weirdnet directory.weirdnet.org
Home
Categories
Tags

Link-dump

Category: software

« back to categories

301 sites · page 2 of 2


  • The Crystal Website [2026-07-07]
    The Crystal Website is the personal hub of a developer known as the 'crystal girl,' showcasing a collection of homebrew software and tools targeting PlayStation Vita, PSP, Tamagotchi, and other platforms. Visitors will find links to original projects like PSM Reborn, Chovy Sign2, NoPspEmuDrm, and Horse Isle Server Protocol alongside console modding wikis and development resources.
  • The Jolly Teapot [2026-07-07]
    Nicolas Magand's personal blog covers everyday life with Apple Macs, web browsing habits, typefaces, and the quiet philosophy of maintaining a digital setup. With 368 entries and a stripped-down aesthetic, it offers thoughtful, opinionated writing for anyone who enjoys slow-web reflections on technology and computing.
  • The Mutt E-Mail Client [2026-07-07]
    The official home of Mutt, the venerable text-based email client famous for its motto 'All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.' Visitors will find release announcements, documentation, download links, mailing list info, and third-party resources for this long-running open-source Unix mail client.
  • The Postfix Home Page [2026-07-07]
    The official home of Postfix, the open-source mail server created by Wietse Venema as a secure and fast alternative to Sendmail. Visitors can find source code downloads, documentation, howtos, FAQs, mailing lists, and security announcements including recent SMTP smuggling vulnerability updates.
  • The splash page of Viatrix [2026-07-07]
    Viatrix's personal web space offers two paths for visitors: a fun side and a showcase of software projects. The site appears to blend hobbyist interests with programming work, making it a compact gateway to a developer's online presence.
  • The Twit Cleaner - Clean the garbage from your Tweetstream! [2026-07-07]
    The Twit Cleaner, created by Si Dawson, was a Twitter utility tool that helped users identify and remove low-quality or spammy accounts from their follow lists. The blog covers tips for improving your Twitter experience, avoiding DM spam, and chronicles the winding-down of the service after years of development.
  • Theocacao [2026-07-07]
    Ridiculously Useful Shortcuts Easily Forgotten: Scott Stevenson's Theocacao covers Mac OS X and Cocoa/Objective-C development tips, including this page highlighting lesser-known but highly useful keyboard shortcuts for Mac apps and the Finder. The site also promotes his O'Reilly book on Cocoa and Objective-C, making it a valuable resource for Mac developers and power users alike.
  • Thunderbird 3.0 - New Features and Changes - MozillaZine Knowledge Base [2026-07-07]
    The MozillaZine Knowledge Base hosts a comprehensive reference article documenting every notable new feature and change introduced in Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0, written from the end-user perspective. Covering everything from Smart Folders and the Gloda search engine to message composition tweaks and theme changes, it serves as an essential upgrade guide for longtime Thunderbird users.
  • tilde.club [2026-07-07]
    Klve Bunc's tilde.club page documents a scattered but charming day in the life of a developer, including a real-time experiment trying to set up a Jitsi coworking stream while fixing Tesla OAuth issues. The site also features reflective writing on Linux ricing culture, fake nostalgia, and the strange pull of the old web aesthetic.
  • tildeverse RFCs | the tildeverse RFC system [2026-07-07]
    The Tildeverse RFC system is a formal standards and request-for-comments repository governing how tilde servers in the Tildeverse community should operate and interoperate. Created by Robert Miles (khuxkm), it provides submission guidelines, numbered RFC documents, and standards mandates that define protocols and formats for tilde box communities.
  • Time [2026-07-07]
    Emil Mikulic's detailed reference page covers everything a developer needs to know about time: UTC, GMT, Unix timestamps, leap seconds, and how databases like MySQL handle time storage. Featured twice on Hacker News, this concise but thorough guide is a go-to resource for programmers wrestling with timezone headaches and timestamp precision.
  • tinyapps.org [2026-07-07]
    Tinyapps.org is a long-running catalog dedicated to small, well-crafted software utilities primarily for Windows, organized into categories like network, text, graphics, system, and file tools. The site has evolved into a blend of irregular tech blog and document archive, making it a useful reference for anyone seeking lightweight, no-bloat software recommendations.
  • tools | suckless.org software that sucks less [2026-07-07]
    The suckless.org tools page hosts dmenu, a fast and lightweight dynamic menu for the X window system, originally built to complement the dwm window manager. Part of the suckless philosophy of minimal, efficient software, this page provides downloads, source code access, and mailing list info for developers and Linux power users.
  • Top 15 Terminal Commands for Hidden Mac OS X Settings | Terminal, Dock, iTunes, Finder, Safari | Mac OS X Tips [2026-07-07]
    Mac OS X Tips, created by Matt Swain, offers a comprehensive collection of terminal commands and tricks for unlocking hidden settings in Mac OS X applications like Safari, Finder, iTunes, and the Dock. The site is organized by application and system component, making it easy for Mac users to find power-user tweaks not accessible through standard preference panels.
  • TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux [2026-07-07]
    The official home of TrueCrypt, a free and open-source disk encryption utility for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux that encrypts entire drives, partitions, or virtual disk files on the fly. Notable for its plausible deniability feature via hidden volumes and hidden operating systems, it became one of the most widely trusted encryption tools before its controversial discontinuation.
  • Tunefish Synth | Home [2026-07-07]
    Tunefish is a free, open-source virtual analog synthesizer plugin developed by Brain Control, engineered to produce high-quality audio while fitting into an astonishingly tiny 10kb of compressed machine code. Visitors can download VST/AU versions for Windows, Linux, and Mac, explore multiple generations of the synth, and listen to songs created with it.
  • twistori [2026-07-07]
    Twistori is a real-time social stream visualizer built by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs that displays public Bluesky posts filtered by emotional keywords like love, hate, think, believe, feel, and wish. Inspired by the original wefeelfine project, it offers a hypnotic window into collective human sentiment as expressed on social media.
  • Twitter StreamGraphs [2026-07-07]
    Created by Jeff Clark of Neoformix, this page hosts a Java-based interactive tool that visualizes the latest 1000 tweets for any search term or Twitter user as a flowing StreamGraph, showing word usage patterns over time. Visitors can click through word series and time periods to explore tweet content, making it a fascinating early example of social media data visualization.
  • txt2tags [2026-07-07]
    txt2tags is an open-source document converter created by Aurelio Jargas in 2001 that transforms plain text files with minimal markup into dozens of formats including HTML, LaTeX, DocBook, DokuWiki, and Wikipedia markup. The project site offers full documentation, markup demos, feature lists, downloads, and links to the GitHub repository for both the v2 and v3 maintained versions.
  • Unlocking Windows NT/2000/2003 Domain Controllers [2026-07-07]
    A detailed technical guide by John M. Simpson (KG4ZOW) on recovering access to locked Windows NT/2000/2003 domain controllers when administrator passwords have been lost or compromised. The page walks through real-world scenarios, tools like Petter Nordahl-Hagen's offline password editor, and step-by-step recovery procedures with candid warnings about common security mistakes.
  • Use plain text email [2026-07-07]
    A comprehensive guide to plain text email, covering recommended clients, configuration instructions for popular mail programs, and etiquette norms favored in technical communities. Brought to you by the sourcehut team, the site offers detailed setup walkthroughs for dozens of email clients alongside a thoughtful argument for why plain text outperforms HTML in email.
  • Userbenchmark's world [2026-07-07]
    Userbenchmark is an Australian Neocitizen from Sydney who runs a minimalist personal site centered on his passion for technology, operating systems, and the open web. He shares his enthusiasm for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, and the old-web ethos of handcrafted sites, positioning himself as a tech fanatic who prefers Neocities over modern Web 2.0 platforms.
  • Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck (as much) [2026-07-07]
    Dan Pollock's well-known hosts file resource offers a regularly updated blocklist that prevents computers from connecting to ad servers, spyware domains, and tracking sites. A practical and long-running community project, it supports multiple formats including IPv6 and legacy Mac systems, with contributions credited from dozens of users worldwide.
  • Utilities to customize and tweak Windows | LitePC Technologies [2026-07-07]
    LitePC Technologies offers utilities like 98lite and XPlite that let users surgically customize and slim down Windows 98, ME, XP, and 2000 installations for performance, security, and embedded computing. The site showcases tools capable of stripping Windows down to a 9MB embedded image with fast boot times, making it a niche gem for retro Windows tinkerers and embedded systems developers.
  • uwauwa's gay bots for homosexuals [2026-07-07]
    Created by uwauwa, this Neocities page is dedicated to AI chatbot configurations and jailbreaks designed for generating erotic homosexual fiction, organized into sections for bots, jailbreaks, and gifts. The site has a cozy early-web aesthetic complete with Hatsune Miku banners, decorative gifs, and a guestbook, and is also part of a Chatbots Webring.
  • V.H. Belvadi [2026-07-07]
    V.H. Belvadi's personal blog explores the intersections of science, technology, and society through carefully crafted essays and reviews. The site features thoughtful long-form writing on topics ranging from television criticism to stationery reviews, with a distinctly reflective, intellectual tone throughout.
  • VideoHelp - Forum and Software downloads [2026-07-07]
    VideoHelp is a comprehensive resource for video enthusiasts covering DVD and Blu-ray ripping, format conversion, encoding, and video authoring, with guides, software downloads, and an active community forum. Visitors can find tools for converting nearly any video format, hardware player reviews, region code hacks, and step-by-step tutorials for working with everything from VHS to 4K UHD content.
  • VILEHOME [2026-07-07]
    Vince Lavali's personal site showcasing his collection of 'cunnybots,' which appear to be custom chatbot creations. The site is part of a Chatbots Webring and links out to a companion rentry page where additional content is maintained.
  • Vim [2026-07-07]
    Seven habits of effective text editing: Written by Vim's own creator Bram Moolenaar, this classic 2000 essay lays out seven practical habits for editing text efficiently using the Vim editor. It covers navigation shortcuts, macros, plugins, and general principles that apply beyond Vim to any serious text editing workflow.
  • Vim – helphelp.txt [2026-07-07]
    Vimhelp.org hosts the complete, always up-to-date Vim reference manual in an accessible web format, maintained by Carlo Teubner. This particular page covers help system commands, translated help files, and guidelines for writing Vim help documentation, making it an essential bookmark for Vim users of all levels.
  • Vim Cookbook [2026-07-07]
    Steve Oualline's Vim Cookbook offers practical, step-by-step recipes for accomplishing common and advanced text-editing tasks in the Vim editor. Each recipe covers a specific task such as swapping characters, sorting sections, copying blocks between files, and using built-in grep, with detailed command explanations suitable for users who already know the basics.
  • Vim documentation – help [2026-07-07]
    The official HTML documentation for Vim 7.3, the powerful and widely-used text editor, hosted on SourceForge and covering navigation, commands, modes, and help system usage. A comprehensive reference for anyone learning or mastering Vim's extensive keyboard-driven interface, from basic movement keys to advanced command-line editing.
  • Vim Kōans | Arabesque [2026-07-07]
    A clever and entertaining collection of Zen-style koans centered on the Vim text editor, written in the voice of the fictional 'Master Wq' guiding novices toward enlightenment through command-line wisdom. The parables blend genuine Vim technique with dry humor, and have been popular enough to be translated into both Chinese and Spanish.
  • VIM Quick Reference Card [2026-07-07]
    Laurent Grégoire's VIM Quick Reference Card is a compact, single-page cheat sheet covering nearly every essential Vim command, from cursor movement and text insertion to macros, registers, and file operations. Converted from a LaTeX source using a Python script, it remains one of the most comprehensive and cleanly organized Vim references available on the old web.
  • Vim Regular Expressions [2026-07-07]
    Softpanorama's Vim Regular Expressions page is a detailed technical reference comparing Vim and Perl regex syntax, complete with metacharacter tables, examples, and tips for power users. Part of the larger Softpanorama site, this section covers Vimscript, syntax highlighting, line ranges, and practical regex patterns for anyone looking to master text editing in Vim.
  • vim tips and tricks – plugins [2026-07-07]
    A focused reference guide covering Vim 7 tips and tricks, with detailed notes from a user named Ben on spell checking configuration, personal wordlists, and useful keybindings. Part of a larger multi-page Vim tutorial series hosted at Swarthmore, this page is a practical quick-reference for anyone getting the most out of the Vim text editor.
  • Virtual Memory in Windows XP [2026-07-07]
    Written by Alex Nichol, a Microsoft MVP specializing in Windows Storage Management, this detailed technical guide explains how virtual memory works in Windows XP for general users. It covers paging, page file configuration, troubleshooting, and the differences between XP and earlier Windows memory management systems.
  • Vmail [2026-07-07]
    Vmail is a Vim-based interface for Gmail, created by developer Daniel Choi, allowing keyboard-driven power users to read and manage email entirely within the Vim text editor. The page provides full installation instructions, configuration options, and usage documentation for this Ruby gem that connects to Gmail via IMAP.
  • W3M Homepage [2026-07-07]
    The official homepage for w3m, a lightweight text-based web browser that runs inside terminal emulators and can also format HTML into plain text like a pager. The site provides downloads, CVS repository access, a user manual, FAQ, and links to related projects like emacs-w3m and the multilingual w3m-mee fork.
  • Welcome to abtmtr.link! [2026-07-07]
    MeowcaTheoRange's abtmtr.link is a suite of self-hosted internet services including a mail server, a privacy-focused search engine, and a personal cloud storage instance. The site also serves as a community hub with a Discord server, webrings, and a collection of affiliated friend sites.
  • Welcome to Creamsan's Page [2026-07-07]
    Creamsan's personal page serves as a hub for their AI chatbot creations, featuring a bots list with recommendations for running them on GPT-4 and Claude models. The site is part of a Chatbots Webring and links out to Characterhub and Rentry, suggesting an active presence in the AI character and roleplay bot community.
  • Welcome to Resort, an exciting chat community [2026-07-07]
    Resort is a free virtual chat community built around a telnet-based environment where users can customize rooms, send internal mail, play games, and meet people from around the world. Founded by Adam Foxson and James Hawtin, it stands out from basic chat services by offering a full virtual world experience with profile customization, privacy guarantees, and a friendly moderated atmosphere.
  • Welcome to The Privacy Dad's Blog! [2026-07-07]
    The Privacy Dad is a personal blog where a non-technical parent shares hands-on experiences with digital privacy tools, alternative operating systems, and privacy-first apps like GrapheneOS, Ente Photos, and Mullvad VPN. What sets it apart is its approachable, jargon-light writing aimed at everyday users and parents navigating online safety and data privacy for their families.
  • World Wind - World Wind Wiki [2026-07-07]
    WorldWindCentral is a wiki dedicated to NASA's World Wind, the open-source virtual globe application that lets users zoom from outer space to any location on Earth using satellite imagery and 3D terrain data. Visitors will find documentation, tutorials, walkthroughs, and a users' guide covering features like multi-planet visualization, hurricane animations, and SRTM elevation data.
  • WriteMonkey - Home [2026-07-07]
    WriteMonkey is a free Windows writing application built around a distraction-free, zenware philosophy, stripping away the interface clutter to leave writers alone with their words. It supports full Markdown, plugins, a scratch pad, Pomodoro timer, and sentence highlighter, making it a surprisingly feature-rich tool beneath its minimalist exterior.
  • wrywerytwreywery [2026-07-07]
    The blog of wrywerytwreywery covers a wide mix of technical and philosophical topics including Python scripting, free software advocacy, cyberpunk culture, and theology, alongside experimental poetry pages that literally decay with each view. Posts are tagged by length and subject, making it easy to browse a thoughtful, idiosyncratic feed that blends hacking culture with creative writing and personal reflection.
  • www.mannyneira.com [2026-07-07]
    Computers: Universe: Life, the UniVerse, and Everything: A comprehensive technical reference for the UniVerse database management system, covering everything from file structures and record editing to query languages and command-line tools. Created by Manny Neira, this course-style guide walks readers through UniVerse's paradigm, VOC files, dictionaries, the Retrieve query language, and TCL commands in impressive depth.
  • Zoite IRC Network [2026-07-07]
    Zoite is a long-running IRC network that has been connecting chatters since 2002, offering a friendly community built around casual conversation, hobby groups, and a welcoming vibe. The site serves as the home portal for the network, featuring server connection details, a web-based chat client, channel listings, IdleRPG, and a Minecraft server.
  • Zoner [2026-07-07]
    Zoner is a drag-and-drop static site generator created by Ryan Trawick, designed to build Zonelets-style blogs from Markdown files without requiring manual HTML or JavaScript editing. It features automatic RSS feed generation, screen-reader-optimized HTML, Disqus comment support, and is available as open-source software on itch.io.
  • 한글폰트 [2026-07-07]
    Run by 요정휘 (formerly ddeokbokkey on Tumblr), this blog has been curating and sharing free Korean (Hangul) fonts since 2011, with over 250 fonts organized by style categories like handwritten, serif, brush, and pixel. Each entry includes direct download links, making it a practical resource for anyone seeking Korean typography for design or personal projects.
  • 独立伺か研究施設 ばぐとら研究所 [2026-07-07]
    The official development and research hub for SSP, a Windows desktop mascot platform based on the Japanese 'Ukagaka' (伺か) system, offering downloads, changelogs, language packs, and bug reporting tools. Visitors will find ghost character downloads, developer documentation, event archives, and community links centered around this niche virtual companion software ecosystem.

Have a link suggestion? Send it to pablomurad@pm.me.