Tim Holman, a developer, shares playful JavaScript experiments and small libraries like Elevator.js, GitHub Corners, and 90s Cursor Effects.
HN commenters praise his projects as incredible, and point to his homepage as a source of weird web experiments and The Useless Web.
http://tholman.com/github-corners/ is another, which gives you straight SVG to inline. This one with a couple of minutes of minification and inlining comes to about 1 170 bytes (no gzip); that one after similar time comes to about 985 bytes and more accessible (see its aria-label/aria-hidden) if you remove the fancy animation which is a bonus.
(I confess I’m addicted to shaving bytes.)
I've been running out of ways to find weird new yet not absurd stuff on the web. All linkblogs are constantly dying. Even these from the beginning of this century. Thanks to author's homepage[1] (can I call it that?) now I have one fresh - http://inspiring.online/.
1: http://tholman.com
Yeah there's a few tools out that I've been meaning to add, like:
http://demo.danielmclaren.com/2015/diacriticism/
http://tholman.com/unicoder.js/
http://animalswithinanimals.com/generator/
https://tholman.com/ - Largely JS experiments dating back 10+ years. Sometimes I scroll right back to the start and can appreciate the long journey I've taken from scrappy student to now.
All projects of the author are incredible [1]. "The Useless Web" [2] is something I enjoy every time too.
1: http://tholman.com/
2: http://www.theuselessweb.com/
For those of us outside the graphic design bubble, the author's top-level post[1] briefly explaining his madness.
[1] http://tholman.com/post/smelvetica/