links

this page is an ongoing effort to link to other sites i think are worth sharing or keeping track of. there's a good chance they'll all go down eventually but so will this site i suppose.

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tools:

fmhy.net: the "coke dope crack smack weed e's and cds" of the internet. they got it all for cheap.
libgen.rs: of particular note, the shadow library i turn to the most often.
are.na: my social bookmarking site of choice. not sure how i would describe are.na at a party.
cooked.wiki: removes all the bullshit from recipe sites so you can read the recipe.
cobalt.tools: a site that can download media from a variety of sources and with "zero ads, trackers, or other creepy bullshit."
indieweb.org: i'm technically part of the club i guess, idk.
0data.app: a list of apps that allow you to retain ownership and control over your data.
bookshelf.town: a site for documenting books read. i haven't used it yet but it looks cozy.
textise.net: displays any site as text-only.
plaintextsports.com: sports schedules and standings displayed in plain text.
wttr.in: a local weather report displayed in plain text.
deepfriedmemes.com: meme deep fryer.
cl1p.net: a very ingenious site for moving clipboard text across devices.
unit.land: the unit visual programming environment. sparsely documented but very interesting.

math, science and programming:

oeis.org: the online encyclopedia of integer sequences. i'm sure this will come in handy someday.
arxiv.org: the physics archive. get into quantum computing, soft robotics, biomechatronics or any number of varieties of nerd shit.
tunes.org: a site about a defunct operating system. i haven't read through yet but i feel like it's of interest to anyone into stuff like urbit or plan9 or amigaOS or uxn.
9front.org: info on the operating system plan 9.
urbit.org: the ye of operating systems.
nsl.com: fuck loops, all my homies hate loops.
gp-field-guide.org.uk: a free book on genetic programming, which i find really interesting and plan to research for a project.
courses.csail.mit.edu: list of courses taught by the mit computer science and artificial intelligence lab. mit rejected me once.
realtimerendering.com: large list of resources and free books about real-time graphics programming.
leanchess.github.io: the world's smallest chess engine and they named it after lean.
dadgum.com: info on the history of gamedev.
pouet.net: forum for resources on the demoscene.
in4k.github.io: the goal of the in4k site is to be the central resource about creation of demoscene 1kb, 4kb and 8kb intros.
lospec.com: a home for digitally restrictive art.
jpegxl.info: info on the jpeg xl image format.
sre.google: google's books on site reliability engineering. say what you want about their search utility but their site never goes down.
256stuff.com: information about the number 256.
dimensions.com: example measurements for the dimensions of everyday objects.
capyloon.org: a new revival of the boot-to-gecko operating system.
nand2tetris.org: all the lectures, project materials and tools necessary for building a general-purpose computer system and a modern software hierarchy from the ground up.
bellard.org: homepage of fabrice bellard, dev of FFMPEG, QEMU and TSAC among other things.
3dmath.xyz: a location for efficient, understandable, and reliable mathematical solutions for 3D reality.
vx-underground.org: archive of malware samples and papers.

design:

readingdesign.org: an online archive of critical writing about design.
gamestudies.org: journal about game studies, simple as (at the time of writing it wouldn't load, lol).
brutalist-web.design: a bit played out at this point don't you think?
2010s.us: anthology of retrospectives on 2010s aesthetics.
pipemuseum.nl: the amsterdam pipe museum, home to lots of historical smoking paraphernalia.
spomenikdatabase.org: an exploration of yugoslavia's historic and enigmatic endeavor into abstract anti-fascist WWII monument building between 1960 & 1990.

bugs and other animals:

ifiaar.org: what if we all got along?
antweb.org: pictures of ants!

music:

free-scores.com: free sheet music and midi files.
llllllll.co: a forum for the monome but also a locus of other info on electronic music and livecoding.
pd-tutorial.com: free book on programming electronic music in puredata.
1800dubplate.com: site for ordering one-off dubplates out of london. haven't personally used it yet but i plan to.
cosine.club: an electronic music similarity search engine.

games:

corru.observer: a supposedly very good web game recommended by a friend of mine.
frivclassic.com: a collection of 2000s era flash games made playable once again.
puzzle-star-battle.com: a simple site where you can play star battle, links to many other puzzle games with seperate domains as well.

blogs and writings:

wholeearth.info: a nearly-complete archive of whole earth publications. the inspo.
reallifemag.com: a magazine about living with technology. the emphasis was more on living. ran from 2016 until 2022.
scat.wovensoup.com: mostly about ants and the brain gut connection? idk man.
vaguery.com: perspectives on genetic programming and ai and much more. good blog.
wiki.xxiivv.com: this person and their partner are like the kardashians of goth underground programmer types.
k-punk.abstractdynamics.org: the blog of the late great mark fisher.
transreads.org: the world’s largest collection of free trans-focused literature.
lostgarden.home.blog: a rare treasure trove of readable, thoughtful essays on game design theory, art and the business of design.
copyriot.com: i think these are blogs?
emohr.com: the personal site of algorithmic artist manfred mohr.
text.npr.org: npr but without the extraneous bullshit.
lite.pbs.org: pbs but without the extraneous bullshit.
lite.cnn.com: cnn but without the extraneous bullshit.
68k.news: google news but without the extraneous bullshit.
skimfeed.com: various tech news but without the... you get the point.
neuters.de: reuters headlines but without bs and with an incredibly funny domain name.

porn:

indienudes.com: large collection of links to porn sites that aren't pornhub.

hardware and gadgets:

yarh.io: raspberry pi cyberdecks.
tamenagerie.com: a site about tamagotchi and virtual pets.
lathetrolls.com: a forum devoted to record-cutting deviants, renegades, professionals & experimenters.

oddities:

insulators.info: today there are over 3000 insulator collectors.
reptoids.com: i want to believe sexy lizardmen walk among us.
hedweb.com: outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. idk about all that.
ergonomicfutures.com: a multi-part project, by artist tyler coburn, which asks questions about contemporary “fitness” through the lens of speculative evolution.
minimumfun.org: the least amout of fun you can have while still having fun.
blot.live: some sort of arg maybe? i'm not entirely sure so it goes here.