Links

Because there's not much content on this site, I'll link to some content I find interesting here, instead. I have collected links like some sort of collectible for a long time now, all archived in my browser bookmarks. This is only a selection of them.

This part of the website is currently actively being worked on.

Click on a summary tag (dotted, with right-pointing arrow) to view a more detailed description.

NeoCities

• Rex's Nexus
  Recommendations and links

  Rex has a bunch of links on things he has read, watched, and found on the internet. The topics linked to are pretty wide — video essays, science articles, political videos, history, fashion, ...

• Ocean Waves
  Personal blog, pixel art, and more links

  Snufkin has a pretty site with a collection of pixel art from many different sources that you might be able to use on your sites, their book reading list, a blog on having moved to Osaka, Japan, and, of course, more links.

• The Owl Collective
  A blog of headmates

  The Owl Collective is a collective blog written and authored by multiple headmates aka. alters (for a better explanation, visit their FAQ). Their site design is a bit similar to mine, but that's coincidental. They have a Links site like this one as well, where you can find more infos on plurality, privacy tools and methods, as well as resources about mental health.

• The Fox Box
  From retro tech to old Minecraft mod development — plus pet photos

  Logan's site, The Fox Box, is what you'd expect from a personal NeoCities page. They're a retro tech enthusiast and — I find this particularly cool — a retro Minecraft mod developer, developing mods for really old Minecraft versions that even Mojang themselves seem to have forgotten about. They also share an abundance of photos of their bi-colored Norwegian Forest cat Leo, as well as their fluffy dogs Maggie and Cooper. Not many foxes though, oddly enough, despite their avatar being a fox anthropomorph.

• Illuminesce's Homepage
  Queer games and writing

  Illuminesce creates games, stories, and other multimedia with a generous dose of queer themes and content. While they don't share much about themselves per se, you can probably infer enough by their games and writings they put out on their homepage. Their current game project is Terranova, which you can find out more about on the Terranova itch.io page. They have also written a romance sci-fi story, The Space Between the Stars (free to download), involving an asexual character (called The Pilot) and a very adventurous character called The Engine. Illuminesce is part of the Yesterweb Ring, a collective of old-school websites that wish to keep the pre-commericalized look and feel of the "Web 1.0" alive — with the bad aspects excluded, of course. They have a widget of the Yesterweb Ring where you can find random sites that are part of the ring. Maybe you can find more interesting sites that way.

• Doomsdaybird
  (Pixel) art and Rivals of Aether content

  Doomsdaybird is the homepage of Hyuponia, an artist (especially pixel art by the looks of it) and hobbyist game developer. They do a lot of content for the fighting game Rivals of Aether, if that piques your interest. The website is very WIP, but you can find some neat stuff there, nonetheless.

Blogs

• ˜ajroach42.com
  Media preservation

  Andrew, just like me, is enthusiastic about preservation of media, from film to independent art. He's a contributor to the Internet Archive. Many of his writings are about a certain piece of media he found, but there are a good share of articles on preservation in general.

  My favorites are:

  • Document your art. Archive your art.
  • DIY Media
  • We are terrible stewards of history
• Louigi Verona's Workshop
  Humanitarian, socio-political, and FOSS articles

  There's quite a wealth of different topics that Louigi Verona discusses on his blog. Apart from the writings pages I've linked to above, he also does electronic music: specifically ambient, easy listening, and drone tracks. He also does minimal house too, under his Berlin is Quiet moniker.

  My specific two favorite articles of his are about FLOSS and Richard Stallman's Free Software Movement:

  • Why it is ok to criticize FLOSS
  • On the justification of the four freedoms — Ethics in the digital world

File Sharing

• Gofile.io
  Free and generous, donation-driven file hoster

  The summary title says it all. But to elaborate further, there are almost no limits: near unlimited bandwidth, file size, and file count. However, if you aren't a member, your files will expire after they haven't been downloaded after some time from different people, and you'll get served ads. To become a member, donate to Gofile's Patreon — the costs of hosting are enormous, and it's run by a single person from what it seems.

• Anonfiles.com
  Free and generous, allegedly download-logging-free file hoster

  This one is even more straight-forward than Gofile. There's unlimited bandwidth for registered users (registration is free) and a generous 20GB file size limit. There don't seem to be paid account options. The creator(s) of this site allege(s) in their Terms of Service that no logging of downloads is being done. Note that this implies that logging of the uploader is fair game, potentially to comply with local laws that would force them to cooperate with authorities. There's no information on how the site is being kept up financially, I think, unlike Gofile. But if you just want to drop a file for your friends to download, this is still a fine site.

• FilePizza
  Peer-to-peer WebRTC-based file transfers

  Note that this is not a file hoster. Rather, it allows you to present a file through a temporary link, which you can send to other people. As long as you leave the site open, people can directly download the file from your computer, with FilePizza acting as a proxy, not a hoster. Essentially, you become the hoster. This also means that transfer speeds are as quick as the host's or the downloader's internet connection, whichever is slower. You can also send multiple files at once. It's preferable for one-off file transfers over Anonfiles or the other services I listed here, in my opinion.

• IPFS
  Torrent-like peer-to-peer distributed file sharing

  I can't explain this in-depth in just a paragraph or two. Imagine torrents, but where all torrents and magnet links are indexed by design. Pinning a file is basically like seeding it. I only put it here for completion sake. NeoCities has added native support for it for archival purposes; read more about NeoCities IPFS support and how you can activate it for your site(s) on their blog post.

Programming

• Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine
  Planes and bivectors over quaterions

  A single, interesting article from Marc ten Bosch. It teaches a different way of thinking about 3D rotation that most programmers are used to. Quaternions are a pain to deal with and to figure out. Honestly, quaternions are so utterly incomprehensible that most that watch 3Blue1Brown's videos on quaternions or have gone through the interactive demo made by him and Ben Eater still don't quite get it — myself absolutely included.

  Let me be even more honest: I only barely understood this article here, but at least I felt like I understood the main concept — I at least can say that I understood something. In comparison to quaternions, I felt like I was trying to comprehend a whole 'nother dimension.
  Oh, right.