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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I wish they had a song lookup in addition to the artist lookup. I have so many songs in my "liked songs" list in my Spotify and it gets difficult to try to organize them into moods and flavors.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

zombo.com. Most people don't realize you can do anything there.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

The only limit is yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Your first time? I'm jealous

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

html5zombo.com is better for modern browsers, now that Flash is dead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's no flash on zombo.com. Unless you want there to be.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://movie-web.app/

Movies and tv series. Automatically streams from a good source. I've had zero stuttering so far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Holy crap I can watch seasons 2-4 of Rake!!!

Thank you thank you thank you!!!

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

12ft.io

if you see an article online but it asks for a subscription before you can read it, you can put the webpage of that article in 12ft.io and it'll give you a version you can read without such guards. The person who made it says there's a special code in those sites that doesn't block the article for search engines, as doing so would cause the google/bing/etc to block that result. So they just found that code and put it in a webpage for you

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

I get it. A 12ft ladder to see over the pay wall

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used it in the past but it stopped working for some sites.

I prefer to use archive.ph now.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://exercism.org

Learn coding on a site that seems to get it right. Lots of information, multiple languages, and mentors to help you get past a difficult problem.

Fantastic site, highly recommended!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, I'm in computer science 1 this semester and my instructor is not great at breaking things down. This may help save my semester!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If my comment helps a couple of people, I will be giddy for days lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I was too lazy to pull out my laptop last night, but I looked at it on my phone and it looks like it's going to be such a helpful resource! I'm going to share with a few of my classmates who are also struggling with the lack of instruction. You've definitely helped at least one poor computer science student, thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This looks awesome! How is this free?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Donations of money, and time from volunteer mentors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just dug in some more and saw it's open-source too, and they teach you how to contribute. I'm in love.

I've been planning to learn Javascript and Python -- you just made my month!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm about 10% into the Python track. I'm digging it so far :)

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

2 useful sites

Crontab Generator

Systemd Generator

I think they are very helpful ☺️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Crontab generator was my gateway to all things 'generator'. Looking for a quick way to construct something? Google it + generator to see if someone has created a generator site for it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Oh how I wish I knew this existed years ago! My standard procedure is to go to systemd's doc website and spend 10 minutes looking for the option I want.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You guys ever hear about this social media thing called Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

No, tell me more.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

techdirt.com

News and analysis (and some biting commentary) on mostly tech policy stuff. Run by the guy who coined the phrase " Streisand Effect" in a post on that site, Mike Masnick. Very insightful, apolitical, and a good way for me to keep up on topics I don't normally follow too closely. Bonus: No annoying ads

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

You had me at apolitical.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://trimps.github.io/

No it has nothing to do with what it makes you think of and no I'm not sorry for ruining your work efficiency

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Not really underrated but one that most people probably dont know, hackaday.com. Its all about hardware hacking, which is primarily people making stuff with electronics or making them do things they werent designed to do but they also have a whole heap of non electronics stuff. If you can make it, and its clever, it belongs there!

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https://cyber.dabamos.de/

There's some bunch of stuff but also large collection of 88x31 GIFs. It is a nice static webpage.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's hard to comment without this being a NSFW post.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

We all already know about cute hamster videos 😸

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, should I make a NSFW version of this thread when I'm off work?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you would like to make an important contribution to internet culture, then yes, you should. 🧐

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Nsfw: http://www.gregariousfrog.com/svengali/svengali.html

Mcstories.com already has great content, but lacking search. This site just searches mcstories.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://flexboxfroggy.com, to learn flex CSS with small games.

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Everyone gives

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports

Enter a franchise name, find out how many stores there are in the U.S.

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