Links

Cool tools, resources, and other curiosities from around the web. This primarily exists so I don't lose these myself.

Language and writing

• OneLook — Search for related words, potential acronyms, words that start and end with specific letters, and similar.
• Searchable Index Diachronica — Search through academic sources on language sound evolutions. Invaluable for conlangers.

Digital art periodicals, anthologies, and criticism

• THE HTML REVIEW — Web-based art; annual.
• Indiepocalypse — Digital and physical "games"; monthly.
• Weird Fucking Games — Videogame curation; fortnightly.
• Exhibit:Play — Videogame curation; sporadic.
• TIER Review — Games crit.

Interactive art festivals

• A MAZE.
• Glasgow Indie Games Festival
• voidspace_

Assets

• Freesound — Free sound dot fucking org. Unsung hero of the indie games scene. Check attribution licenses per upload.
• Texture Ninja — Thousands of photo-realistic CC0 textures.

Good software and tools

• Launchy — All-in-one type-to-launch programs; I genuinely cannot use a PC without this.
• Anytype — Notion without the headache of dealing with Notion, local-first and offline with sync options. Primed for powerusers and data perverts.
• LightBulb — Dim your screen at night without lagging like f.lux.
• Anki — Free flashcards. Delete Duolingo and download this instead.
• Open Video Downloader — Want to download a video without remembering 50 cmd prompts?
• Shutter Encoder — Compress videos and images without uploading gigs of files to a random website.

Lists

• The Occult Library — List of modern occult texts and publishers.
• Submission Grinder — Database of magazines and lit journals accepting submissions.
• Rate Your Music — Stop using Spotify and start using RYM for music discovery. You can also get free aneurysms looking at ratings of your favourite albums.
• Apple Rankings — Apple (fruit) ranking.

Theory and self-study

• The Anarchist Library — CC0 anarchist theory.
• Low Tech Magazine — Low-tech theory and praxis.
• So You're Writing A Research Paper — Guide to writing academic papers, primed for humanities and social sciences.
• How to Bullet Journal — Learn how to bullet journal without the Instagram art journal bullshit.

Other

• Zenius arcade map — Find out what arcade cabs are near you. I use this exclusively for rhythm games.
• crouton.net — crouton