LINKLIST
♿ DISABILITY & ACCESSIBILITY
Not BR: A dyslexia-friendly tool that is definitely not the pay-to-use "bionic reading". Converts text to the OpenDyslexie font, with customisable adjustments like weight and line spacing
National Center on Disability and Journalism: Disability Language Style Guide: A style guide for discussing and writing about disability and disabled people, with explanations. Avaiable in English, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian.
The Ultimate Motherfucking Website: the absolute bare basics 'what is web accessibility?'
Access Guide: A user-friendly introduction to web accessibility.
Solaria: What I've Learned About Web Accessibility as a Dyslexic, Sighted, Mouse User: A helpful, interestingly formatted article on basics.
🍳 LIFE SKILLS
supercook: Put in what ingredients you have, and it'll give you a list of online recipes that can be made with only those. Tragically, it does involve links to recipe websites, which are mostly terrible.
12 things to do instead of calling the cops: A simple, screenreader-accessible print zine.
Thing and Stuff Wiki: "An organically evolving personal wiki knowledge base" with an "on-the-fly taxonomy". I haven't explored it a great deal yet, but it seems very interesting.
📖 MEDIA ACCESS
Directory of Open Access Journals: What it says on the tin. It's been active for over 20 years, and has a sleek but not obnoxious interface.
openverse: Creative Commons and public domain image and audio searching.
cobalt tools: A tool to download media from the internet (eg, YT videos) with 0 trackers.
i have no tv: A collection of free-to-view documentaries on the web, without the far-right conspiracy theory nonsense that such collections are often heavily weighted towards.
Marginalia Search: A simple search engine that tries to turn up non-commercial results. You won't get results you could find easily with Google - but you'll also gets results you couldn't find easily with Google. If you like DuckDuckGo, you may just love Marginalia as a secondary search engine.
library genesis: An ebook downloader with a reasonably extensive catalogue of STEM textbooks, and many other mass-market books, as well.
The Anarchist Library: A frequently-updated collection of anarchist texts in over 20 languages.
Springer Open: A number of Springer journals are open access, and here's where to read them.
Eclectic Library: A delightful collection of nonfiction, curated by another webmaster on Neocities.
CheapShark: Tracks when PC games are on sale.
📝 WRITING
VWrites: Maintaining the Enclosure: A list of sorts that can help work out why you're having trouble writing.
careful words: Self-describes as "a little bit more than a thesaurus". A charming tool.
cru’s D&D Reading Room: A World Building Checklist: This is a truly extensive list of worldbuilding questions that I highly recommend.
fantasynamegenerators: A wonderful website managed and developed by one person. It has generic name generators, and in-depth ones, like for specific species from Star Trek and Star Wars.
Tip of my Tongue: This is a tool developed to help people find the specific word they're looking for. It doesn't always work, but it's useful to be able to try.
Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki: [FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a part of this project.] Unfortunately hosted on Fandom at present, this is a project to compile Star Wars information in a more writer-friendly, and less hostile, way than Wookieepedia does. It includes guides to disability in Star Wars, and a list of LBGTQIA+ Star Wars characters. Why not come over and take a look, and maybe even lend a hand?
🕸️ WEBMASTERY
HTML cheat sheet: Also includes CSS and JavaScript.
Cheaters JavaScript: A few JavaScript snippets/tutorials by Solaria.
catbox: file hosting
Dither it!: Reduces image file sizes by dithering them.
silly HTML colors: This is really more of a 'just for fun' link, but it can be used in coding. It's very entertaining.
Tepppy's Layouts: a few very neat HTML layout templates, coded with love and intended to be endlessly customised.
Solaria's HTML Color Map: Self-described as "139 interactive HTML colors organized with like colors near each other!" They're circles.
Kalechips' Layout thrift store: Some absolutely incredible HTML templates.
🗃️️ MISC
Gwern.net: A fascinating collection of personal essays by Gwern Branwen.
Jenny Holzer Truisms: A collection of some of Holzer's 'truisms' by the University of Texas.
Neal.fun: A lot of fun and interesting tools and games. Educational but not demeaning.
genders.wtf: A collection of unusual options given for 'gender' dropdowns in online forms.
Listen to Wikipedia: live changes to Wikipedia, transposed into music.
The Pudding: "A digital publication thatwill make you fall in love with data."