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# Links
Here are some links to pages and resources that I believe are worth sharing.
## Design tools and resources
### Education
* [Butterick’s Practical Typography](https://practicaltypography.com/)
### Reference
* [Design Systems Gallery](https://designsystemsrepo.com/design-systems-recent/)
### Software
* [Converseen](https://converseen.fasterland.net/)—A Batch Image Converter and Resizer Tool for Windows, Linux and macOS
* [darktable](https://www.darktable.org/)—An open source photography workflow application and raw developer
* [digiKam](https://www.digikam.org/)—Open-source digital asset manager and image editor
* [DisplayCAL](https://displaycal.net/)—Display Calibration and Characterization powered by ArgyllCMS
* [G'MIC](https://gmic.eu/)—A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing
* [Glaxnimate](https://glaxnimate.org/)—An open-source vector animation and motion design desktop application
* [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/)—A FLOSS vector graphics editor
* [Krita](https://krita.org/en/)—A professional FLOSS painting and raster editing tool
* [RawTherapee](https://www.rawtherapee.com/)—A free, cross-platform raw image processing program
* [Scribus](https://www.scribus.net/)—The Go-To Libre Desktop Publishing Application
### Stock graphics
* [Artvee](https://artvee.com/)—Browse and download high-resolution, public domain paintings, posters and illustrations
* [CocoMaterial](https://cocomaterial.com/)—The Open Source hand-drawn illustration library with 3,293 images
* [Free and open source icons](https://www.toools.design/free-open-source-icon-libraries)
* [Getty Search Gateway](https://search.getty.edu/gateway/search?q=&cat=type&r=%22Paintings%22&types=%22Paintings$Paintings%22&highlights=%22Open%20Content%20Images$Recent%20Acquisitions%22&rows=10&srt=a&dir=s&dsp=0&img=0&pg=1)
* [Museo](https://museo.app/)—A visual search engine that connects you with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library Digital Collection
* [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/)—The best free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators
* [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/)—Stunning royalty-free images & royalty-free stock
* [Smithsonian Open Access](https://www.si.edu/openaccess)—Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images
### Typefaces
* [Badass Libre Fonts By Womxn](https://www.design-research.be/by-womxn/)
* [Collletttivo](https://www.collletttivo.it/)—An Open-Source type foundry and a network of people promoting the practice of type design through mutual exchange and collaboration
* [coolLabs Fonts](https://fonts.coollabs.io/)—A privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts
* [Cyreal](https://cyreal.org/info/)—A Libre/Opensource foundry with expertise in Latin and Cyrillic scripts
* [Font Library](https://fontlibrary.org/en)
* [FontCDN](https://thomaspark.co/projects/fontcdn/)—A search tool for Google fonts
* [Fontsource](https://fontsource.org/)—An updating monorepo full of self-hostable Open Source fonts bundled into individual NPM packages
* [Fontspace](https://www.fontspace.com/)—Free downloads of 150,000+ legally licensed fonts
* [google-webfonts-helper](https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts)—A hassle-free way to self-host google fonts
* [Use & Modify](https://usemodify.com/)—A personal selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces
* [Open Foundry](https://open-foundry.com/fonts)
* [Open Source Publishing Foundry](https://osp.kitchen/foundry/)
## Education
### Code
* [freeCodeCamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/)—Advance your career by learning in-demand skills in Programming, DevOps, Cybersecurity, AI Engineering, and English for Developers
### Credit-bearing courses and degrees
* [saylor.org Academy](https://learn.saylor.org/)—Learn new skills or earn credit towards a degree using free courses from Saylor Academy
* [Sophia Learning](https://www.sophia.org/)—Online college-level courses for $99 a month, designed to transfer to 100+ partner colleges, reviewed for credit at 1,000+ other colleges and universities
* [University of The People](https://www.uopeople.edu/)—A tuition-free online university, accredited by WSCUC and DEAC
### GNU/Linux
* [KillerCoda](https://killercoda.com/)—Interactive environments for tech you study, teach or present
* [Linux Upskill Challenge](https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/)—Learn the skills required to sysadmin a remote Linux server from the command line
* [SadServers](https://sadservers.com/)—Master Linux & DevOps troubleshooting on live servers
### Open Textbooks
* [LibreTexts Commons](https://commons.libretexts.org/)—The LibreText Commons hosts curated Open Educational Resources from all 16 libraries in the LibreVerse in one convenient location
* [Milne Open Textbooks](https://milneopentextbooks.org/)—Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff
* [OER Commons](https://oercommons.org/)—A public digital library of open educational resources
* [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/)—Now offering 1739 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network
* [openstax](https://openstax.org/)—The world’s largest publisher of open education resources
### Scots language
* [OpenLearn Create Scots language and culture](https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/index.php?categoryid=382)—This course teaches aspects of Scots, one of the three indigenous languages spoken in Scotland alongside English and Scottish Gaelic
* [Scots Language Center](https://www.scotslanguage.com/pages/view/id/9)—Educational resources relating to the Scots language
* [ScotsHoose Yaldi](https://www.scotshooseyaldi.com/)—Scots language learning and creativity resource for children, young people, teachers and parents


## Eleventy resources
* [11tyBundle](https://11tybundle.dev/)—Learn how others are making the most of 11ty, an exceptionally simple, flexible, and performant, open-source static site generator
* [11tyCMS](https://11tycms.com/)—A local, serverless, dependable, and FLOSS CMS for websites made with Eleventy
* [Pagefind](https://pagefind.app/)—A fully static search library that runs after Hugo, Eleventy, Jekyll, Next, Astro, SvelteKit, or any other website framework
* [Uncharted](https://uncharted.seanlunsford.com/)—A CSS-based chart plugin for Eleventy.

## Free/libre software
* [Free Software Foundation](https://fsf.org)—A nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom
* [GNU](https://gnu.org)—An operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom
* [KDE](https://kde.org)—An international community developing the world’s finest free and open-source software

## Friendly Sites (Those not linked elsewhere on this site)
* [Davey Dynamite](https://daveydynamite.neocities.org/)
* [Mercury Retro](https://calam.us/)

## Health / Medical
* [smelltrainingapp.com](https://smelltrainingapp.com/)—A free tool from Stockholms Universitet and and Karolinska Institutet to help patients with hyposmia or anosmia improve their sense of smell.

## Indieweb / personal web: discovery
* [Akregator](https://apps.kde.org/akregator/)—A news feed reader available for GNU/Linux and Windows
* [Alligator](https://apps.kde.org/alligator/)—A convergent, cross-platform feed reader, supporting standard RSS/Atom feeds available for GNU/Linux
* [blogroll.org](https://blogroll.org/)—Because blogs are the soul of the web
* [blogs.hn](https://blogs.hn/)—A directory of tech sites, primarily sourced from HackerNews
* [blogscroll.com](https://blogscroll.com/)—An open directory of personal sites and blogs
* [blogsearch.io](https://blogsearch.io/)—A search engine for personal blogs and independent websites
* [Feeder](https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder)—An open source feed reader (RSS/Atom/JSONFeed) for Android
* [Feedle](https://feedle.world/)—A search engine for blogs and podcasts
* [FreshRSS](https://www.freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html)—A self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator
* [indieblog.page](https://indieblog.page/)—Discover the indieweb
* [Kagi Smallweb](https://kagi.com/smallweb/)
* [Marginalia Search](https://marginalia-search.com/)—Search that prioritizes non-commercial content
* [Mire](https://mire.meadow.cafe/)—A minimal, no-bullshit web-based rss/atom feed reader
* [Mwmbl](https://mwmbl.org/)—A crowd-sourced search engine
* [Mydora](https://mydora.restorativland.org/)—A continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music
* [ooh.directory](https://ooh.directory/)—A collection of 2,358 blogs about every topic
* [Raven](https://ravenreader.app/)—A cross-platform feed reader
* [RSS Guard](https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard)—Feed reader (podcast player and also Gemini protocol client) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services
* [searchmysite.net](https://searchmysite.net/)—Search real content by real people from their personal websites
* [Wiby](https://wiby.me/)—Search engine for the classic web

## Indieweb / personal web: resources
* [90s Cursor Effects](https://tholman.com/cursor-effects/)
* [blinkies.cafe](https://blinkies.cafe/)—Blinkie maker
* [Blot](https://blot.im/)—A tool that turns a folder into a website (paid)
* [GIF Printer 2000](https://melonking.net/frames/pixelsea)
* [GifCities](https://gifcities.org/)—The Geocities animated gif search from Internet Archive
* [Gify Pet](https://melonking.net/frames/pet)—Who is there to watch over your site when you are gone? GifyPet will!
* [goatcounter.com](https://www.goatcounter.com/)—An open source web analytics platform available as a free donation-supported hosted service or self-hosted app
* [Guestbooks](https://guestbooks.meadow.cafe/)—A free guestbook service for your website
* [Guestbooks (2)](https://guestbooks.kamiscorner.xyz/)—Another free guestbook service for your website
* [Hit counters](https://www.websiteout.net/counter.php)
* [Kitty](https://kitty.meadow.cafe/)—A cozy, minimal content platform focused on helping you write & publish without fuss
* [Mochi](https://mochi.meadow.cafe/)—Friendly analytics and webmentions for your little corner of the web
* [Nekoweb](https://nekoweb.org/)—A free static website hosting service
* [neocities.org](https://neocities.org/)—Create your own free website.
Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
* [tamaNOTchi](https://tamanotchi.world/)—cute virtual pets you can customize, grow, and share on your blog or website
* [tilde.fun](https://tilde.fun/)—A Linux machine on the internet where you can get a shell account
* [tildepages](https://tildepages.org/)—Free & fast web hosting
* [Tile-able website backgrounds](https://tiled-bg.blogspot.com/)

## Literature
* [TypeLit.io](https://www.typelit.io/)—Test your typing online by practicing on your favorite literature
* [Wee Windaes—A continuum o the Scots Leid](https://wee-windaes.nls.uk/)

## Privacy-respecting tools and services
* [Autistici](https://www.autistici.org/)—A collective offering free digital services, including:
	* Anonymity services
	* Blogging
	* Chat
	* Email
	* Mailing lists /newsletters
	* Videoconferencing
	* Web hosting
* [De-google-ify Internet](https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/)—A project from [Framasoft](https://framasoft.org) offering access to:
	* Chat
	* Cloud storage
	* Collaborative office tools
	* Debate / decision making
	* Diagramming
	* Discussion groups
	* Forms
	* Games
	* Git forge
	* Maps
	* Mindmaps
	* PDF editing
	* Petitions
	* Video search
	* Videoconferencing
* [Disroot](https://disroot.org/)—A platform providing (mostly French-language) online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization, including:
	* Calendar
	* Chat
	* Collaborative documents
	* Cloud storage
	* Email
	* Encrypted office tools
	* Event management
	* Expense management
	* Git forge
	* Meeting scheduling
	* Microblogging
	* Pastebin
	* Reddit alternative
	* Search
	* Temporary file storage / file sharing
	* Translation
	* Videoconferencing
	* Voice chat
* [LibreDNS](https://libredns.gr/)—a public encrypted DNS service from [LibreOps](https://libreops.cc/)
* [nolog.cz](https://nolog.cz/en/)—Free and open-source alternatives to common tools from an activist IT collective, including:
	* Chat
	* Collaborative markdown editor
	* Encrypted office tools
	* File sharing
	* Microblogging (Czech language)
	* Password management
	* Pastebin
	* Scheduling
	* Search
	* Video hosting
	* Videoconferencing
* [opendesktop.org](https://www.opendesktop.org/)—a libre platform providing:
	* Calendar
	* Chat
	* Cloud storage
	* Git forge
	* Libre product publishing
* [searchengine.party](https://searchengine.party/)—Web page for comparing popular search engines across some privacy-centric data points
* [sp-codes.de](https://sp-codes.de/en/)—Services run by an individual for general use, including:
	* Badges
	* Captive portal check
	* Chat
	* Encrypted office tools
	* Git forge
	* Instagram alternative
	* Microblogging
	* Notifications
	* Video hosting
	* Videoconferencing
* [systemli.org](https://www.systemli.org/en/)—Non-commercial provider of communication services, including:
	* Chat
	* Cloud storage
	* Email
	* Encrypted office tools
	* Metadata cleaner
	* Microblogging
	* Onion services
	* Pastebin
	* Surveys
	* Ticker
	* Videoconferencing
	* Voice chat
	* Web hosting
* [tchncs.de](https://tchncs.de/en/)—A collection of free services run by an individual, including:
	* Blogging
	* Chat
	* Encrypted office tools
	* Event management
	* Git forge
	* Goodreads alternative
	* Instagram alternative
	* Microblogging
	* Minecraft servers
	* Nature trail database
	* Notifications
	* Password management
	* Reddit alternative
	* Task management
	* Video hosting
	* Videoconferencing
	* Voice chat
* [weho.st](https://weho.st/)—A non-profit internet service provider, including:
	* Chat
	* Cloud storage
	* Diagramming
	* Email
	* Encrypted office tools
	* Git forge
	* Microblogging
	* Search
	* VPN
## Random cool stuff
* [intertapes.net](https://intertapes.net/)—An updating collection of found cassette tapes from different locations. The audio fragments include: voice memos, field recordings, mixtapes, bootlegs and more.
