WebGL Water
Raytraced reflections and refractions
Analytic ambient occlusion
Heightfield water simulation *
Soft shadows
Caustics (see this for details) **
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
A simple website
This website is a trip down memory lane. I'm not trying to tell you to stop modern web development. This website uses technologies not available at the time the content here is about. It works on mobile (tested in Firefox for Android) but you miss out on the background image.
/onion | experimental theme for the Hugo
An experimental theme for the Hugo static-site generator.
A Blog Post With Every HTML Element
<mark> is interesting because it suggests a 2-way authoring web that was originally envisioned, but failed to come to fruition, with usage notes like, Think of this like using a highlighter pen in a book to mark passages that you find of interest. The yellow here is the default style in all major browsers.
Web App Manifest Generator
Web App Manifests are one of the key pieces to making your web app look and feel like a native app.
Portable thoughts
A single-file blog
John Doe’s Page | A simple way to make HTML websites
This website is a single HTML file. It simply uses the #anchor suffix (from 1992) and the :target CSS selector to show and hide pages/content.
This setup is databaseless, javascriptless, and buildshit-free, so you can edit your website with a text editor and upload it somewhere like a normal person.
Why we are still using 88x31 buttons - ultrasciencelabs
introduction If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites under…
One HTML Page Challenge
The goal is to create anything you want within 1 single html file. Practice your skills with no assistance from libraries, no separation of files, and no assistance of a modern framework. How creative can you be with such restrictions?
Monochrome | A minimal, responsive Jekyll blog theme
A minimal, responsive, ready to use blog template, built with Jekyll.
The Slab markup language
Slab is a programmable markup language that simplifies the creation of HTML. It combines concise notation with standard programming constructs to create reusable web content more efficiently.
Good Email Code | Email code resources website
Welcome to the arrogantly named library of, Good Email Code
Grab browser links and titles in one click
A bookmarklet to copy browser tab URLs with titles as rich text and Markdown.
Webspaces.
This is the home of Webspaces, a new kind of website that uses HTML to create 3D worlds in addition to 2D pages.
Webspaces are made up of static HTML files - this webspace is hosted on GitHub Pages. If you want, you can fork it as a starting point for your own
The Monospace Web — Oskar Wickström
Monospace fonts are dear to many of us. Some find them more readable, consistent, and beautiful, than their proportional alternatives. Maybe we’re just brainwashed from spending years in terminals? Or are we hopelessly nostalgic? I’m not sure. But I like them, and that’s why I started experimenting with all-monospace Web.
BlocksEdit.com — Web campaigns at scale
Use any email or landing page design to build, edit, and review content with your team.
meyerweb.com
The web home of Eric A. Meyer, CSS guy; and his wife Kathryn, doctor of nursing.
HTML.cafe - a realtime HTML editor and host
Edit HTML in realtime, save your page and access it from anywhere!
IRL HTML
IRL HTML is a web app that hosts HTML web pages created from photographs of HTML code.
I’m betting on HTML
AI Use Disclaimer: I wrote this post and then GPT-4 fixed my grammer and spelling
Plain Vanilla
An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
HTML Recipes
A collection of quick copy HTML snippets for a variety of common scenarios.
Slingcode
Slingcode is a personal computing platform in a single html file.
- You can make, run, and share web apps with it.
- You don't need any complicated tools to use it, just a web browser. You don't need a server, hosting, or an SSL certificate to run the web apps.
- You can put Slingcode on a web site, run it from a USB stick, laptop, or phone, and it doesn't need an internet connection to work.
- You can "add to home screen" in your phone's browser to easily access your library of programs on the go.
- You can share apps peer-to-peer over WebTorrent.
- It's private. You only share what you choose
Hyperlinked Text — By Sijmen J. Mulder
This is a directory of websites that primarily stick with simple, marked up, hyperlinked text. I appreciate these sites because they load quickly, scroll smoothly, spare my battery, are more compact, and lack the usual nonsense that infects many websites.