Links
Warning: This link collection is mostly old stuff and some links are probably expired.
In early days of the internet it was customary to feature a link collection in a homepage. I did that too.
Links tend to get outdated, and I don’t actively maintain this list. So there’s a chance a link doesn’t work anymore or leads to wrong place. Please notify me if that happens.
Please note that I generally don’t appreciate requests for adding something to this page.
So here’s some places to go with a single click.
Recommended
(Links below have my referral info/code)
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Unity Asset Store
Stuff to ease development with the Unity engine
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MOO.com business cards, postcards, minicards, …
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iHerb.com – 5-10% off on your first order
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Books
Software development
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Links & Archives
- RFC archive – in ftp.funet.fi
- Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia – Trip to the past
- Faqsys – The classic. Lots of information about different topics. (Site is dead, so the link now points to archive.org’s copy)
- Numerical Recipes – About general algorithms
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3D
- Unity – Excellent 3D engine (also for 2D)
- JCGT.org – Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques
- Irrlicht – Nice and totally free 3D engine
- OpenGL – Official OpenGL site
- Real-Time Rendering Resources – Web site for the book Real-Time Rendering
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C#
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Java
- Processing – For prototyping, a software sketchbook
- Java.Oracle.com – The source for Java developers
- Jad – The fast Java Decompiler
- C++ -> Java Talk – Comparison between C++ and Java
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Libraries
- stb libraries – Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
- stb’s list of other similar libs – more usefulness
- clib Packages – Yet more snippets
- SDL – Simple DirectMedia Layer – Widely used cross-platform media library
- wxWidgets – Cross-platform GUI library
- The FreeType Project – A Free, Quality, and Portable Font Engine
- PNG Home Site – Portable Network Graphics, An Open, Extensible Image Format with Lossless Compression
- JPEG – JBIG – Home site of the JPEG and JBIG committees
- zlib Home Site – Patent-free and widely used compression library
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Sites
- Geometric Tools – Computer Graphics, Image Analysis, and Numerical Methods
- Game Developer Magazine – Game Development articles
- flipCode – Dead game development site. Archives are still worth browsing.
- Wotsit’s Format – The Programmer’s File Format Collection (Site is dead, so the link now points to archive.org’s copy)
- GameDev.net – Your Source for Game Development and Game Dictionary
- Gamasutra – The Art & Business of Making Games
- Tien-Tsin Wong – Dusty Computer Graphics Page
- Paul Bourke – Personal Pages – Interesting information about rendering, modeling, algorithms and more
- Ken Perlin – Nice Java applets and more
- Bit Twiddling Hacks – Useful snippets for fiddling & twiddling bits
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Other
- XML 1.0 – Extensible Markup Language (2nd Edition), W3C Recommendation
- Jargon File Resources – The New Hacker’s Dictionary
- Web-julkaisemisen opas – Ancient web publishing document in Finnish
- Cygwin – GNU development tools and utilities for Windows
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Free C/C++ Compilers
- GCC Home Page – GNU Compiler Collection
- GNU mingw32 – Another port of GNU stuff for Windows
- Visual Studio – Express/Community editions are free
- Open Watcom – This was excellent around late 90’s
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Language Pages
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Perl
- ActivePerl – ActiveState’s Perl for Windows
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Windows
- MSDN Online – Essential resources for developers
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Fun stuff
- Hello, World Page – “Hello, World!” in so many languages, but still not yet in all of them
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Music and Sound
- MikMod and libmikmod – Module player library
- Ogg Vorbis – Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compessed audio format
- FMOD – Quality Music and Sound Effects System from Firelight Multimedia
- BASS – Sound system for Windows and some utilities
- OpenCP – Open Cubic Player
- SoLoud – Free and portable C/C++ audio engine
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Utilities
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Network
- Beej’s Guide to Network Programming – Get a grip on the networking noise
- Photon – Networking engine
Magazine and news sites
- Slashdot – News for nerds, stuff that matters
- MikroBitti – Finnish computer magazine
Linux & Unix software and more
- OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.org – Free and complete Office suite(s).
- cURL – Client to fetch URLs
- FFmpeg – Cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video
- Ubuntu – Linux distro
- Alpine Linux – Linux distro w/various scopes, also for Raspberry Pi
- Raspbian – Another linux distro for Raspberry Pi
Music and Sound
- OverClocked ReMix – A website dedicated to reviving the videogame music of yesterday
- Remix.Kwed.Org – The Definitive Guide to C64 MP3 Remakes
- gechotonic
Dictionaries and language
- Acronym Finder – Look up 173,000+ acronyms/abbreviations & their definitions
- Merriam-Webster – Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Conjuga-me – Portuguese verb conjugation
- Resources on the English language – An annotated link list by Jukka Korpela
Miscellaneous (uncategorized)
- Putty – A Free Win32 Telnet/SSH Client
- On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences – Search for information of your favourite number sequence
- IMDb – The Internet Movie Database
- Tom’s Hardware Guide – Hardware articles
- Arrak Anagrammit – Automatic anagram generator (Finnish)
- Netcraft – Web Server Survey
Home pages / Blogs
- stRana – Artificial Artform
- Sol – Stories and code stories
- Random – Random artist
- Phaser – Mostly undocumented stuff
- McLad – McLad’s homepage
- !Cube – The best demoscene composer
- Teque – Da Studio
- Xmunkki.org – Xmunkki’s site
- Skaven – Skaven’s home page
Graphics, art and related
- Shadertoy – Toying with shaders in the browser
- The Geometry Junkyard – The Geometry site
- goodbrush.com – The Art of Craig Mullins
- blender – Free 3D Software. I don’t know how to use this, but I wish I would.
- Wings3D – Free 3D polygon modeler.
Games
- TyperA – Test your typing skills
Demoscene
Search engines and information
(if Google and Wikipedia aren’t enough)
- Internet FAQ Consortium – Loads of FAQ’s
- kartta.hel.fi – Helsingin ja pääkaupunkiseudun opaskartta (Finnish)
- Google – I thought you might need a link to this
Comics
- Dilbert – Dilbert, Dogbert and Coworkers
- XKCD – Romance, sarcasm, math and language
- Viivi ja Wagner – Popular Finnish comic
- Fingerpori – Weird humor (Finnish)