Whether you found it on a recommendation from others or on your own, we’ve likely encountered small corners online that delight us. One person or small team blogs that are surprisingly insightful, web apps or games that have been go-to’s for ages, showcases and exhibits on a specific yet curious niche, striking art pieces.
Do you have any favorite websites that loosely fall in this grouping? What about it is delightful to you?
I’ll give a couple personal examples that come to mind to get things started:
- The Vidya Interweb Playlist: A relatively well-designed music player that exclusively plays music from a load of videogames. I can’t remember how exactly I found this, but I have some good memories of it being a sizeable part of my soundtrack to my middle school years.
- The Web Design Museum: A showcase of how various websites have evolved over the years. I think it’s cool to see how things have developed with changing tech and changing tastes.
- aka_oscar ( @aka_oscar@beehaw.org ) English9•1 year ago
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The Laws of UX: A website which catalogs principles, laws, razors -etc- which are relevant to consider for designers. Each concept has its description, the main takeaways, and sources for further reading.
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The Arrowverse: A page which only focus is to catalog in chronological order every single episode from CW’s “Arrowverse” TV shows, like Arrow, Flash, etc. Very helpful for those looking to join in since cross-overs between shows are fairly common, so watching in order makes more sense story-wise
- namesaregreat ( @namesaregreat@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
Thanks for the laws of UX! I totally need to share that at work. It’s a really well done site with good info.
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- phario ( @phario@lemmy.ca ) English9•1 year ago
That web design museum is awesome. Thanks!
- mint ( @mint@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year ago
Rainwave.cc is kinda like the link you posted but for remixes of gamemusic, mostly from Overclocked Remix, which I’ve been on since like, 2004 or something haha. I use it all the time!
- DarkeSword ( @DarkeSword@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Oh hey, thanks for listening. :)
- aka_oscar ( @aka_oscar@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year ago
Nicky Case’s website. Nicky makes very interesting interactive content that can help visualize concepts like vicious cycles, anxiety, trust and much more. Author of cool stuff that you may have seen on youtube before, like Evolution of Trust.
- Lionir [he/him] ( @Lionir@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Nicky is fucking awesome!
- Empathy [he/him] ( @Empathy@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
For comparing image compression quality, I really like Squoosh.
- shiihs ( @shiihs@fedia.io ) 7•1 year ago
Online regex tester https://regex101.com/
- thrawn ( @thrawn21@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
I love to garden, and when a few years ago I moved from a cool humid climate to the drier hotter inland southern California, it was quite the learning curve. I found Greg Alder’s Yard Posts, a small blog of a guy who loves to garden and lives in nearly the same climate. His tips on pruning, pest management, and what to plant when were so helpful.
- Empathy [he/him] ( @Empathy@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
For choosing colors that are easier to read / more accessible, I like Myndex’s APCA contrast calculator.
- Crotaro ( @Crotaro@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
Ian’s Shoelace Site. His secure knot is a little tricky to learn (at least it was for me) but this and his fast knot are now my favorite ways to tie my boots. I especially love his detailed analysis of the various knots and lacing methods.
Oh and this German fan-site to the X games comes to my mind. What I like most about it, is the fact that it’s still up and running after so many years. I first encountered it when I played X2 and was, maybe, 14 and it’s still there and one of the few places where you can get good information about this game series.
- aperson ( @aperson@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
https://tedium.co has been a great read for me for a few years. They often cover in detail topics that many would consider mundane. Also, https://computer.rip/ has a bunch of posts that are good short reads, especially if you like telephony. https://midnight.pub/ is a small but fascinating community.
- YourHeroes4Ghosts ( @YourHeroes4Ghosts@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
https://www.ukaps.org/ , which is the UK Aquatic Plant Society. Focus is, of course, on aquatic plants. I don’t live in the UK but I do keep planted aquariums and these people really know their stuff.
- 20gramsWrench ( @20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•1 year ago
vndb, best tagging system on the planet, I wish every media database had thish much possibility
I looove me a great tagging system and library. It looks like this site also makes use of subtags, tag definitions, and a finely robust search system. It’s the kind of stuff that I never realize how much I appreciate it until I don’t have it somewhere. I wish every database and file system was built to allow this kind of robustness.
kinda strange that Certain Major OS file explorers aren’t as thorough as this right out of the box, come to mention it 🤔
- Empathy [he/him] ( @Empathy@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
For quickly testing some programming things, I like CodeSandbox.
- astronaut_catalogue ( @astronaut_catalogue@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
These are all great.
- A website that I found primarily for its watercolour pigments section, but which goes off in other directions is http://www.handprint.com/
- On the same theme is https://www.artiscreation.com/ which is a pigment database.
- Finally categorising pigments by when they were used in history is https://colourlex.com/
- Swallowtail ( @Swallowtail@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Making fun of pretentious rich people, my favorite hobby!