Outlinks

Webmastery

ClipArt ETC
An archive of thousands of woodcut graphics.

Remove Color from PNG
Removes all of a single color from an image. I pair this with the woodcut website above.

The Inspiration Gallery
Another website of graphics, this one containing historical artistic flourishes: acanthuses, arabesques, damasks, dentils.

GifCities
A vast, searchable collection of GIFs in the fashion of the early Internet.

GlowTXT
Generates glowing or patterned text, an example of which is at the top of this page.

SCM Music Player
A cross-page music player.

JSFiddle
Allows you to write and test HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Hekate’s Background Archive
An archive of backgrounds, sorted by color.

Resources List for the Personal Web
A long list of webmaster resources.

File Garden
A free file-host.

Catbox
Another free file-host.

Literature

A Mug of Insights
On this website, Robin Waldun, a philosophy student and writer, connects practical advice to the works of philosophers such as Spinoza and Byung-Chul Han. (Some of the articles require payment, but the free ones are also good.)

Gravity’s Rainbow Analysis
A chapter-by-chapter analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s book.

Project Gutenberg
Gutenberg offers many works of classic literature (and old books generally) to read for free.

My Year in Books
Like Spotify Wrapped, but for books.

lit.salon
Goodreads for people who hate Goodreads.

Classic Literature Club
I run a Discord server about classic literature.

Power Moby-Dick
A chapter-by-chapter annotation of Moby-Dick explaining obscure references and terms.

Carpe Horas
A Les Misérables fansite with maps of Paris, discarded book drafts, fanfictions, and more.

I.J. Theories
Notes, timelines, and theories about Dave Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.

Melville’s Marginalia
A virtual archive of Herman Melville’s library and annotated books.

Language

Wiktionary
A publicly edited international dictionary providing words and phrases’ etymologies, translations, inflections, and meanings. I have never found it to be inaccurate.

Phrontistery
A compendium of obscure words.

Pa-russki
For beginners in Russian. Contains a large number of short stories.

OpenRussian
A collection of some of the most common words in Russian, marked with stress.

Poetry Reader for Russian Learners
Poems of famous Russian authors with translated vocabulary and stress-marked words. An immensely useful website for those aspiring to read Russian literature in Russian.

Latinium
Latin articles, audiobooks, and discussions of grammar and Roman history.

Latin Core List
A list of the most common words used in Latin.

Cupiditates de Elysii
Pirated L.L.P.S.I.

Vicipaedia
Publicly edited Latin articles. Their quality varies, but at least there’s a lot of vocabulary that can be learned.

Neo-Latin Lexicon
What it says on the tin. The downside is that it’s pretty laggy.

List of Latin translations into modern literature
Latin reading material not made in ancient times.

Duolingo classroom
My retired teacher’s Duolingo class. Gives you infinite hearts but removes all your friends.

Piano

Piano Library
If you’d like to find out whether a classical piano piece is roughly at your level, I recommend this site. I use its rankings as a sort of tiebreaker when I’m debating beginning a piece.

Piano Street
A pianists’ forum.

Piano World
Another such forum.


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