A list of websites, mostly lightweight and text-forward because webshit is cancer.



# blog networks

  • neocities
  • bearblog.dev
  • smol.pub
  • mataroa.blog

    • # personal blogs

  • jvns.ca
  • dkrefft.de
  • kelar.org
  • rachelbythebay.com
  • xai.sh
  • hunden.linuxkompis.se
  • idlewords.com
  • ipng.ch - networking blog

    • # cybersecurity

  • intelx.io - password breach database lookups
  • blacklight - assess websites for privacy
  • osint framework - osint framework visual explorer
  • endoflife.date - end of life and support for popular software
  • shodan.io - search for unsecured internet-connected devices

    • # tech / networking

  • blog.sdn.clinic - linux networking
  • solar.lowtechmagazine.com - hosted on a solar powered pi
  • engineeringblogs.xyz

    • # utility

  • otranscribe - auto-transcribe audio/video
  • reverse-dictionary - guess definition, get word
  • nepethes - a tarpit for webcrawlers, mostly LLM focused
  • ipinfo.io - ip block / AS lookups
  • bgp.he.net - bgp / whois info from hurricane electric
  • archive.vn - web page archiver
  • gdir.telae.net - text-mode google directions
  • g711.org - telephony file format converter
  • mxtoolbox - email, spf, dkim, dmarc deliverability
  • rfc-editor - request for comment
  • wttr.in - curlable. plug location into url: wttr.in/castle_rock
  • tailscale - mesh vpn relay
  • toffeeshare.com - p2p e2eE filesharing relay
  • gofile - free temp file hosting
  • pst.moe - a pastebin

    • # news

  • npr thin
  • cnn lite
  • legiblenews
  • 68k news
  • plaintext sports
  • wsj print edition

    • # social / aggregators

  • rawtext.club
  • midnight.pub
  • lobste.rs
  • hackernews
  • pinboard.in - shared bookmarks for social introverts
  • mail.disroot.org - email that isn't google

    • # data visualization / mapping

  • flightradar24 - planes and shit
  • openstreetmap - maps, addresses, directions
  • blitzortung - lightning tracker
  • radio.garden - internet radio

    • # fun

  • ascii.theater - exactly what it sounds like
  • vim-adventures - games to learn vim

    • # random interesting lists / misc

  • sjmulder.nl - text-mode websites
  • awesome-selfhosted - list of selfhosted software
  • tamagotchi tech specs
  • web 0.5 - shit browsers only
  • info.cern.ch - the first website
  • motherfuckingwebsite - a web design manifesto
  • mcmaster-carr - a masterclass of web design
  • potato.cheap - the solarpunk cheap web
  • awesome-selfhosted - list of popular selfhosted software

    • # tildeverse

  • tildeverse.org
  • tilde.club

    • # search / discovery

  • wiby.me - try the "Suprise me!" button
  • marginalia
  • searx instances - a self-hosted metasearch engine
  • alexandria.org

    • # torrent indexers and archives

  • archive.org - the internet archive
  • kiwix.org - offline web access project
  • soulseek - file sharing network focused on music
  • anna's archive
  • z-library.sk
  • Project Gutenberg
  • nyaa.si - anime and manga public index