Personal websites
https://maggieappleton.com/ - her site inspired me to start my own ‘digital garden’
https://gwern.net/index - probably biggest content-wise personal site
https://100r.co/site/home.html - couple living permanently on a boat, making minimalistic software and (not-so-minimalistic) art
https://vajra.me/ - private website of Sri Lankan speculative fiction writer, thoughtful posts about social reality of Sri Lanka on his blog
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/ - deep cutting tech criticism.
https://emilygorcenski.com/ - mathematics, tech, politics. Her website is beautiful in very subtle way.
https://www.themarginalian.org/ - long running website, assortment of curiosities.
https://folkmoss.bearblog.dev/ - personal website structured and stylized like an old-school book
https://rishikeshs.com/ - diverse, nicheless content, additionally malayali perspective
https://moonlight.computer/ - cool retro vibes
https://ribo.zone/ - quite original design, rough, messy
https://localghost.dev/ - old school style website with multiple “skins”
https://shellsharks.com/ - indie web, security
https://anhvn.com/ - art, vivid beautiful design
https://blog.avas.space/ - cute, minimalistic design
https://rknight.me/ - indie web
https://jamesg.blog/ - lovely minimalistic
https://manuelmoreale.com/ - full of interviews with other web creators
https://marisabel.nl/ - beauty, joy, quirky, really personal
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ - web animations, frontend
https://everest-pipkin.com/ - assortment of one person web projects and minigames
https://aworkinglibrary.com/ - reading, writing, book collection, tech criticism. She has really nice format for book reviews
https://zacharykai.net/ - simple design, a lot of pointers and links for inspirations
https://robinrendle.com/ - unusual presentation in style of documentation website
https://nikhil.io/ - cool style, logs, reviews
https://joelchrono.xyz/ - video games, ttrpg, science fiction
https://lostletters.neocities.org/ - cutesy, old-school girlie website
https://henry.codes/ - probably the most beautiful personal site around
General
https://css-tricks.com/ - essential for front end, css focused
https://whimsica11y.net/ - whimsical accessibility frontend
Magazines
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ - 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.
https://asteriskmag.com/ - curious assortment of diverse, interesting essays. It can be biased towards (right) libertarian and Sillicon Valley aligned worldviews though.
Web Resources
https://32bit.cafe/ - plenty of resources for creating websites.