The Oil Drum - “Dicussions about
energy and our future.” Inactive and archived since 2013, but has a
wealth of interesting information. Energy-centric. Visit The Last Post for additional
meta-information on the site. This website is http only
McMansion Hell - A tour of
America’s most absurd suburban architecture created from the unholy
union of cheap energy and lots of money. Humorous.
Low←Tech Magazine -
Low Tech Magazine is a blog about low-tech technology, obsolete
inventions, and generally covers what was dreamt up before fossil fuels
really picked up. They practice what they preach and are currently
running their website with only solar power and a small set of
batteries. If the batteries run out, oh well. The server will come back
online when the sun shines once more.
Other
The 88x31 GIF
Collection - A whole bunch of 88x31 GIFs. May take a bit to load,
regardless of connection speed. There are currently 5 separate
pages.
RationalWiki -
wiki written in a “Snarky Point of View (plus science).” Vaguely like
LessWrong but less painful to read (dare I say fun?) and less genocide
apologism via hardcore utilitarianism.
Articles
From
My to Me - A retrospective on amateur websites in the 90s and how
website templates began the transition of amateur webpages from being
personalized creations by the author into a homogenized container in
which to place “about me”-type content, eventually being
non-optional and (culturally) integrated with the rise of
un-customizable webpages in contemporary services such as Facebook &
Instagram. (~7500 words)
Factorio - Addictive factory
building game. Development started in 2013 by kovarex, who decided that
automating
Minecraft wasn’t enough. More than a decade later, there’s a whole
team of developers, it has a strong modding community, and the game is
largely complete. Somewhat recently, the Space Age
expansion came along, which has more than doubled the game’s complexity.
(and is awesome)
uBlock
Origin(Chrome
ver.) - General-purpose content blocker. Great for blocking ads.
Also allows the user to block specific sections of a website using its
element picker. Great for blocking, say, distracting sidebars on a
social media website
Dark Reader - Dark mode for
any website. Has sepia slider as well.
Sidebery
(Firefox only) - A sidebar plugin. Allows the creation of folders (like
Chrome’s tab group feature). Firefox now has a vertical tabs
implementation but it doesn’t have as many features as
Sidebery
ArchiveWeb.page
(Chromium only) - A very nifty archival tool. It records web pages as
you use the browser. When offline, archives can be viewed without issue.
Very nice for situations where access to the information on a website is
needed, but an internet connection is not available. Notably, there is a
standalone application as well, and archives can be exported and
imported from both.
PrivacyBadger - hahaha just kidding
this thing breaks webpages as a hobby.