this is a monthly digest of cool things on the web.
cool sites
Published on Nov 5, 2025
- David Schütz Blog
- Kazy’s Website
- Kate Rose Morley’s Website
- Michael Harley’s Blog
- Wells Riley’s Website
- Jacky Alciné’s Digital Garden
- AksDev’s Blog
- Aleksandr’s Website
- Göktuğ’s Homepage
- Luke Mitchell’s Website
- Connor Rigby’s Blog
- Inigo Quilez’s Website
- Simon Hørup Eskildsen’s Blog
- Artemis Everfree’s Blog
- Jimmy Hartzell’s Website
- Jake Seliger’s Blog
- Aditya Athalye’s Blog
- Simon Freund’s Website
- Humans
- Hugo Daniel’s Blog
- Steve McDougall
- e‑basteln
- Import Tweets from Twitter API in 11ty
- Magazine Website Theme
- WebAssembly Search Tools for Static Sites
- 365 day writing project: My attempt at writing a thought a day for a year
- WWW Clubs: List of clubs that group together websites under a single banner
- Button Board: Like a blogroll but via the medium of 88x21 gifs
- Blogroll: Hand curated list of websites and blogs I find interesting
- Digital Gardens: List of digital gardens
- Inspiration: Websites and People who have inspired me
- Internet Archiving Projects: List of projects with the purpose of preserving the internets history
- Digital Graveyard: List of things that once were.
- Forums & Communities: List of Forums, communities and online hubs
- Webrings: The OG method of discovering interesting websites
- Windows98 Aesthetic: Websites designed with a Windows aesthetic in mind, mostly windows 98 but some 3.11 too!
- YouTube Channels: List of channels I enjoy watching
- My Games Library: List of games that I would like to one day play
- Internet Palls: Being terminally online I meet countless wonderful people in various corners of the Internet. These are the ones with whom I sometimes have the pleasure of interacting.
- Online Magazines: List of digital magazines that interest me
- Digital Pets & Adoptables: List of virtual pets and adoptables
- Search Engines: List of off-brand search engines of varying degrees of usefulness.
- Web Cliques & Clubs: List of web cliques.
- Terminal Websites: Websites that are navigated via an emulated terminal interface
- taquitos.net
- Kimimi the Game-Eating She-Monster
- Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 Finalists
- Paint Toys
- The Useless Web
- massgrave.dev
- tv.garden
- Stream of a Stream
- Fat Bear Week 2025 - explore.org
- PBS
- DrawAFish.com
- wttr.in
- 251 Huff Hollow Rd, Newport, TN - Zillow
- Mac Themes Garden
- Pointclicking
- Reality on the Norm
- roboshirts
- Everyone’s a Syndicate
- fruitsticker.de
- indieblog.page
- JSKIDPIX
- Transparent Textures
- How I Experience Web Today
- Debutniverse
- ytch.xyz
- sweetfish.site
- ✦ 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗆𝖾𝗅𝗍 𝗓𝗈𝗇𝖾
- erysdren’s WWW site
- MoxieCat
- CEREZA’S PALACE
- Game UI Database
- MetaFilter
- 32-bit Cafe
- Free Online Picross - liouh.com
- PC Part Picker
- PC-Builds Bottleneck Calculator
- Pokémon Booster Pack Simulator
- Substack.net (not that one)
- districts
- Hotline Cafe
Banner Networks
List of banner networks, mostly Small Web related
- The Rumbles Banner Exchange [My Notes]
- TabbyAds [My Notes]
- BannerLink Ads by WSMZ [My Notes]
- The Internet Blink Exchange [My Notes]
- Advertise with NeoLink! [My Notes]
- NavLink Ads [My Notes]
- johnvertisement [My Notes]
88x31 Button Collections
List of sites specifically for archiving 88x31 button banners
- Tom Digby’s WWW area [My Notes]
- Neonaut’s 88x31 button archive [My Notes]
- my buttons world [My Notes]
- Eighty Eight by Thirty One [My Notes]
- ιcнιɢσ ∂ιяɛcтσяʏ 🍓 [My Notes]
Coding
- Devdocs
- The Odin Project
- CSS Grid Generator
- CSS Gradient
- Pixel Art To CSS
- CSS Library for Win98 look
- CSS Library for WinXP look
- HTML Image Map - this is what I use on my website to make the laptop clickable
- HTML-CSS-JS - browser coding similar to codepen and js fiddle
- You Don’t Need JS - how to make some typical JS stuff with CSS
- ASCII Font Generator
Hosters
- Nekoweb - hosts my website
- Neocities - used to host my website
- Bearblog - hosts this blog
- Smol.Pub - used to host my blog; accessible from web, gemini and gopher
- more blog hosting recommendations here
Photo Editing
- Dither It - dithering tool
- Photopea - online photoshop alternative
- EzGif - all kinds of photo editing, not just gif
- Background Repeater - for creating repetitive backgrounds
- Pixel Art to SVG - create pixel art in browser & convert it to svg
- JPEG Compressor
- Bulk Resize Photos
discover more personal websites & blogs
- Bearblog Discover
- Indieblog.page
- Blogroll.club
- Blogroll.org
- Blog of the day
- Personalsit.es
- Kagi Small Web - go through small web sites via the button on the top left
- Indie Webring caution: URL looks like that because it’s an emoji domain.
- IndieSeek
- Ooh Directory
- Smallweb.cc
- Nekoweb Discover
- Neocities Discover
even more cool sites
here’s a nice list of people who share their link collections, have a linklog, etc on a regular basis! If you also share links on your website or blog, feel free to reach out, and I’ll add you to the list!
- This Week in Video Game Blogging - Critical Distance
- The Checkout Counter - fish
- Interesting Link - Laura Michet
- Week Roundup - Laura Michet
- leaf litter - loren
- Morning Music
- Link Roundup - videodante