A collection of places, writings and things. Curated by Keith Duke

Daily Reads

• Trending on Github
• Trending on Google
• Top 25 on Wikipedia
• Wikipedia Main Page
• NASA Astronomy Photo of the Day
• Bandcamp Album of the Day
• Poetry Foundation Poem of the Day
• CSS Design Awards

Other Directories

• Indie Web Directory
• ooh.directory
• personalsit.es
• Curlie
• bukmark club
• gossipsweb.net
• searchmysite.net
• 512kb.club
• 1mb.club
• thewebring.org
• Kickscondor

AI and Agentic

• Claude
• ChatGPT
• Gemini
• Copilot
• Hugging Face
• IBM Granite
• Qwen
• Deepseek
• Kimi
• Mistral
• Apertus
• Perplexity
• NotebookLM
• DeepWiki
• Neuronpedia
• Google's Machine Learning Crash Course
• Hugging Face LLM Course
• Anthropic Academy
• OpenAI Academy
• OpenAI Cookbook
• Kaggle
• Deep Learning Book
• Practical Deep Learning for Coders
• Stanford CS229 Building Large Language Models
• Apple MLX
• Apple mlx-lm Github
• PyTorch
• Agent Arena
• Trending papers on Hugging Face
• Simon Willison's site
• Mike Caufield's site
• Neel Nanda's site
• Anthropic's Interpretability Research
• TransformerLens Documentation
• What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram
• The Illustrated Transformer by Jay Alammar
• A visual walkthrough of a LLM by Brendan Bycroft
• Machines of Loving Grace by Dario Amodei
• The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton

Programming and Web Dev

• Python Developer's Guide
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
• Google Colab
• Python: The Documentary
• Pelican Documentation
• Natural Language Toolkit
• Markdown Guide
• MDN
• web.dev
• WHATWG
• W3C
• ECMA TC39 2025, the Javascript spec
• Freely available programming books

Web Hosting

• Github Pages
• Netlify
• Cloudflare
• omg.lol get the best internet address that you've ever had.
• mmm.page dead simple, drag & drop websites for anything
• Neocities, create your own place on the web.
• leaflet.pub

Games and Diversions

• neal.fun
• vole.wtf
• Floor796
• Black Room
• A dark room
• Candybox 2
• Kingdom of Loathing
• Puzzle Hunt Calendar
• Fortune
• itch.io
• poolside.fm

Text based and interactive fiction

• intfiction.org
• Interactive Fiction DataBase
• The Interactive Fiction Archive
• Interactive Fiction Competition
• LudoNarraCon
• Inform 7
• Twine
• Ink

IndieWeb

• IndieWeb
• Marginalia
• Good Internet Magazine
• foreverliketh.is
• href.cool
• A Website Is a Room
• The internet used to be fun
• tiny internets
• Slash Pages, A guide to common pages you can add to your website

Other Resources

• Internet Archive
• Are.na a toolkit for assembling new worlds from the scraps of the old
• The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet
• textfiles.com
• gifcities gif archive
• Letterform Archive
• Public domain image archive
• The oldest webpage
• TI 84 calculator

Reading

• arxiv
• McSweeney's Internet Tendency
• Longreads
• THE HTML REVIEW is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web
• Project Gutenberg
• Standard Ebooks
• JSTOR

Literary Magazines and Short Fiction

• The New Yorker Fiction
• Tor.com free fiction
• Reactor Magazine
• Strange Horizons
• Clarkesworld Magazine
• Hobart Pulp
• SmokeLong Quarterly
• The Paris Review
• Granta
• Electric Literature
• Literary Hub
• Guernica Magazine
• The Sun Magazine
• Narrative Magazine
• AGNI
• One Story
• Zoetrope: All-Story
• Conjunctions

Book Reviews and Criticism

• Book Marks
• Los Angeles Review of Books
• The Millions
• Words Without Borders
• Public Books
• The Rumpus
• Full Stop
• Kirkus Reviews
• Publishers Weekly

Libraries and Borrowing

• Libby — borrow ebooks and audiobooks from your public library
• Hoopla — free books, comics, music and film through your library
• Open Library
• Kanopy — free films and documentaries through your library
• WorldCat — find books at a library near you

Writings around topics related to this site

• My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? by Laurel Schwulst

• We can have a different web by Molly White

• The Small Web by Parimal Satyal

• Manifesto for a Humane Web by Michelle Barker

• How blogs broke the web by Amy Hoy

• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton

• The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Yancey Strickler

• The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small by Kelsey McKinney

• Your Site is a Home by Naz Hamid

• This page is under construction. A love letter to the personal website by Sophie Koonin

• Taking an Internet Walk by Spencer Chang & Kristoffer Tjalve

• Internet manifesto by Sadness

• Foundations of a Tiny Directory by Kicks Condor

• Human Edited Directories vs Google by Brad Enslen

• A Handmade Web by J. R. Carpenter