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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.
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[–] aka_oscar 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  • 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.

  • 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 5 points 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.

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

That web design museum is awesome. Thanks!

[–] mint 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 year ago

Oh hey, thanks for listening. :)

[–] aka_oscar 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 4 points 1 year ago

Nicky is fucking awesome!

[–] thrawn21 7 points 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 7 points 1 year ago

For comparing image compression quality, I really like Squoosh.

[–] shiihs@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago
[–] Empathy 6 points 1 year ago

For choosing colors that are easier to read / more accessible, I like Myndex's APCA contrast calculator.

[–] aperson 5 points 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 5 points 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.

[–] Empathy 5 points 1 year ago

For quickly testing some programming things, I like CodeSandbox.

[–] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

vndb, best tagging system on the planet, I wish every media database had thish much possibility

[–] nfld0001 2 points 1 year ago

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 🤔

[–] Crotaro 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[–] OmnipotentEntity 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://tasvideos.org/ It's a website that publishes Tool Assisted Speedrun videos and a community that makes the same. I've been part of this website for nearly 20 years at this point.

[–] rjh 2 points 1 year ago

Related: https://gdqvods.com/ which covers Awesome Games Done Quick / Summer Games Done Quick and related events. Recommended if you like TAS with audience participation and commentary.

[–] Swallowtail 4 points 1 year ago

https://mcmansionhell.com/

Making fun of pretentious rich people, my favorite hobby!

[–] Leon 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Been a fan of mynoise.net for a long time. Lots of sound generators with sliders for adjusting to your liking. Great for noise blocking or atmosphere, Tropical Rain is an old favorite of mine.

There's a paywall now that's at minimum a one-time $5 fee to see all the generators. I opened the tropical rain link in a private browser window and it works so hopefully it should work for everyone.

[–] snowbell 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Easily worth the 5 bucks IMO. I'm a fan of the thunderstorm one, and the duduk sounds.

[–] rjh 2 points 1 year ago

The $5 is worth it imo, you get to download custom versions of whatever sound you like, so I was able to get 1 hour of waterfall noise for my phone.

[–] astronaut_catalogue 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These are all great.

[–] Mandy 3 points 1 year ago

https://noclip.website/ lets you see and view levels of many different games from whatever directions you want

[–] frost 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

halome.nu

It's an incredibly simple premise - the main menus for all of the Halo games, preserved in their high quality, original forms. I love putting it up in the background when I need some background noise, but every so often I'll get lost in my nostalgia with it.

[–] Mummelpuffin 2 points 1 year ago

Oh man this is amazing. I'm especially surprised that Halo 3 Mythic is in since it's main menu soundtrack is huge.

[–] shiihs@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

Online music collaboration with musicians from all over the world https://wikiloops.com. I had been making music on my own for years until I finally found this site "by accident" (actually by someone mentioning it in a forum).

[–] StringTheory 2 points 1 year ago

https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/ Bicycle tour journals with photos and maps, some very elaborate and some bare-bones. All over the world, and several languages.

The fun thing is to click on the “serendipity” button. You get a random selection of photos plucked from the journals. See a nifty picture, click it, and suddenly you’re deep into a journal of a guy riding across Australia towing a trailer with his dog. Magic!

[–] aka_oscar 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry i just keep remembering stuff.

I Love Img and I Love pdf are fantastic tools to modify images and pdfs, respectively. Just click the links and youll see how much you can do with em. Compress Image and Merge/Split Pdf were life savers for me back in college.

Note that it will ask you for a membership if your files are too large or you uploaded too many of them at once.

[–] Mummelpuffin 2 points 1 year ago

Marathon's Story. Behold it's late 90s glory.

[–] breakfastburrito 2 points 1 year ago

Ubuweb has a huge archive of video, music, and poetry from mostly the 20th century avant garde. It’s a great site to just aimlessly explore. In some ways this website isn’t narrow at all, but I think it probably appeals to a pretty narrow group of people. https://www.ubu.com/index.html

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