mass which is not gravitationally bound to any star or brown dwarf.
  
  Rogue planets may originate from planetary systems in which they are formed and later ejected, or they can also form on their own, outside a planetary system.
  
  The Milky Way alone may have billions to trillions of rogue planets.
  
  Most isolated planetary-mass objects will float in interstellar space forever.
• Rubber Duck Debugging In software engineering, rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking) is a method of debugging code by articulating a problem in spoken or written natural language.
  
  The name is a reference to a story in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by explaining it, line by line, to the duck.
• Orbital DecayOrbital decay is a gradual decrease of the distance between two orbiting bodies at their closest approach (the periapsis) over many orbital periods.
  
  If left unchecked, the decay eventually results in termination of the orbit when the smaller object strikes the surface of the primary;
  
  or for objects where the primary has an atmosphere, the smaller object burns, explodes, or otherwise breaks up in the larger object's atmosphere;
  
  or for objects where the primary is a star, ends with incineration by the star's radiation.
• The Tollund ManThe Tollund Man (died 405–384 BCE) is a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 5th century BC.
  
  He was found in 1950, preserved as a bog body near Silkeborg on the Jutland peninsula in Denmark. The man's physical features were so well preserved that he was mistaken for a recent murder victim.
  
  The cause of death has been determined to be by hanging. There is insufficient evidence to determine if the reason for the killing was a ritual sacrifice or a punitive execution.
• Erdős number The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.
• ZinesA zine is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images.
  
  Zines are the product of either a single person or of a very small group, and are popularly photocopied into physical prints for circulation.
  
  A fanzine is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

>Articles

• Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code, by Tanner Helland
• Wealth, shown to scale by mkorostoff
• Mass incarceration is unimaginably large by mkorostoff