Links

Roughly-organized map of the internet (incomplete.)

Game Development and Philosophy

https://notgdc.io/

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

https://www.geemoonnyc.com/

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://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/local

Merveilles mastodon instance

https://peoplemaking.games/public/local

Videogame-centered instance

https://corteximplant.com/public/local

Cyberpunk instance

Linux

https://lwn.net/

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

https://refseek.com

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.

For your reference, today you will have: big trouble.