🔗 Link Stash | 26th April 2026

343. Brutalist Web Design

PDF guides on Brutalist web design. Just flicking through gave me a bunch of ideas. Their Brutalist framework website describes the philosophy as CRUDE (Creatively Cynical & Confrontational - Raw, Rugged and Real - Uncompromisingly Unconventional & Unpolished - Deliberately Deconstructive & Dysfunctional - Extremely Exciting & Enthralling). It reminds me of concrete styling with hard edges, zines, punk and anarchy. The only two guides available are from 2023 and 2024, so it's possible the others won't ever see the light of day.

342. Passweird

Password generator. "Passwords too gross to steal". Love the artwork on the site too. Found this while looking up brutalist website designs in the Brutalist Substyles reference guide. Was a pleasant surprise. I'll probably use it for random username generation, or passwords that I'll share with friends. It gives me a laugh. They are pronouncable too which I find helps when you have to type or tap these things out (before it makes it into your password manager of course!). Examples: SIck1y0RG4Ns37@6, $N0TTYhOl346]0, cRuddymAy0+67, SLuRpybRAIn$2~88.

341. Kagi Small Web

Quite a trove of small web sites. An open source project that aggregates posts from websites listed on their smallweb.txt, but had a headstart by pulling an original list from other small web directories like ooh.directory and personalsit.es. There is a "river" view and search bar, you can click through posts one by one, or choose a topic. Also mobile apps and browser extensions.

340. Bubbles

Another aggregator of blogs, via Stephen. Blogs were initially sourced from ooh.directory, indieblog.page, Bear Blog, blogroll.org, IndieWeb Webring, and personalsit.es (it's a big list) and newer blogs are added via emailing them by the looks of it. You can upvote posts, which I'm not a fan of, and top ranked posts are shown in the "top" page which is the landing page. The "new" tab is simply sorted by date. Much better. I have no idea how the "hot" posts get on that list. Anyway, bookmarked just in case I finish reading everything else on the internet and need some more content. Ha!

339. Urban Commuter

Interesting bunch of articles on the art of commuting in both new and familiar environments. Could see this as a handy resource for travelling, but also how to handle the everyday in this crazy world.

338. Blogosphere

An aggregator of blog posts. Initial set of blogs came from Ye Olde Blogroll, but now can be submitted on the site. Links take you to the author's site. I like the plain style (this is the textier version of blogosphere.app) and the main page is ordered by date, newest to oldest.

337. Random Notes | Scott Nesbitt

A minimal personal notes site giving me a bit of inspo at the moment. It is very plain and text only which is perfect. I find I can concentrate better when reading on sites like these, though it is probably the writing itself. Posts like On being an individual spark some thoughts.

336. Design Systems News | PJ Onori

A regular curation of discovered articles related to design systems. Lots of tips and deep dives into specific topics. A lot is a little advanced for my crappy little web building and tinkering world, but they are nice to read and spark some small ideas sometimes. Links will take you to other author sites which again are a trove of interesting articles. PJ provides some thoughts on each article.

335. On Privacy | 47nil

Not the author's landing page, but a good introduction to their site, which I love for the simplicity and freedom of writing in private. I am going through some similar thoughts, and built a website with similar intentions. Some notes are as small as a sentence only. Others are longer thought-pieces. Their links page sent me down another rabbithole.

334. John Labovitz's E-Zine-List

A big list of old online digital magazines and zines. Pretty sure most of them aren't going anymore, but the Wayback Machine has done a good job in archiving these gems.

333. Spunk Library

Collection of articles related to anarchy and the likes. It's an archived website which is no longer updated, the latest content was from 1999 by the looks of it. Still, there is a lot there in the catalogues. I particularly like the Entire Title Index.

332. Sprout Distro

Collection of downloadable PDF zines on anarchy topics.

331. Open Subtitles

Downloadable subtitle files for movies and TV series.