realtimecolors.com
Live testing color palettes and fonts for web design. Made by a designer who's really great, she runs a YouTube channel and made the site for free use by anyone.
How accurate are the palettes? Would we need to calibrate our monitors or does the site do that for you?
I doubt the site is able to calibrate to individual monitors, as there's almost no way for it to know what you have.
I'm not aware of any other than what I've used in the past in post production and that's ColorChecker Passport Photo 2 by Calibrite ($119.) It's a software that helps you calibrate your monitor so that you can get your edits accurate for print. It also comes with a physical colorchecker that you can use as well for multiple lighting situations. Great tool for photographers that do a lot of post.
I'm sure there's some software out there that is more affordable or free that you can calibrate your monitor with.
If you like to play chess, check out www.lichess.org
It's free and open source, and it's very easy to find a game there, no matter what level you play.
It doesn't display annoying ads.
It always makes me sad that chess.com was the site that blew up. I always had to convince my friends to use lichess when I played back in school.
All of the games ever played on lichess along with puzzles, evaluations etc are also open and free to download at database.lichess.org
The site's founder and lead developer Thibault also often streams the development of the site on his Twitch channel!
I'm honestly suprised sometimes at how free, open and transparent this site is, truly an inspiration for anyone looking to build an ethical platform.
My goodness. I love this website's activities and educational pages. I really should be studying right now, but here are a few of my favorites so far.
https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/
https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/
https://neal.fun/life-checklist/
Plenty more to check out!
I feel like 35 is too young to have completed 51/66 tasks in the life checklist. I'm too young for a midlife crisis (fingers crossed, anyways)!
Yeah, I feel like it's heavily skewed towards the beginning of life, but tbf I feel like the cool things you do later in life are harder to quantify? Could add things like:
56/74, little better now.
The have 0 debt one in your context would be like "pay off your mortgage" or for mortgage+ "pay off your mortgage early".
Maybe a "get sued for ethical reasons and win" (refused to allow a small business to defraud me, they tried to sue me and then backed off when they read my defense).
Have a humbling experience with a stranger.
The list also assumes that you'll have children which isn't really on the cards for some people (voluntary or involuntary) and cuts out the possibility of doing a huge chunk of that list.
Ian's Shoelace Site:
Different ways to lace your shoes.
The Phrontistery:
Glossaries of, e.g., obscure words, lost words, etc.
Anytime I get new shoes I go to Ian's Shoelace Site to pick out a new lacing pattern.
And Ian's Secure Knot is a godsend for winter boots that usually have a bit thicker laces which come undone with a regular knot. Learning that knot is great because it's as strong as double knotting without needing to pick apart the knot afterwards.
Gayhomophobe.com it counts the time since the last openly homophobic figure was caught in a gay sex scandal
Yeah. I can remember seeing a homophobic politician being caught at an orgy in the news just a few months ago.
http://wiby.me/ is a cool site. It's a search engine that only has web 1.0 and web 1.0-styled websites.
Oh my, this is beautiful. Brings me back to the glory days of the Internet -- when sites were quick to load, text was king, and you didn't feel your privacy was violated at every turn.
It's a list of all the good word games, minigames and puzzles on the internet, and you can customize it to shortlist your favorites and even add new links. I go there every day to link to all my favorites.
...oh, full disclosure: I built it. Though hopefully nobody minds, since there's no ads or monetization whatsoever.
You're welcome. Note the settings button, which gives some nice customization options. Feel free to share it with folks who might also enjoy it. :-)
Foldnfly.com - shows dozens of ways to fold paper airplanes.
www.thetruesize.com - Find the true size of one country compared to another.
Every music genre you can think of, and then some. I finally found out what the stuff I like is called.
There is a - pretty dead - community, but maybe some of you could revive it: !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca
userinyerface.com
Something that far too many managers and developers need to see, so they can better understand why their decisions and work completely sucks.
Every step of the way has some new frustrating way to confound the user. I was laughing/crying halfway through the process because of how stupidly unfriendly the design was. Just brilliant. Whoever did this is an evil supergenius and/or heavily into BDSM.
I might’ve came across it from a post here on Lemmy, but this website is great for music discovery. It lets you listen to music by decade and country via a neat map UI.
There is this really cool place called Lemmy, I'm sure many people here have heard of it but not anyone I ask in other places. It's like Reddit, it's a forum-esque place where people can exchange their thoughts. The people are a little biased on the extreme Marxist side of things, but overall it's pretty nice.
We did all (or most of us) come from Reddit don't forget. It's in our blood at this point.
The people are a little biased on the extreme Marxist side of things
(and we like it that way, tyvm)
It's one thing to have a dominant demographic, but any place could do without a black and white mindset when they go about it.
Basically, except it's indexed and searchable. Somewhere in those books, exists the phrase, "dharma curious updooted glitchington on lemmy" probably many times. But also "dharma curious hated glitchingtons post on lemmy" will also be there somewhere.
Wait, it's already there? I thought they were generating them currently?
Also, it's searchable? I didn't notice that. Just hit random. Going to go check it again!
That statement may be false, a simple explanation is that if you make a number out of π by removing all 9s it will keep the properties of π being infinite and non-repeating but never contain 9.
The point is that just because π is infinite it isn't guaranteed to have any combination of numbers in it
Okay, cool! I had some fun looking for words in the pages. But if I understand it correctly, what we'll end up with individual words surrounded with gibberish on the pages. You're never going to get a page full of real words, right?
Every possible page is generated somewhere. I think there's a checkbox on the search page that fills the rest of the query with spaces.
I haven't looked at it yet but if u understand correctly you just have to search for a page where surrounding gibberish is also words. Probability plummets to zero fast, I'd guess
Yeah sorta. It's apparently an algorithm that can produce every possible page of text, given a number. So it contains a staggering amount of gibberish, plus every page of every book that's ever been written, and many wildly incorrect, many vaguely correct and one exactly accurate description of the circumstances of your death.
I needed Unicode symbols for a story I'm working on. (I want to use them as "magic runes" so I could type them into a document, but without using the standard "runes" that are typically used.)
Shape Catcher let me draw what I was looking for and then get a list of Unicode characters that matched that drawing. It's not exact so if there's no perfect Unicode match, it will give you ones that are close. This actually turned out to my benefit as I found shapes I hadn't considered but which worked nicely for my uses.
As the name suggests, you hang out with a chicken on a raft
https://www.pokealexintheeye.com/
It's not great by today's standards, but in the late 90's my friends and I found this to be the peak of internet entertainment.