Cool Sites
This page consists of websites that I think are neat and worth checking out. The first section is dedicated to blogs and personal sites made by cool people that have some pretty interesting stuff. The second section is dedicated to various websites that are useful and practical resources for whatever.
Blogs/personal sites
- alien.slackbook.org: Cool Slacker
- bellard.org: FFMPEG, QEMU, TCC guy
- briandfoy.github.io: Perl guy
- daniel.haxx.se: cURL guy
- hart.pglaf.org: Project Gutenberg guy
- joearms.github.io: Erlang guy
- nickblack.com: notcurses guy
- nrk.neocities.org: Cool C stuff
- ratfactor.com: Cool programming stuff, fellow Slacker
- unixdigest.com: Cool programming/Unix stuff
- www.crockford.com: JSON guy.
- www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth: TEX, The Art of Computer Programming guy
- www.nayuki.io: Cool programming/math stuff that I'm not smart enough to understand.
- www.tomwaits.com: Cool music guy.
- www.wall.org/~larry: THE Perl guy (also Raku)
Useful sites
- wikipedia.org: Online encyclopeida for everything.
- wikiquote.org: Resource for famous quotes.
- wiki.mobileread.com: Wiki for documenting ebook technologies.
- justsolve.archiveteam.org: Wiki for documenting file formats.
- slackbuilds.org: Repository for 3rd-party software for the Slackware Linux distribution.
- Slackware Current ChangeLog: Changelog for Slackware current, useful for tracking Slackware development.
- linuxquestions.org: Forum for Linux technical support and discussion. Also where most Slackware users hang out online.
- metacpan.org: Sleek interface for browsing CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network).
- frogfind.com: Search engine designed for vintage computers and basic web browsers (lynx, dillo, etc).
- gutenberg.org: Digital library of thousands of free, public-domain ebooks.
- librivox.org: Digital library of free and public-domain audiobook recordings.
Last Modified: 2025-03-26
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