General Bookmarks and Links
Remove background from a picture and get a transparent one instead. Works like a charm for Roll20 tokens.
A soft murmur, plays rain noises.
Free icons
Clipboard to markdown. As great as it sounds and it works like a charm so far.
https://euangoddard.github.io/clipboard2markdown/
HN’s recommended MOOCs list (with links)
https://github.com/Tuccinator/hn-moocs
Image to text https://www.onlineocr.net/
Cool art digimon inspired: http://androidarts.com/GarlicChampions/Digimon.htm
Maniani, awesome Pixiv artist https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/8873261
US Federal Government Salary Scale for Seattle https://www.federalpay.org/gs/locality/seattle
UK Senior Civil Service Pay Scale https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-the-senior-civil-service-pay-award-202425
Related: DataUSA.io https://datausa.io/profile/geo/
Same energy: income percentiles by age. https://www.timevaluemillionaire.com/income-percentiles-by-age/
Rent prices per city. https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/wa/bellevue/
Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezuka_Osamu_Cultural_Prize
A nice resource on Roman Naming Practices, and the origin of Modern Surnames: http://web.pdx.edu/~davide/gene/names.htm
1MB club https://1mb.club/
Make low-poly images (they look nice for some posts’ header image).
https://cojdev.github.io/lowpoly/
ChatGPT Prompts
https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts
Emotion Wheel
https://pudding.cool/2022/12/emotion-wheel/
Anime of the Year Tokyo award
https://animefestival.jp/en/award/aoy/archive/
80’s anime primer
https://80sanime.tumblr.com/80sprimer
Index of books in JP with difficulty levels. Seems pretty good at ranking. https://learnnatively.com/
Visuals and stats https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/
Governance https://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/Home/Reports
Fragile State Index https://fragilestatesindex.org/country-data/
Games for Engineers https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games
(of note: anno 1404, factorio, timberborn, frostpunk)
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Mortgage Rates https://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/mortgage-rates/mnd
https://dave-choi.github.io/strategy/agricola/index.html
Agricola strategy guide.
https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html
Church of Interruption.
When to buy each thing (e.g. May for women’s clothes, early June for menswear, July 4th, August for staples / apple stuff + summer clothes, November for black Friday, December for toys and games, Cyber Monday on December 1st, Super Saturday too)
https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today
Best still active forums in the internet today (as of late 2024, but most of these are clearly lindy)
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html#demo
Bloom’s Western Canon list, though he himself didn’t originally want to compile one and may be taken with half a grain of salt. Worth reading may be his The Closing of the American Mind though it looks long for what it is.