Links

Other stuff on the web that I think is neat.

Blogs

birzeblog — Well-spoken socialist essayist/blogger.

Fabrice Bellard's Home Page — Legendary programmer behind things like JSLinux and qemu.

Kokoscript — Retrocomputing/programming/furry blog.

Pluralistic — Cory Doctrow's blog.

Web3 is Going Just Great — A blog tracking the unending "Web3" parade of failure and fraud.

Research resources

Anna's Archive — A search engine that covers Sci-Hub and LibGen.

BTDigg — A search engine for file torrents.

Internet Archive — Massive digital library of books, film, music, and more. Home of the Wayback Machine.

Project Gutenberg — An online library of over 60,000 free and public-domain eBooks.

Software and web tools

Debian — The operating system I've used pretty happily for most of my life.

Fedora — The operating system that I've mostly switched over to recently.

Floating IPS — An IPS/BPS patcher, mostly used for game ROMhacks.

Geany — An ultra lightweight, extensible, and customizable code editor.

Magic Wormhole — Super simple command-line utility to easily transfer files over the internet.

Neocities — A free website hosting service with social network-ish features.

Nekoweb — Similar to Neocities, but with more technical features and explicitly gayer.

Nicotine+ — A very nice, modern client for Soulseek; see below.

Soulseek — P2P file-sharing network and application, mostly used for sharing music.

Trenchbroom — A modern, user-friendly map editor for Quake and many other games.

yt-dlp — Command-line utility to download videos from YouTube, TikTok, and loads of other websites.

Zalgo Text Generator by Tchouky — H̶̪͈̻̙̺̖͖̘̜E̶̥̖̙ ͕̜̰͚͞͞C̘͜O̸̺͈̬̱̼̺M̻͈̮̹̥̰̩͈̀͟͠E̡͔̞͍̱͙S̢͍̙͖̻͝

Video games

Cave Story Tribute Site — A fan site dedicated to Cave Story and Studio Pixel.

Cocaine Diesel — Internet-based hooliganism simulator, Quake Team Fortress meets Counterstrike.

/idgames on Doomworld — Definitive repository of mods for id Software's Doom.

NetQuake.io — Quake 1 running in the browser, with multiplayer support.

Quaddicted — A huge, albeit older, repository of Quake mods and old Quake fansites.

Slipgate Sightseer — A modern home for Quake mods and resources.

Warfork — FOSS online arena shooter with CPMA-style gameplay.

Webcomics

Flying Saucer Video — A queer slice-of-life webcomic about being bisexual and working in a dying video store by Cam Marshall, the author of Matchmaker; see below.

Matchmaker — Another webcomic from Cam Marshall, now finished and available in print.

xkcd — A very long-running webcomic, think Garfield but for dweebs.

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