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A public list of bookmarks. Pages that I want to find again easily and share with people.

Description

Inspired by matklad and Drew DeVault, I wanted a permenant place to collect links that have helped me in order to build knowledge and signal boost them.

Live Coding

What is live coding?: https://blog.toplap.org/about/

Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is getting somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. Live coding works across musical genres, and has been seen in concert halls, late night jazz bars, as well as algoraves. There is also a strong movement of video-based live coders, writing code to make visuals, and many environments can do both sound and video, creating synaesthetic experiences.
TOPLAP Manifesto Draft: https://toplap.org/wiki/ManifestoDraft
This manifesto is partly toungue in cheek, but it does underscore some of the values and ideas behind live coding.

Graphics

Rendering Crispy Text on The GPU: https://osor.io/text
How to render text on the GPU, focused on the parts that I find interesting. With a number of surprisingly elegant tricks.
Avoiding Trigonometry: https://iquilezles.org/articles/noacos/
Insights on how to make graphics programming simpler by using vectors more.
Shader Basics, Blending & Textures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfM-yu0iQBk
A great intro to how shaders work, from the shader sorceress herself.
Graphics Studies Compilation: https://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2020/12/29/graphics-studies-compilation/
Arain Courrèges and others break down how various different games render their scenes, with expert commentary.
How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it: https://edw.is/learning-vulkan/
Learning Vulkan is not impossible if you avoid OOP.
How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it: https://edw.is/learning-vulkan/
Learning Vulkan is not impossible for a solo dev.
It's not the API: https://www.youtube.com/live/zYAif5PhhoQ?t=21434
Vulkan can potentially be simpler if you embrace first principles.

Software Development

Contempt Culture: https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture
On the phenomenon of programming communities which signify values and group membership through contempt.

Society

You Can't Fight Enshittification: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/
I've noticed a lot of people in discussions miss the key meaning behind the term Enshittification: Enshittification is deliberate and systemic. We can't stop it by just writing better software!
The Male Glance: https://www.vqronline.org/spring-2018/essays/male-glance
If The Male Gaze is a pre-occupation with women's physical appearance, The Male Glance is the dismissal of women's work and art as shallow and unworthy of deeper consideration.

Web Development

You no longer need JavaScript: https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/
Some really cool things one can do with CSS and HTML that have me rethinking how I write this blog.
Against Horizontal Scroll: https://matklad.github.io/2025/04/22/horizontal-scroll.html
Tips on preventing horizontal scroll for websites.
Data Oriented Blogging: https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/07/dta-oriented-blogging.html
Touches on something I have felt which is that a lot of static site generators ignore the tree-based nature of HTML, which makes writing structured documents harder.
Producing HTML using string templates has always been the wrong solution: https://www.devever.net/~hl/stringtemplates
An instrumental document in helping me understand why I don't like hugo style shortcodes.

Video Games

Game Wikis: https://getindie.wiki/listings/
A listing of classic, honest-to-goodness video game wikis. None of the SEO optimized, add-stuffed "fandom" sites.

WebComics and Graphic Novels

I read a lot of webcomics and graphic novels, here are some of my favorites:

Kill Six Billion Demons: https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/ksbd-chapter-1-1/
KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS!
Dark Science: https://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01/
Captures something fascinating about living in the age of social media. Also gay as hell.
3rd Voice: https://rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/
Interesting fantasy post apocalypse. More than 1 great webcomic on this site! Also, peak webcomic site design. Everyone do it like this please.
What Happens Next: https://whathappensnext.webcomic.ws/comics/1
Deconstruction of true crime, with prominent trans themes.
Ava's Demon: https://avasdemon.com/pages.php#0001
Beautifully illustrated comic about mental illness and tyranny.
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All: https://dynasty-scans.com/series/the_guy_she_was_interested_in_wasnt_a_guy_at_all
The title says it all: cute queer romance.
Gunerkrigg Court: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1
British Magic School, but with a unique tone, setting, and concept.