Moving to: m/AskMbin!

Photopea.com, a free online Photoshop alternative

Every Noise At Once: Recommend this website to find new music that suits your tastes. Play around with the options at the top, best way to see what they do.

LibGen.is for books

Until recently Reddit would have been very high on that list for me. :/

The other one that I frequent weekly, sometimes daily is https://regex101.com/

A (not so) secret tip is the Verge Website for Tech News. https://www.theverge.com/

12ft.io, because the sheer amount of nagwalls are getting absurd. I gladly subscribe to newspapers I frequently read, but without being able to check them out I wouldn't sub to any (or very few) of them.

Also tosdr.org . Not bad to have an idea what terms you're accepting...

I am sure it's fairly known around here but at my work we regularly use https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ to generate faces for social media mock-ups.

https://european-alternatives.eu/ - all sorts of alternatives for digital products (btw, kbin should totally be registered there)

The (only?) travel website with no bs
wikivoyage.org

Scihub for accessing research papers.

I rarely use windows these days, but when I do, I always visit ninite.com when setting a new windows installation to install several common apps in a single go. Very handy.

The Internet Archive ( archive.org ) is extremely useful, not just for its Wayback Machine which allows you to see historical copies of a huge chunk of the internet (very useful when the web page you attempt to visit is no longer exist), but it also host a large collection of old media and softwares. Need to install an old copy of Windows XP to run an old software? You can find Windows XP installer there. Need to borrow digital book? They even have a huge digital book library there. If you find the service useful, please donate them some money if you can because the Internet Archive is extremely important to the modern internet and could use all the money it can get.

codewars.com to practice coding algorithms
codecademy.com to learn to code
chat.openai.com is an absolute game changer for getting pointed in the right direction when it comes to trying to understand concepts

As a DIYer I tend to use YouTube first for all my home repairs (appliances, electronics, etc). There tends to always be someone who is in my shoes before me so I can find the tutorials pretty quickly.

I use Firefox with temporary containers and a combination of DDG & Google to get around paywalls.

1. Once you have temporary containers installed in Firefox, find an article that's behind a paywall. I read the Financial Times, for example.
2. Copy the title of a story.
3. Open a new tab.
4. Search the story title in DDG using the g! at the end. For example, "Xi sees ‘progress’ in China-US ties at meeting with Blinken g!"
5. Find the story and click on it. Enjoy your read.

Streaming radio stations from all over the world, select via globe.
https://radio.garden/

Want to see what the weather is doing on a global scale?
https://earth.nullschool.net/

• chat.openai.com
• kbin.social :)
• you.com
• phind.com
• songmeanings.com

Edit:

• learnxinyminutes.com
• genius.com

Super specific, but one that saves my life for programming tasks on my job almost on the daily is https://curlconverter.com/
It translates a REST API call from any one language to another. Thanks to this site, if you know, for example, the curl command for a REST request, you know how to do it in Python Requests, Ansible, Javascript, you name it. And of course it works the other way around as well.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ is a great little search engine for research. It favors results that would most likely be buried in the larger engines, excellent for finding lesser known sources.

Also the “random” button is a lot of fun, and fairly nostalgic if you remember the late 90s-early 00s web. Lots of geocities style personal websites still out there apparently.

I never thought I’d say it but, Bing chat.

Gets nearly everything I need done first time which is worrying for the websites it’s learned from, I hardly click through.

The most useful are definitely DDG.gg and wikipedia.org.

Useful and lesser known:

https://openinframap.org/

https://ourworldindata.org/

https://www.quiverquant.com/

newsminimalist.com

It's uses ChatGPT to work out which news stories are the most significant so it can show only the important ones. It's great and has been my main source of world news since I started using it a few weeks ago.

I love to use print friendly if I want to print a website page to pdf. I can exclude or include all information I wish to in the pdf.

https://www.printfriendly.com/

Not necessarily useful but really cool and I'd love a digital watch face that does this. https://sunclock.net/

Essentially it's just a 24 hour analog clock's hour hand over colors representing what the sun is doing. It really helps me understand when the sun is going to set so much more than a number.

I believe analog clocks are more useful for understanding the flow of time than digital clocks. Digital clocks have this thing where a few.minutes before the top of the hour can still feel like an hour (or at least somewhat) before the hour. Meanwhile with an analog clock it just looks really close. Heck, you might even misread it as being past the hour mark. So take all of that brilliant fuzziness and overlay it on a graphic representing what the sun is doing and it all just really comes together into a beautiful tool.