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The web is the greatest collaborative effort across and beyond humankind!
Linking to other people's and communities' works is a way of celebrating it!
Essential readings
- My handcrafted site, by Pixouls.
- Informática do Oprimido, by Rodrigo Ochigame (on /digiLabour).
Side note: the fish indeed knows nothing about the water in which it goes through its whole existence (but that's still the fish who better navigates it)...
- The metagaming manifesto: what should we do with our games?, by Stephanie Boluk and Patrick Lemieux (on Itch.io).
- The gentrification of the videogame history, by Felipe Pepe (on Medium).
Side note: it makes me think about the gentrification of the internet's own history by extension (as we see that in the "old web" common-place narrative) and many other things, like the business models of societies attached to a culture of digital goodies/licenses purchasing beyond games vs. the ones where advertising takes place ostensibly -- as the only way of going through a service because there's no other business alternatives locally (structural issue) and/or the ones existing (externally) do not offer a policy of purchasing power parity at the very least. And it also, obviously, makes me question what's piracy really about.
- A armadilha do jogo educativo, by Pedro Paiva (on Coletivo Peteca Nacional).
- Chart's Translations: Toby Fox's interview with Kikiyama
- Buying digital music, by Dan Erat.
Great resources and useful tools
P.S: it's not my intention to link to wide-known resources, such as The Internet Archive and other stuff!
- Transreads
- Libreflix
- Let's Learn Together
- Yume Wiki
- EasyRPG
- The CD-ROM Journal
- Mother4ever
- Game Engines DB
- ScummVM
- Git Gay
- Distrowatch
- Distrosea
- Open Clip Art
- Iffy Books - hacking, free culture, gardening, zines!
- SmolNet Portal - web proxy allowing you to explore what's happening inside the circles of alternate hipster internet protocols!
Web Radios
- Nightwave Plaza
- Tilde Radio
- Rádio Iara (RIP 🖤)
- Radio PSI
Indie/Personal websphere
Amazing blogs (powered by WriteFreely - Bearblog - MidnightPub - SmolPub)
- Receitas Práticas Agora, by Dani.
- Adrew's Blog
Amazing devs on Itch.io
Great artists on Bandcamp
Games that feel special
- Slot Brothers, the lost Earthbound game (not anymore).
- Pen Pals (unfinished game from the early web culture)
- The first ever brazilian SMW romhack to my knowledge, which is just a translation hack prior to Lunar Magic (the existing level editor for the game). By Marcelo Camanho (MacRj), I was able to find the author through the brazilian scientific resumes platform/database because of the full name in the README file as well as the location in the alias/nick lol'... This hack is particularly inspiring.
Web forums, boards and communities
Anti-AI (LLMs) software collection
Guides and glossaries
- How to legally stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux
- What to do when you can't escape a toxic living situation -- cw: mention of abusive patterns and situated emotional/physical violence.
- Self care checklist, by Pixouls.
- Computer & Programming Basics