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Tools

These are some of the tools I use/have used, and also some additional cool sites and software. It’s sort of like a webring. I use this page frequently and adding stuff to it all the time, since bookmarks within my browser are often forgotten about. This is a way they’re not forgotten.

art / design

• Blender: comprehensive 3D design software
• Pinterest: feed of inspiration based on topics you like
  
• Procreate: 2D illustration and animation software for iPad
  
• Affinity Suite: Alternative to Adobe
• Shotcut: Open-source video editor
  
• Handbrake: Video transcoder
• Asciiart.club: Image-to-Ascii converter
• Dither Me This by Doodad: Image Dithering engine
  
• https://tar-bin.github.io/image-thinning-processer/: Image thinning processor
  
• DeepAA: Neural Network trained in converting images to ASCII art containing visual structure, rather than tone based (like asciiart.club).
  
• ASCII Art by Brian Macintosh: Works like DeepAA, but with editable parameters.
  
• Image to ANSI: Converts images into ANSI escape code characters
  
• Oldschool PC fonts: The world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles.
• Constraint Systems: 29 alternative interfaces for editing images and text. Super cool.
  
• Monodraw: Manual ascii art and diagram creation.
  
• MoebiusXBIN: Modern ANSI and ASCII art editor
• Patorjk: Can create ascii banners in different fonts
  
• Glitchology: good resource for glitching art
  
• DestroyPix: Glitch out photos
  
• Glitche: Photo and video glitch editor
  
• PNGTOICON: Converts PNG’s to ICO’s.
  
• Toolfolio: list of design tools
  

design inspiration

DoingCoolStuff: A directory of brand, motion and digital product design studios doing cool stuff.
Site Inspire: cool website directory
bookmarks.design: massive directory of useful tools for designers

AI

• Midjourney: generate images
  
• Gigapixel AI (paid): upscales images
• LM Studio: run LLM’s locally
  
• Replicate: Run and fine-tune open-source models.
  
• SwinIR: Image upscaler similar to Gigapixel, but free.
  
• Perchance image generator: stable diffusion, up to 9 images at a time, with stylization presets.
  
• Krea: Free image enhancer.
  

crypto

• Trezor: hardware wallet
• Coinbase: crypto exchange
• Reservoir: open-source NFT trading infrastructure
• Reservoir Market: open-source NFT marketplace - own your own marketplace 🤯
• Manifold Studio: deploy your own smart contracts
  
• Mirror: decentralized publishing
  
• Hug: open calls and community for web3 artists.
• Joyn.xyz: Open calls for web3 artists.
• Zora.energy: The zora Webring
  

privacy

• Standard Notes: E2EE notes
  
• Brave: out of the box privacy-oriented browser
  
• Telegram: encrypted group chats
  
• uBlock Origin: best ad blocker
  
• Protonmail: encrypted email
  
• Privacy tools: insane list of privacy tools
  
• Libre Office: open-source local word processor
  
• KeepassXC: open-source, encrypted, local password manager.

misc

NetNewsWire: Free and open-source RSS reader. A great option for people looking to cut social media out of their life.
listed.to: blogging platform for people using StandardNotes. 

• Libgen: shadow library of free books, that you would normally pay for (rare or not), in multiple formats. I can’t stress this enough this is the best website for free books you will ever find.
• Anna’s Archive: shadow library meta aggregator. Similar to Libgen, with more books that it sources from other sites. Does not store the books, just directs you to where you can find them.
• Kaomoji: Japanese emoticons ☆ﾐ(o*･ω･)ﾉ
  
• 12ft.io: bypass paywalls
  
• macosicons: thousands of free macos icons to replace the ugly icons with
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• OldCrap: repository of vintage electronics