Dichotomous Keys online
I want to provide a referenced and blameable easy-to-use online key. Many of the "Key to X Genus" mycological keys available online are not referenced and, continuing to trust Arora's distinctions, this tool lets me leave the big expensive books in the warm dry house while I'm out in the rain ...with my arguably delicate and expensive phone. The Jepson Manual is great and I love the casual utilitarian-ness of David Arora's keys to fungi, so my first exploration into these online keys inherits from them, starting with Arora.
I have only the most useful keys to me at the moment—keys to the families of fungi and the most common genera I see on the California coast. Albeit old (and still dumping lots of taxa into Tricholomataceae), Arora's 1986 keys are known, trusted, and, in my mind, an excellent point of reference to include in something like this. Oftentimes people ask why don't I just use iNaturalist? or AI??? and yes of course, I tell them, if someone wanted to identify a mushroom or a plant they'd be far better off using iNaturalist than my janky website. The express purpose of my online dichotomous key project is to use dichotomous keys, not identify species immediately. I would have Mushrooms Demystified or the Jepson with me either way, so I'd rather travel light and stick my cameraphone in my pocket, playing two roles at once.
Check it out here.
Tabroom.com helper extension
In the high school speech and debate world, Tabroom is notorious for being a difficult and moody website. As I tabulate tournaments myself, I notice easily-solved usability improvements for speed of navigation, layout readability, and expected web navigation behaviors. I think the fine people at the NSDA and Tabroom's maintainer are reworking the website and tournament backend; in the meantime I hope some plaints are satisfied with this extension.
See the Firefox extension on Github here.