I've never used my browser bookmarks well. It's full of junk going back six or seven years at this point, and I can't remember a time where I've found something I've been looking for in my bookmarks. I never even check my bookmarks at this point, really.
In an effort to clean up my bookmarks folder, I'm taking all the useful resources I've bookmarked and putting them here, in this file. At the end of it, maybe I'll have a usable bookmarks folder.
Some of the links I've found are now dead, so I've either found an archive link or found the same info elsewhere. I've noted where that's the case.
- Meta
- Programming Reading Material
- References
- Software Libraries
- Specifications
- Stock Media
- Tools
- Web Design
- XNA
- Misc
A list of useful links isn't exactly a unique idea - and I bookmarked some of them.
- firstsiteguide (Used to be called thetoolbox.cc, I don't know if it's the same thing.)
- OpenGL Bookmarks
- This exact thing on Facepunch six years ago.
- Vlambeer toolkit & link repository
- The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List
- Game Development Books
- List of Freely Available Programming Books
Long-form stuff to read about programming.
I don't know what the proper word here is - something longer and broader than a tutorial, but still meant to be read start to finish, unlike a reference book, and not meant to be used in a class, unlike a textbook. I'm just taking "skill book" from The Sims.
- Beginner's guide to OCaml beginner's guides
- Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good
- Super NES Programming
Shorter and more specific than "skill books."
- A* Pathfinding for Beginners (Original is now dead.)
- Fractals in C#: The Mandelbrot Set (Original is now dead.)
Not meant to be read start-to-finish.
- Index of Refraction List (No idea why I bookmarked this.)
- Procedural Generation Wiki
- tl;drlegal
- AForge.NET (OpenCV for C# or something like that.)
- Jurassic (JavaScript runtime in C#.)
Official or unofficial specs.
I used to be really into file formats. I don't know.
- MultimediaWiki
- Quake 2 BSP File Format
- Request for Comments: Binary Static Mesh v1 (I guess the world just wasn't ready...)
- RollerCoaster Tycoon Technical Information Depot (Original is now dead.)
- Source BSP File Format
- Unofficial Quake 3 Map Specs
- Wotsit.org (Original is now dead.)
At some point I wanted to make a GameBoy emulator. Not sure why it didn't happen.
- Everything You Always Wanted To Know About GAMEBOY (Original is now dead.)
- GameBoy CPU Manual
- GameBoy Programming Info
- sharpgb
Stock photos, music, etc.
- McGuire Computer Graphics Archive (Used to be at graphics.cs.williams.edu but that's dead.)
- Artlist.io (Not free.)
- David Orr's Free Stock Audio
- Sonniss GameAudioGDC Bundle (Look up the older ones too.)
- Stock Music Master List (Original is now dead.)
- SweetSoundEffects
- Tracker Food (Samples)
- Exact Audio Copy
- SoX - Sound eXchange
- WinDivert (A packet loss simulator.)
- * { box-sizing: border-box } FTW
- Beautiful Web Type
- BrandColors
- CSS Code Snippets
- frontend.directory
- Paletton - The Color Scheme Designer
- Subtle Patterns
- ZenBG - Background Generator
I used to use XNA a lot, but now it's dead and we all use Unity. Oh well. Maybe somebody wants these.
- Action Squad (Absolutely love reading through this every few years.)
- Candy box
- QuoDB (Movie quotes.)