Links
Roughly-organized map of the internet (incomplete.)
Game Development and Philosophy
Alternative version of the massive commercial great big expensive Game Developer's Conference
https://www.hempuli.com/blog/
Hempuli's blog, creator of Baba Is You! and a ton of other good things.
https://auratriolo.com/blog/
Auro Triolo's blog, creator of Wanderstop, something I found on fediverse.
https://rinku.livejournal.com/
Paul Eres' live journal. The last post was 2015. Whatever happened to Saturated Dreamers? Whatever happened to Paul Eres?
https://www.todepond.com/
Lu Wilson, amazing computer art practitioner and philosopher.
Indie Game Scene
I feel that indie games are still vibrant. The part that apocalpysed was only the commercial viability, and then only sort-of.
https://warpdoor.com/Warp Door is a curated games blog that has been around for some time now. As a bonus you can experience the rare anticipation that comes from a slow-loading site.
https://findnicegames.com/
Find Nice Games, a curated index of games.
https://itch.io/c/7037/the-good-stuff
The Good Stuff, an itch.io collection by alienlemon aka Nathalie Lawhead
https://www.freegameplanet.com/
Free Game Planet, a blog of indie games, more or less. A little impersonal but seems ok.
https://www.alphabetagamer.com/
Alpha Beta Gamer, a sister site to Free Game Planet, just listing public beta tests for games.
Retro Games
I spend a lot of time thinking about games I played as a kid and teenager. I could probably do to unpackage this a bit in terms of my emotional life, but why bother?
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/This is the best podcast.
https://icrontic.com/article/the-guardian-legend-nes
Someone sent me this link to their love-letter to The Guardian Legend, an NES game I have played a bit.
https://pepsimanvsjoe.blogspot.com/
An interesting-looking retro games blog, reviewing (in 2025) Links Awakening for GBC, which is how I played it (except on 3DS.)
Photography
Gee Moon is an NYC street photographer.
https://frame-lines.com/blogs/interviews/paulie-b-interview
Framelines interview with Pauli B. It's really something that he does not seem to have a portfolio, but a lot of photographers will rely entirely on instagram.
Curi Web
Links to the curious or small or static site generator web sites and sights, like this mine, here.
https://smallweb.cc/This is a curated list of of small unique personal websites.
http://www.dialup.cafe/~vga256/
Homepage of vga256, whose writes about technology in a way that is personal, reflective, wistful.
https://pdp8.info/
I'm not sure whose site this is, but there are some photos I like on the front page.
https://explore.marginalia.nu/view
I actually don't really know what this is, you click some arrows and see I think screenshots of old websites? So this is a 2D viewmaster for the web, on the web? It's good enough to visit, I'll say that.
https://100r.co
Two people who create a lot of interesting and thoughtful things.
https://rabbitwaves.ca/
From 100 rabbits, Rek's site I think and it has things about boats and other topics in comic form.
https://www.cathos.net/
Website for cathos from the fediverse.
https://jplebreton.com/
Home page of JP LeBreton, who makes game art.
https://alexwennerberg.com/
Alex Wennerberg, who writes about books and programming.
https://www.ubu.com/papers/index.html
This looks like an excellent and diverse collection of papers on different topics dealing with conceptual art, I think.
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2025/website-fit-for-1999/
Interesting blog post about building a retro website.
Fedivers
Each link here is to the live feeds which is the latest posts by anyone on these instances.
https://merveilles.town/public/localMerveilles mastodon instance
https://peoplemaking.games/public/local
Videogame-centered instance
https://corteximplant.com/public/local
Cyberpunk instance
Linux
I'm not sure but it might stand for Linux World News
https://lemmy.sdf.org
I actually have no idea what this
Search Engines
A search engine for academic information. I searched up Kylie Minogue and sure enough, there was solid information about her. The google results for this same search are terrible.
https://worldcat.org
Search information in libraries. I haven't tried it.
https://bioline.org.br
Bioline is a source for research journals.
https://blog.front-matter.io/
Front Matter looks like something called Rogue Scholar, some of the posts talk about things like InvenioRDM. Briefly I read on this site a critique that humanities papers are expected to be submitted in Microsoft Word, and that this was a bad thing, actually terrible, and it was arguing for academic work to be in Markdown. I think agree with that. This looks like a Good Site, I could simply click the About page and know more, but I thought you would appreciate first-hand impressions more.
