Small web July links (4)

published: 24 July 2025

This is the last post for small web July, a bit early before I go on holiday. Enjoy!

People

Tools

Tile-able Website Backgrounds - get images for a repeating background on a website.

MAS

X-Ray Goggles allows you to see and edit the HTML of sections of a web page simply by clicking on them (you may need to temporarily disable XSS protections).

Guides

LandChad.net has lots of tutorials for self-hosting your own website and much more.

ISPmail is a great guide to running your own mail server (as I do).

Fun

(non-)user events - computer-feeling - cool grid thing with links.

Culture Machine - Ben Christel - videos from youtube that you might not otherwise find, presented as a TV.

23 Tales - The Literary Works of Beatrix Potter by Bradley Taunt has 2 of 23 Beatrix Potter books, Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin, presented nicely as web pages. I assume the other 21 are planned?

Lex’s Games by Lex Friedman - daily games clearly modeled after the NYT games. I particularly like Conlextions but the Mini is too hard for me.

Animagraffs (YouTube) by Jacob Neal has loads of intriguing and high quality animations about how things work such as How Hover dam works.

One Minute Park gives you a 1 minute video of a random park.

Publications

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is a web comic by Zach Weinersmith.

Public Domain Review curates and writes essays about works in the public domain that you might not have heard of.

Social

tilde.club is a shared Unix computer where you can get an account. Find me at tilde.club/~tombrandis.

/dev.space provides free git hosting and a community to developers. I might move my git repos there at some point…

Something else

Photography in Malaysia doesn’t seem to have been updated recently but is very interesting to look around.

Out-of-Print Archive preserves old magazines that are now out of print.

More sites

The Big List of Personal Websites is really rather big. I’m still making my way through it.

Ye Olde Blogroll - curated list of blogs.

What’s next?

Now that I have categorised all of these links, I’m considering creating a page for links.

Written by Tom Brandis