The Web's core power is the hyperlink
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 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 June 2025.
MDN - 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
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
Adactio - Website of Jeremy Keith: HTML power user.
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
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