/the-aggregator

A big list of interesting or useful websites I found across the internet

The Aggregator

A big list of interesting or useful websites I found across the internet

Tools

  • Animal Photo Art Reference Search
    • Rotate a 3D animal skull and search for animal photos that match that, specie filterable
  • Textures for Planets
    • Generate a wide variety of planet textures in either icosahedral or equirectangular shapes
  • Watabou’s Procgen Arcana
    • A collection of free map generators for TTRPGs and worldbuilding
  • regex101
    • A website to build, test, and debug regex on all of the different regex systems
  • Browserleaks
    • A suite of tools to test your browser for privacy leaks
  • StrokesPlus.net
    • A downloadable utility that lets you use mouse gestures to control your PC, it also has rocker support, modifiers, hot keys, macros, text expansion, and JavaScript
  • Discord Timestamp Generator
    • A no-frills timestamp generator formatted for Discord
  • Wordle Solver
    • Though unfinished, it is a simple and great tool to help you solve wordles
  • Equation Editor
    • A very nice visual LaTeX editor
  • Wootomation
    • An open-source device-agnostic macro software by Wooting
  • FFMPEG Explorer
    • FFMPEG has a lot of command line arguments, this neat little website lets you explore how to use them in your browser!

Web dev

  • Iconify
    • A unified framework to use thousands of svg icons for web design
  • SVG Viewer
    • A web-based SVG viewer, editor, and optimizer for web use. You can also upload an SVG and turn it into an HTML SVG element
  • Meta Tags
    • A website that lets you preview, edit, and generate HTML meta tags for your website when it gets rendered as an embed on Discord and Twitter
  • Easings
    • A website that lets you experiment with different easing functions and copy their CSS code
  • Gradient Generator
    • Creates beautiful lush CSS gradients
  • Shadow Palette Generator
    • Creates lush realistic CSS shadows

Resources

  • RetroRGB
    • Overall an amazing resource for everything retro console related, learn everything there is to know about retro consoles and how to get the best video quality out of them
  • Privacy Tools
    • Everything you need to know to protect your privacy online, whether that’s services, tools, or guides
  • The Poster Database
    • Get posters for movies, shows, genres, categories, you name it. Best used for a Plex server
  • Fresh Off The Grid
    • A site to get camping and backpacking recipes and tips, recipes can be filtered by course, diet, and cooking method
  • Camping Recipes
    • Another site to get camping recipes from, these ones can be filtered by course, ingredients, and recipe type
  • The Unity Library
    • An aggregator of various Unity tutorials and resources other people have posted
  • JavaScript Operator Lookup
    • JavaScript has a lot of operators! 51 in fact, and this website lets you look them up and explain what they do

Math

  • polyHédronisme
    • A visual polyhedra constructor app for math nerds. Probably most useful for mathematicians, but you can generate a variety of interesting shapes using the various operators below. You can refresh the tab to generate a new one
  • 4D Euclidean Space
    • If you ever wanted to learn how the fourth dimension works (and no it’s not time!), this is an excellent resource just for you, get ready to have your brain melted!
  • Visual Polyhedra
    • An interactive list of most notable polyhedra, pretty fun to explore, and it contains useful geometric data and coordinates
  • Conformal Mapper Viewer
    • This tool will visualize any complex-valued function as a conformal map (don’t ask me what that means) You can type a complex function below, or hover your mouse in the top left to find explanations and different functions to try for some seriously trippy results

VTubing

  • The Twitch Doc
    • Everything you need to know to stream on Twitch as a Vtuber
  • Runa’s VTuber References
    • A big list of Vtuber-related softwares & websites, PNG assets, and tutorials. It has links to other collections like it as well
  • VTResources
    • The previous website recommends this website to check out as well which has extensive lists of general resources, assets, stream-safe audio, modeling guides, and commissions

Music

  • Learning Music
    • Learn the very basics of music making, no proper experience or equipment needed, you’ll be doing everything in the browser!
  • Learning Synths
    • Learn the very basics of using a synthesizer to produce your very own synths! Everything is done in the browser
  • Making Music
    • A collection of solutions to common roadblocks in the creative process, with a specific emphasis on solving musical problems, making progress, and finishing what you start
  • Hack Music Theory (YouTube)
    • A great channel to learn simple tricks to write more interesting music

Fun

  • LifeViewer
    • A very advanced browser version of Conway’s Game of Life
  • The Powder Toy
    • There are many powder toys, but this is undeniably the best one
  • Library of Babel
    • The Library of Babel contains every single written piece of literature, a biography of everything that has happened and will happen in your life, even your darkest secrets… as well as a near infinite number of wrong variations and completely random characters
  • DON'T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR THIRTY DOLLAR WEBSITE
    • An online tracker where you can put together a bunch of meme sounds to make funny music
  • Spyfall
    • Spyfall is a fun social deduction game where everyone but the spy knows the place, and have to ask each other questions about said place to figure out who’s the spy. Don’t make it  too obvious though! Cause the spy can at any time make a guess as to what the place is, and if they guess correctly they win
  • Zalgo Text Corrupter
    • A web toy to generate zalgo text, has a lot of different options to play around with
  • Unicode Text Converter
    • Convert plain text into obscure Unicode characters
  • Unicode Text Converter (qaz.wtf)
    • The original inspiration for my unicode text converter, while mine is more polished, this one does contain additional “alphabets” that I have not included
  • Discord Embed Generator
    • Generates an embeddable link that can be used in Discord
  • qaz.wtf
    • An interesting website with multiple attractions
  • The Scale of the Universe 2
    • Compare the sizes of the smallest things in the universe to the largest in this interactable page

Reading

Gimmick websites

  • Crouton
    • A picture of a crouton
  • ZOMBO
    • A website from 1999 that parodies Flash introductory pages that play while the rest of the website loads

Game dev

  • SPACED
    • A cool space station prototype with realistic atmospherics and pipe fluid physics, unfortunately it was never finished and the source was never made available :(
  • presskit()
    • A free, open, easy-to-use press page so you can focus more on making your game instead of press pages
    • What's a press page? It's a page that compiles information and media about you and your game for the press to use when reporting

Tutorials

  • Catlike Coding
    • A lot of great Unity tutorials spanning general topics such as movement, object management, pseudorandom noise, meshes, rendering, and game prototypes
  • MinionsArt Tutorials
    • A collection of Unity tutorials with a focus on bespoke shaders
  • Ronja’s Tutorials
    • A great resource for learning a wide variety of general shaders
  • Ronja’s Tutorials (Shader Basics)
    • If you need to learn the absolute basics of shaders, this is a great place to start
  • Kenney Learn
    • A handful of useful learning resources catered towards 2D and general game dev

Tools

  • Kenney Tools
    • A couple of easy-to-use tools to create 2D assets and simple 3D models
  • BeepBox
    • An online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental music
  • sfxr
    • A simple tool to create a variety of 8-bit sound effects, great for and originally made for Ludum Dare
  • bfxr

Assets

Piracy

  • r/Piracy Megathread
    • Basically the ultimate piracy resource, but more specific curated resources can be found below
  • Awesome Piracy
    • Another huge piracy resource list that’s worth checking out
  • The Anime Index
    • An index listing and comparing all different types of websites, applications, and services for consuming Japanese media

ROMs

  • Vimm’s Lair
    • A site dedicated to to roms, emulators, and full-color manual scans of almost every classic console and handheld
  • /r/Roms Megathread
    • If you can’t find what you want in Vimm’s Lair, then this site may have what you need, including 3DS, Wii U, PS Vita, classic PC games, and arcade games
  • En-ROMs (Internet Archive)
    • A collection of English translated ROMs

TTRPG

  • The Trove
    • Your go-to source for TTRPG books
  • The Trove (pre-2017 backup)
    • A backup someone made of The Trove that is a bit more convenient to browse
  • Chernik (Internet Archive)
    • This dude uploaded a bunch of official and fan-made TTRPG books, including 5e, 2e, and Cyberpunk
  • 5e tools
    • This has everything related to the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and several useful DM tools

Movies & shows

  • Reqzone
    • A consistent and high quality list of movies and TV shows in 720p or 1080p BluRay wherever possible, not listed in the r/Piracy Megathread for some reason

Games

  • Cookie Clicker
    • A well-known idle game where you bake cookies by clicking the big cookie. It even got its own PC port with a soundtrack by C418!
  • Cookie Clicker Classic
    • The original version of Cookie Clicker before it was redesigned
  • Candy Box 2
    • The sequel to Candy Box!
  • Candy Box
    • An idle game where you get candy and can eat it. Maybe there’s more to it if you wait a little…?
  • Clicking Bad
    • A Breaking Bad parody of Cookie Clicker where you make meth and avoid getting raided by the DEA

Tools

Resources

  • Baba is Hint
    • A spoiler-free hint guide for Baba is You, it will provide increasing tiers of hints for most levels to prod your brain to figure out the solution yourself (as the Baba is You wiki will just immediately spoil them)
  • Ascensions Guide v2.052
    • An ascension guide for Cookie Clicker for efficient accensions
  • EDRefCard
    • Elite: Dangerous has a lot of keybinds, so it can be daunting to know where to bind everything to your new HOTAS, especially if you don’t have enough buttons for it. This website has thousands of user-published controller bindings for a wide variety of control configurations that come with nice visual reference cards
  • Factorio Cheat Sheet
    • Contains a lot of useful tables, graphs, and cheat sheets for Factorio to help plan your factory madness

VRChat

  • ThatFatKidsMom (Gumroad)
    • A collection of neat systems that can be added to an avatar, like haptic high fives or a shareable spring joint toy
  • Lune Snowtail (Gumroad)
    • Really nice glaceon, sylveon, and vulipx avatars
  • Slugcat Base
    • A slugcat base for VRChat! Nothing else to say here
  • Dont_jinxit (Gumroad)
    • A few high quality furry avatars, including a kobold, ferret, red panda, and bunny
  • Moop (Ko-fi)
    • A few high quality furry avatars, including a cat, racoon, mustelid, and bunny

Minecraft

Fabric

  • Develop (fabricmc)
    • Contains a range of resource to help you create a new mod or maintain an existing mod
  • Mixin Documentation
    • A GitHub wiki to learn how to use mixins in Fabric
  • Mixin Cheatsheet
    • A cheatsheet to help you jump start using different mixins
  • Mixin Javadocs
    • Super nerdy shit if you need to learn the finer technical details around mixins

Spigot

The Stash

Unorganized links go here for future organizing