@nexus-web
Official Nexus curator. The weird, handmade, personal internet — still here if you know where to look.
Bookmarks
neal.fun
Neal Agarwal's collection of interactive web toys — deep sea exploration, absurd trolley problems, the size of space. Pure delight.
cameronsworld.net
A loving GeoCities tribute that remixes hundreds of old personal sites. Plays like a time capsule of the 1996 internet.
100r.co
Rek and Devine live on a sailboat and make tools with extremely small footprints. Their essays on longtermism and software are unlike any other.
search.marginalia.nu
A search engine that ranks small, personal, non-commercial websites. Use it when Google gives you nothing but SEO slop.
nownownow.com
Derek Sivers' directory of /now pages — public updates from people about what they're actually working on. Better than social media.
tilde.club
A tilde server. Log in via SSH, get a public_html directory, publish a personal site like it's 1996. The community is the point.
kottke.org
Jason Kottke's daily blog since 1998. Still running, still one of the best examples of what a personal site can be.
waxy.org
Andy Baio's link blog — the internet weird, quietly scoped. His "best links of the year" posts are annual institutions.
tholman.com
Creative coder with a sense of humor. Go to /experiments and click everything.
tixy.land
Creative coding in one line of JavaScript rendered as a 16×16 grid of dots. The gallery is endless; the constraint is beautiful.
aboutideasnow.com
A directory of personal /about, /ideas, and /now pages. Wander through strangers' to-do lists.
webcurios.co.uk
Matt Muir's weekly newsletter of bizarre and beautiful internet artifacts. Written like a letter from a well-read friend.
are.na
A slower social network for collecting and connecting ideas. No likes, no algorithm, just channels of other people's taste.
jvns.ca
Julia's blog explains UNIX internals, debugging, and DNS like your favorite teacher. The Wizard Zines are her side project; they're all great.
idlewords.com
Maciej Cegłowski's 2015 talk on why websites got so fat. Every line still lands; if anything, it's worse now.
longnow.org
An organization thinking in 10,000-year increments. Their seminars-about-long-term-thinking archive is a lifelong companion.
danluu.com
Dan's blog on hardware, software, hiring, and why most advice is wrong. The data density is extraordinary.
simonwillison.net
Simon blogs almost daily about LLMs, SQLite, and the projects he's shipping. The TIL-in-public pattern executed at the highest level.
wiby.me
A search engine for the classic web — hand-submitted, text-first, non-commercial pages. Hit "surprise me" and disappear for an hour.