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Here are some links to pages and resources that I believe are worth sharing.

Design tools and resources

Education

Reference

Software

  • Converseen—A Batch Image Converter and Resizer Tool for Windows, Linux and macOS
  • darktable—An open source photography workflow application and raw developer
  • digiKam—Open-source digital asset manager and image editor
  • DisplayCAL—Display Calibration and Characterization powered by ArgyllCMS
  • G'MIC—A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing
  • Glaxnimate—An open-source vector animation and motion design desktop application
  • Inkscape—A FLOSS vector graphics editor
  • Krita—A professional FLOSS painting and raster editing tool
  • RawTherapee—A free, cross-platform raw image processing program
  • Scribus—The Go-To Libre Desktop Publishing Application

Stock graphics

  • Artvee—Browse and download high-resolution, public domain paintings, posters and illustrations
  • CocoMaterial—The Open Source hand-drawn illustration library with 3,293 images
  • Free and open source icons
  • Getty Search Gateway
  • Museo—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—The best free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators
  • Pixabay—Stunning royalty-free images & royalty-free stock
  • Smithsonian Open Access—Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonians images

Typefaces

Education

Code

  • freeCodeCamp—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—Learn new skills or earn credit towards a degree using free courses from Saylor Academy
  • Sophia Learning—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—A tuition-free online university, accredited by WSCUC and DEAC

GNU/Linux

  • KillerCoda—Interactive environments for tech you study, teach or present
  • Linux Upskill Challenge—Learn the skills required to sysadmin a remote Linux server from the command line
  • SadServers—Master Linux & DevOps troubleshooting on live servers

Open Textbooks

  • LibreTexts Commons—The LibreText Commons hosts curated Open Educational Resources from all 16 libraries in the LibreVerse in one convenient location
  • Milne Open Textbooks—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—A public digital library of open educational resources
  • Open Textbook Library—Now offering 1739 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network
  • openstax—The worlds largest publisher of open education resources

Scots language

Eleventy resources

  • 11tyBundle—Learn how others are making the most of 11ty, an exceptionally simple, flexible, and performant, open-source static site generator
  • 11tyCMS—A local, serverless, dependable, and FLOSS CMS for websites made with Eleventy

Free/libre software

  • Free Software Foundation—A nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom
  • GNU—An operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom
  • KDE—An international community developing the worlds finest free and open-source software

Friendly Sites (Those not linked elsewhere on this site)

Indieweb: discovery

  • blogroll.org—Because blogs are the soul of the web
  • blogs.hn—A directory of tech sites, primarily sourced from HackerNews
  • blogscroll.com—An open directory of personal sites and blogs
  • Feedle—A search engine for blogs and podcasts
  • indieblog.page—Discover the indieweb
  • Kagi Smallweb
  • Marginalia Search—Search that prioritizes non-commercial content
  • Mwmbl—A crowd-sourced search engine
  • Mydora—A continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music
  • ooh.directory—A collection of 2,358 blogs about every topic
  • searchmysite.net—Search real content by real people from their personal websites

Indieweb: resources

Literature