Links

Every website used to have a list of links on it. Curious and/or interesting stuff. I made my first website around 2000 and it had a list of links I recommended.

People used to even exchange links to their home pages back then... There were even services of social bookmarks, where people shared their bookmarks and stuff! Then the social networks became a thing, and tradition sort of died.

People

• Tomas Pettersson - an author of Sculptris. The guy has a plenty of interesting software pieces on his projects page, including sfxr, a tool that generates sound tones, a js version of which also exists

• Dan Luu

• Ken Perlin has a very interesting homepage and blog. He is the inventor of the universally used Perlin Noise.

• John D. Duncan III's

• Mathieu 'p01' Henri is a very inspiring demoscener and code-golfer. Several of his JS demos are the assembly winners. He also gave several very inspiring speeches on coding and demoscene you can find on YouTube. He is also on dwitter

• Hunter Loftis.
  Go check his writing on minimalistic FPS engine using raycasting.

• holon demo group. Go check their demos! I love the If there was no gravity
  (there's a recording of it)

Services and tools

• Riju is an online REPL tool. I used to use repl.it but it turned into a slow bloated crap with focus on "business" stuff - no longer a quick repl to test stuff. Repl.it business even tried to take riju down at some point.

• Cables is an online node editors for WebGL graphics. Very funny tool that allows to create shader programs without writing shaders yourself.

  It also has an inspiring gallery of stuff made with it.

Games

• Echo Sector is dedicated to the Crusader series of video games developed by Origin Systems and published by Electronic Arts in the mid-1990s.
  The website is curated by Keenan Weaver.
• acid-play - a nice old site with a set of free games. Long time ago I found some of my favorite small games (TAGAP, Liero, Shapes, Marble Arena, Kiki The Nano Bot, Tower Of Goo, Crayon Physics, Bontago and many more there.) The site seems to be broken (most downloads do not work, search does not work, but I love to scroll it and its web archive copy sometimes, it's nostalgic.
• Abandonia is another website with abandonware games. You can download them, also.
• Home Of The Underdogs. A database of abandonware games.
• RAWG. I believe, it is highly underestimated. It's a videogame database.

Resourceful and subcultural

• oldschool pc fonts is where I got the IBM font I'm using on this website.
• cyberpunk-life.neocities.org - a nice and old-school site with cyberpunk-related stuff. It has a plenty of links itself, for all the like-minded.
• 49406. Just 49406. It's mostly dead now, but still interesting.
• lainChan imageboard. It is dead. Always was.
• rustynet e-zine. It is in russian. An interesting artefact of past age.
• pouet is a main source for demoscene info.
• chiptune.com has always been an inspiration for me, as a demonstration what a web interface can be. It replicates the appearance of the Amiga Workbench using JS - and serves as a source for chip-tunes.
• n-o-d-e - This guy is a maker of awesome things - 3d-printing, tinkering, DIY tech. He also has a cool tech news digest, also available on his youtube channel.

Design and stuff

• Curated list of design resources on Ian Rose's website. There's a fun and inspiring list of various tools, libs and services for designers and coders.
• PolyCount is a forum and a website that inspires me to do 3D stuff.

Everything else

• UsesThis is a blog with a bunch of interviews of random people about what stuff do they use to get their job done. And what tools they recommend.
• Windows 10 AME is a windows with all the crap removed. It does not support some microsoft features, of course - yo will have to tinker to make them work. Think of it as of less shitty windows.
• Retonator is a very stylish magazine about pixel art and pixels.
• Museum of soviet retro tech. Did you know that USSR had copied a plenty of western devices? This website has a ton of photos of those.

Music

• ThemFire - yup, it's a warez site. With some new albums
• Game Music Base - has a ton of game music in mid and mod formats, various game-rips and whatnot. And allows to download them as well.

Random

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