Weird Old Book Finder (Clive Thompson) Search engine for weird old books.
Lux - Links
Links
Welcome to like the only populated page on my site!
I keep too many tabs open...
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE Magazine about "past and forgotten technologies"
Runs from a solar panel, so will sometimes be offline.
Solar ePaper Photo Frame (jamez.it)
DRCOS Free Sewing Patterns
STEPPER (Bad Diode) - 16 Step Sequencer for GBA
CO₂ Monitor (Larry Bank) - CO₂ Monitor using SCD41
The SCD41 looks very interesting, it detects CO₂ directly and not inferring it.
Adafruit GFX Font Customiser (tchapi)
Embroidered Computer (Irene Posch)
How to Use Static Site Generator Pelican (Charles Reid)
Which, uh, I should probably get to using to actually get this site running...
Unconventional Computer Thread Copy of a fediverse thread listing & discussing
unconventional computers and associated ideas.
Firefox Sidebar Tabs Configuration
Using Sidebery Addon. (You can unload tabs with it!)
Marginalia Search Experimental Small Search Engine
File over App (Steph Ango)
Making Watercolour Paint from Slate (estfyr)
Also from Brick
Simplifier Creating Early Tech Hardware
The Website Obesity Crisis (Maciej Cegłowski)
Deconstruction Mindset (Kira)
Plant Database
Fire-based Triode (Nyle Steiner)
Emoji History: The Missing Years (gingerbeardman) Pre-1997 Emoji
My4TH (Dennis Kuschel) Discrete Logic CPU Forth Computer
Forth Deck My4TH in a portable computer
Lospec Catalogue of palettes, also has pixel art
XFCE Themes - How To
Cyberdeck Cafe - Building guide
Carpentopod (Giliam de Carpentier) Think Strandbeest, but table.
List of Algorithms (Wikipedia)
Public.work Search engine for public domain images.
The Linkfest Fortnightly list of interesting links. (Clive Thompson)
Make It Yourself Digital book linking to 1000 DIY projects. (N-O-D-E)
[Topics include computing, hiking, fashion, gardening, and others. There's stuff here for multiple diciplines, and each project has icons indicating which ones are reqired between 3D printing, sewing, woodworking, laser cutting, electronics, leatherworking, CNC milling, papercraft, and metalworking.]
Also N-O-D-E's website , and youtube account. (Though youtube is rarely updated)
Weird Old Book Finder (Clive Thompson) Search engine for weird old books.
Search Engines with their own Indexes (Seirdy)
Personal Sites/Blogs/Wikis
XXIIVV (Devine Lu Linvega, part of Hundred Rabbits)
Kokorobot (Rek Bell, part of Hundred Rabbits)
Spellbook for Terminal stuff.
Josh On Design Blog About Programming
Typographic Programming Language
Maggie Appleton Essays About Programming
Video Game Stuff
Romhacking Romhacks, Translations, and romhacking Tools
Hit Save - e-Reader Card Preservation Video Game Preservation
Gaming Alexandria Game Preservationist Blog
SMS Power - Sega AI Computer Preservation of the Sega AI Computer.
A Prolog based microcomputer from 1986. They have a MAME emulator.
Gameboy Camera Mini Custom Gameboy Camera Cart
RomHacking.net Romhacks and Translations, mostly for older games.
Knitting Machine
MKManuals Knitting Machine manuals, magazines etc.
In the format of a shop, but it's all free. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Brother Knitting Machines Accessory Compatibility
List of Punchcard Sets (in pdf)
mostlyknittingmachines User and Service Manuals
Lists
"Delightful Creative Tools" (ADHDefy) - List of 2D, 3D, Audio, Writing, Coding. I believe all are FOSS.
Pictures (corkami) - File Format Cheatsheets and other stuff
Maker Skill Tree (sjpiper145) - 'Skill tree' of small goals and milestones for many skills and hobbies
Art Resource Database [Google Docs] (Scazrelet) - Huge list of resources,
from software, references, tutorials, blogs, etc.
Awesome Bluesky Tools and stuff related to Bluesky
Weird Desktop Environments
Starcel (Nick Maleki) [2GB, Windows only] 3D DE, scaling, plotting, etc. It looks wild.
Haven't tried it yet, though.
GodotOS (popcar2) [~22MB, Linux, Windows] Toy DE made in Godot, pretty standard, but cute.
hackaday.io
PotatoP (Andreas Eriksen) - Low Power, Memory Display, LISP machine
Tern (Mechanical Advantage) - Ternary Logic
Low Power ESP32 Handheld (Max.K) - Memory Display, Gyro-based cursor
PICOmputer (bobricius) - RP2040 Handheld Computer
ARMACHAT (bobricius) - Handheld LoRa Messenger
Light Logic (Dr. Cockroach) - Transistorless Logic, LEDs and CdS photo resistors
Lossy Text Compression (Greg Kennedy)
Internet Archive
How to Build a Working Digital Computer [1968]
by Edward Alcosser, James P Phillips, Allen M. Wolk
Papers
Mirages: On Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems
by Gavin Abercrombie, Amanda Cercas Curry, Tanvi Dinkar, Zeerak Talat
Deanthropomorphising LLM chatbots
The Design of a Relay-Based Computer (PDF, 92 pages, 11.4MB)
by Harry Porter
Hosting here because the site it was on died like the day after I found it. Had to snatch it from Wayback Machine.
The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015
by Long Tien Nguyen, Alan Kay
Software preservation
Webrings
XXIIVV
Homebrew CPU Ring
Typefaces/Fonts
Uncut.wtf Open Source Fonts
Freefaces.gallery Curated collection, variety of free licences.
Creating a Typeface from your Handwriting with FontForge (Rek Bell)
[I know there used to a be a site that would do this automatically, but I believe it shut down a while ago]