Small web July links (3)

published: 19 July 2025

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People

Tools

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks

⚧ LIBRE FONTS BY WOMXN is a collection of fonts by women mxn to use in your next project. When browsing the fonts it’s really easy to change the size and dark/light theme which is useful.

Guide

HTMHell has examples of hellish HTML from real websites and how to fix them.

Fun

Perpetual Calendar has an different image wishing you a good day every day.

sandspiel is a falling sand game in your browser (you might need to enable WebGL).

A New Phonetic Alphabet - a good attempt at the worst possible phonetic alphabet.

Droste’s Lair is a programming-game thing. It’s short but interesting.

I’m not sure if this is fun per se but it seemed like the best category - #ShowYourStripes allows you to visualise the global warming where you live (local warming I guess).

Hypertext TV - browse curated web pages through a old TV.

Publications

Elipsis is a web zine on the small, indie and retro web - anyone can submit a story to publish.

Existential Comics - weekly philosophy comic.

Social

Marigold Town is web hosting set out like a town. Sites are each presented as a building in the town.

Agora Road’s Macintosh Cafe is one of the more… interesting forums that I have encountered. Proceed with caution.

Something else

UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration

The Cheap Web is a web design manifesto for an internet that is cheap to maintain, leave, access, participate in, explore and contribute to.

More sites

Tiny Awards are annual awards for the best personal projects on the web.

Blue pages - yellow pages for the internet, curated by Alexis, who runs it. I really like it and might copy him… we’ll see.

Written by Tom Brandis