null1024 null1024Here are various links to other websites I like and use. I've finally sorted them into various categories, and I've been expanding the site descriptions. If there's a broken link, then file an issue
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This page does occasionally get shuffled around, so if a link has disappeared from where it was, it's almost certainly elsewhere on the page.
-- quite nice open source digital painting program. I ended up using it entirely for frame-based 2D animation (since I can't actually draw that well), which works remarkably well and is very easy to get started with. -- features a pretty interesting technology blog and also serves as his portfolio. A lot of Raspberry Pi entries in the blog, but it's by no means the only thing he posts about. -- a very good tech blog that focuses quite a bit on old DOS, Windows, and OS/2 internals and emulation, but there's a lot of other stuff too. Extremely interesting, but very technical articles. -- a wiki detailing information about cut or hidden content in videogames. Prototypes, debug modes, hidden graphics, music, levels, and text, that sort of thing. Very cool. -- a classic online humor and entertainment site. Around since 1996. Of particular note personally for its Computer Stupidities page, detailing all manner of funny and/or appalling stories surrounding tech support. There is a lot to the site, so click around. You can click here to go to a random feature on the site. -- personal website of Dmitry Grinberg. Has some very cool projects. Very technical content. -- a website by Thomas Heller about conlangs. Quite a few interesting articles, quite a few interesting creations. It's also somewhat aesthetically similar to this one, but that's not terribly difficult to do. -- music and art competition site; contains a lot of the music I've ever made, spanning over a decade. Recently lost the domain name, went from .org to .com as a result. I haven't done much on the site in a while, but there was once a time when I'd compete here daily. -- more of the music I've made. A lot of the older songs are bad, but are still quite a few good ones. Many of the songs won't sound great in the online player due to being made without sample interpolation enabled, so they're much muddier than intended. Use XMPlay or MilkyTracker to play them, and disable interpolation in the settings. -- some games I've made for the TIC-80 fantasy computer. Most notable of them is eyesoul, a floaty, bouncy shoot-em-up game I wrote for a game jam over at Battle of the Bits. -- more music I've made, most of it like ten years old as of this writing. The songs here are pretty decent. I semi-recently uploaded a Vocaloid song I wrote in Toki Pona, made using Renoise and Hatsune Miku V4X. -- a handful of extremely basic 3D models that I've made with Wings3D. -- more music and some footage of a few old projects. I really wish I knew where I had put the code for some of these, I kind of want to work on type.prime again. Sadly, someone namejacked me way back in 2006 (or so), which means I'm null1023 there. -- a tracker style DAW, probably the best money I've ever spent regarding software. Has a free, mostly un-crippled demo, with only audio export/rendering being disabled... but the audio rendering features are an extremely useful part of the workflow. Easily worth the price, although there is a definite learning curve. Try the demo, seriously. It's great. -- a music editor styled after the classic Fast Tracker II. I love this program, and it's what got me into really making music on the computer. It's not terribly intuitive, since Fast Tracker II is from the time before standardized keybinds in software, but it's also not that hard to use. At the absolute least, I picked it up quickly enough back in 2007/8. :P -- a tracker for making PC-98 music. The interface is modeled after jsr's FamiTracker, a similar tracker for the NES/Famicom (which is now dead and gone, but a modern fork known as Dn-FamiTracker exists). -- a very easy to use 3D modeling program that I like. I have a bad habit of editing models in Wings before moving back into Blender, but it's just so easy. -- media player that mainly focuses on module music formats like XM, MOD, S3M, and IT. Very good playback, supports plugins, and supports skins. -- music game news site and forum. Particularly useful for its arcade locator. -- basically Sound Voltex at home. Rather hard to play on keyboard, you'll want the custom controller to go with it. I did a blog post about making my own controller, if you're interested, along with another post with more details. There are other options, like from Yuancon or GAMO2, but they're somewhat expensive. -- a wiki all about building or fixing custom controllers for rhythm games. Mostly focuses on using Arduino hardware, although a lot of the site doesn't depend on what microcontroller you're using (eg, button sizes and control measurements, what brands of parts to get, etc). -- a guide for getting started with Beatmania IIDX. I'm trying to get better at IIDX, and I'm slowly improving, but IIDX is just a hard game. -- a wiki absolutely full of information on BEMANI's games. -- big list of Sound Voltex charts in image format, along with charts for a few other games like Chunithm and Project Sekai (accessible via the icons at the very top). Very useful for looking up how a tricky section goes. The layout is fairly terse and unexplained, but the opening page sorts songs by name (in Japanese) and by difficulty (1-20). From there, clicking on the difficulty number will bring up the chart image if available, and there are often YouTube video links for the hardest two difficulties. -- site with guides on playing Sound Voltex. Very useful resource for someone starting out, the game is pretty intimidating. -- Website featuring information about the Pop'n Music series. -- forum dedicated to talking about scrolling shoot-em-up games. One of the last phpBB-style forums that I still visit and post on (if not by choice, most of the others just died out). -- a massive archive of game music MIDI arrangements, started in 1996. -- excellent site featuring game screenshots, endings (as images, not video), magazine scans, and other info for classic games. It's been around for over two decades, too. -- a webzine written entirely in Toki Pona. If you're looking for a good collection of writings in Toki Pona, this is probably the best resource. An annoying amount of Toki Pona text on the web is ungrammatical (and thus very hard to understand and not that useful for practice), but lipu tenpo is quite high quality and rarely has me wondering if the phrasing makes sense. -- a site by jan Same featuring a lot of resources on Toki Pona. In particular, this site has a rather nice font known as linja pona that represents the sitelen pona script for Toki Pona. -- a video course by jan Misali for learning Toki Pona. Probably the video course on learning Toki Pona. It's being redone, but the updated version is taking quite a while to come out. -- the official Toki Pona website. -- a website for learning Toki Pona. Pretty good resource. -- a rather cool digital archaeology blog featuring deep technical analysis of hidden things in various games, all gleaned through disassembly. Contains loads of info I've never heard of anywhere else even in passing, let alone in detail like seen here.
-- personal website of the person who worked on the lipu sona Toki Pona course; contains some technical content with some other writings. -- Nathan's Toasty Technology page, probably most famous for its Graphical User Interface Gallery. Can be a bit strongly opinionated about things, but like, that's alright. Also has a links page. -- a neat site with writings on math and juggling among other things; the site is also an old-school, non-Wikipedia style wiki. I'm probably not doing the content justice with this writeup, so check it out. -- very long-running site with a lot of stylish anime fan-pages and anime reviews, and it's all by one person too. I'm tempted to outright bias you (yes, you reading this) against the review conclusions on the site, but they're not my opinions. Regardless of that, the site is very cool overall, just full of excellent web design and passion for anime. It's also one of the few sites I've seen left on the internet with a working guestbook (and it's self-hosted too). -- a personal website that has quite a few interesting blog entries and links. Lots of good technical content in the blog, lots of assorted pages and site features. Nice site design, too. It was dead, but now it's alive once more!. -- possibly my favorite webcomic. The main story ended several years ago, but the author still writes "bonus" strips in the setting regularly and shows no sign of stopping. Has the distinction of having a major plot element years in the making with an actually satisfying payoff. -- a photo-webcomic that re-imagines the plot of the Star Wars movies as a tabletop RPG, starting from Episode 1, and expected to go through to Episode 9. -- bizarre but funny MS Paint webcomic. Unfortunately on (possibly permanent) hiatus. Has nothing to do with the other Super Mega that you might be thinking about. -- a joke focused webcomic I like quite a lot. Updates daily. Click the red button for a bonus panel. -- search engine for old-school webpages that work in older browsers. The "surprise me" button is excellent for finding interesting websites, sending you to a random page in its index. The search indexing isn't the greatest, but the pool of sites it has to draw from is somewhat limited, and it's not a major search engine like Google. -- the demoscene website. Period. -- NASA's very long-running daily astronomy photo site. Lots of gorgeous photos. -- a site and forum dedicated to Windows CE-based handhelds and software for them. Probably the last site with any of this stuff. Not the most active forum, but not dead either. -- generates extremely realistic corpo-speak nonsense text. I found this on the Toastytech links page (see above in the list), but it's too good for me to not link to it myself. Now it's your turn to energistically transition orthogonal mindshare, whatever the absolute hell that means. -- a website by jan Misali that promotes the seximal (base 6) numbering system. I'm not actually a fan and I genuinely do like base 10 a lot, but I can at least understand the basis for it. There are parts where I'm unconvinced that this isn't a joke, although it could still be a serious proposal with humorous aspects (the definition of one of the measuring units it proposes, the stick, haunts me).