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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I wish they had a song lookup in addition to the artist lookup. I have so many songs in my "liked songs" list in my Spotify and it gets difficult to try to organize them into moods and flavors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, have spent many happy wasted hours here. Good for music discovery.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

zombo.com. Most people don't realize you can do anything there.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The only limit is yourself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Your first time? I'm jealous

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

html5zombo.com is better for modern browsers, now that Flash is dead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no flash on zombo.com. Unless you want there to be.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://movie-web.app/

Movies and tv series. Automatically streams from a good source. I've had zero stuttering so far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Holy crap I can watch seasons 2-4 of Rake!!!

Thank you thank you thank you!!!

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

12ft.io

if you see an article online but it asks for a subscription before you can read it, you can put the webpage of that article in 12ft.io and it'll give you a version you can read without such guards. The person who made it says there's a special code in those sites that doesn't block the article for search engines, as doing so would cause the google/bing/etc to block that result. So they just found that code and put it in a webpage for you

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I get it. A 12ft ladder to see over the pay wall

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used it in the past but it stopped working for some sites.

I prefer to use archive.ph now.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://exercism.org

Learn coding on a site that seems to get it right. Lots of information, multiple languages, and mentors to help you get past a difficult problem.

Fantastic site, highly recommended!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, I'm in computer science 1 this semester and my instructor is not great at breaking things down. This may help save my semester!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If my comment helps a couple of people, I will be giddy for days lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I was too lazy to pull out my laptop last night, but I looked at it on my phone and it looks like it's going to be such a helpful resource! I'm going to share with a few of my classmates who are also struggling with the lack of instruction. You've definitely helped at least one poor computer science student, thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This looks awesome! How is this free?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Donations of money, and time from volunteer mentors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just dug in some more and saw it's open-source too, and they teach you how to contribute. I'm in love.

I've been planning to learn Javascript and Python -- you just made my month!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

2 useful sites

Crontab Generator

Systemd Generator

I think they are very helpful ☺️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Crontab generator was my gateway to all things 'generator'. Looking for a quick way to construct something? Google it + generator to see if someone has created a generator site for it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh how I wish I knew this existed years ago! My standard procedure is to go to systemd's doc website and spend 10 minutes looking for the option I want.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You guys ever hear about this social media thing called Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No, tell me more.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

https://ground.news

It shows you what bias(es) the news sources and articles you are reading may have.

https://neocities.org

Geocities revived.

https://news.ycombinator.com

Useful/interesting tech news.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

https://geocities.restorativland.org/

This is a collection of salvaged original Geocities sites. There must be hundreds and hundreds of random people's homepages from the mid 90s to early 2000s. Some of them still have working links. The "Hollywood" section is the best because it has endless fan pages of 90s media and celebrities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That last one has a community on Lemmy dedicated to it: [email protected].

Disclosure: I’m running the bot.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

techdirt.com

News and analysis (and some biting commentary) on mostly tech policy stuff. Run by the guy who coined the phrase " Streisand Effect" in a post on that site, Mike Masnick. Very insightful, apolitical, and a good way for me to keep up on topics I don't normally follow too closely. Bonus: No annoying ads

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You had me at apolitical.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://trimps.github.io/

No it has nothing to do with what it makes you think of and no I'm not sorry for ruining your work efficiency

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Not really underrated but one that most people probably dont know, hackaday.com. Its all about hardware hacking, which is primarily people making stuff with electronics or making them do things they werent designed to do but they also have a whole heap of non electronics stuff. If you can make it, and its clever, it belongs there!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's hard to comment without this being a NSFW post.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

We all already know about cute hamster videos 😸

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, should I make a NSFW version of this thread when I'm off work?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you would like to make an important contribution to internet culture, then yes, you should. 🧐

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

https://cyber.dabamos.de/

There's some bunch of stuff but also large collection of 88x31 GIFs. It is a nice static webpage.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://flexboxfroggy.com, to learn flex CSS with small games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Everyone gives

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports

Enter a franchise name, find out how many stores there are in the U.S.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

https://www.colorhexa.com/ - Colour information and conversion (web safe colours, related colours)

https://encycolorpedia.com/ - A catalogue of colours and paints

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