This is where I put links to cool websites I find. Will be shuffled each time this site is generated, just so it won't be obvious if the one site was found from the one
immediately before it
- https://xeiaso.net/: Cool blog with programming stuff. I like blogs.
programming, blog,
- https://nocss.club/: A small list of sites that use NO css.
more sites,
- https://web.archive.org/: The wayback machine. Wanna browse youtube as it appeared in 2006? Then you can use this site.
important,
- https://ctyme.com/rbrown.htm: Online edition of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List. It lists a bunch of functions exposed by the BIOS
that you can use from, like, 16-bit assembly. You'll need this if you want to play around with making
your own OS (unless you only care about UEFI computers and not BIOS ones). Might also be useful
for programming in DOS
programming, reference,
- https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/: Quick guides on cybersecurity on a bunch of topics. Why should you only store the hash
of users' passwords in a database? Because then if a hacker gets ahold of the database,
they won't be able to see all the passwords!!!!!!!!!!!
programming, guides, reference,
- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/intel-sdm.html: Intel's complete x64 and x86 software developer manual. It's FREE. I like the full ~25 MB PDF. This has probably everything you need to know about
the low-level workings of x64 and x64 CPUs and will be your best friend if you're writing a compiler, an OS,
or just wanna know how to write machine code by hand.
programming, reference, important,
- https://yarchive.net/: An archive of posts from smart people on Usenet. Topics include air conditioning, chemistry, jokes,
metalworking, and space
reference,
- https://search.marginalia.nu/: A search engine that focuses on non-commercial content
more sites,
- https://www.regexone.com/: This is an interactive tutorial for regex. If you don't know regex then you should
check it out.
programming, guides,
- https://www.unm.edu/~tbeach/IT145/bytopic.html:
programming, guides,
- https://www.freecell.io/game/freecell-windows-xp/: Play the Windows XP version of freecell in your browser. It also tells you how to play and
what the seeds for the hardest/easiest/longest freecell games are.
fun,
- https://wiby.me/: "A search engine for the classic web". Just a search engine that mostly
returns non-commercial sites. Has a button to take you to a random one,
which can be a pretty fun use of time
fun, more sites,
- https://koshka.love/: Cool bloggish with a lot of different stuff in it. Check out the links page on it
blog, fun, more sites,
- https://webglfundamentals.org/: Interactive guide for WebGL, which is pretty much OpenGL but in javascript in a web browser. WebGL
might be the easiest way to get started coding with OpenGL-esque stuff? Since just getting to the
point where you can code in OpenGL on PC (setting up the environment for it ig) is nightmarish to me.
programming, guides, reference,
- https://prsnl.site/: A collection of personal websites
more sites,
- https://www.programming-idioms.org/: Found this when I looked up "shuffle function in lua" for probably
the 10th time in my life. Ironically it was to make this page and shuffle
all the links here.
programming, guides,
- http://debidawn.com/: A site that seems to be straight out of 1999. Not because of someone's nostalgia but because
it probably actually is. There's a lot of ads on it too old(?) to be blocked by ublock, and it
seems like someone really wanted to make money on the internet. None of the ads seem to lead anywhere
anymore. Who pays for the hosting and the domain name?? Cool site
wonder,
- https://taylor.town/: A blog with some neat essays and stuff
programming, blog,
- https://sqlbolt.com/: Interactive tutorial for SQL queries.
programming, guides,
- https://gossipsweb.net/: "the directory of handmade webpages". Seems fun to look around on.
more sites,
- https://bernsteinbear.com/: Tech blog
programming, blog,
Some things I've noticed about the internet is that smaller, noncommercial, specific sites and blogs can have information just
as good as what's in sites that search engines will find you. Because of SEO,
the sites you find with search engines are usually:
- pretty garbage and trying to sell you something
- full of filler
- bloated, slow, and ads
but you can still learn things from them, if you try hard enough.
Personal websites aren't insufferable like SEO websites, but they seem much harder to find. The content also usually seems tech-related (understandable, though,
since those are the types that make their own websites. Other people just stick to s*cial m*dia or SEO corporate blogposts). Oh well.