What's a cool website you’ve visited that no one seems to know of?

userinyerface.com

Something that far too many managers and developers need to see, so they can better understand why their decisions and work completely sucks.

www.userinyerface.com
- Send to Bottom
  Help Bar Descends at the most pain inducing rate possible
- Every step of the way has some new frustrating way to confound the user. I was laughing/crying halfway through the process because of how stupidly unfriendly the design was. Just brilliant. Whoever did this is an evil supergenius and/or heavily into BDSM.
- Sent it to my partner who wants to get into Ux design, lol
I love and hate this, it really managed to raise my blood pressure.

I needed Unicode symbols for a story I'm working on. (I want to use them as "magic runes" so I could type them into a document, but without using the standard "runes" that are typically used.)

Shape Catcher let me draw what I was looking for and then get a list of Unicode characters that matched that drawing. It's not exact so if there's no perfect Unicode match, it will give you ones that are close. This actually turned out to my benefit as I found shapes I hadn't considered but which worked nicely for my uses.

mynoise.net .

I use it for background when I need to concentrate.

Photoshop in your browser for free: https://www.photopea.com/

Another website with a similar goal: https://jspaint.app
It's a M$ Paint clone and I use it because I don't have Windows.
- If by that you mean "I use Linux but can't stand GIMP" then Pinta is pretty good as a simple photo editor. More advanced than Paint but not as unfriendly as GIMP. If you're familiar with Paint.NET on Windows then you'll feel right at home.

The website for the Heaven's Gate suicide cult is still up, 27 years after they all killed themselves.

https://www.heavensgate.com/

I wonder who’s renewing the domain? I guess I could do an ICANN lookup for registrar info, but I’m lazy.
- I saw in a documentary that a few of the cult members were ordered to stay alive to keep the site up. Apparently you can email them and talk to them too.

website that simulates fluids

I used to have this as a live wallpaper. Drained my battery like crazy.
- Man, that's like saying "when I'm driving my car, whenever I pull up to a traffic light I drop it into neural and floor the throttle".

https://ciechanow.ski/

This is my favourite website ever. Don't forget to visit the archive. The quality of this authors posts is astronomical. The way they explain extremely complex Systems in a simple and visual manner is absolutely brilliant.
- I think the first post I found was the clock one and it's still my favourite

https://zombo.com/

No fucking way this is still around lmfaooo I remember being around 12 years old when my buddy first showed me this.

lemmy.world

https://hackertyper.com/

I've actually seen this used in movies and TV shows.

It's better than just showing jquery source code or html

https://noclip.website/

Basically a model viewer/freecam for stages from various video games. Really neat to see the tricks various devs pull to conserve detail.

Cool!

http://wiby.me/ is a cool site. It's a search engine that only has web 1.0 and web 1.0-styled websites.

Ian's Shoelace Site:
Different ways to lace your shoes.

The Phrontistery:
Glossaries of, e.g., obscure words, lost words, etc.

Anytime I get new shoes I go to Ian's Shoelace Site to pick out a new lacing pattern.
And Ian's Secure Knot is a godsend for winter boots that usually have a bit thicker laces which come undone with a regular knot. Learning that knot is great because it's as strong as double knotting without needing to pick apart the knot afterwards.
The what???

http://acid1.acidtests.org/

https://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

These websites were made to test out if your installed web browser is compliant with the worldwide web standards. It’s pretty neat stuff

Ironically they no longer work properly.

zoo.replicate.dev - a bunch of free ai image generation models

snowfl - a search engine for torrents

https://earth.nullschool.net/ realtime global wind, pressure, temp, etc.

Allow me to introduce you to windy.com.

What.cd

Move along...

The timecube website was the peak of the internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube

https://web.archive.org/web/20160112193916/http://timecube.com/

Edit:

Omg I found an interview with Gene!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn2UCqL5qyo

That site is pure schizophrenia/dementia Jesus but it sure is interesting. Also sad. If you read the wiki it says he went to universities to do talks and would challenge people to prove him wrong. No one did.
- How can you disprove a hallucination?
  He gets really pissy and racist on page 2
  https://web.archive.org/web/20160103165000/http://www.timecube.com/timecube2.html
Hey, since you know of this, is there any chance you’ve also seen the “moon is manufactured” website? Something about how it was a message, and intentionally designed because how else could it perfectly eclipse the sun. Haven’t been able to turn it up since about 2014
- Missed that one! While trying to look it up I did stumble on a "scientist" who claimed, before the moon landings, that the moon was plasma and not rock. They couldn't find him again for a follow up interview after the landing.

Drew's Script-O-Rama.

OG movie script/screenplay database.

Dudes been running this place since 95, which is doubly impressive that he never got popped for copyright shit. There was a pretty crazy stretch where he was releasing scripts before they were even produced. Like I got to read the actual screenplays for flicks like Intolerable Cruelty, Lost Highway (movie makes more sense as a screenplay, btw) and even Beavis and Butthead Do America before they even hit the theaters.

https://jmp.chat - cell phone number without the need for ID verification.

Last.fm and tracking your music listening. I've seen a post here but no one I see irl seems to know about it

Scrobling used to be huge back in the day of mp3s and last.fm practically invented it.There are also alternative APIs implementing the same idea. Unfortunately for them they never caught up on the age of streaming.
Yes!! I love it for tracking all my scrobbles.

https://chickenonaraft.com/

As the name suggests, you hang out with a chicken on a raft

Spearfish Lake Tales by Wes Boyd. Really nice books written by someone who had a lifelong experience of writing. Start at the bottom (with the first story), and work upwards. This guy definitely died to early.

bruh.news - ai generated news headlines, pretty silly

The accept cookies always send you to the Never gonna get you down clip. Is this the silly part? Because if it is so it's pretty lame.
- Odd I got the site and not a rick roll. Try rejecting the cookies?

https://prepaidcompare.net/

Let's you sort prepaid phone plans in the US. You can even sort by things like which carrier the mvno runs on or if it's unlimited slow data after your allocation.

It's wonderful!

Spam.com. surprisingly entertaining!

www.spam.com

I still use wikimapia.org

(It's not associated with Wikipedia.)

https://www.marginalia.nu

It has many options inside, shows you kinda oldschool sites.

realtimecolors.com

Live testing color palettes and fonts for web design. Made by a designer who's really great, she runs a YouTube channel and made the site for free use by anyone.

How accurate are the palettes? Would we need to calibrate our monitors or does the site do that for you?
- I doubt the site is able to calibrate to individual monitors, as there's almost no way for it to know what you have.

There is this really cool place called Lemmy, I'm sure many people here have heard of it but not anyone I ask in other places. It's like Reddit, it's a forum-esque place where people can exchange their thoughts. The people are a little biased on the extreme Marxist side of things, but overall it's pretty nice.

We don't need this reddit-level comment here.
The people are a little biased on the extreme Marxist side of things
(and we like it that way, tyvm)
- I don't see any problem with that.
- It's one thing to have a dominant demographic, but any place could do without a black and white mindset when they go about it.

For French speaking ppl : https://estcequejeanmarielepenestmort.info/

It is a website that tell you if Jean-Marie Lepen, far right islamophobic racist guy that created the far right party that is now going to win the election, is dead or not.

https://html5zombo.com

Gayhomophobe.com it counts the time since the last openly homophobic figure was caught in a gay sex scandal

Unfortunately the list seems to have become unmaintained.
- Yeah. I can remember seeing a homophobic politician being caught at an orgy in the news just a few months ago.

If you like to play chess, check out www.lichess.org

It's free and open source, and it's very easy to find a game there, no matter what level you play.

It doesn't display annoying ads.

It always makes me sad that chess.com was the site that blew up. I always had to convince my friends to use lichess when I played back in school.

Library of Babel

https://neal.fun

A variety of neat activities and educational pages.

My goodness. I love this website's activities and educational pages. I really should be studying right now, but here are a few of my favorites so far.
https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/
https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/
https://neal.fun/life-checklist/
Plenty more to check out!
- I feel like 35 is too young to have completed 51/66 tasks in the life checklist. I'm too young for a midlife crisis (fingers crossed, anyways)!

https://everynoise.com

Every music genre you can think of, and then some. I finally found out what the stuff I like is called.

http://thesneeze.com/

I really liked this blog like 10+ years ago.

He's got a lot of funny stuff on there where he eats unusual food, talks about a fungus growing on his trees, and other things he has observed. He even has an interview with Adam Savage!

He is also the none pizza left beef pizza guy.

Is it Steve! Don't eat it?
- Yes, Steve, Don't Eat It! I think the first thing that I saw on his site was the FedEx logo thing, but Steve, Don't Eat It was the thing that kept me on the site.

https://www.drbukk.com/mobile-homes/

Straight from the late 90s...

https://twocansandstring.com/

Cool place to ask and/or answer questions, although I haven't been there in a long time.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space

The Gemini protocol is pretty cool, if you liked the general feel of the internet in the BBS days. Mental Outlaw did a video on it a while back if you're curious. After watching that video, I bodged together a fully compliant Gemini browser in about 2 hours and spent the rest of the day hacking on it and browsing the "slow net"

I might’ve came across it from a post here on Lemmy, but this website is great for music discovery. It lets you listen to music by decade and country via a neat map UI.

https://radiooooo.com/

Foldnfly.com - shows dozens of ways to fold paper airplanes.

www.thetruesize.com - Find the true size of one country compared to another.

levitated.net

GPL interactive flash animations.

This was fairly cutting edge around 98 or 2002 when I first saw it. Really clean.

Not sure how any of the levitated Flash content can be shown now, but it appears that the creator Jared Tarbell is creating new works at infinite.center under MIT licence.

These look to be some of the best digital artworks available today.

Not something I visit often nowadays, but I still peruse Gamewinners via the Archive for cheat codes on PS2 era and older games. Gamefaqs has the faqs and walkthroughs, but gamewinners had the cheats. Kinda sad that the best equivalent to it nowadays is youtube videos showing exploits of games.

https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/

I still break out into Badger, badger, badger occasionally....

Plenty of people know of it, but more people should: isthereanydeal.com

It lets you keep a list of games you want to buy, showing you all the legitimate stores and the best prices, lets you set up notifications based on different parameters, lets you import your Steam wishlist, shows what sites have bundles, coupons, giveaways, etc. I check it for every game I want and have saved hundreds.