Links

• Codecademy -- I started out with the free HTML course.
• Learning Web Design by Jennifer Niederst Robbins -- While still on the Codecademy course in HTML I bought this book and started to work through it. The latest edition is the 5th, already published in 2018. That means that some things in there are not up to date anymore.
• Kevin Powell -- He's got free courses, as well as some fantastic videos on his YouTube for beginners.
• HTML for People -- A great guide to build your first website, made by Blake Watson.
• Make Your Own Website by Shannon Kay -- She has built this great and easy to follow guide for her daughter, so she could make her own website.
• Roll your own RSS -- A tutorial about how to manually set up an RSS feed, including having it display the full text of your blogs.
• Grow Your Own -- Not about HTML and CSS, but adjacent enough to live here for the time being. This site is all about making your own corner of the internet, be it through a website, e-mail, messenger, social media, etc. A good starting point for when you are very new to all this.

• MDN Web Docs -- A great resource for all things web development, including HTML, CSS, etc.
• W3C, World Wide Web Consortium -- They develop web standards, one of which is HTML.
• CSS-Tricks -- A website full of articles about CSS.
• CSS Tip -- Another website full of articles about CSS.
• 32-Bit Café's massive resource list -- Lots of coding related links, but if you're not into that you'll also find blogging platforms for setting up a site without coding, as well as a lot of other resources.

• 32-Bit Café forum -- A lovely community is coming together there. It's the forum for the 32-Bit Café website, which in itself is full of information and resources.
• IndieWeb.org -- a Wiki style page full of information about what the indie web is, how to get startet, and how to take it further. There are also events and meet ups, both online and in person, happening around the world. There's a lot on there. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed by it. Take what resonates and leave the rest. Really, you do not need to do everything they list what an indie web site should have!
• IndieWeb Carnival -- A monthly writing prompt, hosted by members of the IndieWeb community.
• Neocities directory -- All the sites that are hosted on neocities.org
• Nekoweb directory -- All the sites that are hosted on nekoweb.org
• Indieseek -- A webdirectory of indie websites that is curated by hand.
• Ye Olde Blogroll -- A hand curated list of blogs.
• SmallWeb.cc -- A hand curated list of personal websites. You can submit your own or other sites.
• Bukmark.club -- Another hand curated list of personal sites. And I am on it! Whoo!
• Explore - Marginalia Search -- Search engine focused on text heavy handmade sites. I'm linking to the "explore" page, which is basically a website directory.
• pixel_area -- A page where you can add your site as a little coloured pixel on a map of 10,000 possible pixels.
• Hypertext TV -- Surf through tv channels and find interesting, cool, and fun websites.
• Internet cul-de-sac -- A fun, hand curated site that brings you to a random gem of a website.
• FediLearns Classifieds -- a site where you can offer a skill, or find someone who offers a skill you seek. You can offer them for free, or in exchange for something, even money. It's like a bulletin board. Contact throught the fediverse.
• Tiny Awards -- an award that "celebrate[s] the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web." There are some great sites nominated every year.

If you go and have a look at the community spaces and directories I mention above, you'll realise immediately that there are tons of personal websites around. The list below therefore is, obviously, only a very tiny snippet of a snippet. These websites are those of people I personally connected with online on some level, or ones that stood out to me especially. Not being on that list does NOT mean the site's not worthy of being mentioned. See it more as a starting point to your exploration of the wonderful world of personal websites.

• DeathKitten -- Amy blogs, makes glitch art (which she also sells), and runs a Star Trek RPG (whose adventures you can read on its own website).
• Shannon Kay -- I have linked to her above, but a link to her site should also be here. Shannon shares photos, blogs about her life, and writes about other projects as well.
• Joel -- Joel blogs about all kinds of things, like his collection of watches, his gaming, his reading, and so much more.
• Shellsharks -- I mention Mike's newsletter Scrolls below, but I think his site is well worth a mention in this list, too. He's very active in the personal web community and blogs about that and other things.
• New! 82MHz -- Andreas blogs, and posts his link dumps every Friday. Always worth a read.
• New! with words, wonder -- James' beautiful site and blog. He's very active in the IndieWeb community, and has a podcast where in every episode he speaks with someone who loves to make websites: Wonders of Webweaving.

These are some great newsletters regarding the web, particularly the personal web.

• Own your Web by Matthias Ott -- He is a UX designer from Germany. This newsletter is all about starting, building, and maintaining your own personal website. He does not so much teach how to actually code, but rather takes a broader approach. Expect lots of links to great websites. It currently does not have a fixed schedule.
• Scrolls by Shellsharks -- It's a newsetter that you can only subscribe to by RSS. It's about the indie web, the Fediverse, and cybersecurity. Lots and lots of links that have sent me surfing the net like it's 1999. Good stuff! A new edition comes out every Friday.
• ELPiS by downgrade -- A monthly e-zine not only about the small web, but also about retro computing. What's special is that it autotranslates into the language of your system. For the German translation I can say that it reads really well.

I love links. Links are what make the web the web. Therefore I LOVE pages full of links. Hand curated links pages that is. Curated by people like you and me, who have their own websites. This is a list of links to other people's links pages. Beware the rabbit holes! 😉

• Link Dumps -- shellsharks listing link dumps from other people.
• Link Dumps -- Elisabeth Tai's collection of other people's link dumps.
• Grub's Link Hoard -- with buttons to sort the links by topic.
• fLaMEd's Links -- Lots of web related links as well as web directories, bookmarks & link blogs.
• Giulia's Reading List -- Small but sweet - and I'm on it twice! Weee! 😊
• Solaria's Link Catalogue -- Mainly web related and tech links.
• Serime's Links -- Another small but sweet collection of links. With a section for DJ sets.
• Beanbottles' Links -- Click on "links" at the top of the menu on the left! -- A fantastic and wild mix of links. This is my favourite kind of links pages.
• James' Link Garden -- Things to make you click
• Plasticdino's Links -- Below the button wall lies the true treasure: artists, tools, and more.

• Floor 796 -- Loose yourself in the details of this amazing ever growing animated scene set on the 796th floor of a space station. Many characters are clickable. Read the About on the site for more info.
• Scale of the Universe -- A bit like a zoomquilt, but you can zoom in and out as you want. You can zoom in to the smallest thing and out to the biggest.
• Neal.fun -- A collection of fun games and information pages. They are designed beautifully.
• Carrot Conundrum -- A great puzzle game that I couldn't stop playing until I was through.
• Snail racing simulator -- A fun game where you choose a snail and see how fast she races against other snails. The live commentary is very funny.
• One Canvas Many Hands -- together with many other people you can add a stroke of colour to a canvas to create a unique painting. Everyone gets one stroke per day.
• German is Awful Easy -- a fun game to get acquainted with German without having to know a single word.
• Bubble Cam -- Press a button and blow some soap bubbles in a back yard in Florida. Set up in and online since 2001!
• GeoCities website maker -- Turn any website into a glorious GeoCities style work of art.
• Make WordArt -- Yes, a site where you can make WordArt like back in the day. Have fun!

• Arkadia -- A zoomquilt that pulls you into a colourful magical -alien?- landscape.
• Infinite Flowers -- Another zoomquilt made by the same artist as the one above. This time you're exploring a world full of flowers. Tip: tap/ click the screen for info about the artist and more zoomquilts.

• Old book illustrations -- Exactly that.
• Internet Archive -- A huge archive of websites, software, books, videos, etc.
• ISFDB -- The Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase. What it says on the tin. Amazing resource.
• Book Corners -- collects neighbourhood libraries/ community bookcases around the world.

A category made because I didn't know where to put Postcrossing. LOL We'll see what will end up in here in the future.

• Postcrossing -- You request an address and send a postcard there. You'll get one in return (by a different user). It's a fun way to connect over borders.

• Ausnahme der Rose -- German language podcast about audioplays. Audioplays are huge in Germany and there are a lot of them to talk about. The two hosts, Linus and Volker, do so in a hilarious manner.
• Kunstverbrechen -- German language true crime podcast by radio station NDR about crimes in the art world.
• Tatort Kunst -- Another German language true crime podcast about crimes in the artworld, this time by radio station Deutschlandfunk.
• New! Bach-Kanal -- The podcast about J.S. Bach by German radio station mdr. I'm neither protestant nor religious any other way. But you don't need to be any of it to love Bach's music. The two moderators started with the cantatas, but have been talking about everything else of Bach's work after that.

• TrekMovie -- Great news site about Star Trek.
• StarTrek.com -- Lots of great articles by fans, as well as official news.

I love the novels, both old and new. The catalogue is huge. Here are links to help find our way around it. There are also links to fun literary fan projects.

• List of all Trek novels on Wikipedia -- Up to date.
• Jim's post-Nemesis reading order -- a good overview of how (many of) the post-Nemesis novels are interconnected
• TrekLit reading order flow chart -- An impressive flowchart. The latest edition is from 2020, but includes many more books than Jim's chart (see above).
• StarTrekLitVerse -- An extensive overview about the whole of the Star Trek LitVerse (pre-Nemesis, post-Nemesis, and beyond). Lots of lists. Great resource. Updated regularly. Unfortunately there are some unlucky colour choices that do not provide enough contrast to be readable. The site has been rebuilt and as far as I can see it's completely readable now.
• Trek Lit Reviews -- Dan Gunther's (of Positivley Trek) review and news blog regarding books and comics.
• Star Trek Book Club -- News, author interviews, reviews, lists, links, everything about the Star Trek novels and comics.
• The Oral History of The Battle of Wolf359 -- A massive fan project about exactly what it says on the title.
• Memory Alpha -- The Star Trek wiki.
• Memory Beta -- A wiki about everything "beta canon", i.e. books, comics, games.

While the links above are more... formal, I want to list some lighter sites here. Think shrines and fun stuff.

• Marci's Starfleetsona -- A fun avatar maker with lots of options to make your perfect Starfleet (and non-Starfleet) self.
• Star Trek avatar maker by Grandkhan -- Another fun Trek avatar maker with great options.
• Star Trek: Borg - remastered -- Originally a game for PC and Mac, now a fan-recreated online game. Very cool.
• Shinzon Considers a Word -- This is one of the funniest things I've seen. Love it!
• Meme it So! -- Create TNG memes with this meme maker. It's fantastic.

• All Access Star Trek -- The flagship podcast from TrekMovie.
• Trek Ranks -- A fun and positive podcast where the host and his guests rank their top 5 Trek episodes depending on a topic. The ranking however is purely for fun and for starting the conversation. Even if you're sceptical about ranking your favourite thing, give this one a try. It's my favourite podcast.
• It's Got Star Trek -- Three friends talk about Trek episodes, either the current new episode or a not so random random old one. They are hilarious, go on a lot of tangents, and have good conversations.
• The Delta Flyers -- Robert Duncan McNeill and Garrett Wang watch Star Trek and talk about it. They started with Voyager (obviously) and now go through DS9 together with Armin Shimerman and Terry Farrell. Great conversations and insight to making the shows. There's a free version, which is already worth listening. But they also have payed content on Patreon.
• SyFySistas -- 4 Black women talk about Trek and other Science Fiction. They are great to listen to as they talk about episodes, books, or do interviews.
• Positively Trek -- Two friends talk about Star Trek in a positive manner. They cover every medium.
• Literary Treks -- A podcast all about Trek books and comics. Lots of interviews with authors.
• The Pod Directive -- The official Star Trek podcast hosted by Tawny Newsome and Paul F. Tompkins. Great interviews.
• Gates McFadden InvestiGates -- Gates McFadden talks to fellow Trek actors. Very intimate and always great.
• All The Asians in Star Trek -- Phil Yu interviews all the Asians on Star Trek, from the stunt person, to the background actor, to producers, to the main cast.
• Star Trek: Khan -- A 9 episode audiodrama in podcast form. It bridges the gap between the TOS episode "Spaceseed" and the second film "Wrath of Khan". It's so good! It's free to listen, but not without ads.

• Susan Kaye Quinn -- SciFi and hopepunk climate fiction writer. I love her 4 book series "Nothing is Promised".
• Carrie Vaughn -- LOVED her urban fantasy "Kitty Norville" series.
• Una McCormack -- She writes some of my favourite Star Trek tie-in novels, among many other things.
• David Mack -- He writes fantastic Star Trek tie-in fiction. I have yet to read his other stuff, but eventually will.

• Tansy E. Hoskins -- Journalist and author writing about the global fashion industry. Her book The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion made me interested in that topic. She has written other books, as well as a number of articles. She has an amazing newsletter too.

• Neocities -- This is where this website lives.
• VSCodium -- A tracking free version of VS Code, which I use to write the code for this site.
• Dither me this -- Dither your images in many different ways.
• New! Krita -- Image manipulation, free and open source.
• Can I use? -- A great tool to find out which browsers support which feature

• Tuta -- E-Mail; secure, no tracking, encrypted within Tuta, encrpyption outside Tuta possible. There's a free basic version, but for 3€ per month you get a lot of more options, like more storage, aliases, custom domain e-mail, etc.
• MusicBrainz -- A database of music, audiobooks, and similar that you can contribute to. You can also scrobble your listens at ListenBrainz
• SongLink -- Share a song or album with links to all the platforms.
• MusicCloud -- Lets you share a song or album independent of streaming platform. Similar to SongLink (see above), with which I've been having problems for a while however. So this seems to be a good alternative service.
• Squoosh -- A browser based service that reduces the file size of images and lets you save them in various formats. According to them, it all happens locally on your machine.
• delphitools -- "A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools", like QR code generator, favicon generator, and many, many others.
• IPA Reader -- This tool reads international phonetic alphabet (IPA) notation out loud. You can hear if your notations sound right, and even how it sounds in various languages and accents. I used it to test the notation for my name and internet name.
• IPA picker -- Another IPA tool. This is for writing text in IPA. I used it to type the notation for my name and internet name.

Here are some places to shop and get news away from the usual suspects, that make a positive impact.

• LMAA -- a curated directory of small to medium shops within Europe that pose an alternative to big companies.
• libro.fm -- Audiobooks; you can support a local bookstore of your choice by buying audiobooks through libro.fm. They also offer a subscription just like Audible.
• Qobuz -- Music streaming and digital music store located in France
• Standard E-books -- free e-books of public domain works
• Squirrel News -- hand curated news by the criteria of solutions journalism. Also available in English.

• Visual Studio Code -- I wrote my website in it. Before that I used Notepad++.
• Notepad++ -- I wrote a good portion of my website in it before switching to VS Code.
• Folding At Home -- Help fight desease by offering your computer power to run simulations of proteins. Like Seti@home, only for medicine. (I can't run it currently.)

• Songwhip -- The site itself is still up, however the function for which I used it does not work anymore: sharing links to songs for all platforms. Already generated links seem to still work though. Instead, I am using SongLink now.