Cool Links

This website is so cool! It’s the kind of thing that you’d imagine was a personal website, but it’s actually a marketing page! A marketing team actually sat down and planned this out! I thought no such thing as fun marketing existed. Glad to be proven wrong.

Neat little daily browser puzzle game where you use clues to find out who’s a criminal and who’s innocent.

Ok, this video is amazing. Corridor Crew recreates the amazing practical effects from the first Lord of the Rings movie (the forced perspective ones with Gandalf and the hobbits), but not only that, there’s amazing storytelling on how it was made, all the cinema history before it, and why it has never been done again since then.

This Mastodon thread is an amazing tale about game development, physics and time-traveling bugs.

Grab your headphones and get ready to lose some hours. This website compiles every subgenre of music and algorithmically sorts them out in relation to one another. It’s great to learn about new genres you might like or to find something similar to what you already know!

Adrift is a quiet space where doubts become paper boats and drift together across a shared sea.

What a neat lil’ website. You can write your own doubts or self-care notes and let them float out in a virtual sea, alongside the notes of many others. There’s some background music too.

What exactly is this site? I don’t know. But it looks awesome.

This is what the web was made for. Just draw a fish. Then watch your creation swim with fishes from all over the world. Beautiful.

Came across this website on Mastodon and oh wow, it’s so nice! I’ve seen a bunch of websites trying to mimic the old Windows vibes, but this one did it in a way that makes sense. Content is well laid-out and it doesn’t go too far into the “mimicking Windows” aspect.

Sharing links to albums or songs in streaming apps sucks because not everyone uses the same one. This neat website takes in a link (although named after Spotify, it works with others as well) and spits out the link for the same music on whatever other platform you want.

Great for when you share a link with others too!

This is a hypnotizing endless battle between two squares, pong-style. All built with JS, HTML and CSS! The source code surprisingly simple and a fun read too, if you’re into that sort of thing.

The author here worries that so many people on Reddit are interacting with posters that are nothing more than robots, without any idea of that being the case. Even worse, some people are aware of that, but don’t care.

I saw a comment in a brazilian forum that deeply resonated: “Maybe the biggest pain this realization causes is that, deep down, almost nobody cares about anything. We’re the ones who are wrong for searching for meaning in environments dominated by chaos”.

This website simulates a TV schedule (with CRT-style filters!) with multiple channels, each featuring an interesting indie website. The programming changes often (just like shows on a tv channel), so it’s an interesting site to keep on your bookmarks and visit a few times a day.

pretend to be on your phone so that you pass as human, but actually do essentially nothing instead

Do you feel pressured to be on your phone all the time, so you can pass as a human? This neat web app allows you to do just that, but while doing absolutely nothing instead.

(honestly, it’s a better use of your phone than scrolling through social media…)

I love those joke programming languages. They’re perfect examples that sometimes the only reason you need to build something is that you can.

This is such a cool idea that I definitely want to copy in the future. I’m a bit wary of making so much private information public (especially dates), so I might not ever make this public anywhere. But still, a nice personal exercise and a perfect memento mori.

This is so cool! This website allows you to explore the 3D models of maps from a variety of old-ish games from the Wii, GameCube, DS and PS2 eras. If you’ve played any of them, it might be worth having a look. My favorite ones to explore like this were the maps from Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver and Platinum.

I recommend opening the site on a computer though. The touch controls aren’t great.

Apparently when your indie app does not collect any amount of data, the data reapers get confused.

Henry’s personal website is absolutely stunning! It has an unique design that is, above all, fun to explore. I miss exploring websites, instead of being guided through them.

Most of what Neal makes is pure gold and this is no exception. This game is no different than most of what you can find on your App Store, it’s just more honest about it…