Sometimes the best thing on the web is when someone trustworthy shares a hyperlink with a brief description or introduction. It is one way to enter another world. One click and you can be transported to a whole new domain of knowledge.

These are some hyperlinks, with a brief description.

List Started November 28 2024. Periodically I run checklink on this list. Generally aiming for high quality links, with a preference for small sites and ad-free content. Updated July 2025.

MDN - Mozilla Developer Network - Mozilla Developer Network is the bread and butter of my web development experience. It is where I find reference material about HTML, CSS and JavaScript and is usually my first go-to source about those topics.

The promise of web standards - W3C Explainer of why standards really work! Important work

Learn X in Y Minutes - The absolute fastest to refresh upon reference material for many coding languages

Educational Sensational Inspirational Foundational - A similar but sorted series of hyperlinks

How Complex Systems Fail - Wins an award for a good URL; intensely interesting treatise

Hypermedia Systems - Absolutely excellent thought provoking book and free!

A List Apart - With an expansive library of content, A list apart is a prime source of learning material about web technology and more.

WebPageTest - The freemium web performance testing platform.

CSS Tricks - Quality links about CSS.

Picalilli - Quality web development links.

Yellow Lab Tools - The best free and introductory web performance testing tool

Performance Planet Calendar - A wonderful project for some years now of peoples web performance experiments and investigations

The HTML Review the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web.

Choose Boring Technology - Self explanatory, great material

Indieweb - A great group of advocates for a better web

Neal.Fun - Some of the best web curiosities I’ve seen on the web

Inter Font Family - A good font

HTML For People - Perhaps the best introduction to HTML out there

Systemfontstack - Using System fonts is a good sustainable practice! and looks good too

Writing JavaScript without a build system - Great advice

Some of my approach to improving Accessibility in marketing - Self promotional but good stuff!

Adactio - Website of Jeremy Keith: HTML power user.

HTMX - A great addition to web development thinking

CodePen - Excellent demo resource!

Alex Russell’s excellent link resource - A truly good collection of links

Pulp - a click-and-place game maker for Playdate

Wizard Zines - I collect them all! print and digital

Utopia by Clearleft - fluidity in responsive design.

Marcy Sutton’s links page - Incredibly good curated link set