Ulik’s Café ☕️

Links

—in no particular order.

web

MDN Web Docs: References for HTML, CSS, JavaScript. It's from Mozilla, so there is no SEO spam.

QR Code Generator: A QR code generator by Christian Lawson-Perfect

Squoosh: Image compressing web-app.

Dither it!: Web app for dithering images. Reduces the size of images and gives them an old school look.

HTML tips: Collection of tips for HTML web pages: semantic HTML, accessibility, etc.

Butterick's practical typography: Free webpage/textbook on typography.

FediTips: An unofficial non-technical guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse.

web manifestos: "Netizens are making it known that we are unhappy with the state of the internet as it is today."

ooh.directory: Repository of recently updated blogs.

Wiby: The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet.

HTML for People: Tutorial for making HTML web pages.

The Plain Text Project: "Plain text. It's boring. It's unadorned. It seems so … well, so archaic. The digital equivalent of papyrus. But it isn't."

Classless CSS: List of classless CSS themes and frameworks. My front page currently uses Simple.css.

Mac Open Web: A collection of open and indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help promote the open web.

Reasonable Colors: "Reasonable Colors is an open-source color system for building accessible, nice-looking color palettes."

Reasonable.html: "Reasonable.html is a single HTML document that contains a reasonably complete set of example HTML elements."

NeverSSL: "This website is for when you try to open [an website] on a wifi network, and nothing happens. Type "http://neverssl.com" into your browser's url bar, and you'll be able to log on."

entertainment

Standard ebooks: Public domain books as well-formatted ebooks.

Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks.

Game Dad Club: A short introduction site to the Game Dad. "The Game Dad creates Game Time."

Vattu: Indie webcomic.

ZQuest Classic: A web version of the classic Zelda engine. Many games available to play.

Antimemetics Division Hub: SCP short story collection about antimemetics: "An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it."

Architecture of Consoles: "A practical analysis by Rodrigo Copetti"

Foone's death generator: "This creates GAME OVER/YOU DIED screens as seen in Sierra Online's SCI engine, as well as lots of other fake videogame screenshots from many, many games."

FromSoft image macro creator: From Demon Souls to Elden Ring. (Also has a macro creator for Smash Bros. Melee.)

Evangelion title card generator: What it says on the label. Both 4:3 and 16:9 proportions are available.

Fusion tools for Megami Tensei Games: Useful for planning fusions in SMT games. Allows for many methods of search. JSON datasets downloadable in the GitHub repositories.

The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme: "this is not a hall of shame. the intent is to awaken you to many of the peculiarities and weirdness of computers. hopefully, after reading these articles, you will have learned a lot and will embrace chaos."

Draw A Box: "Drawabox is a set of free exercise-based lessons that focus on the fundamentals - the skills you'll need to make sense of all the other resources and tutorials out there."

GENUARY: "GENUARY is an artificially generated month of time where we build code that makes beautiful things."

Tiny Code Christmas: "LoveByte’s Tiny Code Christmas is an event to help you take your first steps in demoscene sizecoding with Lua based fantasy consoles like TIC-80 and PICO-8!"

Six Degrees of Wikipedia: "Enter the titles of two Wikipedia pages in the boxes on this site, click the "Go!" button, and discover just how connected Wikipedia really is."

Iceberger: "Draw an iceberg and see how it will float."

other

Early Modern Texts: Translations of modern philosophy texts into contemporary English.

Diversity Reading List: "So, what do you do if a topic you want to learn about is not taught at your university? Start your own reading group! And if this sounds like a daunting task, we are here to help. Below, you will find ready-made Blueprints you can use to create your reading group."

The society of mind.: Textbook on AI by Marvin Minsky.

International linguistics olympiads: Like Mathematics Olympiads, but for linguistics.

toki pona tutorial: A free 12 day tutorial for toki pona.

GB Studio: GB Studio is drag and drop game creator for making Game Boy games.

Pixel Art Tutorials: "The biggest collection of pixel art tutorials on the net!"

PGDP - Distributed Proofreaders: Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers can work on a book at the same time, which significantly speeds up the creation process.

Safety Sign Generator: "This is a fancy portal for accessing generators for ERAU Logos, ANSI Z535 compliant Hazard Signs, and Laboratory Door Safety Signs."

Tiny Tools Directory: "This is a list of small, free, or experimental tools that might be useful in building your game / website / interactive project."

[https://www.theproofistrivial.com/](The proof is trivial!): Left as an exercise to the reader.

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