Personal websites
Maggie Appleton - her site inspired me to start my own ‘digital garden’.
Gwern - probably biggest content-wise personal site I ever saw.
100 Rabbits - couple living permanently on a boat, making minimalistic software and (not-so-minimalistic) art.
Vajra Chandrasekera - private website of Sri Lankan speculative fiction writer, thoughtful posts about social reality of Sri Lanka on his blog.
Baldur Bjarnason - deep cutting tech criticism.
Emily Gorcenski - mathematics, tech, politics. Her website is beautiful in very subtle way.
The Marginalian - long running website, assortment of curiosities.
The Folkmoss Log - personal website structured and stylized like an old-school book.
Rishikesh Sreehari - diverse, nicheless content, additionally malayali perspective.
moonlight computer - cool retro vibes.
ribo.zone - biology, bugs, mecha. Very original design, rough, messy, somehow old-school, but also fresh.
localghost - old school style website with multiple “skins”.
Shellsharks - indie web, web security.
anhvn - art, vivid beautiful design.
ava’s space - cute, minimalistic design.
Robb Knight - indie web, a lot of inspiration for website and pointers to others.
James’ Coffee Blog - lovely and minimalistic.
Manuel Moreale - full of interviews with other web creators.
Konfetti Explorations - beauty, joy, quirky, really personal
Josh W. Comeau - web animations, frontend
Everest Pipkin - assortment of one person web projects and minigames
A Working Library - reading, writing, book collection, tech criticism. She has really nice format for book reviews.
Zachary Kai - simple design, a lot of pointers and links for inspirations.
Robin Rendle - unusual presentation in style of documentation website.
Nikhil Anand - cool style, logs, reviews.
Joel’s Homepage - video games, ttrpg, science fiction.
Lost Letters - cutesy, old-school girlie website, geocities/neocities vibe.
Henry From Online - probably one of the most beautiful personal site around, but still (mostly) monochromatic.
Bino - software development, travel, writing in malayalam
Molly White - prominent tech critic, started with criticizing crypto.
Pluralistic - blog by Cory Doctorow himself, old time blogger, tech critic and science fiction writer.
Magazines
Quanta Magazine - popular science with beautiful, beautiful illustrations. Often touches frontiers, new stuff. It is approachable for an amateur, but doesn’t shy away from going slightly deeper.
Asterisk - curious assortment of diverse, interesting essays. It can be biased towards (right) libertarian and Sillicon Valley aligned worldviews though.
Web Dev Resources
32-Bit Cafe - plenty of resources for creating websites.
CSS Tricks - essential for front end, css focused.
Whimsica11y - whimsical accessibility frontend