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NEW Web Manifestos

How Blogs Broke the Web

My Corner of the Internet

Old Web, New Web, Indie Web

Digital Gardens

Rediscovering the Small Web NEW

The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities

How Web 2.0 is Ruining Fandom

Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

When Authors Stopped Being Friends and Turned into Content Providers

We Would be Nowhere without Web 1.0 Anime Shrines

How Websites Die

Why You Should have a Blog (and Write in It)

The Internet isn't a Garden, it's a Bar

The Small Web is Beautiful

Cellar Door A.K.A. Web Rings and Links

Curation IS Creation

HTML Competency is the New Punk Folk Explosion

Stop Talking and Start Buying Things

Content Granularity

The Candybox Blog

Exploring the Personal Web

Help Build the Social Web

My Website is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge

Cyberfeminism Index (Both Technology & Web Articles)

Privacy-First & FOSS Programs

Why Your Individual Privacy Matters for the Wider PopulationA really nice write up on why you should care about your internet data and privacy because it affects more than just your individual self.

How to live without GoogleArticle featuring tons of alternatives to Google apps and programs.

Time to Encrypt the Cloud CryptPad BlogEnd-to-End Encrypted Suggestions for cloud vaults.

The New OilA beginner's guide to data privacy and cybersecurity.

Stop Apps from Tracking YouA guide for which settings to turn off to prevent Google, Microsoft, Apple, and the like from collecting data on you from their software, apps, and devices. Double check if there is any settings not covered in this article.

Windows 10 Security Guide [1] [2] [3]All these guides help make using Windows a little more secure and prevent Microsoft from data tracking you.

How Companies Use Dark PatternsWebsite explaining all about dark patterns and what they look like.

Ethical Alternatives & ResourcesA list of ethical tech product alternatives that prioritize interdependent community, mindful consumption, equitable communication, compassionate action, and beneficial legacy.

Awesome Privacy Github ListMasterlist of privacy-first alternatives for everything.

AlternativeToAlternativeTo is great for finding (hopefully, FOSS) alternatives to any app or software.

Have I been Pwned?Safely and legally check if your email or phone has been caught up in a data breach.

Just Delete MeUse this site to figure out the process to delete your accounts on various websites.

Just Get My DataA site similar to Just Delete Me, but instead it helps you find out how to get your data from each website.

TOS;DRNobody reads terms of services as much as they should, so this site helps to sum up the legal jargonese on various websites so you know what you're signing up for when you click "accept & continue".

Virus TotalUpload a file and it will be scanned to see if it has a virus attached.

FirefoxTo avoid Google gaining a higher monopoly in the browser wars, I don't recommend using a chromium browser, even the privacy-first forks. Instead, I suggest Firefox! It's privacy conscious, open sourced, owned by a non-profit organization, and has so many cool features. There are other forks of it as well for even more security.

BitwardenTo have a more secure online, you need to have unique, complex passwords for every account. To avoid having to remember each one, get a password manager! Bitwarden is my open source and end-to-end encrypted auto-fill password and note vault of choice.

Trust ZoneThis is the VPN I personally use, but I’ve also heard Proton's is good.

ProtonmailAn end-to-end encrypted email host I highly recommend.

Libre OfficeA powerful open source offline office suite; replacement for Microsoft Office.

Crypt PadAn end-to-end encrypted and open source online office suite that allows both sharing and simultaneous collaborations; replacement for Google Docs.

PicnicA minimalist end-to-end encrypted collaborative online writing program.

ObsidianMy go-to local-first note-taking app.

Dark TableAn extensive FOSS program for photographers (good replacement for Adobe Lightroom).

PlayniteThis is a multi-platform FOSS game library to put all your emulated, Steam, GOG, itch.io, and Epic games into.

Calibre

DRM Removal 2024 Workaround (works as of 02/2025)

Calibre is a FOSS digital book library that also allows to remove DRM for Kindle books. Back up your libraries so you don't lose them!

My Suggested Extensions

Auto Tab DiscardDo you like to open tons of tabs to save things to read later? This add-on will pause those tabs’ sessions until you click to view them again so you can keep them, but reduce your ram usage.

DecentralEyesAnother tracking blocker that focuses on centralized content delivery hubs (google, yandex, etc.)

Facebook ContainerFacebook can track you even if you don't have an account with them via any Facebook button embedded on any website. Get this add-on to fence off those button trackers and if you do have to open Facebook/Instagram in your browser for any reason, it will automatically put them in their own separate containment tabs too.

Multi-Account ContainerOpens tabs in isolation from each other so you can log in as different users in the same window without logging out.

Privacy BadgerThis has an intelligent bot that will learn to block cookies or whole parts of a site to prevent tracking.

Privacy PossumA fork of Privacy Badger that is not only a tracking blocker, but also a data tracking falsifier that will send out nonsense data to waste companies as much money as possible.

TamperMonkeyThis is great for installing scripts for specific sites. My list of scripts are: UnDiscord Discord History Deleter, Discord History Tracker, and AO3 Kudosed and Seen History.

uBlock OriginThe best ad blocker you could ever ask for and one that doesn’t secretly whitelist certain sites like Adblock Plus does.

Wayback MachineThe official extension for the Wayback Machine/Internet Archive.

ClearURLSAn extension that will clear links from sites that put data trackers in them.

UblacklistAn extension that will allow you to block whole websites from your search results.

Link HintsA browser extension that will make any interactable thing on a web page have a keyboard key linked to it allowing you to exclusively move around a page with your keyboard regardless of the website's design.

NEW Games and Time Sinkers

Generators

Springhole Writing/RPG Generators

Chaotic Shiny Writing/RPG Generators

Karinoyo Writing Generator

Sweet & Salty Phrase Generator

Perchance Random Text Generator Generator

Onym Name Things List

NEW Non-Games

Fold 'n Fly Paper Airplanes

Paper Snowflake Maker

The Scale of the Universe 2

What Color is it? Time Translator

Explorable Explanations

Internet Map

Floor 796

Unicode Shape Catcher

Topsters 3 NEW

Idle Games

Drawing Garden

Goldfishies

Come Shave Whiskers

Pointer Pointer

Clouds

Decorating

Pixel City Creator

Virtual Right-Angle Doodling Machine

Townscraper Demo Game

Orb Farm Sand Game

Sandboxels Sand Game

Our World of Pixels

Choo Choo World

Music

Bongo Cat Idle Music Player

Touch Pianist Player

Line Rider

Plink! Multiplayer Music Experience

Trio Demo

Robo Boogie

Virtual Games

Grimace's Birthday Virtual Gameboy Game

Draw a Stickman Adventure Game

Space Cadet Pinball 1995 Browser Game

Jiggly Zone Platformer Adventure Game

Monster Box

Infinite Chef

Incremental & Text Games

Space Awesome Text Adventure Game

Seedship Text Adventure Game

Monster Breeder Text Adventure Game

Corru Observer Text Adventure Game

Colossal Cave Adventure

Queer Trans Mentally Ill Power Fantasy Text Game

Don't Get Spooked Text Adventure Game

Kittens Clicker Game

Sisyphus Clicker Game

Universal Paperclips Clicker Game

Cookie Clicker

Bead Machine Clicker Game

Dodeca Dragons Clicker Game

Candy Box 2 ASCII Incremental Adventure Game

The Barnacle Goose Incremental Adventure Game

Level 13 Incremental Adventure Game

A Dark Room Incremental Game

The Gold Factory Incremental Game

Arcane Incrementalist

Drowning in Problems Incremental Game

Puzzle Games

Orion Strategy Puzzle Game

Lights Out Puzzle Game

Hextris Puzzle Game

Welon Puzzle Game

Mastermind Deduction Game

Follow Me - Simon Says Clone

Sokoban Push Puzzle Game

Arrow Hero Game

Exit/Corners Story Puzzle Game

Stacking Game

Game about Squares

Little Alchemy 2 Game

Lonely Witch Alchemy Game

0h h1

Sandtris

Last Word

Multiplayer Games

JKLM.FUN Party Games

Not Enough Chefs Typing Game + Multiplayer Mode

Royal Ur 2-Player Local+Online Game

Liar's Dice Multiplayer Online Game

Guessing & Wordle-Like Games

Framed - Guess the Movie Game

Metazooa - Guess the Animal Game

Guess My Word

Uncategorized Games

Moderator Mayhem Game

Fake it to Make it Social-Impact Game

Terms and Conditions Game

Annoying Calculator Game

Bad News Game

Games within Buttons Arcade

User InYerFace Game

Collections

The Useless Web

Bored Button

Radnom Button

Pointless Sites

NCase

Neal.Fun

WINDOWS93

Bloob.io

Double Speak Games

Orisinal Games

Let's Get Creative

Totally Useless Websites

NEW Indie Web Resources

HTML

HTMLBasixHas some nice HTML generators as well as HTML tutorials.

HTML.amMore HTML Generators.

HTML Details GeneratorSimple generator to make <detail> tag trees.

Rainbow Text FaderLet's you pick multiple colors you want your text to have and spits out a HTML code for it.

HTML FormatterTake all of your messy code, paste it in this formatter, and it will spit it out again with perfectly spaced indents for easier reading of your html file.

HTML HEAD A helpful guide to HTML head elements like meta and link rel tags.

HTML Sight Bookmarklet A small bookmarklet that let's you see any website's HTML properties visually.

Semantic HTML Cheat Sheet A list (with explanations) of semantic html tags.

CSS

CSS Selector GameA game that teaches you about different CSS selectors and pseudo-selectors.

Select.PinkAnother game teaching you how to utilize CSS Selectors.

Flexbox Field GuideA beautifully illustrated guide on learning CSS Flexbox.

Interactive Guide to Flexbox An explainer guide for CSS Flexbox full of visual explainers and clickable aids.

CSS Flexbox Cheatsheat A simple visual cheat sheet of different CSS flexbox properties.

CSS Flexbox Froggy GameAn adorable frog-themed game to learn CSS Flexbox.

CSS Grid Garden GameA fun colorful game that teaches you CSS Grid.

CSS Grid Cheatsheet A simple visual cheat sheet of different CSS grid properties.

Dannarchy's Mobile-Friendly Sites with CSSQuick and dirty tips for mobile responsive websites.

Smol CSS Simple minimal snippets for modern CSS layouts and components.

CSS TricksA huge resource for CSS guides and tutorials to do just about anything.

CSS ScriptCSS style libraries and loads of guides for Pure CSS features.

You Don't Need JavascriptCSS Alternatives to Javascript.

CSS LayoutsLots of CSS codes for different website components like loading spinners and navigation.

How to Center in CSS Generator A simple in-line CSS generator to center divs or text with options for IE support, content size, and container size.

CSS ClippySuper helpful generator to make CSS clip paths.

CSS Background GeneratorMess with the settings on a mixtape to create a unique background out of only CSS.

CSS Gradient GeneratorMake beautiful CSS gradients.

CSS Paper Effects Several different paper styles & effects in pure CSS.

CSS Only BackgroundsWhat it says on the tin, a generator that let's you make simple pattern backgrounds that are Pure css.

Background Repeater GeneratorMake tiling backgrounds with this neat generator.

Pattern GeneratorChoose from a selection of shape patterns and then mess with the options to create a unique background.

100+ Unique CSS PatternsA giant list of Pure CSS Patterns you can grab the codes for.

PatternifyMake pixel-style repeating background tiles.

Stripes GeneratorMake stripe patterns with only CSS.

Border Image Generator

This tool from Mozilla will help you create borders/frames from any image.
CSS Border Examples

A bunch of unique CSS border codes.
Decorative CSS BordersUnique beaded and dashed borders.

Broider Pixel Border Generator

Make pixel borders with this tool.
Multiple Borders with CSSHow to stack multiple borders with CSS.

CSS Hover EffectsDifferent CSS effects when you hover over objects.

Animate.styleNeat CSS animations.

Transfonter @Font-Face Generator A useful generator to make custom CSS font-face code.

CSS Warped Text Generator Use this generator to make text follow curves and shapes with pure CSS while keeping accessibility for screen readers.

Text Stroke GeneratorA generator that will help you make outlines around your text with CSS.

Neat Text EffectsCSS library for neat text effects.

CSS BeautifierPaste in your CSS code for it to be formatted with neatly tabbed indents.

HTML, CSS, & Javascript

W3SchoolsThe best resource for learning and referencing everything HTML and CSS.

Old Webmaster's Guide to Mobile-Friendly Websites

Another guide for mobile-friendly websites.
Making Your Site Look Good on Mobile A simple responsive layout guide by Lilac Lynx.

Web Zine: How to make a Webpage from Scratch!

Just a internet zine for learning how to make a webpage.

Front-End ChecklistA checklist to make sure you have added everything you needed to for proper website building.

HTML DogWell-written guides to HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

HTML for People Simple, approachable website building for average people.

Interneting is HardA thorough list of guides to learn HTML & CSS with simple, plain language and diagrams.

Quackit Tutorials A bunch of tutorials, code snippets, guides, and templates for HTML, CSS, Javascript, and more!

HTML & CSS Code GeneratorsThis site has some great HTML and CSS generators.

Layout ItMy go-to CSS grid layout generator.

Petrapixel's Layout Generator A friendly and simple to use layout generator right on Neocities.

HTML Strip A toolbox for the web.

Web Code ToolsA code snippet generator for HTML, CSS, Javascript, and more.

Dynamic DriveEven more code snippets.

Mf2fmSeveral code snippets and generators.

EncodednaMore CSS and HTML codes.

DoodlenerdHas a lot of practical and fun code generators. I especially recommend the CSS Animations Generator, which is what I used to make my bouncy title on my homepage.

HScriptsThat's right, more codes and generators.

Image Lightbox ScriptJavascript code to make images open in shadowboxes when clicked.

An Introduction to Javascript A lesson guide for learning Javascript.
Elara Coding GameA FOSS, accountless adventure game with voice acting and illustrations to teach you coding concepts similar to Javascript.

Untrusted - A Javascript GameA cool text game that teaches you how to code Javascript.

Elevator Saga Javascript GameAnother Game here to teach you to write Javascript code.

NEW Other

Webmaker.appA free and open source live preview code editor that also works offline.

Guideliness for Image Descriptions

A nice write-up on how to write different types of image descriptions for accessibility.

How to Write Good Alt Text

A simple article giving best practices when writing alt text.
How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the Visually ImpairedA very thorough guide post on writing alt text and image descriptions with lots of links for more specific situations.
Access GuideA nicely designed website with simple to read articles on different kinds of accessibility features to write into your site plus there's a checklist!

Webaim & Contrast GridHelpful sites to check the color contrast of your texts and backgrounds for accessibility. Second link let's you do up to 8 at once.

Hocus:Focus Keyboard GameLearn keyboard accessibility tabbing via this little emoji game.

Domino 2 A neat downloadable note-taking collage tool to put on your website that is made with pure CSS and HTML.

Neocities Profile Bookmarlet A handy bookmarklet that will take you to someone's Neocities profile while on their website.

Font IdentifierA bookmarklet that will attempt to identify a font on a webpage.

Straw.pageA wysiwyg site builder that allows you to make funky websites. 5 pages for the free tier.

mmm.pageA wysiwyg fully mobile responsive site builder that let's you make creative webpages that aren't just blocks. 3 pages and 30 blocks per page for the free tier.

Rooms.xyzA isometric room maker you can use to create your own virtual & personal interactive space on the web. There's a lot of items you can add to your room that people can interact with like a working guestbook, image galleries, games, and more!

Status.cafeA micro update log that provides a widget to add to your website.

Leaflet Pub A service to publish quick single or multi-page documents + its collaborative.

Run Your Own Social How to run your own social network site.

Grow Your Own Services Guides on how to make your own indie services like websites or social networks.

Suricrasia.online NEWBasically RSS feed, but make it a social network. Everyone in the database gets 1 random week where their posts fill the dash & RSS feed of this site.

Kleroteria An email lottery subscription where randomly, a subscriber is chosen to [anonymously] write to all the other subscribers.

Organizing, Writing, and Archiving

Website Organization Advice - An Empty Bliss Beyond this World A tips post on how to stay organized while making a website.
Sunday.Sites A code jam club with an awesome backlog of ideas to make for your website.
100 Things You Can Do on Your Personal Website

A masterlist of things to create or to-do for your website.
100 (More) Things You Can Do with Your Personal Website Another list of ideas for webpages & tasks for the average webmaster.
Slash Pages A list of common webpages you can add to your website.
100 Blog Post Ideas

Just a list of 100 topics to blog about.
Crafting a Digital GardenA note taking system for turning notes into more permnanent notes or even posts.

DIY Web Archiving Zine A zine on how to do web archiving yourself and get copies of it on your own hard drive.

Print Friendly Turn a webpage into a print friendly pdf or image.

Print What You Like Another webpage to PDF/Image Converter.

Httrack Make a direct repository of any website offline directly on your computer.

SingleFile A simple web extension to save a complete webpage as a single HTML file.

Wayback Machine Downloader Download an entire website from the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.

Graphics & Pretties

Text

Cool TextMake some cool looking static and animated texts.

Flaming TextKind of similar to Cool Text and Text Space, but with way more control over the options.

GigaglittersLots of glitter text animations to choose from.

Glitter-GraphicsMyspace fonts text generator. This site also has a lot of graphics and other generators too.

GlowtxtMake some fancy text with each a small selection of colored textures and even animations to choose from.

Loading.ioBeautiful text animations that can be exported to SVG or GIF. Unfortunately, unless you are willing to pay, the width can only be 280px max and there is only a few select fonts to choose from. Still worth looking it though.

PicasionMore Glitter text.

PookatooVery similar to Glowtxt.

TextanimChoose from a wide variety of patterns and then select the font, the direction, and speed of the animation.

Image Editors

TinyPNGCompress PNG and JPEG images down for websites without losing any quality.

Online Image Compressor Another image compressor option.
ILoveIMG A online photo editor with a bunch of tools including image compressing, upscaling, converting, and resizing.

Squoosh App Another image compressor and manipulator.

Waifu2x A really nice art upscaler that works without losing quality.

PixelItTurn any photo into a pixel image.

EZgifThe best gif maker out there with so many editing options and completely free.

8 MB VideoCompress a video down to just under 8mb.

Dither Me ThisPhoto ditherer.

Online Image EditorUnder the "Advanced" option you can glitterify sections of any image and there are many glitter chips to choose from.

GlitterbooMake your images sparkle with many different effects.

Graphic Libraries

Huge Background Images LibraryA codepen full of a variety of tiled backgrounds.

3k Backgrounds Zip File A 3,000 collected backgrounds you can download as a zip file.

Big Link List of Graphic WebsitesAn incredible directory of so many different sites that offer free graphic linkware and abandonware.

Pixel-SoupMy favorite pixel image library.

Peachie's Collection of Cute StuffAn archived pixel library.

Animated Gifs FrA French website with a ton of old-style looking gif graphics.

Bonnibel's Graphic Collection

A graphic collection dump.
DreamroomMake a pixel room; slightly unfinished.

Web Creations By JumpyAn old-style image collection library.

Silent Ears

A sparkly gif image collection.
Jasminnie Collection A large collection of pixel & other graphics (some are broken).

NEW Web Discovery

NEW Search Engines

Oldest to Newest Search

Marginalia

Curlie

Search My Site

Wiby.me

Old Avista

Secret Search Engine Labs

Gigabrain - Search Reddit+ For Real Answers from Real People

Redditle - Reddit Only Search

Clew Search

VHS Neocities Search

Unobtanium

Million Short

Similar Sites

Sauce Nao - Image Source Locator

Stract - Independent Open Search

All the Internet Search

Shodan NEW

Directories

Indieseek.xyz Directory

Ooh Directory

Blogroll

Bloglist.me

List Me

Smooth Sailing Directory

MelonLand Surf Club

Whimsical Club

Link Lane

Gossip's Web

Link Centre Directory

Dead Simple Sites

Curated Link Lists

Wilderness Land Internet Map

Digital Gardeners List

Joe Jenett IWebThings

Oh Hello Ana

href.cool

Pinboard

KK's Link Lifestream

Web Crawling

Pilgrim Arena

The Forest

8 StumbleUpon Alternatives

Webring Rentry List

Brisray's Webring List

Forever Like This's Webring & Directory List

SizeOf.Cat

NEW Life

NEW Community

NEW Interpersonal Relationships

Signs You're in an Emotionally Healthy Relationship

Ask Culture Vs. Guess Culture

Choose People You'd Trust Kids With

Bids for Attention in Relationships

How to Argue Effectively

The Point of Affinity Networks

Friendships are Built of Repeated Low-Stakes Interactions

Transformative Justice 101

We Don't Do That Here

The Dangers of Labeling People Evil

Progressive vs Conservative Values on Human Life

Inhabit Global

The No Hello Club - Just Say What You Need!

How to Make Friends Over the Internet

How to Boss without Being Bossy

Intentionally Making Close Friends NEW

Food Resources

Olioex

Too Good To Go

Food Not Bombs

Falling Fruit

Little Frees

Little Free Library

Little Free Pantry

Free Edge

Free Little Blockbuster

Maps & Projects

Buy Nothing Project

Free Cycle

The Street Store

Repair Cafe

Book Crossing - The World's Library

Community Seed Network

Native Land - The Map of Indigenous Territories

Mutual Aid Hub

Mutual Aid Map

Transition Network

Shareable Community Maps

Queering the Map

Everywhere is Queer - Queer-Owned Businesses Map

Useful Articles & Websites

ASL Fingerspelling Learning Game

American Sign Language - Hand Speak

Get Well Soon - Words to Say Library

Bless the Toolmakers

A Field Guide To Wheatpasting

Low Tech Magazine

The Small Things Manifesto

Wealth Shown to Scale

Lipu Sona Pona - Toki Pona Course

Nimi.li - Interactive Toki Pona Dictionary

Wellbeing

Useful Articles & Guides

Mental Crop Rotation

Brush Your Teeth Masterpost

What the Imperial Measurement System is Good for

In Praise of Idleness

Spoon Theory

Fork Theory

Life Lessons

Huge Link List of Different Mental Disorder Help Articles

Divergents' Picture Guides

Fictional Games and What They Tell us

The Hidden Truth of Our Declining Attention Spans (VIDEO)

Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans & Pschoactives

The NoSurf Activites List

SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely

Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price

Advice if You're 10-20

How to Stop Being "Terminally Online"

Troubleshooting Internet Urges

Tips for a Better Life

Practical Betterments RSS Subscription

Interactive Tools

Walking Prompts

You Feel Like Shit Interactive Tool

The Quiet Place Project Interactive Meditation

Goblin.Tools

Interactive Emotion Wheel

Emotional.Codes

The Cognitive Bias Codex

Distract Yourself Interactive Game

Accessibility

Flux Blue Light Filter

Pixel Moondust's Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Offline Text-to-Speech Netlify App

Accessible Nature

Can I Play That?

Does the Dog Die?

Reel Scary

One Idea Per Line PDF Guide

Pain, Fatigue, and Mental Health Scales

Rainbowriffic Pain Chart made by Clover Coin

Five Reasons Fatigue Isn't Like Normal Tiredness (Proving Most People Don't Get It) + Fatigue Scale made by Miss Treated

A Simple Mental Health Pain Scale made by The Graceful Patient

Quality of Life Scale made by The ACPA

Tiredness/Fatigue Scale made by 19-Magpies-in-a-Trenchcoat

Tidying & Maintenance

Tech

The Very Basics of Not Killing Your Computer

Good 2023 Computer Specs for the Common User

Tiny Tools

Web Browser Tools

How to Do Things

How to Do Stuff

How to Do Everything

How to Do Hard Things

The Mathematically Correct Way to Tie Your Shoes

How to Start Having More Fun

DIY

Visible Mending

This to That

Build a Better DIY Air Purifier

The Creative Independent Guides

Chore Management

Habitca App

Junebugging: The Chore Solution for the Overwhelmed

Bundle Habits Together, not Tasks

Ridiculously Easy Ways to Deal with Executive Dysfunction

How to Handle Having Too Much to Do

Organizing Solutions for the Scatterbrained

KonMari

The Clutterbug Quiz

Pare Down to Your Weird Shit

Tidying Up Isn't About Minimalism

What "Spark Joy" Actually Means

Helpful Calculators

Compare Lists

Optimal Sleep Calculator

Bra Size Calculator

Fancy Ham US Postage Calculator

Other

The Four Hobbies and Apparent Expertise

Noises.online

Johnny.Decimal Digital Organization

Dafuq is Credit and How Do You Bend it to Your Will?

Kill the Newsletter RSS Feed Generator

Still Tasty: Your Ultimate Shelf Life Guide