Requirements: NO ads (except when promoting its own services or products), NO third-party tracking or non-essential first-party tracking, NO pop-ups, NO auto-playing video or audio, NO non-trivial accessibility issues, NO non-trivial performance issues on mobile networks, and NO excess of low quality or harmful content.

Buyer's guides

• Laptop main

  Laptops, reviews, news

• NotebookCheck

  Laptops, reviews, benchmarks, news, buyer's guides

Creative writing

• Ampersandia

  Creative writing, art, conlangs, games

• And Now

  Poetry, visual art, absurdist

Digital art

• Scrapism

  Web scraping, data journalism, conceptual art

Do it yourself

• Repair Wiki

  Repair Preservation Group, repair anything, electronics

eBooks

• Gutenberg Project

  Free & libre eBooks, TXT/HTML/EPUB/MOBI

• Standard eBooks

  Free & libre eBooks, professional formatting

Food

• Based Cooking

  Recipes, minimalist, fast

Free & libre software

• Jupyter

  Write, share, and collaborate on interactive code snippets

• OpenOffice

  Productivity suite, Microsoft Office alternative, Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math, Base

• Write Free Software

  Clear & succinct explanations of free & libre software concepts

Games

• Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki

  Spells, Companions, Races, Classes, Feats, Skills, Quests, Backgrounds

• Lichess

  Chess, real players, free and open source, live and correspondence games

Gemini clients

• Lagrange

  Desktop GUI client, Windows/MacOS/Linux, bookmarks, tabs, history

Geminispace (requires a Gemini client)

• Bubble

  Bulletin board system with many influences from Station, Reddit, WordPress, and issue trackers like GitHub Issues

• Collaborative Directory of Geminispace

  Community-contributed categorised links to Gemini resources

• Gemini Search Engine

  Search engine and list of known hosts in Geminispace

• Medusae

  A catalogue of capsules organised into categories

• The Treeblue Review

  Curated themed feeds and lists of links aggregated from across Geminispace

Geography

• Radical Cartography

  Radical cartography, information design, statistical maps, thematic maps

• the Degree Confluence Project

  Photos and stories of all latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world

Government services (NL)

• Graafmelding

  Melden van graafwerken. Kabel- en leidinginformatie.

• Meldpunt Identiteitsfraude

  Identiteitsfraude: tips, advies, ondersteuning, melden

• Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit - Melding doen

  Dierenwelzijn, hygiëne, voedselvergiftiging, verkoop tabak aan jongeren, enzovoorts.

Government services (UK)

• Cost of living support

  Support with income, support with bills and costs.

• Set up a business

  Registration, writing a business plan, planning for growth

History

• Micronations wiki

  Micronations, editable, encyclopedia, culture, history

Humour

• Apple Rankings

  Apple reviews, rated on many factors, strong language

Internet history

• Smiley Lore

  Inventor of the sideways smiley, 1982, sideways smiley history

• Netiquette Guidelines

  RFC 1885, Intel, 1995, etiquette for email, chat, messaging

• The perfect website

  Ultimate version of the perfect website, 2017, strong language

• The first ever website

  CERN, World Wide Web (w3), first website, 1991

Learning

• LandChad.net

  Helping individuals set up their own web server, email server, chat server

Link aggregators

• Lobsters

  Link aggregator, computing

Metacognition

• Untools

  Mental models, decision-making, sense-making, problem-solving

Movies & TV shows

• Bonetflix

  Best movies & series on Netflix based on IMDB & Filmaffinity scores

Music

• Music Box

  DIY 15-note music box, make and share music box songs

• Musictheory.net

  Music theory, lessons, exercises, tools, interactive

• Web Music Apps

  Apps for creating, generating, learning, and editing music

News

• Alterslash

  Slashdot condensed (unofficial), includes article text

• Hckr News

  Hacker News condensed (unofficial), chronological, filter popular

• Neuters

  Neuters condensed (unofficial), includes search

• NPR (text-only)

  Text articles, National Public Radio (US), NPR condensed (official)

• Spike News

  Simple news aggregator, configure sources, add sources

• Current events (Wikipedia)

  Worldwide news, Wikipedia, many languages

Open Science

• Arxiv

  Curated research-sharing platform, digital open access, scholarly articles

• Invest in Open Infrastructure

  Improve the funding of open and community-owned infrastructure for research

• Open Science MOOC

  Community, courses, open research software, open access to research

• ReproducibiliTea

  Journal club community, Open Science journal clubs, organiser tools

Operating systems

• Arch Linux

  Minimalist, fast, flexible, complex installation and configuration, rolling releases

• FreeBSD

  BSD-based, high performance, security-focused, modular

• Linux Mint

  Ubuntu-based, low system requirements, Windows-like UI (Cinnamon)

• OpenBSD

  BSD-based, secure, performant, portable, principle of least astonishment

Personal websites

• Ana Rodrigues

  Front-end developer, IndieWeb, blog, bookmarks

• Andreas Kling

  Creator of SerenityOS, blog, C++, software develoment

• Angela Washko

  Feminist media artist, documentary film, video art, video games, performance art

• Arjen de Ruiter

  Software delivery, consulting, technical leadership, engineering management

• Bastian Rieck

  Topology, machine learning, toolsmith, academia, programming, Linux

• Brad Cooper

  Design and consulting, product strategy, user research, ideation

• Bradley Taunt

  Designer, user experience, developer, OpenBSD, minimalism

• Branden Higby

  Jekyll, creative writing, music, movies

• Bryan Braun

  Frontend developer, indie hacker, web development, education

• Carl Svensson

  Blog, computing, software, visual art

• Chris Haynes

  Web developer consultant, web components, progressive enhancement, web performance

• Chris Koehnke

  Developer, minimalism, geekery, Linux, Android, privacy

• David Millington

  Design, User Experience, management, Estonia

• Daniel Stenberg

  Creator of cURL, Open Source projects, internet protocols, blog

• Darius Kazemi

  Internet artist, bots, creative technology, fediverse

• Dennis M. Ritchie

  In memoriam, biography, history of Unix, Bell Labs, C

• Drew DeVault

  Developer, blog, free software, open source, Linux

• Dylan Harris

  Poetry, photography, IndieWeb, blog

• Eric Bower

  Web technology, philosophy, small web

• François-Xavier Carton

  Blog, projects, C, coding style, Vim, LaTeX, Rust, git

• Hendrik Lammers

  Bash, CSS, Git, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vim, Chrome, jq

• Herman Martinus

  Blog, web development, minimalist blogging platform, writing

• Hidde de Vries

  Web development, web accessibility, events, performance, usability

• Ian Emnace

  Web development, Vim, Vim plugins, open source, Linux bash

• Jakob Kaivo

  Software development, C, Unix, UNG, POSIX, electronic warfare

• Jeff Huang

  Information Science, Human-Computer Interaction, open data

• Jey Austen

  Brand design, visual design, illustration, art direction

• Joey Hess

  Developer, open source, Debian, blog, codewiki, sustainability

• Joshua Stein

  Software development, retro computing, classic MacOS software

• Karl Bartel

  Software development, free software, open data, minimalist software

• Ken Hawkins

  Helping projects move beyond content and problems into performant web platforms

• Luke Smith

  Books, Lindypress, development projects, Linux, philosophy, languages

• Matt Kruse

  Web development, Alexa, clean UIs, effective communication, JavaScript

• Maxim Orlov

  Node.js development, asynchronous techniques, courses, articles, tips

• Peter Cammeraat

  iOS and web development, creator of Quiet app, user experience, privacy

• Po Kamnuandej

  Blog, privacy, user experience

• Ramsey Nasser

  Computer scientist, game designer, media artist

• Rhian van Esch

  Web development, Eleventy, Developer Experience, productivity

• Rickard Natt och Dag

  Developer, ReScript, Rust, AppleScript, Vim

• Rohan Kumar

  Web technology, privacy, accessibility, FLOSS, IndieWeb

• Sijmen Mulder

  Software development, Unix, Windows

• Simon Cox

  Technical SEO consultant, web standards evangelist, narrow gauge railways modeller

• Sophia Willows

  Web development, DevOps, Cloud, JavaScript, TypeScript, LLMs

• Stefan Baumgartner

  TypeScript, Rust, articles, books, guides, slides

• Stefan Bohacek

  BotWiki, bot templates, fediverse, civic tech, open web

• Tan Li Hau

  Frontend development, Svelte core maintainer

• Tanner Collin

  Home automation, bots, Python, Debian, coffee, makerspaces

• Tanner Dolby

  Eleventy, Phaser, mathematics, Python, JavaScript, CSS

• Wilco van Esch

  Quality Engineering, software delivery, web development

• Wouter Groeneveld

  Software engineer, software design, creative problem solving, baking

• Zach Holman

  Angel investor, startup advisor, developer, blog, GitHub

Podcasts

• Linux after Dark

  Linux-related experiences, four hosts

• Pixel's Podcast List

  Directory of podcasts, fictional, horror, LGBT+

Press freedom

• Freedom of the Press Foundation

  USA, non-profit, press freedom, advocacy, journalism, whisteblowing

Publishing platforms

• Bear blog

  Minimalist blogging platform, privacy first, no ads, no tracking, no JS, no CSS

• Mataroa

  Minimalist blogging platform, no ads, no tracking, image hosting, subscriptions

• Scribe

  Medium condensed (unofficial), easy reading

• Smol.pub

  Tiny blogging service, image storage, no JavaScript, no ads, no tracking

Reclaiming the web

• noyb

  European Center for Digital Rights, non-profit, targeted and strategic litigation

• Polite

  Personal culture aggregator, multi-cloud file manager

• Solid

  Decentralised data storage, control access to your personal data, web standard, Tim Berners-Lee

• The Slow Web Initiative

  Transparency, non-manipulative, privacy, right to leave

Reference works

• Gopherpedia

  Text-only Wikipedia

• HTTP status codes

  HTTP status codes, text only, descriptions, references

• Mathematics bibliography

  Textbook reviews, mathematics, bibliographical references

• WikiBooks

  Free textbooks, open content, collaborative

• Wikipedia (EN)

  Encyclopedia, open content, non-profit

RSS feed aggregators

• About Feeds

  What are RSS feeds? How do you read them?

• Feed Canary

  Set a monitor to check your RSS feed remains working

• RS.S JOY.lol

  Random IndieWeb RSS feed URLs every 6 hours

Science literacy

• NeurologicaBlog

  Neuroscience, Steven Novella, critical thinking

• Sci-Hub

  Bypass science journal paywalls, open knowledge

• Skeptics Stack Exchange

  Scientific skepticism, questions and answers, evaluating truth claims

Search engines

• Marginalia

  Search engine, non-commercial content, less familiar content

• searchmysite.net

  Search engine, non-commercial content, personal and independent websites

• Wiby

  Search engine, IndieWeb, crawls single pages as submitted

Site directories

• Learning resources

  Learning resources, search engine, online learning platform

Social networks

• Midnight Pub

  Virtual pub, write posts and replies, collective micro-blogging

• rawtext.club

  Slow social network, GNU/Linux shell, text-based, asynchronous

Software engineering

• StaffEng

  Reaching Staff+ engineering roles, guides, stories, book, podcast

Sustainability

• Low-Tech Magazine

  Old technology, sustainable energy practices, reduced energy use

• Permacomputing

  Extend hardware lifespans, reduce energy use, use available computational resources

Tools

• Anki

  Anki, flash cards, strengthen memories of information

• EasyList

  Automatically remove unwanted content (ads, banners, tracking), browser extension

• Encycolorpedia

  Paints, web safe colours, HTML colours, named colours

• FlowCV

  Build a resume, modern design, customizable templates

• Frink

  Calculator and programming language, accurate physical calculations

• Plaintext email

  Plaintext email clients, recommended clients, configuring plaintext

• Pomodor

  Pomodoro timer, Pomodoro sessions, dark mode

• IP address

  Your public IPv4 address

• Text-based Google Directions

  Minimalist public transport directions

• uBlacklist

  Google Search filter, browser extension, block sites, highlight sites

• Weather report

  Local weather, current, next 2 days

• Woodpecker CI

  Free and open source, Docker containers, multiple pipelines, simple, extensible

• You Feel Like Shit

  Self-care, interactive flowchart

Travel

• Wikivoyage

  Travel guides, non-profit, editable, dynamic maps, offline versions

• Working in Antarctica

  What life is like at Antarctic science stations

User experience

• Deceptive Patterns

  Dark patterns, types, laws, court cases, hall of shame, reading list

• Humane By Design

  Guidelines for designing ethically humane digital products and services

• The A11Y Project

  Digital accessibility, blog, learning, resources

Visual art

• Inspiral Web

  Spirograph, Inspiral app, drawing, download

Web development

• Eleventy

  Static site generator, HTML, Markdown, quick to get started with

• Enhance.dev

  Web framework, HTML-based, full stack, accessible, performant

• Flask

  Web framework, Python, minimalistic, flexible

• Gitea

  Git hosting, team collaboration, package registry, CI/CD

• HTML Energy

  HTML freewrite events, podcast celebrating HTML practitioners

• HTML recipes

  A collection of quick copy HTML snippets for a variety of common scenarios

• Logo experiments

  Every possible way to draw a logo with modern front-end techniques

• React

  Web & native framework, JavaScript, components, virtual DOM

• Ruby on Rails

  Web framework, Ruby, CRUD, full stack, generators

• Svelte

  Web framework, JavaScript, compiled, compact

• Umami

  Open source, privacy-focused, simple analytics alternative

• Vue.js

  Web framework, JavaScript, components, state management

Web shops

• Think Penguin

  Linux-compatible hardware, laptops, desktops