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Links tend to get outdated, and I don’t actively maintain this list.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 don’t want to receive requests for adding new entries to this page, and probably will not answer to such requests. I’m getting such requests regularly which are clearly just for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes for a given website. However, if you find one of the links is simply broken, I’m of course glad to hear that.

So here’s some places to go with a single click.

Recommended

(Links below have my referral info/code)

• Unity Asset Store

  Stuff to ease development with the Unity engine. You need especially Dynamic 3D Text. ;-)

• SteelSeries

  – I’m quite happy with my Arctis 5 2019 Edition headphones (wires USB ones)!

• MOO.com business cards, postcards, minicards, …

  Get 10% off on your first order

• iHerb.com – 5-10% off on your first order

  (coupon/reward code MQR882, applies to new customers)

Software development

• 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

• 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

• C#

  • Visual C#
  • Mono C# Compiler

• 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
    

• 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

• 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
    

• 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

• 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

• Language Pages

  • C# Programming Language – (wikipedia page about it)
  • C – The current C programming language standard
  • Perl – There Is More Than One Way To Do It
  • C++ – C++ Programming Language BS page
  • PHP – Hypertext Preprocessor
  • Lua – Powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language

• Perl

  • ActivePerl – ActiveState’s Perl for Windows

• Windows

  • MSDN Online – Essential resources for developers

• Fun stuff

  • Hello, World Page – “Hello, World!” in so many languages, but still not yet in all of them

• 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

• Utilities

  • GNU Emacs – the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor every coder should have and use
  • UPX – the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
    

• 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
• Resources on the English language – An annotated link list by Jukka Korpela
• Dicionário de rimas – Rhyming dictionary in Portuguese

Miscellaneous (uncategorized)

• Chewing Instict – Cooking, accidentally tasty
• 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

• Rustbloom
• Assembly – Assembly events
• tAAt

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)