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[TI-10] make small web tools - by Spencer Chang

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One of my favorite activities on the internet these days is finding tiny web tools and libraries that just do one niche thing really well (or at least, decently well and the site’s personality makes up for it). From generating ASCII art to finding Wikipedia articles about places near your location, to changing the faces of images to look at your cursor, the web is full of wondrous gadgets (peruse my full catalog). I keep these tabs pinned in a browser window and think of them as my internet toolshed. I head to the river when I’m in a visual mood. I scroll through https://transparenttextures.com/ when I’m in need of an interesting feel. I go to careful words to play with language when it’s not coming out the right way, and I go to my local clipboard converter whenever I need to paste some content into Obsidian to get it formatted correctly. I even have a place I visit to create ᵗᶦⁿʸ ᵗᵉˣᵗ (you’d be surprised how often one needs tiny text!). I like how distinct these tools feel, each with

One of my favorite activities on the internet these days is finding tiny web tools and libraries that just do one niche thing really well (or at least, decently well and the site’s personality makes up for it). From generating ASCII art to finding Wikipedia articles about places near your location, to changing the faces of images to look at your cursor, the web is full of wondrous gadgets (peruse my full catalog). I keep these tabs pinned in a browser window and think of them as my internet toolshed. I head to the river when I’m in a visual mood. I scroll through…

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