https://pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-if-you-were-on-your-phone/info/

Want to be on your smartphone and do nothing at the same time? Not in the hyperbolic sense, actually nothing. You could call it meditating or avoiding social contact, however you look at it, this site got a great laugh out of me when I realised its purpose, or perhaps lack thereof.

https://kiwix.org/en/applications/

From the most useless link to the most useful: this is Kiwix, a platform to behold. Distributing knowledge everywhere, Kiwix brings the power of the internet to the offline world. Having support for all platforms, even a Raspberry Pi can be used to create a local copy of Wikipedia, Stack-Overflow, iFixit or any other treasure trove of digital knowledge.

https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

As a versatile tool for distributing a formatted document, PDF's are a great solution. They also come with a lot of frustrations, some security related, some editing related. Stirling PDF is a self-hostable PDF manipulation tool. Providing a way to edit, add, merge, secure, watermark, OCR and much more. Depending on your workload, it could just be a must-have.

https://thenostalgiamachine.com/

Travel back in time to any nostalgic era with ease using this link. Provide them with a year and it'll spit out a list of clickable songs with their accompanying era accurate videoclips.

https://www.sqlnoir.com/

SQL, you love it or hate it. Become Sherlock Holmes and hate it even more, euh I mean love it. Enjoyment is subjective anyway. Now if anyone wants to torture me, make a regex version of SQLNoir.

https://mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-all-things

What's my obsession with Wikipedia? Ask the people selling door-to-door encyclopedias in the olden days. So what happens when you mix an encyclopedia with a liminal space? The Museum Of All Things, Wikipedia made into a procedurally generated near infinite display of art. The only improvement I could come up with is adding multiplayer support in order to stumble into people wandering the halls of knowledge too.

https://www.dumbware.io/

KISS, one of the most important values in software design. But simple problems sometimes require complex solutions, as a response we have Dumbware. Needing barely any configuration, they solve those simple problems in the simplest way possible. Not ideal for public or production environments, but perfectly suitable for everywhere else.

https://zws.im/

Shortening URL's is a staple of the internet, why would you send 200 characters of nonsense when you could be sending 20? Zero Width Shortening takes this to the next level using Unicode that is not rendered by the browser. Honestly, it's something that is more important to know about than it has uses. As a demonstration, here's my Lemmy instance, made one character longer. Don't ask too many questions okay. https://zws.im/%E2%80%8D%F3%A0%81%AC%F3%A0%81%B6%F3%A0%81%A6%F3%A0%81%A4%F3%A0%81%A3%F3%A0%81%A1

https://emoji.paulbutler.org/?mode=decode

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https://soundcloud.com/whynotbarbershop2/tracks

Finding reacting online a bit dull? Our first stop brings us by a barbershop quartet singing over 1000 different reactonairy lines. Take your copypasta to the next level with WhyNotBarbershop1 and 2.

https://it-tools.tech/

Every developer needs a toolbox, this self-hostable swiss army knife of development tools surely fills that void.

https://phyphox.org/

Used by Teachers, Children, Tinkerers, Developers, and scientists, it's probably the best use of a smartphone yet. From basic sensor data to full-blown physics experiments, analyzing springs, or measuring the gravitational constant is just the tip of the iceberg. The best part? It's FOSS, has libraries for many platforms and can be downloaded right now on F-Droid, Play Store or the App Store on iOS devices.

https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win

Running Windows in 2025 needs a good reason, but those reasons exist. To make Network File Management from Windows to the rest of your Linux stack a little less of a mangeled shitshow, you can use SSHFS-Win. Combined with one of the GUI's listed, it will map network drives in your Windows Explorer as if they were natively supported.

https://solidlab.be/sharcs/

Last Monday there was a Solid Community Meeting held in Ghent (Belgium), that I was fortunate enough to attend. With a wide range of speakers, it was mainly focused on this report from SHARCS. Which is a collaboration between researchers from different innovative organizations. They were tasked with finding the strengths and weaknesses of the Solid standard as it exists today. If you're not already familiar with Solid, I'd recommend watching this video first.

Bonus link

https://www.figma.com/proto/89Jn0Ucdewxxv47U6PEs7I/The-Solid-application?node-id=17977-5612&t=Uy9klfrcUoi51eo9-1&scaling=scale-down&content-scaling=fixed&page-id=17975%3A10116&starting-point-node-id=17907%3A4356

A demo shown at the latest Solid Community Meeting. This demo demonstrates how a Solid Pod could be used in a browser, allowing selective data sharing for personalized results. Disclaimer: I do not know how long this link will keep working.

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Good.html

The internet is an amazing melting pot, but is that a good thing or a bad thing? Written by Sir Tim Berners-Lee - yes the internet guy, this article highlights technologies that are trying to improve the negative side effects of our modern day internet. A Fediverse must read.

https://wikitok.vercel.app/

Ever spent hours following one Wikipedia link to the next? Introducing, Wikipedia Doomscrolling. I'm truly sorry for any lost productivity due to WikiTok.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-infinite

Doom doesn't need any introduction, but this roguelike mod does. Doom Infinite brings procedurally generated levels, random weapon variations, new items, new abilities and much more. Calling this the best Doom mod ever made is a matter of opinion though, but if you disagree, I might just rip and tear.

https://www.mudconnect.com/

MUD's or Multi-User Dungeons are the original MMORPG's. Active since the 70's, MUD's still have a place on the internet. Being mostly text*-based adventures, it's a deep rabbit hole of early internet multiplayer gaming. The MUD Connector will find the perfect MUD for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees

Trees? trees.