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TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

What's a cool website you’ve visited that no one seems to know of?

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What's a cool website you’ve visited that no one seems to know of?

TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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    realtimecolors.com

    Live testing color palettes and fonts for web design. Made by a designer who’s really great, she runs a YouTube channel and made the site for free use by anyone.

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      How accurate are the palettes? Would we need to calibrate our monitors or does the site do that for you?

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        I doubt the site is able to calibrate to individual monitors, as there’s almost no way for it to know what you have.

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          Gotcha. So not too accurate for uncalibrated monitors then. Thanks!

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    If you like to play chess, check out www.lichess.org

    It’s free and open source, and it’s very easy to find a game there, no matter what level you play.

    It doesn’t display annoying ads.

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      It always makes me sad that chess.com was the site that blew up. I always had to convince my friends to use lichess when I played back in school.

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      All of the games ever played on lichess along with puzzles, evaluations etc are also open and free to download at database.lichess.org

      The site’s founder and lead developer Thibault also often streams the development of the site on his Twitch channel!

      I’m honestly suprised sometimes at how free, open and transparent this site is, truly an inspiration for anyone looking to build an ethical platform.

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    https://neal.fun

    A variety of neat activities and educational pages.

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      My goodness. I love this website’s activities and educational pages. I really should be studying right now, but here are a few of my favorites so far.

      https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/

      https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

      https://neal.fun/life-checklist/

      Plenty more to check out!

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        I feel like 35 is too young to have completed 51/66 tasks in the life checklist. I’m too young for a midlife crisis (fingers crossed, anyways)!

    • Blue and Orange@lemm.ee
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      That space elevator was really engaging and interesting!!

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    https://html5zombo.com

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      “You can do anything at Zombocom”

    • MumboJumbo@lemmy.world
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      The only limitation is yourself

    • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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      That is correct.

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    Ian’s Shoelace Site:
    Different ways to lace your shoes.

    The Phrontistery:
    Glossaries of, e.g., obscure words, lost words, etc.

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      Anytime I get new shoes I go to Ian’s Shoelace Site to pick out a new lacing pattern.

      And Ian’s Secure Knot is a godsend for winter boots that usually have a bit thicker laces which come undone with a regular knot. Learning that knot is great because it’s as strong as double knotting without needing to pick apart the knot afterwards.

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      The what???

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        “We” did weird things long ago. We still do, but we used to, too.

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    zoo.replicate.dev - a bunch of free ai image generation models

    snowfl - a search engine for torrents

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    Gayhomophobe.com it counts the time since the last openly homophobic figure was caught in a gay sex scandal

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      Unfortunately the list seems to have become unmaintained.

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    https://hackertyper.com/

    I’ve actually seen this used in movies and TV shows.

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      It’s better than just showing jquery source code or html

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    www.5minute.games

    It’s a list of all the good word games, minigames and puzzles on the internet, and you can customize it to shortlist your favorites and even add new links. I go there every day to link to all my favorites.

    …oh, full disclosure: I built it. Though hopefully nobody minds, since there’s no ads or monetization whatsoever.

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      This is really great! Thank you for this!

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        You’re welcome. Note the settings button, which gives some nice customization options. Feel free to share it with folks who might also enjoy it. :-)

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      Bookmarked this! Going to come in handy over the holidays especially. Thank you!!

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    Foldnfly.com - shows dozens of ways to fold paper airplanes.

    www.thetruesize.com - Find the true size of one country compared to another.

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    https://everynoise.com

    Every music genre you can think of, and then some. I finally found out what the stuff I like is called.

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      This is how I found Die Partei, a great obscure German electronica artist

    • clipper@lemm.ee
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      This is unbelievable, thanks for sharing!

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    There is a - pretty dead - community, but maybe some of you could revive it: !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca

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    userinyerface.com

    Something that far too many managers and developers need to see, so they can better understand why their decisions and work completely sucks.

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      www.userinyerface.com

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        Send to Bottom

        Help Bar Descends at the most pain inducing rate possible

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        Every step of the way has some new frustrating way to confound the user. I was laughing/crying halfway through the process because of how stupidly unfriendly the design was. Just brilliant. Whoever did this is an evil supergenius and/or heavily into BDSM.

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        Sent it to my partner who wants to get into Ux design, lol

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      I love and hate this, it really managed to raise my blood pressure.

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    I might’ve came across it from a post here on Lemmy, but this website is great for music discovery. It lets you listen to music by decade and country via a neat map UI.

    https://radiooooo.com/

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    Library of Babel

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      Is this like the digital equivalent of a million monkeys with a million typewriters?

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        Basically, except it’s indexed and searchable. Somewhere in those books, exists the phrase, “dharma curious updooted glitchington on lemmy” probably many times. But also “dharma curious hated glitchingtons post on lemmy” will also be there somewhere.

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          Wait, it’s already there? I thought they were generating them currently?

          Also, it’s searchable? I didn’t notice that. Just hit random. Going to go check it again!

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        And also “every finite number is contained within PI” but with words.

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          That statement may be false, a simple explanation is that if you make a number out of π by removing all 9s it will keep the properties of π being infinite and non-repeating but never contain 9.

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            deleted by creator

            • glukoza@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              PI is not proven to be normal number. It means that those infinite digits repeating may not have uniform distribution, so somewhere far away in PI you can start just getting 1s,2s and 3s for example.

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              The point is that just because π is infinite it isn’t guaranteed to have any combination of numbers in it

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          This is equivalent to the assertion that pi is a normal number, which is not proven.

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          Okay, cool! I had some fun looking for words in the pages. But if I understand it correctly, what we’ll end up with individual words surrounded with gibberish on the pages. You’re never going to get a page full of real words, right?

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            Every possible page is generated somewhere. I think there’s a checkbox on the search page that fills the rest of the query with spaces.

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            I haven’t looked at it yet but if u understand correctly you just have to search for a page where surrounding gibberish is also words. Probability plummets to zero fast, I’d guess

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        I thought humanity was the “million monkeys with a million typewriters”

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        Yeah sorta. It’s apparently an algorithm that can produce every possible page of text, given a number. So it contains a staggering amount of gibberish, plus every page of every book that’s ever been written, and many wildly incorrect, many vaguely correct and one exactly accurate description of the circumstances of your death.

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