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Useful websites

• Infinite Screen - Scroll your desktop
• p300 - A personal file shareing program that just works
• Celestia
• phantomjs
• PhoneGap
• Ludum dare tools
• NASA Eyes on teh solar system
• Stellarium
• Fontello Create custom fonts
• gow - GNU on windows
• Live - Online text mangling
• choco - Windows installs
• explainshell - Paste a command line in to see what it does
• 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

• Moowheel - a circular connections graph.
• arborjs - dynamic spring graph
• Nicolas Garcia Belmonte - Data visualiser
• jsPlumb - Awesome links and boxes toolkit
• Subway map visualisation
• Software VCS visualiser

Reference

• Tuft's online annoted philosophy

• Everytrail - GPS traces

• Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

• Control functions for coded characters

• Optimisation manuals - Reference materials for low level optimising.

• (Don't) write your own terminal emulator

• State diagram for VT100 parser

• Isometric and Hex maps

• Algorithmic Compositions

• ToneMatrix

• Tracker code

• Otomata

• Chinese character decomposition

• Word lists

• 3GPP

• Vim cheat sheet

• Phase shift keying

• QAM

• Ten spiritual realms of Buddhism

• Random trees exploring

Tech/indepth

• TCP Handshaking
• The Art of the Problem
• Algorithmic Optimisation
• More optimisation

Fun

• Interactive online music
• LOTR project - a help "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

• Open COG RelEx
• Open COG Pobabalistic Logic Networks

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

• Zdzis?aw+Beksi?ski

Software I keep meaning to take a look at one day when I have the time (hahaha)

• Zeus

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

• Skytopia

Wat

• Virtual Village

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

Linux

• CoreOS
• OpenStack
• Funtoo - Next Generation Gentoo

Other

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