Cool places on the internet

Summary

Various websites, blogs, and other creations on the internet I appreciate.

About

I’m currently working on designing a map of my internet: all the links and backlinks between different websites/people, categorical relations, and my favorite creations/blog posts. In expectation this will be ready mid-to-late 2026. For now, this page stands in for the raw content I hope to build that map from.

Friendnet

websites of people i know irl. (if I know you, and you have a website, and you’re not on here, let me know asap!!)

Brooke Mao - Trinity Chung - Michael Lisano - Anna Dymchenko - Jaysa Garcia - Jonathan Zhang - Oliver Ni - Nikhil Jha - Ben Plate - Ethan Wu - Ronit Nath - Albert Ye - Andy Tsai - Eric Qian - Omar Hossain - Vikram Peddinti - Adarsh Iyer - Elton Pinto - James Weng - Owen Goebel - Tino Caer - Ishaan Dham - Cameron Custer - Aditya Balasubramanian - Chase Peterson - Joe Wang - Albert Ye -

Digital Spaces

a collection of websites demonstrating an unusual amount of care, craft, and personality.

Personal websites

• ellesho.me
• neelr.dev
• spencerchang.me
• chia.design
• chloeyan.me
• joodaloop.com
• chrisarv.in

Organizations

• Internet phone book: a directory (and physical book) for the poetic web
• Tilde.town: a self-hosted online community
• • wiby: a search engine for the personal web

Digital Gardens

sites similar to this one.

• Maggie Appleton

Blogs and Substacks

words i read on the internet. For further notes on this topic, see

• Escaping Flatland (by Henrik Karlsson)
• Rabbit Holes (by Patricia Mou)
• kwokchain (by Kevin Kwok)
• Jasmine Sun
• cold brew blog (by Claire Wang)
• Useful Fictions (by Cate Hall)
• Dario Amodei - CEO of Anthropic, writes compelling essays about AI
• Manav Ponnekanti
• Dan Wang

Physical Spaces

organizations and people who live at the intersection of physical and digital

• Socratica
  • Anson Yu
  • Joss Murphy
• The SF Commons
  • Patricia Mou
• Oakwood Studio
  • Azlen Elza
  • Matthew Siu

Creators

public internet figures who make stuff for the internet.

• neal.fun: Internet Roadtrip, Stimulation Clicker, The Password Game, and other awesome webgame experiments
• Fog City History- inactive, but has two of the best videos about San Francisco’s history that I have seen
• Jacob Geller- essays about video games
• June Lee- music theory, transcriptions, arrangements
• Matthew Encina- brand and industrial design; keyboards
• Neil Halloran- The Fallen of World War II and other incredibly high-quality infographics
• Ours Poetica- inactive, poetry readings
• Summoning Salt- video game speedruns
• TODGod- bay area transit news and explainers
• Technoblade- technoblade never dies
• Tom Scott- inactive, guy with a red shirt (and sometimes a gray hoodie) goes to interesting places
• vlogbrothers - John + Hank Green

Not yet categorized

a hodgepodge of everything else :)

• Sublime: a cozy place for saving snippets i come across
• Mode Designs: really awesome keyboards
• Football 17776