Site list

This is a big list of websites and webpages that I like.

Webrings are one decent solution for discovering good sites, but the problem with webrings is that they’re totally linear. I think people should put links to other good sites up on their site.

This is a list of other people’s personal sites, but also a lot of miscellaneous resources that I’ve found over the years, which might be of some use to others.

Some of these sites are less minimal than others, but I draw the line at soydevvery.

People and blogs

• Jontes.page
• probablysaeko
• avunit.tk
• Mark McNally - idk this guy but he put me on his list of good websites. thank you mark 🙏
• karl.berlin - only a few blog posts, but they are bangers
• Jacob’s Unnamed Blog - the blog of jacob smith. some interesting writings on there
• bugswriter’s website - this guy’s videos are gold for intermediate linux users. he’s pretty cool
• DrPetter’s site - he has some interesting stuff on sound synthesis. home of sfxr
• Such Programming - informational content on pointers and other good stuff
• LazyFoo Productions - good tutorials on programming graphics. i definitely didn’t take inspiration from his website layout.
• linus akesson - a lot of really cool demos and stuff on here
• rachelbythebay - writings, games, code, and more are on this site
• Nathan’s Toasty Technology Page - anti internet explorer propaganda
• The Yesterweb - a site about how the internet has changed
• Justin Jackson - some guy with interesting writings on his site

Misc

• wiby.me - one of the only good search engines in existence. use this if you want to find decent sites.
• realultimatepower.net - are you ready to get pumped?
• Marginalia Search - another really nice search engine that actually crawls and indexes minimalist sites itself.
• Yesterlinks Directory - a list of cool sites, courtesy of the Yesterweb
• wttr.in - curl wttr.in for weather info in your terminal
• Worlio Traveler - a 3d virtual hangout program from the 90s
• Eliza - rogerian therapist simulator
• Naming Schemes - naming schemes for things like server names, variables, streets, children, projects, or whatever else
• Apology Letters - this website is absolutely hilarious
• The 2nd Battalion Page - andy’s battalion game
• A.N. Lucas’s 88x31 Button Collection - a collection of 88x31 web buttons

Computer stuff

Misc

• Shadow Wiki - really awesome info on a lot of stuff
• Rosetta Code - the rosetta stone of programming languages
• Teach Yourself CS - learn you a computer science for great good
• Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal - A CLASSIC :))))
• Easy Forth - learn the forth programming language
• Easy 6502 - learn how to write 6502 assembly
• ANSI color codes - list of all ansi color codes
• X11 Key Names - list of the X11 key names for most keys
• Cool but obscure X11 tools - a list of some less-known tools and toys for X11
• Big Pile of Vim-like - big list of programs with vim-like interfaces
• Sound Programming - a lot of stuff related to sound programming
• Wiki.vg - a wiki about minecraft’s nitty gritty internals
• The Cheapskate’s Guide to Computers and the Internet - a website dedicated to low-cost computing and internet access
• Wayland Isn’t Going to Save The Linux Desktop - the wayland meme has been deboonked!

Anti-Systemd Propaganda

• Broken by design: systemd - ewontfix’s rant on the shortcomings of systemd
• systemd is the best example of Suck - suckless’ obvious criticisms of soystemd
• No systemd - the (official?) anti-systemd website
• “Why suckless is wrong about systemd” - i don’t necessarily agree with a lot of this guy’s points, but in the spirit of unbiasedness, i’m putting it here

Brainfuck

• Brainfuck.org - collection of brainfuck programs and links to other bf-related sites
• the brainfuck archive - archive of cool brainfuck programs

DECtalk

• Fonix DECtalk user guide - a lot of useful info on dectalk phonemes, tones, etc
• aeiou - web interface for DECtalk. i have contributed stuff to this site :)

TI-84

• TI-Basic Developer - a lot of good info on programming in TI-Basic
• ticalc - games and tools for TI calculators
• Cemetech - old-school site about calculator programming. home of sourcecoder, a proprietary 🤮 web-based 🤮 TI-Basic IDE, but it’s the only half-decent-to-use one I know of

Web programming

• LandChad.net - super useful for learning how to set stuff up
• CGI Tutorial - old-school tutorial on writing perl CGI scripts
• Web developer tools - some useful tools for web programming

Chess

• rocechess - home of ROCE (roman’s own chess engine)
• UCI protocol - spec for the universal chess interface (UCI)
• chess programming wiki - everything you need to know about chess programming

C

• xv6 source code - a rewrite of unix v6
• CSE 20211 - home of gfx and wavfile, simple libraries for drawing graphics and creating wav files
• Float toy - gain an intuition about how floating point numbers work
• floating point guide - what every programmer should know about floating point math
• Rob Pike’s notes on programming in C - invaluable insight on constructing programs in C
• aiju’s notes on programming in C - aiju’s deprecated insights on writing in C
• Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours - learn all the necessary parts of C
• Obscure C - some obscure parts of C that are worth knowing about
• Some obscure C features - more obscure C features
• A beginner’s guide away from scanf - EVERY C BEGINNER SHOULD READ THIS
• A short Xlib tutorial - tronche’s unfinished but useful Xlib tutorial
• HTTP Made Really Easy - a guide to writing HTTP clients and servers
• Tiny HTTPd - homepage of a very tiny webserver
• Malloc tutorial - implement your own malloc()
• Build Your Own Lisp - learn C and build your own lisp in one book
• Build Your Own Text Editor - tutorial for writing a text editor, based on antirez’s kilo
• Mandelbrot program - some guy’s program that generates a mandelbrot fractal
• Beej’s Guide to Network Programming - guide to writing net clients and servers. this guy also has a lot of other nice guides.
• The PPM Image Format - PPM is good for simple programs that need to generate image files
• Lode’s Raycasting Tutorial - nice resource for learning how to write a raycaster. this guy has other useful tutorials too
• The syntax of C in BNF - the syntax of the C language in Backus-Naur Form
• Introduction to parsing theory - an introduction to writing parsers and interpreters by aiju
• lcc - a retargetable compiler for ANSI C
• Stop the autoconf insanity! Why we need a new build system - (archived on my site) a tirade on the crappiness of autoconf

Informational

Cooking

• Based.Cooking - the product of an epic battle between soydevs and based thinkpad user in woods
• Jacob’s Guide to Possibly Delicious Food - jacob smith’s cookbook

Toki Pona

• Toki Pona Dictionary - official toki pona dictionary
• anther toki pona dictionary - an interactive toki pona dictionary

Calming/Web toys

• pointer pointer - a pointer to your pointer
• falling falling - infinite falling shapes, + shepard tone
• drawing garden - draw emojis with your mouse
• Smash The Walls - cathartically take out your anger on the walls
• open this window - go ahead, open it
• Bury Me With My Money - bury him with his money
• WindowSwap - look out a random person’s window
• ZOMBOCOM - you can do anything at zombocom, the only limit is yourself
• Canvas Cycle - little animated world snapshots with sound
• Living Worlds - like canvas cycle, but with more worlds and options
• the end of town - explore a cute quiet town at night

???

• The Biggest Java Ball On The Web - it’s the biggest one