Simple Stuff

A collection of things

Directory

Simple Sabotage Field Manual - A short book on how everyday people can help resist fascism. In case this source is lost, an HTML version is available on my site and there is a backup of the plaintext as well.

Me! - I post recipes here too. These are either recipes of my own creation or recipes I've adapted from elsewhere. Recipes from elsewhere will usually contain the original source.
Just One Cookbook - Really great source of Japanese cooking.
Budget Bytes - How to eat well for less.
RecipeTin Eats - Lots of recipes from all different types of cuisine.

Awesome-Selfhosted - A vast collection of open source software for self-hosting.
It's FOSS - All things FOSS here. News articles, recommendations, forums. Includes courses for learning Linux.

The Useless Web - Takes you to a random, but fun, website.
Binary Piano - Plays a different note for each binary value. (Warning: Scares my cats for some reason but I find it soothing)
Pokemon Booster Pack Simulator - Open virtual booster packs of the original Pokemon card sets.

Steam - Games for PC, also sell hardware like the Steam Deck.
GOG - DRM-free PC games.
itch.io - Indie games, lots for free or cheap.
debug - A physical & physical gaming magazine with particular focus on indie games. Releases quarterly.

RetroDECK - Combines lots of different console emulators into one package for the SteamDeck.
EmuDeck - An alternative emulation collection for the SteamDeck.

Bandcamp - Online music store where you directly support the artists. Allows you to download DRM-free .mp3 and .flac files.
Navidrome - A self-hosted music server, the type of thing you'd run on a Raspberry Pi to host the files you just bought on Bandcamp.

Mullvad - A trustworthy VPN provider. Accepts lots of payment options, include some anonymous payments.
Proton VPN - Another VPN provider that comes highly recommended.
Bitwarden - A secure password manager with a free option for personal use. Also has a mobile app (which you also don't need to pay for)
KeePass - An open source password manager that is stored locally rather than a remote server like Bitwarden.

Neocities - Neocities is a website host with a built-in social media-esque platform. It's full of small websites made by individuals.
Eleventy - A static site generator that makes creating a personal website much easier, by allowing the use of things like page templates, automatically generating blog post lists, etc.
Wordpress - A popular website/blogging platform.
MDN Web Docs - Mozilla documentation for HTML, crucial for understanding what each HTML element does.
Codepen - An online sandbox for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Useful for trying things out but also allows the sharing of code snippets. Often used for CSS/JavaScript challenges.

Alternatives to "the big ones", these are federated instances of cool social media.

Bluesky - Not part of "The Fediverse", but technically federated because it uses the AT protocol.
Mastodon - A nice alternative to Bluesky that uses the ActivityPub protocol, which means it is part of the wider fediverse.
Beehaw - Also using ActivityPub, but instead of the microblogging approach that Bluesky and Mastodon take, Beehaw uses a more Reddit-like styling, based on an open source Reddit alternative called Lemmy.

Shortpacked - About some people who work in a toy store. Started in 2005, most recently updated April 2024.
Dumbing of Age - Same creator as Shortpacked, about the American college experience.
Cyanide and Happiness - Rude jokes, crude art style, but very funny. If you like that sort of thing.
Hyperbole and a Half - Crude art style, but not-always-rude jokes.
Questionable Content - I remember when this was about a dude and a lil' robot thing. The first comic I saw had a giant red woman in it. I've uh.. got to catch up.
Something Positive - A web comic that, as I remember, usually has a bittersweet or even depressing vibe to it. On the flip side it has a cute pink blob cat.
Hark, a vagrant - A comic mostly about random things, I think. I've never been able to tell.
Hijinks Ensue - A comic about the creator's life as an artist.
The Zombie Hunters - About hunting zombies. Warning: The comic is unfinished and was last updated in 2018, I think it is unlikely we will see more of it but I always hope.

Web rings are a collection of websites, usually sharing something in common. They will link to each other in the chain, forming a ring.

Hotline Webring - A collection of personal websites. Most, but not all, are neocities.
Retronaut Webring - A collection of websites that miss the old type of internet, before "The Corporations" dug in.