Neonauticon Web Directory
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- 7nonsense - a song of photography and glitch
- Coyote's Link Hub - essays and webweaving
- incessantpain - chronicler of photography, cameras, fashion, manga, vijigame, neocities itself, existence
- Teeny Towers - build a web room, swap a web room
- syslbnth - a maze of cyber, games, obscurities
- slimysomething - home of the internet graveyard, dreams, cyberthoughts, many rabbits
Android Apps
Aquaria
It's hard to find accurate information on Goldfish online. A highly recommended book is Fancy Goldfish: A Complete Guide to Care and Collecting by Richard Hess and Erik Johnson.
Books
Cyber Diversions and Frivolities
Data Archives and Preservation
DeGoogling and Privacy
See also: Search Engines
- Aegis - Android OTP Authenticator, an alternative to the Google Authenticator
- Aurora Store - Google Play Alternative
- Firefox - Browser alternative (see recommended configuration)
- Freetube - Desktop YouTube client
- Just Delete Account - Helpful aid for deleting unused and unwanted accounts when the method is obscured.
- NewPipe - Android YouTube client
- Privacy Guides - non-profit with tons of information on privacy and recommended tools
- ProtonMail - Email, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Calendar, and Authenticator alternatives
- Tuta - Email and calendar alternatives
- Bitsy - A game editor for tiny sprite-based games.
- Game-Icons - Useful for Android apps and board game prototypes
- Godot - Free open source 2D/3D game engine.
- Nandeck - Card deck templating software I use to design and retheme print-and-play tabletop card games.
- OpenGameArt - Video game art resources under various licenses
- Ren’Py - Free open source Visual Novel engine that ports to Windows, Linux, and Android.
- Twine - Free interactive story tool.
Print and Play Games
Some people get into PNP for the papercraft aspect, some get into it to have access to more games. I enjoy it for both reasons.
- BGG Print and Play Guild
- DriveThruCards - Indie card shop that also sells a number of PNP games.
- PNP Arcade - Has a wide range of free and paid PNP games organized by by player count, which is particularly useful to the solo gamer. Currently emphasises micro and card games as well as roll-and-writes.
- Randomskill.Games Print & Play - PNP storefront, has some unique titles.
- Wargame Vault - Source of PNP and POD games, with more emphasis on war, skirmish, and miniature games.
Solitaire Gaming
Solitaire gaming, or playing tabletop games solo, is naturally fun for me after so many years enjoying single-player video games. See also: Tabletop Gaming
Resources for Tabletop gaming more generally, mostly useful stat apps for BoardGameGeek. See also: Solitaire Gaming, Print and Play.
Video Games
Resources for video gamers, including sites that do a wide range of reviews and useful apps. See also: Freeware List of Excellence.
- Animated Screenshots: The Complete GIF Archive
- The Cutting Room Floor - A wiki dedicated to cut video game content.
- Glorious Trainwrecks- Dev community celebrating beautiful messes.
- Hardcore Gaming 101 - A wealth of articles on gaming, including many obscure titles.
- How Long To Beat - Sometimes I want to start a long game. Sometimes I want to play a short one. This site crowd-sources playtimes.
- Is There Any Deal? - Price comparison tool for games and bundles.
- itch.io - Indie game marketplace for video games, tabletop games, rulebooks, zines, assets, freeware, and more.
- The Lost Levels - A blog about unrelased games. The bloggers have since gone on to do other things, but the archives are interesting.
- Metroid Construction - Metroid game hacking community
- RetroidNoobs -
's extreme beginner's guide to Retroid Pocket 2+.
- Retro-Sanctuary - A retrogaming site with game comparisons and top 100 lists.
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun - PC game reviews and news site. Jolly good.
- Romhacking.net - Massive romhacking community with many translations, homebrews, and QOL fixes.
- Scorchy’s Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II Let’s Play - One of the greatest LPs of our time, on a flawed and amazing game.
- Shmups Forum - Hardcore (and perhaps infamous) shmup fan forum
- Shmupulations - Archive of English-translated Japanese developer interviews and articles.
- Zany Video Game Quotes
Search Engines
See also: Seirdy's A look at search engines with their own indexes.
Bravo Search - Independent anonymized search results
Clew - Independent indie-focused search engine with limited index size
DuckDuckGo - Anonymized search based on Bing
Ecosia - Known for using renewable energy sources and investing in tree-planting projects, search is based on Google and Bing.
Gibiru - Privacy focused, modified Google results
greppr - an "old school" keyword-based search engine with an independent curated index.
IndieWeb Discover
Kagi - Subscription-based search engine using a combination of major and specialized search engine results
Marginalia Search - Open source, independent results biased toward personal, non-commercial, and lightweight sites.
Mojeek - Independent search engine
SearchMySite - search engine for personal sites that opt in
Start Page - Anonymized search based on Google and Bing
Tineye - Reverse Image Search
Wiby - Classic web search engine focusing on lightweight and personal sites.
Software
This is a list of software I actively use that doesn’t fall into more specific categories. Most are free.
Utilities
- EZGif - quick and easy gif optimization online without having to download a dubious zip file
- Syncthing - a free open-source file sync program
- tinypng - Smart image compression
Blinkie Generator - Build a blinkie!
