The internet's best, ranked.

Build a custom morning digest from your chosen sources — Twitter lists, subreddits, newsletters, Google News — delivered to your inbox at the time you set.

Research on the highest-impact careers for people who want to do good. Whether you agree with their conclusions or not, the analytical rigour is valuable.

The web's playground — spin up an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript demo in seconds. Half a billion pens to learn from, and the easiest place to share a working example.

Over 50 developer-focused fonts patched with thousands of icons — the ones your terminal and IDE themes actually require. Free, organized, and searchable.

An AI search engine that cites its sources and shows its work. Not a chatbot — a research tool that answers questions with links you can actually verify.

JavaScript notebooks for data analysis and visualization. Fork and remix live examples from a massive community of data journalists and scientists.

Interactive coding lessons where you can pause the screencast and edit the instructor's code directly. The closest thing to pair programming with an expert.

A library of cheat sheets for every tool, language, keyboard shortcut, and process imaginable. Printable, searchable, maintained by practitioners.

Spaced repetition flashcards that use an algorithm to resurface cards right before you'd forget them. The most effective memorization tool ever built.

Complete MIT course materials — lectures, problem sets, exams — from 2,500+ courses, free and open forever. Enough material to fill a decade of evenings.

70,000 ebooks from the public domain, digitized by volunteers since 1971. Every classic you were assigned in school, plus thousands more you weren't.

A nonprofit that has been saving the internet since 1996. 750 billion pages archived, 40 million books, millions of audio files. The web's most important institution.

The cross-platform podcast app that works on every device you own. Trim silence, speed up, bookmark chapters, and sync your queue across everything.

A collaborative database of Creative Commons audio samples. Footsteps, thunderclaps, synth drones, ambient spaces. Invaluable for game developers, filmmakers, and musicians.

The podcast app that Apple's own player can't compete with. Smart Speed silently removes dead air, Voice Boost fixes mumbling, and it's free with no tracking.

The music marketplace where the money actually reaches the artist. Discover underground music, pay what you want, download in any format. The good part of music online.

The best text-to-speech AI on the market. Voice clones sound genuinely human — podcasters use it to fix stumbles; novelists use it to hear their work read aloud.

AI-powered short-form video creation for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Picks the best clips from long videos, adds captions automatically, and resizes for every platform.

A code editor written in Rust that opens instantly and never lags. Built for collaboration from day one — real-time multiplayer editing is a native feature, not a plugin.

Deploy Docker containers to machines close to your users in seconds. A developer-first platform that makes global deployment feel as easy as local development.

Record a quick video of your screen and get a shareable link in seconds. The fastest way to explain something that would take five back-and-forth Slack messages to type.

The everything-app that replaced Google Docs, Confluence, and Trello for a generation of knowledge workers. Endlessly flexible, occasionally overwhelming.

Click through any process once and Scribe automatically generates a polished step-by-step guide with screenshots. A remarkable time-saver for writing SOPs.

Collaborative music-making in the browser — record, loop, and produce with others in real time. Google Docs for music, genuinely.

The open alternative to Apple's podcast directory — no gatekeeping, no political removal decisions, just a neutral database of every podcast with an RSS feed.

AI mastering for independent musicians — upload a mix, get back a mastered track in minutes. Not perfect, but good enough to release, and infinitely cheaper.

The sample library music producers actually use. Millions of loops, one-shots, and presets — pay per download, not per subscription tier.

Combine words to make new ones. Water + Fire = Steam. Steam + Engine = Train. Keep going until you've built the entire universe. From Neal Agarwal.

Trivia quizzes on every conceivable subject — countries of the world, periodic table elements, Seinfeld episodes. Browser-based and deeply unproductive.

CERN's recreation of the original 1990 WorldWideWeb browser. Browse the modern web exactly as Tim Berners-Lee's first browser would have rendered it.

Create a password that satisfies increasingly absurd rules — include a Roman numeral, a chess move, the current moon phase. Neal Agarwal's funniest piece of work.

Dropped into a random Google Street View somewhere in the world. Guess where you are. The free tier is limited but enough to become obsessed.

Twelve interactive music experiments by Google — a piano roll, an oscilloscope, a chord explorer. Educational for kids, weirdly compelling for adults.

Geometric shapes fall endlessly and quietly. That's all it does. Surprisingly soothing to leave open while you think. The browser as a desktop waterfall.

Drag sound icons onto beatboxers to build layered music loops. Sounds simple, plays forever. Eight entirely different albums to explore, all in the browser.

Click to pour sand. Change colors. Watch it settle into geological layers. Genuinely calming and weirdly engrossing. No goal, no score, just sand.

Combine elements to make new ones. Start with fire, earth, water, and air — end with planets, life, a computer, a deity. Endless quiet satisfaction.

Press any key and get an animated sound. Together it's a sequencer; alone it's just delightful. Made with Jono Brandel — the web as a musical instrument.

A fake operating system in your browser, surprisingly complete. It has a file system, apps, games, and a deep sense of humor. Gets weirder the more you explore.

A self-hosted GPS tracking app for iPhone that logs your location to your own server — not to Google, not to Apple, just to you. Owning your location history.

Fourteen billion years of history laid out on a single scrollable timeline, powered by Wikipedia. Pan from the Big Bang to last week. Dense and addictive.

Find the nearest dark sky from where you live. Zoom out and you'll understand why people who live in cities have never seen the Milky Way.

Google Docs for maps. Draw on a shared map, add markers and notes, invite collaborators. The tool journalists, urban planners, and researchers quietly love.

Search a location and find historical maps of that place from libraries and archives across the world. Every city has a past that looked completely different.

A guide to the world's most unusual places — underground lakes, impossible architecture, accidental museums. The only travel site worth reading even if you're going nowhere.

Drag any country off the Mercator projection and see its real size relative to others. Africa is not small. Greenland is not enormous. You'll be surprised.

A search engine that specifically surfaces small, independent, non-commercial websites — the kind Google buried a decade ago. A window back into the weird web.

Encrypted, end-to-end notes that sync to your own server if you want. No feature creep, no 'AI insights' — just private, permanent writing.

Encrypts your files before they reach Dropbox, Google Drive, or iCloud — so the cloud provider never sees the contents. Open source, free to use.

A VPN with no email sign-up, no personal data — just a random account number and a bill. The most anonymous VPN you can actually use easily.

Encrypted email, calendar, cloud storage, and VPN from a Swiss privacy company — all under one account. The alternative stack for people who mean it.

Create throwaway email aliases with one click. Give each service a different address — when one starts spamming, just delete the alias.

Email that reads your email for ads. Fastmail does. Private, fast, excellent spam filtering, and made by people who've worked on email standards since the 90s.

Open-source password manager with apps for every platform. Self-hostable if you want, free if you don't. No reason to use anything else.

Website analytics without the creepiness. No cookies, no personal data, no GDPR banner needed. The entire dashboard fits on one page.

Drag a file onto it and convert to any format — video, audio, image. No command line, no FFmpeg flags, no waiting for a website to process. Just drop and done.

A notepad where every line is also a calculator. Write '10 hours at $75/hr + GST' and it computes the total. Arithmetic as natural writing.

A calculator that understands natural language. Type '12 hours in minutes' or '$40 minus 20%' and it just answers. No buttons required.

A font manager for Mac that actually looks like a Mac app. Browse your installed fonts with live previews, tag them, and activate only what you need.

An ASCII art editor that generates actual text-based diagrams for READMEs, comments, and documentation. Inexplicably beautiful software for a very specific need.

Watches any folder you choose and automatically moves, renames, tags, or deletes files based on rules you write. Your Downloads folder's guardian angel.

The automation app for people who've run out of things Shortcuts can do. Triggers, conditions, variables, scripts. If something on your Mac is repetitive, fix it.

Customize every input device on your Mac — trackpad gestures, Touch Bar, window snapping, mouse buttons, Apple Remote. Endlessly powerful, $22 once.

The Mac launcher that spawned a category. Deep workflows, clipboard history, file navigation, and a community of thousands of extensions. Still the gold standard.

Select any text on a Mac and a popup bar appears with actions — copy, search, translate, expand, and hundreds of extensions. The feature macOS forgot to ship.

A menu bar app that opens your camera in one click. For checking your hair before a video call without opening Photo Booth and waiting for it to load.

Click to define columns and rows, and copy clean CSS grid syntax to your clipboard. Zero fuss, zero subscription, exactly one useful thing.

Honest code time tracking — connects to your editor and silently logs how long you actually spend on each project and language. The truth, in a dashboard.

Paste any shell command and get a tooltip-by-tooltip breakdown of what every flag and argument actually does. Bookmarked by every developer learning Linux.

Move frogs onto lily pads using CSS flexbox. 24 levels, perfectly sequenced, and you actually learn it by the end. Genuinely the best way to internalize flexbox.

Pick a base font size and a scale ratio, and preview your full typographic hierarchy live. The tool that stops you from guessing at font sizes.

Drag handles on a curve and instantly feel how your CSS animation will ease. Shows the curve, the resulting motion, and the cubic-bezier() value ready to paste.

Convert between JSON, TypeScript, GraphQL, CSS, HTML, YAML, and 20+ other formats with one paste. The Swiss Army knife for code format conversions.

Every major API documentation in one searchable, offline-capable interface. Open a tab, find the method signature, get back to work.

A database GUI that actually looks good. Native, fast, supports Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and more. The first database tool that doesn't look like a 2004 enterprise app.

A native Mac HTTP debugging proxy with an interface that doesn't make you want to quit your job. Inspect, mock, and rewrite HTTP traffic beautifully.

Free resources for designers — landing page inspiration, UI libraries, and fonts — in one place. Updated with fresh picks every week.

A well-curated gallery of landing pages worth studying. Filterable by industry and design style. Useful when you need to justify a layout decision to a client.

High-quality mobile and web UI screenshots organized by component type — onboarding, empty states, modals, navigation. Design research made fast.

Half a million free SVG icons and vectors across hundreds of consistent packs. Search, filter by collection, and copy clean code in seconds.

4,000+ carefully drawn open-source SVG icons in a consistent stroke style. Download individually, use via CDN, or copy SVG code. Free for everything.

Preview a color palette on a real UI as you build it — instead of guessing how your accent color will look on actual text and backgrounds.

A collection of color tools and SVG generators — noise textures, mesh gradients, confetti patterns, and more. Saves the ten minutes of Figma fiddling every time.

Generate SVG waves, blobs, gradients, and patterns for any project. Fully customizable, free to use, and outputs clean code instantly.

Logo design organized by symbol type — animals, letterforms, geometric shapes. A research tool for designers and a rabbit hole for everyone else.

Font recommendations sourced from real production sites — not generic pairings, but what's actually working in the wild. Run by one person, frequently updated.

Typography spotted in the real world — film posters, book covers, signage, brand identities. If you want to know what a typeface looks like in use, look here first.

Interaction design that deserves its own showcase. Microinteractions, transitions, hover effects, and animations — the subtle stuff that makes a site memorable.

A gallery of the most thoughtfully designed websites on the internet. Updated constantly. A reliable source of inspiration when you're staring at a blank Figma canvas.

The open-source alternative to Figma — web-based, self-hostable, and built on open standards. Solid enough for production work.

A meeting notepad that transcribes as you write — just jot your own notes and it fills in everything you missed. Your handwriting plus a transcript.

An outliner and knowledge base built around supertags — tag a node as a 'book' or 'person' and the whole app reshapes around it. Steep but rewarding.

An AI writing tool that sits quietly until you need it. Unstick yourself with a suggested next sentence, then carry on. It helps without taking over.

A persistent scratch pad for developers with syntax highlighting and multiple buffers. It's always open, never syncs, and never bothers you. Free and open source.

Markdown notes that live in a real folder on your machine — not a cloud, not a database. Edit them in any app. Own them completely.

Open-source publishing for independent creators. Own your content, own your subscriber list, and actually understand your revenue. Beautifully designed.

A newsletter platform built and run by a single developer — no dark patterns, no lock-in, no VC timeline. Honest software with plain honest pricing.

Jason Kottke has been linking to the best of the web since 1998. No algorithm. No agenda. Just one person sharing things they find genuinely interesting.

Book guides that give you the actual arguments, chapter by chapter, with analysis and context — not just bullet-point summaries. They respect your intelligence.

A social reading app that cares about your reading life, not your follower count. Track what you're reading, share thoughtfully, avoid the algorithm.