This is a random collection of links to stuff I found interesting or useful.
linux
- How to disable/enable journaling on an ext4 filesystem
- “Why I love Vim”
- How to enter arbitrary Unicode chars in vim
- How to do multi-hop SCP transfers
- Changing the framebuffer terminal colors
- Burning an ISO file from the terminal
- Alpine Linux Syslinux manual
- Automatic reboot after a kernel panic
- Turning off buffering in pipes
coding
- Writing C software without stdlib (alternate link)
- Common predefined OS-dependent macros
- A tutorial on portable makefiles (i.e. not dependent on gnu make)
- nanoprintf, an embeddable printf written in C99
- How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments
- awesome-c on Github
- pico-8 api cheatsheet, somewhat out-of-date
- JSON-C library docs
- Implementing SSL on 8-bit micros
- Sega Genesis/MD VDP general usage
- x86/AMD64 instruction reference
- Sega Genesis/Mega Drive VDP Graphics Guide v1.2a (03/14/17)
- Linked lists, pointer tricks and good taste
gaming
- Phantasy Star Online | Dreamcast Online Multiplayer | Live Stream | 6/9/2018 - YouTube
- Wave Function Collapse – a game where you explore a procedurally generated city
- SIGIL, a DOOM WAD made by John Romero
- Description of the IPS patch file format
- Rules for 3 player Riichi Mahjong
- Panel Flux, a web puzzle game with procedurally generated puzzles
- Ocarina of Time randomizer-inspired sudoku
politics
- Jeremy Vine: My Boris (Johnson) Story
- Yanks to the Rescue: how the Boris Yeltsin 1996 campaign hired American campaign advisors and used their techniques to win Russia’s first democratic election
history
- The Spartans Were Morons
- “Why isn’t the new year on winter solstice?”: a Mastodon thread
misc
- Pixel art tutorials by Studio MiniBoss
- Shuto Highway 83, a shader toy
- LRR’s Checkpoint PUBG name supercut
- A beginner’s guide to music theory
cool youtube channels
- Console Wars, cool dudes who compare games. Reminds me of the earlier days of YouTube.
- decino, a DOOM let’s-player also known for making videos on Classic DOOM’s mechanics.
- LoadingReadyRun, Canadian comedians whomst did lots of sketch comedy and still do cool stuff like CheckPoint, Friday Nights and QWERPLINE
- SNES drunk, does videos on both famous and obscure SNES, Genesis and arcade games
- Jay Foreman, British funny dude who does “Map Men”, “Unfinished London” and “Politics Unboringed”.
- Secret Base, awesome sports nerds
- Overly Sarcastic Productions, make good videos about history and mythology
- Stop Skeletons From Fighting, videos on cool and obscure games and peripherals
- Jim Sterling, regular videos on the state of the games industry
- TOEI TOKUSATSU WORLD, release lots of old tokusatsu shows on YouTube for free. Some even have English subtitles.
