Cool Sites

On this page I'll put links to other sites from all around the web that I enjoy, whether they're useful, fun, interesting, cute, whatever. I'll try to find a good balance between "interesting to more people than just me" and "not so popular that everyone already knows it."

By the way, if you have a Tumblr, and you're thinking "I like random stuff, but this link collection is too well organized," consider following me there for significantly more random and smaller bits of what I find cool.

Tools for the web

• Neocities hosts this very website, and you can use it to make your own, for free! It also has a very cute basic HTML tutorial :3
• Jekyll is great if you're making a simple site but still want a bit more maintanable code that doesn't involve writing every HTML file fully by hand. (You will need to use the command line.)
• javascript.info is a very long, very comprehensive modern JavaScript tutorial. I wouldn't recommend it for beginners, since while it does start simple, it would take you quite a while to get to a point where you could actually do anything cool with it, but it's great if you want to go more in-depth. JavaScript is kind of a mess, and this made the mess make a lot more sense to me.
• Diceware (one specific site sharing the name of the procedure it's implementing) generates passwords that are easy to remember while still being relatively secure.

Computer graphics

• Shadertoy is a website that lets you write GLSL shaders in your browser and see the results immediately, as well as share them with others.
• Inigo Quilez, who works on Shadertoy, also has a personal website with many helpful articles about computer graphics.
• The Book of Shaders is what I would recommend for first learning shaders, though.

On Neocities

• Melonking probably has my favourite page here on Neocities (that I've seen). There's just so much to explore on it.

Games

• Explorable Explanations is a collection of interactive experiences (some of them are more "game" than others) that really showcase the strength of games as a medium, because they help you understand things in ways that no book or video ever could. Here's my personal favourite to start with: Parable of the Polygons.
• sendou.ink has many useful tools to improve your Splatoon play.

Miscellaneous

• TVTropes lets you sink way too much time into exploring connections between different stories.
• Tom Scott has a newsletter. Did you know that? If you've read this far you probably like links to random interesting stuff, and his newsletter has those every week.
• Radiooooo lets you go on a world tour and time travel simultaneously to discover music from any country between 1900 and today.

The ones you shouldn't open at work

• Valerie Halla aka Drools Cutely makes some excellent queer art and the NSFW pieces especially have a certain vibe to it that is rare to see.