💡 Clever

A community-maintained open database of internet radio streams with no company behind it, which is why the odd little stations survive there.

Spin a globe covered in green dots and drop the needle on a live local station anywhere on Earth. The buffering is part of the charm.

Pick a country and a decade on a world map and hear what people there were actually listening to, curated by humans since 1900.

Blows one image up into a multi-page halftone poster that you print at home and tape across an entire wall.

A snarkier reference work covering pseudoscience, conspiracy theories and the people making a living from them.

Paste a spreadsheet, pick from chart types most tools refuse to offer, and export an editable vector file.

Amit Patel's tutorials on pathfinding, hexagonal grids and noise, with every parameter exposed as a slider you can ruin.

A Wikipedia article with every meaningful word blacked out; guess words to reveal them until you can name the subject.

Women's magazine parody with headlines observed so precisely that they read as criticism rather than jokes.

Wathan and Schoger's rules for making things look designed when you are not, in fact, a designer.

Drop in a photo, get a clean cut-out back. It handles hair, which is the part that used to take an hour.

Rhymes, near rhymes, synonyms and usage examples — quietly the best tool available to anyone writing anything.

Roguelike tower defence where you lay the map down as you go, and every tile placed narrows the next decision.

The Cube Escape series in full and free — bleak Dutch point-and-click rooms with a lake, a lot of birds and a plot you assemble sideways.

The first Samorost, free in the browser, a wordless point-and-click about a small gnome diverting a planet off a collision course.

A falling-sand game with several hundred materials that all react properly, including a dozen ways to end the world by mistake.

Falling-sand physics with fire, water, plants and lava, plus a public gallery of what everybody else set alight.

Tetris where the blocks collapse into falling sand, so a line only clears when one colour touches both walls. Fiendish and lovely.

Reverse image search tuned for illustration: hand it a cropped screenshot and it names the artist and the original post.

Conservation campaign for a cephalopod that lives in trees, used for over twenty years to teach children about checking sources.

Rough sketch in, finished image out, with the result following your actual lines rather than politely ignoring them.

Converts your scrolling into real distance and tells you what you have just passed — a giraffe, the Eiffel Tower, low Earth orbit.

The original semantic-distance guessing game, noticeably harder than its descendants and considerably more humbling.

Word association against a neural net: type anything related to the highlighted block and it clears. Built by Google's research team.

Raw Sentinel and Landsat imagery for anywhere on the planet, free, with band combinations that reveal crops, floods and old burn scars.

Short visual explanations of statistics ideas — eigenvectors, conditional probability, Markov chains — all draggable.

Drag the control points of a letter back into shape. Your score is how far off the real typeface you landed.

Random design briefs with a countdown attached, for when the problem is not skill but having nothing to work on.

The Hacker News lane where people post things they built themselves: odd side projects, tiny tools and a frank comment thread under each one.

Doom compiled to WebAssembly and running at full speed in a tab, which is either nostalgia or a small engineering miracle.

Forty logic puzzles on one page, each generated fresh and each solvable by pure reasoning. The interface is ancient and it does not matter.

Enter any two articles and get every shortest path of links between them, drawn as a graph you can drag.

An infinite canvas for rough diagrams and flows. Opens instantly with nothing to configure and no file to save first.

Full paint program in a tab — brushes, layers, filters and a stamp library — with nothing to install and nothing to pay.

Push crates into place in rooms built to punish the obvious first move, with thousands of community-made levels behind them.

Grid sequencer with a marimba and a drum kit, tuned so that anything you tap sounds passable, then shared as a link.

Ride a lift from the ground to geostationary orbit, passing every layer of atmosphere and satellite on the way.

A hundred billion dollars and a shopping list running from Big Macs to aircraft carriers, and it is harder to spend than you expect.

Tilemap editor for small games — paint a level from a tileset, then export it straight into Godot or Unity.

Everyone knows the location except the spy, who has to bluff through the questioning without ever revealing they have no idea.

Compare image codecs side by side with a draggable split, and see precisely what each quality setting costs you.

An idle game that keeps buying you more stimulation until the page is a lo-fi stream, a podcast and a fidget spinner at once.

Tick off what is genuinely in your cupboards and it ranks the recipes you can make right now, with nothing missing.

The seven-day jam build where time only moves when you do, still free in the browser and still one of the decade's best ideas.

Board games rendered as physical objects on a 3D table with no rules enforcement, so you can still play badly like at home.

Name something you liked and it returns things with the same texture, spanning films, books, music and games at once.

Graded summaries of the terms you agreed to without reading, with the specific alarming clause quoted. Volunteer-run since 2012.

Type a word, pick from several hundred FIGlet fonts, and get the enormous ASCII banner your terminal deserves.