507 Mechanical Movements [507movements.com]
Animated browser versions of all 507 mechanical movements from Henry T. Brown's classic 1868 technical reference — gears, cams, levers, cranks, and more.
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Coding, making, tools, dev resources, tech projects
Coding, making, tools, dev resources, tech projects
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Animated Engines [animatedengines.com]
Clear animated diagrams showing exactly how different engines work — four-stroke, diesel, Wankel, jet, steam, Stirling, and more.
Anime.js [animejs.com]
A lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple API. The site itself is a showcase of fluid, beautiful animations — almost as much a gallery as it is documentation.
Atabook [atabook.org]
A simple, free guestbook service for your website.
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Boring Rails [boringrails.com]
Resources and guides for full-stack developers using the boring tools of Basecamp, GitHub, and Shopify to build Ruby on Rails apps.
Brendan Gregg's Homepage [brendangregg.com]
Personal site of performance engineer Brendan Gregg with extensive resources on Linux performance, eBPF, and Flame Graphs.
Brutalist Websites [brutalistwebsites.com]
A curated gallery celebrating brutalist web design — rugged, uncommon, and uncompromising.
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Coding Font [codingfont.com]
A tournament-style bracket for picking your favorite coding font. Compare fonts head-to-head with real code samples until one champion emerges.
Collect UI [collectui.com]
Daily UI inspiration collected from the Daily UI archive and beyond, updated daily.
Cooper Hewitt Collections API [collection.cooperhewitt.org]
The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum collections API — open access to object data, images, and metadata for 30 centuries of design.
CSS Zen Garden [csszengarden.com]
A demonstration of what can be accomplished through CSS-based design — the same HTML, infinite visual possibilities.
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Dev to Agency [devtoagency.com]
Resources and guides for full-stack developers to start and run successful software development agencies.
dverso laundry [tools.dverso.io]
A free browser-based background remover disguised as a charming anime-themed laundry service. All processing happens locally — no uploads to external servers. Part of dverso studio's tool collection.
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Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever [dagusa.com]
A satirical replica of every Bootstrap-built website ever made.
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Glicol [glicol.org]
A next-generation computer music language for live coding in the browser. Connect nodes like synths, sequencers, and samplers to make music with code in real time.
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Hemingway Editor [hemingwayapp.com]
A writing tool that makes your prose bold and clear. Highlights lengthy sentences, complex words, passive voice, and adverbs with color-coded feedback so you can tighten your writing.
how-i-experience-web-today [how-i-experience-web-today.com]
A satirical simulation of the typical modern website — pop-ups, cookie banners, and all.
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Jez Swanson [jezzamon.com]
Personal site of Jez Swanson — games, interactive articles, and creative code experiments, including the widely-loved interactive introduction to Fourier transforms.
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Keybr [keybr.com]
A typing trainer that uses an algorithm to identify your weak keys and generate targeted practice text — gradually unlocking more letters as your speed and accuracy improve.
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localghost [localghost.dev]
Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.
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Make WordArt [makewordart.com]
A free online tool to recreate the nostalgic 90s WordArt text effects from MS Office. Generate and download retro-styled text as PNG.
Monkeytype [monkeytype.com]
A minimalistic, highly customizable typing speed test. Choose your word count, time limit, language, and theme — clean UI, no distractions.
Monorepo Explained [monorepo.tools]
Everything you need to know about monorepos and the tools to build them.
Music Box Fun [musicbox.fun]
An online music box maker — punch notes onto a virtual paper strip and hear your melody played back in that delicate, tinkly music box tone. Share your compositions with a link.
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NavNav [thuvien.org]
Curated UI component examples and navigation patterns.
Nekoweb [nekoweb.org]
A free static website hosting service for personal websites, with no ads or tracking, passionate about the old web.
Neocities [neocities.org]
A free static website hosting service for personal websites with a community feed and zero ads.
NYPL Digital Collections API [api.repo.nypl.org]
The New York Public Library Digital Collections API — programmatic access to NYPL metadata and digital assets for developers and researchers.
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One Page Love [onepagelove.com]
A curated gallery of single-page websites, templates, and resources.
Origami Simulator [origamisimulator.org]
Simulate how any origami crease pattern folds in real time using GPU computation. Upload SVG or FOLD files, adjust fold percentage, and watch the paper fold itself.
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Page Flows [pageflows.com]
Best mobile and web user flow examples from proven products.
Paper Sizes [papersizes.io]
A clean, comprehensive reference for every paper size in the world — A-series, B-series, US formats, envelopes, and more, with dimensions in mm, cm, inches, and pixels at various DPIs.
Perfect Chinese Grammar Checker [zh.manfenyufa.com]
A free online Chinese grammar checker — like Grammarly for Chinese. Handles grammar checking, sentence error detection, spelling correction, and punctuation review with one click.
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Regex101 [regex101.com]
Online regex builder, tester, and debugger. Supports PCRE2, JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, and more — with real-time explanations, match highlighting, and a code generator.
Rijksmuseum Data API [data.rijksmuseum.nl]
The Rijksmuseum open data API — access to artwork metadata and high-resolution image tiles from one of the world great art collections.
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Scratch [scratch.mit.edu]
MIT's free visual programming platform where anyone can create interactive stories, games, and animations. A massive community of projects made by kids and beginners learning to code.
Slidev [sli.dev]
Presentation slides for developers — write presentations in Markdown with Vue components.
Sloop Websites [sloop.nz]
Build websites accessible on older web browsers like Classilla, Internet Explorer 5, and Netscape 7.
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The Book of Secret Knowledge [github.com]
A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, hacks, and CLI/web tools.
The Toymaker [thetoymaker.com]
A charming collection of free printable paper toys, holiday cards, valentines, sun boxes, baskets, origami, and ephemera by Marilyn Scott Waters. Designed to help grownups and kids spend time together making things.
TypeLit.io [typelit.io]
Practice typing by retyping entire classic novels — 1984, Dracula, The Great Gatsby, and more. Track your speed and accuracy while working through great literature.
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User Inyerface [userinyerface.com]
A worst-practice UI experiment — every UX anti-pattern on one page.
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VNOI Wiki [wiki.vnoi.info]
A comprehensive wiki for algorithms and data structures maintained by the Vietnamese Olympiad in Informatics community.
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ZenPen [zenpen.io]
A minimalist distraction-free writing editor. Just open it and write — a clean white canvas with a tiny floating toolbar for basic formatting. Nothing else.