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Remember when people shared their bookmarks on their websites?
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Useful websites
- Infinite Screen - Scroll your desktop
- p300 - A personal file shareing program that just works
- Celestia
- Ludum dare
- NASA Eyes on teh solar system
- Stellarium
- Fontello Create custom fonts
- Live - Online text mangling
- choco - Windows installs
- nextis - Find the closest ATM/pharmacy/whatever on the map
- factbook - The CIA factbook, reformatted into convenient JSON
Visualisations
I am looking for an excuse to use these for reals
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Nicolas Garcia Belmonte - Data visualiser
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arborjs - dynamic spring graph
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Moowheel - a circular connections graph.
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jsPlumb - Awesome links and boxes toolkit
Reference
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Everytrail - GPS traces
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Optimisation manuals - Reference materials for low level optimising.
Tech/indepth
Fun
- Interactive online music
- LOTR project - a helpful "readers guide" to LOTR
- Space Engine - fly through the solor system and galaxy
- Universal Church of Life - Become an ordained minister today
- GIRP - Rock climb in your browser
- Music of the binary trees
- Ball droppings - This is...fun?
- Regex crossword
- patternarium - Autogenerate tunes
Language
Blogs etc
- PixelBest - Interesting and useful articles on Linux
- QueryShark - Great advice on writing letters
- Terry Border - Funny
- Tcom - Visual arts
- DisplayHack
- Technical Debt - Anyone who quotes Douglas Adams is OK by me
- Perl by Example - An excellent page of code demonstrating perl features... and misfeatures
- Finish a project - Finish it!
- Waterfall and Extreme
- Prepare for your next interview
- Animals sitting on capybaras - This blog fills a need I never knew I had
- Algorithmic art - Striking and attractive
- Graphics programming!
- Data is nature - I don't know what it is, but I like it!
- Patternarium - Iterative rhythm. Reminds me of erratic drummer, for Android.
- Algorithmic art
- More Algorithmic Art
- Yet more
- bit-101 - Not sure, but it looks good
- Inigo Quilez - One of my inspirations for my own algorithmic work
Reading
- Memoirs of the conquistador Castillo - I am developing a fascination with the history of South America.
Art
Software I keep meaning to take a look at one day when I have the time (hahaha)
I appear to have an interest in remakes of games I never played when I was young.
- Ultima 5
- Widelands
- Osu
- Mechwarrior Living Legends
- Global Conflict Blue
- Unknown Horizons
- Fract
- Darwin Bots
- To the moon
- Star Sonata
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/27116/Alien+Legacy.html http://www.rebuildgame.com/
- XCOM the rogelike - I want to play this, but I don't have the time. Oh god, I've turned into my father
Interactive fiction
- Anchorhead - Interactive fiction
- City of Secrets
- I don't even know, but it is cool
- osu
3D on the web
- o3d
- js3d - Text mode 3D
- glge - WebGL for the lazy
- Chrome experiments in WebGL - Really good looking demos
- SpiderGL
- pre3d
- WebGLU tutorial
- WebGLU
- CopperLicht
- playcanvas
- Path tracer
- Copy a canvas to an image
Fractals etc
Wat
Books I should be getting http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138108205/why-architecture-matters#excerpt
http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page
- Factory photo locations - For factory otaku
- Mandelbulb
Development
- Useful utilities for windows
- Graphical Program Development - Drag and drop programming
- Namespaces in Javascript
- New language checklist
- Programmig stuff
- Cross compilation in Go
- Succinct data structures - In Javscript!
- Succint deBruijin graphs - I want to use this at some point
- Cross compiling Go, again
- Javascript isn't Scheme
- Compile to Javascript - Maybe Javascript will win after all
- The Original Scheme Paper
- The original papers on Scheme
- Implementing exceptions - I've read this 5 times and I still don't get it all
- Drag'n'drop programming
- Cheney on the MTA - Writing a native scheme without using trampoline functions, using CPS.
- Emulators
- Chip8 emulator
- The Architecture of Open Source Applications
- Crit-bit trees
- Wikipedia to GeoJSON
- Render to canvas
- The Google style guide for Javascript
- Natural Docs - Trying to use this for Javascript docs. Seems ok so far
- Better, faster, reference counting
- Javascript Mobile Maps
- Lock free programming
- Skip Lists
- Alternative to readline
New Languages
- Pygmy
- Coffee Script - Hardly new, but still good
- Little Perl
- GopherJS - Compile Go to Javascript
- Fledgeling languages list
Golang
- Things you didn't know about go - Go tips and tricks
- Gringo - Lock free queues in Go
- Double Array Tries - Daouble Array Tries, a port of a C++ implementation
GameDev
- PocketDev - Drag and drop mobile games programming
- Clay games publishing site
- Building a retro racer in Javascript
- The classic racing game, in Javascript - With excellent commentary
- Rouguelikes in javascript -
- game dev
- UI for OpenGL
- Game resources
Mobile Dev
- Online mobile development
- Chicken Scheme - A good scheme
- Another online mobile dev platform
- HTML5 on the mobile - A good intro into HTML5 dev
- A multitouch library for javascript
- HTML5 Multitouch
- Multitouch javascript, again
- Another online mobile dev compilation tool
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