links:bookmarks
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Bookmarks
Links to sites I find interesting or useful. Categories are arbitrary and ambiguous, as is customary with categories.
For links of a slightly more personal nature, see the links of interest. page.
Open Stuff
Resources for openly licensed and public domain texts and media.
- Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL)
- Free SVG has scalable vector graphics you can freely modify and use
- LibriVox - “Free public domain audiobooks”
- OER Commons - open educational resources
- Old Book Illustrations (may be watermarked)
- OpenStax - “Free and flexible textbooks and resources”
- Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University)
Arts and Humanities
Graphics Software
General
- The Blake Society - includes the downloadable journal VALA
- Glossary of Harlem Slang by Zora Neale Hurston
- Nines - 19th-century scholarship online
Writing and Publishing Resources
- Anthology Markets Page from Ralan DOT com
- Language is a Virus “exists to cure writer's block and inspire creativity.”
- List of 168 Poetic Forms for Poets from Writer's Digest
- Poetry Forms Index from Poets Collective
- Text Etc “deals with the craft and theory of poetry”
- Verse by Verse - “An experimental AI-powered muse that helps you compose poetry inspired by classic American poets”
- ZineWiki - "ZineWiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press."
Philosophy and Spirituality
- BibleGateway.com - search multiple versions/translations of the Bible.
Reference, Research and Information
(that don't go elsewhere)
- ReferenceDesk.org has a 90s design sense, but is incredibly useful.
- Villains Wiki “is dedicated to creating a database of villains from all media.”
- Surely you already know about Wikipedia!
- WorldCat.org - “WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services.”
Dev/Tech
Languages
Programming languages, scripting languages, markup languages, and related.
CSS
- CSS Reference at MDN
JavaScript
- JavaScript Reference at MDN
- aijs.rocks is “a collection of inspirational AI-driven projects written in JavaScript.”
Markdown
Python
Other
- Processing.org - “Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts.”
- Tensor flow is an open source machine learning platform, in Python and/or JavaScript
Generators and Randomizers
- Botnik Predictive Writer lets you pick from a variety of source “voices,” such as John Keats, food ads or Christmas songs
- Cool Generator is actually a sizable list of various random name generators - for fictional characters, businesses, games, etc.
- GeoPattern - create geometric patterns from text
- Lorem Picsum - lorem ipsum for photos
Code Playgrounds
These generally offer a place to play around with front-end code (CSS, HTML and JavaScript) and see results quickly.
Miscellaneous
- Godot Engine for game developers
- Hex Color Codes “gives information about colors including color models (RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, XYZ, Yxy, Hunter Lab and CIE-Lab), Triadic colors, monochromatic colors and analogous colors…”
- An in-depth guide to choosing a web browser (privacy-centric article)
- The Kilobyte's Gambit - a chess program in 1,024 bytes of JavaScript.
- OpenSource.com is about open source development and tools rather than media, so it winds up in this group.
- Stack Overflow - “Find the best answer to your technical question, help others answer theirs”
- Twine - “an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories”
Oddenda
- mathrecreation for the true nerd
- Oak Abode - “A husband + wife team passionate about fixer uppers, interior design, and homesteading.”
- Riseup Pad - a place to create private online text documents that self-destruct
links/bookmarks.txt · Last modified: 2023/05/13 12:53 by carad