links!! i gather these like cards

• beepbox is a very nice open source retro music online daw

  • I recommend using a mod of it, jummbox. it adds a lot of features, but in particular, its “mod” channel feature (which function like automation clips in flstudio, for example) is very powerful. I use it for drafting music before putting it in flstudio

• audiotool is another online daw. technically more powerful, but its exceptionally tedious to use. I used it for Ejow’s soundtrack

• nicky case has a ton of good stuff

• jamis buck’s blog is full of great stuff. this link is to their post explaining the “growing tree” maze generation algorithm, and they have a lot of posts about maze generation algorithms

  • they also wrote a book on maze generation algorithms!

• cool maze generator

• github

  • guthib

  • my github profile

• ever wanted to write your own linux kernel from scratch? no? well now you do

• professor messer has a huge collection of free IT training videos!

• jsbench, a javascript benchmarker

• p5.js, an open source javascript library that makes it trivial to use various javascript functions, like drawing to the canvas. it also has an online editor!

  • a lot of my projects in my projects page use p5.js, sometimes mostly for the online editor after I gut the library lol

  • q5.js is another library that tries to be p5.js but much faster and smaller. it’s mostly accurate but there are several notable discrepancies between the p5.js and q5.js’s behaviour.

• code pen is great for quickly iterating on css styles

  • my code pen profile

• tofugo has an amazing guide to learning japanese

• file garden

• various silly wikipedia things…

  • bjoadn(Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense), a site hosting various humorous wikipedia vandalations

  • uncyclopedia, a wikipedia satire

  • list of dumb wikipedia edit wars

  • list of really really really stupid article ideas that you really really really should not create

  • list of unusual articles. amazing rabbit hole creator

• ipip, a huge list of personality questions and their correlations for use in research

• every noise at once, an aggregation of like every genre and their artists, and where they sit tonally relative to each other

• data structures textbook

• draw pile, software for collaboratively drawing on the same canvas

  • aggie(or magma?) is another, but it runs on the browser

• tool for creating perspective grid lines

• wavacity, audacity compiled to webassembly!

  • audio mass, a little open source audio editor

• virtual consoles!

  • pico-8, arguably the most famous. 128x128 display, 16 preset colors(technically more, but we don’t talk about that), basic sound, and a lua code limit. very fun, probably! I’ve never used it lmao

  • tic-80. pico-8 but with less limitations. 240x136 display, 16 choosable colors, and support for 8 different languages, including lua, javascript, ruby, and a few other nicher ones.

  • racoon

  • script-8

  • octo, slightly less of a virtual console. it compiles your high level assembly code to chip-8 instructions.

• the most amazing website on the internet

• swear words in the linux kernel

• scratch, an introductory programming website, where you program with blocks. this is how I got into programming!

  • my scratch profile

  • turbowarp, a custom runtime for scratch projects that compile the project to javascript, which lets it run signifigantly faster. it also has a custom editor with a lot of options that make it more fun and less tedious to program with the blocks

  • snap! is a much more powerful version of scratch (it adds things like first class functions, lists inside lists, temporary variables, etc), but it is quite slower than even vanilla scratch.

  • ocular, a tool for searching the scratch forums

• guide to spam-like products

• wiby, a search engine for small websites

• a collection of the browsers, last updated in 2003

• web demo for townscaper, a little city building toy. very fun to use. it uses wave function collapse(not exactly the quantum thing, the algoritm is based on the concept though) to generate the tiles it should use, an algorithm that I love so muchhhh I need to write an implementation of it sometime

• shapez.io, factorio but more focused on relaxation. a sequel is coming out soon!

• hey this website is kinda cool

• cool article on platformer physics

• feedreader, an rss aggregator

• bitfontmaker2, a little pixel font maker

• itch.io, site for hosting video games

  • my itch.io profile

• photomosh, a collection of image filters

• information mesh, a compilation of the history of the internet

• space mail is an email service where your emails are sent across space and time to literally who knows where.

• vent scape, a place where you can just send messages out to the void and maybe someone is listening

todo: more links!!