Welcome to my website! Here I have included links to various creations from around the web as well as some other useful links that everyone should check out. Click any of these links to get started on this page, or see below for more fun things. Best viewed on desktop.

things to do: actually move the sidebar to the side lol, favicon (what?), fav videos section, personal essays?

Disclaimer: I "learned" to "code" on Neopets in 2007.....and you can tell.

Please Stop Closing Forums: short, but rings true.

The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same investigates the feedback loop of "aesthetic" coffee shops and similar spaces. Linked within it is Will the Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?, also worth reading. Similarly: Social Media Is Not Self Expression and E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops, written in 1909.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

Capitalists want you to be constantly stimulated

Invisible Man, by Lawrence Otis Graham

Orientalism by Edward Said

Capitalist Realism is worth reading. In the same vein, Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, and of course, The Communist Manifesto.

The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity

How bad are search results? compares Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT.

Janelle Shane's blog, AI Weirdness, is fun. I also highly recommend her book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, which goes into how AI actually works, in particular how its "thought processes" inform its limitations. Also, ChatGPT is a Blurry Jpeg of the Web and The Year That AI Came for Culture are excellent.

I also recommend following Slashdot, Ars Technica, and Matt Stoller's Monopoly Round-up for more news.

Louis Rossmann does good videos on right to repair and consumer advocacy (not essays, but I don't have a spot for favorite videos yet).

Cory Doctrow is consistently good. My favorite essays of his are Luxury Surveillance, The Coprophagic AI Crisis, Tiktok's enshittification, and If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.

Cloudhiker Collection of interesting, weird or astonishing websites.

Flashpoint Archive of over 200,000 games and animations.

the largest 88x31 collection on the internet The largest 88x31 collection on the internet.

Malware Museum Archive of malware distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers.

Old Google Archive of Google search results throughout history.

The Old Net

Wayback Machine Archive of the World Wide Web.

Winworld

courtlistener Archive of legal opinions from federal and state courts.

cryptome Archive of secret, suppressed, and liberated information.

governmentattic.org Archive of Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

JFK Assassination Records 5 million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts.

Office of Public Affairs Documents Archive Archive of US Department of Justice website documents.

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Paranormal Events NSA's catalog of formerly classified reports.

Virtual Absinthe Museum Archive of materials related to absinthe.

Gerard Donelan's Lounge Archive of the work of comic artist Donelan.

Independent Voices Open access digital collection of alternative periodicals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

Lili Elbe Digital Archive Documentation of Lili Elbe's life narrative.

Queer Zine Archive Project Archive of LGBTQ zines with links allowing users to view or download electronic copies.

Stonewall Digital Collections Archive of material documenting LGBTQ+ political, cultural and social history.

Awesome-Selfhosted

oldgamesdownload Archival database of abandoned video games from the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 00s.

myabandonware Abandonware games to download, ordered by year.

Software Clearance Bin Uploaded software from a variety of sources, indicating in some way it was once a professional product.

basesearch Bielefeld University Library's search engine for academic web resources; 60% open access.

bioline Platform for open-access distribution of peer-reviewed journals published in developing countries.

linkspringer Access to more than 10 million scientific documents, including books, articles, and research protocols.

pdfdrive Over 225 million books in pdf format.

Project Gutenberg Library of over 70,000 free eBooks.

refseek Academic Resource Search. More than one billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

science American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites; 200 million articles indexed.

worldcat Search 20 thousand worldwide libraries for open-source e-books, articles, downloadable audiobooks, authoritative research materials, one-of-a-kind documents, photos of local or historic significance, and digital versions of rare items.

tineye Reverse image search.

Search My Site Open source search engine.

blinkies.cafe Generate your own blinkies.

jspaint.app Browser version of MS Paint.

photopea Browser version of Photoshop.

rot13 rot13 cipher tool

the sad bastard cookbook

splitter Isolates audio stems.

sedja Free online PDF editor.

springhole.net Character and story generators. I recommend exploring the rest of this site as well.

YayText Unicode text editor. My favorite style is "classified"

Phoenix Code Editor In-browser code editor.

EASY USSR Torrenting guide.

ihavenotv Community managed collection of free documentaries.

Oman Observer New York Times Service Read NYT articles without subscribing or using archive.ph.

tosdr.org Summarizes terms of service.

Beanbottles

kopawz

Cameron's World Archive of, and tribute to, oldweb graphics.

Floodgap Gopher to HTTP gateway.

Killifish

yokai.com Yokai encyclopedia.

Calculus Made Easy Originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, converted to html by hand. I absolutely love this website.

metal gear solid 3 Directory of information about Metal Gear Solid 3.