Links

Below you can find a collection of links to various web pages that I found interesting or entertaining for different reasons. I hope you'll find something novel in at least some of them!

Maps #

• radio.garden
  Tune into thousands of live radio stations simply by pointing to them across a map of the globe.
• earth.nullschool.net
  Displays a global live weather map and provides the viewer controls to adjust the data and display formats.
• shademap.app
  Visualize shade and shadows cast by topography and buildings anywhere on earth.

Tech #

• trunkbaseddevelopment.com
  Goes into good depth about the Trunk based Git branching method, interesting for DevOps engineers and developers.
• downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com
  One might be familiar with downdetector.com (for checking if services are down or experiencing issues)...
  But did you know that someone made a downdetectorsdowndetector to monitor it?
  and someone else made a downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector to monitor that?
  and yet another individual created downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com...!
  
• interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces
  An educational blog post that analyses various Lego computer/control interface panels to teach about UX.
• haveibeenpwned.com
  Lets you check if your details may have come up in any dumps of the all too common data breaches of our cyber age.

Science #

• what-if.xkcd.com/archive
  Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions, illustraited by xkcd.
• desmos.com
  An advanced graphing calculator implemented as a web application.

Indie web #

• milliondollarhomepage.com
  Is another curious time capsule - the maker of this page sold each of its 1 million pixels (and their target link) for 1 USD...
• textfiles.com
  Hosts an archive of some old-school internet content.

Miscellaneous #

• music.ishkur.com
  A highly detailed tree/branch diagram displaying the evolution of electronic music, detailing many subgenres, and including multiple example tracks per genre.
• thispersondoesnotexist.com
  Generates a human face, each time you refresh it. Sometimes it yields some creepy glitches, other times it's just eerily interesting.
• commonvoice.mozilla.org
  Common Voice is a publicly available (CC license) voice dataset. You may contribute your voice (by reading short phrases) or validate voices (by listening to short recordings).