Live testing color palettes and fonts for web design. Made by a designer who’s really great, she runs a YouTube channel and made the site for free use by anyone.
How accurate are the palettes? Would we need to calibrate our monitors or does the site do that for you?
I doubt the site is able to calibrate to individual monitors, as there’s almost no way for it to know what you have.
Gotcha. So not too accurate for uncalibrated monitors then. Thanks!
Are there tools like this that are accurate for uncalibrated monitors?
I’m not aware of any other than what I’ve used in the past in post production and that’s ColorChecker Passport Photo 2 by Calibrite ($119.) It’s a software that helps you calibrate your monitor so that you can get your edits accurate for print. It also comes with a physical colorchecker that you can use as well for multiple lighting situations. Great tool for photographers that do a lot of post.
I’m sure there’s some software out there that is more affordable or free that you can calibrate your monitor with.
If you like to play chess, check out www.lichess.org
It’s free and open source, and it’s very easy to find a game there, no matter what level you play.
It doesn’t display annoying ads.
It always makes me sad that chess.com was the site that blew up. I always had to convince my friends to use lichess when I played back in school.
Japanese chess is excellent too. Http://lishogi.org
All of the games ever played on lichess along with puzzles, evaluations etc are also open and free to download at database.lichess.org
The site’s founder and lead developer Thibault also often streams the development of the site on his Twitch channel!
I’m honestly suprised sometimes at how free, open and transparent this site is, truly an inspiration for anyone looking to build an ethical platform.
A variety of neat activities and educational pages.
My goodness. I love this website’s activities and educational pages. I really should be studying right now, but here are a few of my favorites so far.
https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/
https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/
https://neal.fun/life-checklist/
Plenty more to check out!
I feel like 35 is too young to have completed 51/66 tasks in the life checklist. I’m too young for a midlife crisis (fingers crossed, anyways)!
Yeah, I feel like it’s heavily skewed towards the beginning of life, but tbf I feel like the cool things you do later in life are harder to quantify? Could add things like:
- I’m trying to think of how to quantify a “Have 0 debt” option but like, post mortgage or something.
- Establish a friend group
- Hang out with at least one member of that friend group for 5 / 10 / 15 years
- Go to an interesting location as part of your job (conventions count)
- See a historical human-made artifact in person
- See a legitimate dinosaur bone in person (not cast)
- Visit your country’s capital
- Create a piece of art and enter it into something that has it be viewed by people outside your family / friends
56/74, little better now.
The have 0 debt one in your context would be like “pay off your mortgage” or for mortgage+ “pay off your mortgage early”.
Maybe a “get sued for ethical reasons and win” (refused to allow a small business to defraud me, they tried to sue me and then backed off when they read my defense).
Have a humbling experience with a stranger.
The list also assumes that you’ll have children which isn’t really on the cards for some people (voluntary or involuntary) and cuts out the possibility of doing a huge chunk of that list.
That space elevator was really engaging and interesting!!
“You can do anything at Zombocom”
The only limitation is yourself
zoo.replicate.dev - a bunch of free ai image generation models
snowfl - a search engine for torrents
Gayhomophobe.com it counts the time since the last openly homophobic figure was caught in a gay sex scandal
Unfortunately the list seems to have become unmaintained.
Yeah. I can remember seeing a homophobic politician being caught at an orgy in the news just a few months ago.
I’ve actually seen this used in movies and TV shows.
It’s better than just showing jquery source code or html
www.5minute.games
It’s a list of all the good word games, minigames and puzzles on the internet, and you can customize it to shortlist your favorites and even add new links. I go there every day to link to all my favorites.
…oh, full disclosure: I built it. Though hopefully nobody minds, since there’s no ads or monetization whatsoever.
This is really great! Thank you for this!
You’re welcome. Note the settings button, which gives some nice customization options. Feel free to share it with folks who might also enjoy it. :-)
Bookmarked this! Going to come in handy over the holidays especially. Thank you!!
Ian’s Shoelace Site:
Different ways to lace your shoes.The Phrontistery:
Glossaries of, e.g., obscure words, lost words, etc.The what???
“We” did weird things long ago. We still do, but we used to, too.
Anytime I get new shoes I go to Ian’s Shoelace Site to pick out a new lacing pattern.
And Ian’s Secure Knot is a godsend for winter boots that usually have a bit thicker laces which come undone with a regular knot. Learning that knot is great because it’s as strong as double knotting without needing to pick apart the knot afterwards.
Every music genre you can think of, and then some. I finally found out what the stuff I like is called.
This is how I found Die Partei, a great obscure German electronica artist
This is unbelievable, thanks for sharing!
The sample for “kids dance party” wasn’t something I ever thought I’d hear again.
http://wiby.me/ is a cool site. It’s a search engine that only has web 1.0 and web 1.0-styled websites.
Something that far too many managers and developers need to see, so they can better understand why their decisions and work completely sucks.
Send to Bottom
Help Bar Descends at the most pain inducing rate possible
Every step of the way has some new frustrating way to confound the user. I was laughing/crying halfway through the process because of how stupidly unfriendly the design was. Just brilliant. Whoever did this is an evil supergenius and/or heavily into BDSM.
Sent it to my partner who wants to get into Ux design, lol
I love and hate this, it really managed to raise my blood pressure.
There is this really cool place called Lemmy, I’m sure many people here have heard of it but not anyone I ask in other places. It’s like Reddit, it’s a forum-esque place where people can exchange their thoughts. The people are a little biased on the extreme Marxist side of things, but overall it’s pretty nice.
We don’t need this reddit-level comment here.
We did all (or most of us) come from Reddit don’t forget. It’s in our blood at this point.
We must resist our based instincts.
I don’t know, man
Filthy mudbloods.
The people are a little biased on the extreme Marxist side of things
(and we like it that way, tyvm)
I don’t see any problem with that.
It’s one thing to have a dominant demographic, but any place could do without a black and white mindset when they go about it.
Lol.
I needed Unicode symbols for a story I’m working on. (I want to use them as “magic runes” so I could type them into a document, but without using the standard “runes” that are typically used.)
Shape Catcher let me draw what I was looking for and then get a list of Unicode characters that matched that drawing. It’s not exact so if there’s no perfect Unicode match, it will give you ones that are close. This actually turned out to my benefit as I found shapes I hadn’t considered but which worked nicely for my uses.
There is a - pretty dead - community, but maybe some of you could revive it: !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca
