the commonplace notebook for eliana

tools tools tools!

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Disenshittified solutions, inspired by The Disenshittify Project.

random assortment of tools

Paywall Bypass

  • 13ft: Self-hosted tool to bypass paywalls on news sites like Medium or NYT, similar to 12ft.io; free.

Web Archiving

  • ArchiveBox: Self-hosted internet archive that saves websites via wget, screenshots, PDFs, and more; free.

Ebook Servers

  • BicBucStriim: Streams Calibre ebook libraries over web/OPDS for readers; free.
  • Calibre-web: Web interface for browsing/reading/downloading from Calibre databases with user management; free.
  • Calibre-Web Automated: Enhanced Calibre-Web with auto-conversion, batch editing, backups, and EPUB fixes; free.
  • COPS: Lightweight OPDS/HTML server for Calibre ebooks on low-resource devices; free.

RSS Readers/Aggregators

  • CommaFeed: Google Reader-inspired self-hosted RSS reader with categories and shortcuts; free.
  • FreshRSS: Lightweight, multi-user RSS reader with OPML support and mobile UI; free.
  • Fusion: Sleek RSS reader for organizing feeds, bookmarks, and PWA support; free.
  • Glance: Dashboard aggregating RSS, Reddit, YouTube, etc., with customizable widgets; free.
  • Miniflux: Minimalist, privacy-focused RSS reader with search and integrations; free.
  • Petrolette: Tracker-free, self-contained RSS reader; free.
  • Readflow: Article flow manager with search, categorization, and webhooks; free.
  • Selfoss: Multi-source RSS aggregator with plugins and mobile support; free.
  • Tiny Tiny RSS: Full-featured web RSS reader with plugins, sharing, and mobile apps; free.

RSS Generators/Bridges

  • RSS-Bridge: Creates RSS feeds from sites without them (e.g., YouTube, social media); free.
  • RSSHub: Extensive RSS generator for nearly any site with customizable feeds; free to self-host.

Bookmark Managers

  • Karakeep: AI-powered bookmark app for links, notes, images with auto-tagging; free.
  • LinkAce: Bookmark organizer with tags, archiving, monitoring, and multi-user support; free.
  • Linkwarden: Collaborative bookmark manager that archives pages as screenshots/PDFs; free.
  • Shiori: Simple bookmark manager with offline archives and browser extensions; free.

Comic/Ebook Libraries

  • Kavita: Fast server for ebooks, comics, manga with reader and metadata; free.
  • Komga: Media server for comics, mangas, ebooks with OPDS and multi-user access; free.

Content Management

  • Kiwix: Offline reader for Wikipedia and ZIM files; free to self-host.
  • Ladder: Open-source paywall bypass like 13ft/12ft; free.
  • Leed: RSS/ATOM feed aggregator with multi-user dashboards; free. (limited info)
  • Readarr: Automated ebook collector and organizer like Sonarr for books; free.
  • Readeck: Self-hosted read-it-later for archiving web articles; free.
  • Tinyfeed: Lightweight RSS reader (limited details); free. (inferred)
  • Upvote RSS: Generates RSS from Reddit/Lemmy/HN with filters and summaries; free.
  • Vore: Customizable RSS reader with OPML and themes; free.
  • Wallabag: Read-it-later app that saves articles distraction-free; free to self-host.
  • Yarr: Lightweight, terminal-friendly RSS reader; free. (inferred)

Free Web Tools & Utilities

Self Hosted Readers

https://static.app/image-hosting

WakaTime Plugins

Data Scraping Tools

Online Data Analytic & Visualization Tools Collection

Music Tools Directory

  • Music Poster Generator: Create stunning posters from your favorite Spotify tracks and albums.
  • Manual Scrobbler: Manual scrobbling tool for Last.fm
  • Universal Scrobbler: Manual and batch scrobbling tool for Last.fm
  • Web Scrobbler: Browser extension for scrobbling from various music websites
  • Last.fm Desktop Scrobbler: Official desktop application for scrobbling local music files
  • bijou.fm: Beautiful statistics tool and scrobbler for Last.fm
  • stats.fm: View detailed statistics about your Spotify listening history
  • Spotifytrack: Track your listening habits and discover when you found your favorite music
  • Syrics: Download synced Spotify lyrics directly from your browser
  • NewTunes: View and share your listening history from weeks to years in the past
  • Moodify: Discover new music based on your current track’s mood
  • Discoverify: Get daily music recommendations similar to Discover Weekly
  • Echoes: Get insights into your music listening habits with detailed statistics
  • Playlist Sorter: Sort Spotify playlists by various criteria like release date and popularity
  • Last Guess: Game to guess your top Last.fm songs by their lyrics
  • Lasthop: Create playlists from your Last.fm history on this day in the past
  • Last.fm Dashboard: Live visualization of your Last.fm scrobbling activity
  • Last.fm Time Capsule: View your Last.fm listening history from specific time periods
  • Cartogrify: Explore the worldwide origins of your music taste
  • Musicorum: Create beautiful Last.fm images and collages to share
  • Tapmusic: Generate collages from your Last.fm listening history
  • Explr.fm: Interactive map showing the geographic origin of artists you listen to
  • Descent: Elegant now playing display for Last.fm with weather integration
  • Open Scrobbler: Manually scrobble songs and albums to Last.fm
  • LastWave: Visualize your Last.fm listening history with interactive charts
  • Last.fm Stats: Detailed statistics and analysis of your Last.fm profile
  • Volt.fm: Comprehensive Last.fm analytics with artist and album insights
  • Last.fm Extra Stats: Browser extension adding extra statistics to Last.fm profiles
  • Last.fm Tag Cloud: Generate tag clouds from your Last.fm library
  • Receiptify: Create receipt-style images of your top tracks
  • Musictaste.space: Compare your music taste with friends and find compatibility scores
  • Obscurify: See how obscure your music taste is compared to others
  • Spotifytools: Collection of tools for managing Spotify playlists and library
  • Skiley: Advanced playlist management and music discovery
  • Chosic: Find similar songs and analyze track characteristics
  • Icebergify: Create an iceberg chart of your music taste
  • Instafest: Create your own festival lineup from your top artists
  • Spotify Pie: Generate a pie chart of your music genres
  • Playlist Genius: AI-powered playlist creation and management
  • .fmbot: Feature-rich Discord bot for Last.fm with charts, statistics, and server integration
  • Chuu: Open source Discord bot for Last.fm with detailed statistics and charts
  • MusicScape: Generate visual landscapes from your Spotify listening history
  • Opslagify: Calculate storage needed for your Spotify library
  • Replayify: Create and share your Spotify listening reports
  • Playlost.fm: Find the perfect Spotify playlist for any moment
  • Smarter Playlists: Create dynamic, rule-based Spotify playlists
  • Magic Playlist: Create playlists from a single song
  • Whisperify: Quiz yourself on your favorite Spotify songs
  • Radionewify: Discover music you’ve never listened to before
  • Timelineify: Create chronological playlists for artists
  • Organize Your Music: Sort and organize your Spotify library
  • Lyriko: AI-powered Song Lyric Interpretation
  • playlist randomizer: Playlist Randomizer - Shuffle YouTube & Spotify Music Lists
  • ACE-Step Music Studio: Create professional music using ACE-Step Music Studio, powered by StepFun and its professional production tools.
  • Musci: Create professional-quality music with Musci’s AI-powered audio tools. Generate original songs, lyrics, vocal stems, and remixes from text prompts or audio files.
  • Free AI Silhouette Generator: Transform any photo into stunning silhouettes instantly with our free AI silhouette generator.
  • Free Random Image Generator: Unleash your creativity with our free AI random image generator. Create stunning digital art, abstract backgrounds, and concept illustrations with a single click, no artistic skills required!
  • Musci.io - Best AI Music Generator: Create professional AI music instantly with Musci.io. Generate royalty-free music from text, 100+ genres. The #1 AI music generator for creators.
  • V0 Visualizer: Detailed Last.fm charts with social interactions.

Awesome Read Me

Widgets and Embeds

🔧 Typing Gif Options

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linesText to display with lines separated by ; and + for spacesstringFirst+line;Second+line;Third+line
heightHeight of the output SVG in pixels (default: 50)integerAny positive number
widthWidth of the output SVG in pixels (default: 400)integerAny positive number
sizeFont size in pixels (default: 20)integerAny positive number
fontFont family (default: monospace)stringAny font from Google Fonts
colorColor of the text (default: 36BCF7)stringHex code without # (eg. F724A9)
backgroundBackground color of the text (default: 00000000)stringHex code without # (eg. FEFF4C)
centertrue to center text or false for left aligned (default: false)booleantrue or false
vCentertrue to center vertically or false(default) to align above the centerbooleantrue or false
multilinetrue to wrap lines or false to retype on one line (default: false)booleantrue or false
durationDuration of the printing of a single line in milliseconds (default: 5000)integerAny positive number
pauseDuration of the pause between lines in milliseconds (default: 0)integerAny non-negative number
repeattrue to loop around to the first line after the last (default: true)booleantrue or false
separatorSeparator used between lines in the lines parameter (default: ;)string;, ;;, /, etc.
letterSpacingLetter spacing (default: normal)stringAny css values for the letter-spacing property

GitHub Stats

Dynamic Content

Social Media Integration

Technology Stacks

Dynamic Badges

Shipped products from Experiments. Learnings. Opinions. – Julian Paul

⌘ Now

☾ Paused

  • pre.page — landing pages for idea validation.
  • nominal.name — creative naming to brand services.
  • neuklick.at — digital agency for the Austrian market.

⌦ Failed

★ Future

  • vibi.ng — share what music feels like.
  • sir.golf — a nod to the classics of golf culture.
  • monkmode.me — a distraction-free worklife movement.

❖ Resources

⟐ Templates

Various tools for your personal computer from The Works of Egan

This saved my life

Downloaders

Generators

Converters

InfoSec

Fun

Adblocking, etc.

Ad Blocking

uBlock Origin

  • Blocks most ads, but may allow some, hence the need for…

EasyList for uBlock Origin

  • With uBlock Origin installed:
  • Under the first item ‘EasyList’ click ‘add it to your ad blocker.’
  • When prompted by uBlock Origin, click ‘Subscribe.‘

Bypass Paywalls

Bypass Paywalls Clean Firefox download

  • Installation:
  • Find ‘Manage Extensions’ in Firefox menu.
  • Click settings/cogwheel.
  • Choose ‘Install Add-on from file.’
  • Select the .xpi file on your computer & click ‘Open.’

Chrome/Edge download

  • Installation:
  • Download the ZIP file from GitHub at the link above & unzip.
  • Place the unzipped
  • Open the Extensions page in Chrome/Edge.
  • Enable Developer Mode.
  • Drag the unzipped folder to your browser window to import it.
  • Do not delete the folder from your computer.

Clean up Fandom wikis

Fandom Enhance Firefox Add-on

tools - jamstack resources / SSG’s

  • 11ty - Versatile SSG Link
  • Gatsby - React based SSG Link
  • Gridsome - Vue based SSG Link
  • Hosting
  • Netlify - Easy to use, Very generous free plan Link
  • Vercel - Great CLI, Previously ZEIT Link
  • Headless CMSes
  • Contentful - Headless CMS as a service Link
  • Keystone.Js - Headless CMS that can run your own server, Uses GraphQL for retrieving data Link
  • Netlify CMS - CMS using Git as datasource Link
  • Sanity - Headless CMS as a service, Very generous free plan Link
  • Strapi - Headless CMS that can run your own server Link
  • Other Data Sources
  • Fauna - Serverless database, Very generous free plan Link
  • Google Sheets - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Link
  • Markdown - Markdown files
  • Markdown files can be used both directly or via a markdown based CMS Link

୧‿︵ Make a GIF! source

Maybe you’re feeling inspired to make your own GIFs? The world could always use more GIFs and you are just the sort of person who should be making them!

Here are some free and open source tools to help you get started!

GIF Tools

Art Tools

Web Craft

  • Neocities - this site was made on Neocities, a free web host!

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Tools relating to graphics, graphic design, or creating art.

Browser-Based Graphic Editors

Color Palettes

Graphics Generators

(Free) Graphics & Website Materials

Also called “sozai” or “web mats,” these are collections of graphics collected all over the web that you can incorporate into your website.

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Pixel Cliques & Clubs

Staff Note: These are active pixel clubs and pixel cliques across the web that have either been created or revived from an older age of the internet. Unsure about what this is?

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Placeholder Images

(Free) Stock Images & Illustrations

Beginner Graphics Guides

Utilities & Programs

These are utilities, programs, and helpful tools that can help make your life easier when it comes to computing, webmastery, and other computer-related hobbies.

HTML & Webweaving Utilities

Image & Art Utilities

Social Media Utilities

Retro Utilities & Programs

Typefaces & Fonts

Password Managers

Other Software & Utilities

Independent Web Alternatives

These are alternative projects, web services, and replacements for the corporate web, corporate services, or Big Tech.

Staff Note: selfh.st has a giant directory of active self-hosted (typically free) apps that is a good resource to use.

Creativity Tools & Programs

eCommerce Alternatives

  • Artisans Cooperative, an Etsy alternative
  • Ecwid, a free Shopify alternative
  • Mushroomy, a cute, by-artists, for-artists storefront platform & Etsy alternative
  • Snipcart, a JS shopping cart and checkout system that works with any website or page
  • Thirty Bees, a free, open-source Shopify alternative

Email Newsletter Software

  • Beehiiv, free tier up to 2,500 subscribers
  • Plunk, free tier up to 1,000 emails/mo or free self-hosting
  • Keila, free self-hosted option
  • Letterloop, $5/mo and friends- and family-focused
  • Listmonk, free and self-hosted
  • Mailtrain, free and self-hosted
  • SendPortal, free self-hosted email marketing/newsletter management

Productivity Tools & Programs

Search Engines

Other Service Alternatives

Service Proxies and Frontends

  • BreezeWiki, allows you to view Fandom wiki pages without the bloat or ads
  • FreeTube, a privacy-focused desktop client for YouTube
  • Invidious, a lighter-weight YouTube frontend; self-hostable and accessible through various public instances
  • LibRedirect, a web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends
  • NewPipe, an alternative mobile YouTube client for Android
  • Piped, an alternative YouTube frontend
  • Redlib, a private front-end for Reddit; self-hostable and accessible through various public instances
  • Scribe, a Medium link alternative

Zines

tiktok tools

The Plain Text Project Tools

Text Editors

Note Taking Tools

Todo List Managers

Blogging Platforms and Tools

Outliners

Mobile Apps

Web Apps

Desktop Wikis

Other Tools

Graph View