I’ve been meaning to redo my main website to just be a simple list of links without all the bloat of wordpress behind it, and while I’ve looked at static site generators, all of them, every single one, make me feel like I’m being thrown into the deep end for something that should be simple.
Enter Wobble Web.
What you see is what you get, lots of silly effects, click and drag web design. I look forward to making something silly with this soon.
I actually snatched some links I found roaming around NeoCities, here’s the pile!
Burning Logo Generator
Animated GIF Gallery and Greeting Cards (good morning, thank you, merry christmas) - PicMix
Free Seamless Pattern Backgrounds | Patterncooler.com
GifCities
Dither it!: a web application for dithering images
3D Gif Maker
That burning gif generator is great for making forum signatures
First post time!
Not all of them are strictly “creative tools”, but share-worthy stuff, I think.
Death Generator is an essential bookmark. Foone does great work with that tool and is constantly adding new games.
I don’t have a specific tool to share for this. I sympathize with wishing there were better options for static site generators. Every time I start searching for something new, I end up wasting an evening or two trying to learn something before giving up and just using WordPress.
But, for a simple site with a list of links I’d like to share a bold statement:
YOU CAN USE NOTEPAD FOR THAT 
Notepad still works wonders for a simple static HTML + CSS website. If you want to really be a rebel, you could even put the CSS in the of your HTML document and make the whole thing one file.
Photopea is free Photoshop in the browser. I use it sometime when I’m on a device without Photoshop proper.
Yeah. I still use notepad for all my Web dev stuff. | like the no bs vibe. (microsoft win11 added bs tho, so gotta find an ōld install now)
I’m in the middle of a project where I try to replace every software that I think do Crimes, like putting gen AI features in my face all the time. It’s going moderately well! Here’s the stuff I have replaced:
Adobe Photoshop: Krita, Clip Studio (this one has AI features but is not as obnoxious about it as adobe and actually has a better featureset for my needs), Photopea, Procreate on Ipad
Notion/Miro: Obsidian with Syncthing for collaborative stuff
3dsmax/Maya: Blender, this is just the sensible choice at this point unless you do really specific stuff
Gmail: Protonmail (this move isn’t done yet but at least I’ve tried!)
Adobe premiere: davinci resolve
Unreal/Unity: Godot or just writing shit in three.js. Unreal can be hard to replace depending on what you do and I don’t have that many issues with the engine itself, I just don’t personally like epics monopolizing behavior combined with encouraging gen AI on a creative marketplace. bleh. I still use the Big Two when people pay me but on my free time I am freeeeee
Here are some I found in my Pinboard:
I’ve tried my best to vet them for generative AI but if any of them use it, please let me know and I’ll remove it from the list.
I really like WigglyPaint! It’s just a fun wiggly version of MS paint in the browser.
YAL's Pixel Font Converter!
lets you make .TTF (TrueTypeFont) files out of pixel art (I’ve primarily used it in gamedev, v useful)
https://thebookofshaders.com/
very nice reference for shader stuff! contains a lot of how-to’s and examples, and it even lets you write shader code right in the browser
Kinopio !!
ASCII Art Paint and ASCII Paint helped me make the level designs of my games
Godot Shaders is great both as a library of shaders specifically for .gdshader and for inspiration
Here’s one I use for our podcast thumbnails a lot:
3D GIF text - https://www.textstudio.com/word-logos/animated/bad-5068
3D GIF maker is my new favorite thing! Just used it to add a cool rippling image to the home page on my blog 
Tuxpaint is like an open source version of Kid Pix, I use it a lot for making surreal memes.
extreme synthesizer nerd shit here: https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/ emulator vsts for digital synthesizers which used the motorola dsp56300 dsp chip (eg access virus series, waldorf microQ, nord modular). very cpu hungry, & requires a copy of the firmware for each synth, but also you are literally loading the actual firmware for the actual synthesizer, thus getting the exact same sound+functions (DAC aside)
I’ve been a big fan of Affinity Studio for many years. Yesterday, they released a major update and made the core application free. It’s a really great alternative to paying for Adobe.
I will note that this change comes after the company was acquired by Canva, and they do require a Canva account to activate the software. I recommend checking the Canva account settings to disable any data/privacy features the spook you.
Last, there are new AI features in Affinity locked behind a paid Canva account - which I suspect is a turn off to most of us. They don’t pester you about it; it’s much less obtrusive than Adobe’s AI crap - but worth noting nonetheless.
It’s still a really great piece of software.
