garden of lil links

evergrowing. alphabetic order by url beginning (makes it easier for me to crosscheck), buttoned sites separate
if theres a bug in the order or code - of course there is hahaha

last updated oct 17 2024 (1 link update/addition)

the pile is this way

my (ideal?) activeish rotation

sites i tend to (want to) look at more oft than the rest. subject to adjustments.
small selection cos the world is very big and overwhelming
rough order of priority in this section, in a sense

• august v. m., or rather the diary bit
• oli xl, of course!
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• winnie lim, wanna go in on readin'
• valeria m. (formerly @ books lozano)
• lewvvk

my own lil buttons

no obligation to add this to ur site in case u r in here but,
a couple buttons of my own! feel free to copy either button (or both? i can't stop you) over to your site and link to me!

personal sites (mostly)

• cyber nymph garden
• jessica lord - i like the weekly notes organization, even though a little inactive now (as of feb 2024)
• mountainview [utility] - simply just a weather site, found from neocities recently edited sites or whatever at one point... including it cos i just find it neat
• sees - nice lil bus stop... lovely photos, i appreciate the vulnerability in sharing em
• seth's blog - words to feed ur brain with a little bit Maybe
• sleepydev - some Real Shit on the blog
• tiana dueck
• veronique
• yuri cunha's blog

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*"Why the minimal design? I know some other even cooler looking Neocities pages. - Mhm" <- so real for this

dormant or tiny sites

• 001827 - just a lil poemthing and links to some pages of the person but, captivating somehow. i forget how i found it.
• piperstrange - dormant, but still good energy - and this comic is cute
• pulappli

primarily-creative

• 011668 - neato site
• anonymousanimal - a little interactive poem that plays out for 15min every full hour
• bill wurtz - i enjoy the anagrams/scrambles a lot
• caleb woodward
• diode tapestry
• drowsy4ever
• eris world / petday
• - super cool ascii art of fungi and mushrooms
• fee.cool [personal / creative]
• guillaume berrut / laumeb
• isaiah moses (i.zaee on ig) - rlly cute crochet stuff
• itsallinsideus
• llleighsmith on gumroad - some zines i think i wanna check out
• melek zertal - found via malibu the french ambient artist (cos of the drawings for palaces of pity lp) - havent looked at everything but i like the style
• olivia when
• paloma the peach
• plutoalis - cool crochet hats
• sunday sites - there's some neat lil sites under this project - had midland in particular linked on here for a while
• squmme's corner
• tate kwan
• the wobbly website - cozy art
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• trance party [music] - i.e. evian christ's event series. really sick-looking site, and its radio spinning sets from past events has bangers
• porpentine

resources (or tools)

no alphabetical order from here on out

• cobalt - very nice social media video/audio downloading tool... i've used this for the occasional tiktok downloading
• abcbraille - for if i were to need to translate rogue braille somewhere
• color blender - really nice and simple one
• coolors color picker
• walky.space - perhaps useful, perhaps fun!
• tip of my tongue - maybe? i've not had to use it, but putting it here all the same
• foobar2000 title formatting reference

html and such

• shoutout w3schools and mdn web docs in tandem really
• html semantics cheat sheet
• html iso lang code reference
• date and time formats cheat sheet
• moon widget for site... maybe
• can i use - for web-stuff

on being online (or adjacent)

• cute little thing about making ones own website
• an app can be a home-cooked meal (robin sloan) - worded really well probably the main reason i wouldn't want to do infotech shit as fulltime job

• my website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. what could yours be? (laurel schwulst)
• my website as a home (nico chilla)
• varia - what a website can be
• everyoneshouldblog.txt and notechsaviors.txt - found via flamedfury's bookmarks haha
• how 2 disgrace social media
• the "cheap" web
• list of stuff re leavin social media
• telia digital cleanup day - one telecom company where i live hosting its own in addition to the global digital cleanup day thing apparently... some neat stuff in the links of that one rlly
• neuroknives manifesto - wanna mull over this more
• i wrote this on a 30-year-old computer by ian bogost

other writings:

• agenty duck - alternatives to (new year's) resolutions
• alex molas - nobody cares about your blog [segues into why you should :')]
• things that don't suck substack by andrea gibson - got one of their reels suggested to me on insta, want to explore this more
• raptitude.com experiments
• autistic as fxxk manifesto + 6 ways to be unapologetically autistic
• beepbird thoughts on being weird

soothing

• budding.computer - springtime motifs
• calm tech
• tools 2 heal
• very nice pic of a badger
• you feel like shit flowchart
• meditative spaces

other cool things

• soulja boy bouncing image game (rapidly scrolling images + music autoplay, proceed w caution) - for some absurdity in ur life. click on the bouncing image to get points
• electronic entomology - this looks fun to explore. electronic bugs...
• acronymy - words defined thru acronymy, it's super neat, do explore!
• the life and death of an internet onion - it exists online (mostly-)perennially for a few weeks around july/august, around the duration of the lifespan of an unfrigerated onion. cute thing, do relate to some of the blurbs in there. for while it's offline, there's also an are.na channel for it.
• us antarctic stations webcams
• weather station atop uni of tartu physics institute's enviro physics lab's roof or something - used to go to uni in tartu, still feel a vague bond with there. the site is neat to look at, the occasional bug in the charts amuses me, and i like the little timelapse video of the most recent 24 hours of the camera
  i once caught it as it had been snowing directly on the lens and was in the process of melting, left a really cool effect on the lights:
  

olive oli (very important)

been on my site since its inception in mid-nov 2022.