cool links

things i find useful for making a website

32bit cafe resource list - master list for anything you could ever need for websites
graphics 4 free - old site with cool 3d graphics i'm using for buttons and borders
css 3d buttons - collection of really neat skeumorphic button designs using only css
broider - make your own pixel border for your containers
border-image-generator - or make one from an existing image (i used this for these borders, it's pretty sweet)
claymorphism css generator - the basis i used to make the rounded containers on the site
hover.css - very nice hover animations you can slap in to your code
phoenix code - code editor i use for making this website. has some pretty good features imo
dannarchy's neocities hit counter - using this for the hit counter on my homepage, super simple and very effective
dannarchy's neocities hit counter - using this for the hit counter on my homepage, super simple and very effective
melon's frame links script - makes it possible to link to specific pages on a frame site. also very fun to break with recursion like this
deploy your site to neocities - i use the github action to deploy my site and it's soooo nice, can be a bit of a pain to set up depending on your workflow but i promise it's worth it
gsap - really cool animation/physics javascript framework

i use linux now but these are what made windows survivable for me

winutil - bulk installer, debloater, and generalize tweaks to fix a lot of major annoyances
win11debloat - if winutil has too many options and you don't want to worry about the details, just paste this script into powershell and you're good to go. also works with windows 10 despite the name
winaero tweaker - similar to the tweaks portion of winutil but with a nicer gui and better descriptions
wiztree - really nice tool for cleaning up your hard drive, with a cool graph for analyzing where your storage is being taken up
autoruns - official microsoft tool for more in-depth configuration of startup and scheduled processes that don't show up in task manager. great for killing anything edge related
windows 10 ltsc - if you're willing to do a clean install, this is the best possible version of windows you can get without switching to linux instead. will continue to get security updates until 2032

ableton guide to making music - really nice guide that aims to provide solutions to problems you might run into when making music on your computer. aimed toward all levels of expertise
reaper - my DAW of choice on windows. runs natively on linux too, but i could never get my VSTs to work quite right with it
discover quickly - find new music through what i like to call "algorithmaxxing". i've found more songs than i'd like to admit through here. requires spotify premium
rateyourmusic - or find new music through the recommendations of a bunch of music nerds with very specific opinions
ishkur's guide to electronic music - i don't know if you can get more definitive than this
nightwave plaza - just a nice vaporwave radio site, i listen to it to sleep sometimes

cosmic blobs - super cool old 3d modeling software. like kidpix combined with windows paint 3d. used to make the computer guy on the homepage along with some others. secondary link from old mac site
clay doh - blender addon for clay materials. really really good. used to make the frame/icons
bforartists - an interesting fork of blender that aims to redesign the ui to be more intuitive/accessible. i'm unsure of how successful it is at achieving this, but i quite respect the vision
womp - another interesting 3d modeling software. seems fairly intuitive, and is designed to more easily create "blobby" models, however is only available through the browser and really pushes for a premium subscription.

tinytools - just a bunch of really cool tools for various creative purposes
shadertoy - i love going here and just looking at all the crazy visuals people make
daedalus - this one is a rabbit hole. a maze generator software that has been actively updated since 1998, and seems to have evolved into a pseudo-game engine
what football will look like in the future - really interesting article. just read it i promise it's a normal article about football trust me
copyparty - really neat little file server program. got it set up as my own personal cloud after following this guide with some trial and error
discmaster - HUGE archive of cd-roms. specifically interesting for all those old texture/graphic cds