Sites & Tools

2025-08-20T14:19

SitesAndTools

This is a collection of useful sites and tools that I regularly forget exist.

Web

HeroIcons

A set of free, MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for you to use in your web projects.

https://heroicons.com/

Tailwind

A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.

https://tailwindcss.com/

Bootstrap

The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world.

https://getbootstrap.com/

VueJS Docs

The official documentation for Vue.js, a progressive JavaScript framework.

https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/

Nuxtjs Docs

The official documentation for Nuxt.js, a framework for creating Universal Vue.js Applications.

https://nuxtjs.org/docs/2.x/get-started

Nextjs Docs

The official documentation for Next.js, a React framework for production.

https://nextjs.org/docs

Reactjs Docs

The official documentation for React, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html

Shadcn

A css framework for react

https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/

Linux

NixOS Package Search

The official package lookup for NixOS

https://search.nixos.org/packages/

NixOS NixPkgs Manual

The official NixPkgs Manual

https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/

NixOS Manual

The official referance guide to NixOS

https://nix.dev/manual/nix/stable/

Home Manger

Manage you home with nix!

https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/

Ubuntu

Ubuntu means community.

https://ubuntu.com/

Debian

https://www.debian.org/

Herbsluftwm

A window manager that tiles? looks good

https://herbstluftwm.org/

Guix

A GNU os much like NixOS. Less packages, but totally free.

https://guix.gnu.org/

Crontab Guru

A website that describes your crontab

https://crontab.guru

Self Hosting

Vault Warden

Mom: we have Bitwarden at home Bitwarden at home:

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

CDM-Project

A Self hosted Git Service

https://cdm-project.com/

Literature

i.e git gud

How to ask questions better online

Smarter questions

https://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/getting-the-best-help-on-linux-forums/ http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Perfect Media Server

A plan to build your own media server

https://perfectmediaserver.com/

MISC

Authorised Pearson Vue Test Centre

Quill Learning

https://quill.com.au/pages/test-centre

Sysinternals

Useful tools such as a TCP viewer.

https://live.sysinternals.com/

Wikiwand

Wikipedia with improvements

https://www.wikiwand.com/

GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec

The specification for formatting markdown documents such as this one.

https://github.github.com/gfm/

Cloudflare Dashboard

The Cloudflare dashboard

https://dash.cloudflare.com/

Acceptable ads

Adblock Plus designed rules for ads that are considered acceptable to most users. Guidelines.

https://acceptableads.com/standard/ https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

Now payments

Accept crypto payments in twich

https://nowpayments.io/twitch

Web Server for Chrome

An in browser http server, absolutely cursed

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/web-server-for-chrome/ofhbbkphhbklhfoeikjpcbhemlocgigb?pli=1

DreamBerd

The perfect programming language

https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd

Adnauseam

What if your computer clicked the ads for you?

https://adnauseam.io/

Apex Chip

An human implantable NFC / RFIC chip

https://vivokey.com/apex/

Nix Language Basics

https://nixos.org/guides/nix-language.html#reading-nix-language

Bigtech lacking

That one time someone got a copyrwrite notice for downloading linux

Downloading Ubuntu via BitTorrent gets Comcast customer a DMCA warning

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/fake-dmca-takedown-notice-targeted-ubuntu-downloaders-yesterday/

That time google advertised malware at the top of search results

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221

Games

Factorio

Automatic Train painter

Trains automatically colored based on cargo

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Automatic_Train_Painter

Vibrant trains

These trains pratically glow!

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/vibrant-trains

Train Trails

Trains leave a trail in their wake the same color as them.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/train-trails

Logistic Train Network

Goods are transfered between stations automatically

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/LogisticTrainNetwork

Spidertron Automation

Adds in construction spidertrons which make logistic network requests for what they need to build with.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Constructron-Continued

Bookmarklets

Debian Man Pages

Search the Man Pages of debian packages

javascript: (() => {
    let query = prompt("ManPages Query:");
    let url = "https://manpages.debian.org/" + encodeURIComponent(query + ".html");
    if (query == null) {
        console.log("ManPages bookmarklet: query cancelled");
        return;
    }
    console.log("ManPages bookmarklet: going to " + url);
    window.open(url, "_blank", "location=yes,height=800,width=735,scrollbars=yes,status=no");
})();

Arch Man Pages

javascript: (() => {
    let query = prompt("ManPages Query:");
    let url = "https://man.archlinux.org/man/" + encodeURIComponent(query + ".html");
    if (query == null) {
        console.log("ManPages bookmarklet: query cancelled");
        return;
    }
    console.log("ManPages bookmarklet: going to " + url);
    window.open(url, "_blank", "location=yes,height=800,width=735,scrollbars=yes,status=no");
})();

ChatGPT

Ask ChatGPT a question

javascript: (() => {
    let query = prompt("Ask ChatGPT:");
    let url = "https://chatgpt.com/?q=" + encodeURIComponent(query);
    if (query == null) {
        console.log("ChatGPT bookmarklet: query cancelled");
        return;
    }
    console.log("ChatGPT bookmarklet: going to " + url);
    window.open(url, "_blank", "location=yes,height=800,width=735,scrollbars=yes,status=yes");
})();

ip lookup

plaintext ip from http request, ipv4/6 subdomains

https://www.icanhazip.com/

Games

Snake

The best snake clone

https://patorjk.com/games/snake/

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