Links

There's also a blogroll and a list of my blog posts that are largely links.

Contents:

• libraries and archives
• places to read
• searching and discovering
• Indieweb stuff
• tools for making things
• people writing about TTRPGs on Bear are now on a separate page

Libraries and archives

Free books! Old books! Retro magazines! Maps! Art!

• Anarchist Library
• Public Domain Review
• Public Domain Image Archive
• The Internet Archive. I've recently been enjoying The Pulp Magazine Archive
• Project Gutenberg
• Pulp Magazines Project
• WikiArt
• UK National Archives especially the newspapers and National Library of Scotland newspapers
• Internet Classics Archive
• Digital Bodleian
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online Bodleian
• Old Book Illustrations
• Buying books: Verso
• The Museum of Jurassic Technology
• Historical Tech Tree
• Public Work search engine for public domain content
• Ikea Museum catalogues
• Palaeos life through deep time
• Tree of Life - now retired, Wayback Machine archive
• Arts & Letters Daily
• The Odd Athenaeum
• Creative Independent
• British Criminal Broadsides collection Kent State
• English Crime and Execution Broadsides Harvard Library
• Trial Pamphlets Collection Cornell Law Library
• Map of Early Modern London
• Modernist Journals Project
• Monoskop
• The History of the Web
• Colossal
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Faenum public domain image search includes searching by colour
• Standard Ebooks
• Delphi Classics

Places to read

Places to read interesting things that aren't necessarily blogs. But they are blogs because everything is blogs.

• The Marginalian
• Aeon, Psyche, Noema
• Atmos, Emergence, Nautilus
• Open Culture
• Fix the News
• The Collector
• Medievalists.net
• the Reviews

Searching and discovering

• Cloudhiker. A bit like StumbleUpon?
• Marginalia Search
• Bear's Discovery feed
• The Forest
• IndieWeb Carnival
• url.town
• aboutideasnow.com
• RSS Club
• ooh.directory
• indieblog.page
• Indieseek
• powRSS
• smallweb
• The Whimsical Web
• Bukmark.club
• Blogs are Back
• Kagi Small Web showcase
• Peelopaalu
• Wiby Search engine for the classic web
• Wander Console
• Dealgorithmed newsletter by Manu
• Title Traders for trading blog titles with others

Webrings. (Not part of them, just fun to use):

• Retronaut webring
• Retroweb ring
• Weird Wide Webrings
• Webrings Fanlisting
• A Blog Directory
• Ye Olde Blogroll
• Internet Phone Book
• Hotline webring
• Wayward Webring
• rootr.ing for TTRPG blogs
• Make your own webri.ng or onionring

Indieweb stuff

Small web, retro web, web revival manifesto type things:

• The Melon King himself
• IndieWeb
• Interface Critique: From My to Me
• Web Revival Breakdown
• The internet used to be fun
• Interacting on the web
• We can have a different web
• The Web is Fucked
• Web Design Museum
• The Old Net
• textfiles.com
• My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
• Specifying Spring 83
• The internet is powered by generosity
• Servers with Personality by Caolan
• Museum of Alexandra's projects
• Plaintext World
• Digital Gardening

Resource lists:

• 32bit cafe
• HTML for People guide
• Resources for keeping the web free, open, and poetic
• Manu's list of blog platforms
• Unplatform

Bookmarks:

• 32 bit calendar
• Canonize: Creating a personal canon template
• slash pages
• Neal.fun
• The Useless Web
• The Scientific Place
• What the Hell Are People Doing
• Everest Pipkin
• geokash
• Azhdarchid's A spotter's guide to text games

Tools for making things

General Bear stuff:

• Bear, obvs. Hello from the Bear blogging platform
• Helpful markdown stuff
• Sylvia's sandbox for cool css and ideas
• Robert Birming's Blogger's toolbox and Bear themes and tools
• folkmoss' listography of Bearblog tools
• ReedyBear's BearBlog resources
• Anarchae's Bearblog Customization pages
• Grizzly Gazette's resource list

There are more about the specifics I use on this site in the colophon.

Other stuff:

• I've use Carrd for years for static sites, it's incredibly easy. I used to use Blot and I liked it
• For other website stuff: Neocities, omg.lol
• For interactive fic: Twine
• For zines and such: Decker, Zine Arranger, Super Imposer 3000, Zines Forever
• Scratchpad for easy notes, TLDraw a 'very good free whiteboard', and Puter virtual desktop thing
• delphitools

TTRPGs on Bear

have now moved to their own page as there are over a hundred.

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