Monthly Archives: August 2023

mBlip

You didn’t think I wasn’t going to include one of my own now did you? Rest assured, I’ve only got 3 sites at the moment, and you’re on one of them, so don’t expect me to be plugging my own stuff too often.

I created mBlip as a YouTube aggregator site. It checks for interesting new videos every hour. Sometimes it gets a little buggy, but when it does I just give it a lobotomy and restart it. The posts are self-populating. Other than wiping its memory when it goes off the rails, mBlip automagically puts up new content as it finds it. It’s going on 7 years, and I visit it most every day. It does have a sister site called EVsoup that is basically mBlip, but mostly limited to the topic of electric vehicles.

I don’t run any ads on it, don’t make a dime off it, but the videos are embedded from YouTube, so it’s a safe bet that google is able to track you through it.

So that’s it for week 1 of “Better Things”.

So what did you think? Leave a comment below and let me know if you have any ideas for improvements.

(Just no links.)

Qwerty.dev

Home of Z̼̚a̞̘ͪḷ͈͂gͯͪǒ (Zalgo) and Fancy Font Generator, qwerty.dev is a very simple site that allows visitors to input their own text to generate decorative unicode versions of their text. Sadly WordPress won’t let me demonstrate the fancy fonts here, but they do seem to work in various forums and chat rooms.

The site looks like it might have trackers, but not really any ads to speak of. Of course I always use uBlock (#not-an-ad-just-a-fan), so your mileage may vary.

Minesweeper Online

It’s that classic Windows game on the web!

As a Linux desktop user, I have not used MS Windows on my home computer in ages. Of course my work computer is still using Windows, but they took all the games off. Well here’s a little site where you can get that old time Minesweeper fix of yours. It includes many features that the original did not have including a “no guessing mode” and of course the ability to play against others.

Of course it’s ad supported and uses trackers, but that’s just how things work these days.

Online Sequencer

Tagline: Make music online

This is a fun site that allows you to “draw” notes into a sequencer and play them back. It features a page where you can see the latest saved sequences from users as well as forum and chat room.

Not trying to show off or anything, but I do have an account there. Here is one of my own personal creations.

Ad supported? Yes

Trackers? Of course.

But it seems to “play nice”, and it works well with uBlock Origin.