Websites
Just some fun stuff:
- The Indie Beat Radio — streaming music from Fediverse artists.
- We Dwell in Possibility — queer gardening game.
- WindowSwap — open a window somewhere in the world.
Surf indie/small web randomly:
- IndieBlog.page.
- Take me to a useless site.
- Search.Marginalia's random list of domains.
- Kagi's small web.
- The Forest.
- Indieseek.xyz's 'Stumblizer'.
- IndieWeb Webring.
- Bukmark.club's 'Visit random page'.
- Wiby's 'Surprize me'.
Search indie/small web:
- Search.Marginalia.
- Wiby.
- About/Ideas/Now.
- The Old Internet.
- Stract.
- Neocities.
- Blogroll.org.
- ooh.directory.
Directories and lists:
Tools for your own website
Checkers
- HTML Checker — check if there're any mistakes in your code.
- RSS Validator — same for the RSS feed.
- Lighthouse — measure your website's performance.
- Carbon calculator — estimate your web page carbon footprint.
Customization
- CSS Gradient — generate a gradient.
- CSS Generators — generate various shapes, shadows, and patterns.
- Hero Patterns — repeatable SVG background patterns.
- Zondicons — a set of free SVG icons.
- Font Free and Google Fonts — fonts that are free for personal and sometimes even commercial use.
Communication
- Giscus — FOSS comment system for Github Pages websites.
- Cactus Comments — FOSS comment system powered by Matrix.
- Guestbooks — FOSS guestbook.
- Komments — free no login comment system.
Accessibility
- The Read Time — provide reading time for your posts. It's useful for neurodivergent and disabled people when we know how much spoons will it take to read a thing so we can manage our energy level wisely.
Other
- Codeberg Pages and SourceHut Pages — FOSS alternatives to Github Pages.
- John Doe's page — example of a single HTML file website that utilizes anchor links.
- List of AI agents to block.
- Deceptive design — raises awareness about deceptive patterns used to trick users into doing something they don't want to.
