29 hand-picked finds

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Focused tools that solve one problem cleanly enough to earn a permanent bookmark. Every entry below has been opened, checked, and given its own field notes.

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Excalidraw

A fast whiteboard whose hand-drawn look makes unfinished ideas feel welcome.

20 minNo signup
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ExplainShell

A plain-English map for the flags hiding inside a shell command.

5 minNo signup
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Same Energy

A visual-search rabbit hole for when words are too blunt

10 minNo signup
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Nice Game Hints

A polite little lantern for when a game puzzle eats the trail.

5 minNo signup
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Stolen Camera Finder

A forensic breadcrumb trail for the camera that vanished before you had a chance to say cheese.

5 minNo signup
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4th search

An absurd job application for keeping everything from falling apart.

5 minNo signup
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Just the Recipe

A recipe-page machete for cooks who came for dinner, not the preamble.

5 minNo signup
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LookingBusy

A little corporate theater machine with KPIs, pings, and zero actual quarterly deliverables

5 minNo signup
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McBroken

A tiny civic service for the most fragile stop on a fast-food plan.

5 minNo signup
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Occlupanid Research Group

Bread clips receive Latin names and a straight-faced natural history

5 minNo signup
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Semantris

A word game that rewards the weirdly specific thought.

5 minNo signup
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Time.is

A world clock precise enough to accuse your laptop of running late

5 minNo signup
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Animated Knots

A patient visual knot reference for the moment your hands forget.

10 minNo signup
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CSS Gradient

Mix a web gradient by eye, then lift the CSS from the palette

10 minNo signup
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DinoPass

A cheerful password helper for when Fluffy123 has become a family tradition.

10 minNo signup
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GPS Visualizer

A mapmaker's Swiss Army knife for turning unruly GPS files into useful pictures and cleaner data.

10 minNo signup
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Maze Generator

A small factory for turning blank paper into a politely demanding problem.

10 minNo signup
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Mothereffing HSL

A loud little color field that teaches HSL by letting the whole page do the talking

10 minNo signup
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Nutshell

Click a footnote and it unfolds inside the sentence—then unfolds again

10 minNo signup
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RRR GGG BBB

Three color-channel names and almost no small talk.

10 minNo signup
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SankeyMATIC

A tidy little flow factory for data that keeps splitting, merging, and refusing to stay in a table.

10 minNo signup
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Shapecatcher

For when a symbol is on the tip of your pencil but nowhere near your keyboard.

10 minNo signup
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Tiny Toggle

A slim Windows control strip for the settings that always seem one click too far away.

10 minNo signup
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toPhonetics

Turn English spelling into a readable IPA map.

10 minNo signup
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Visuwords

A dictionary where words grow branches, cousins, and curious side roads

10 minNo signup
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WhoCanUse

See one color pair through more eyes than your own

10 minNo signup
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YouGlish

Drop in a word and hear it living inside real speech, not a dictionary vacuum

10 minNo signup