A list of online resources I’ve found useful.
Computers
- Microsoft Sysinternals tool suite: A collection of power tools for Windows. My personal highlights are Autoruns, lets you easily manage the processes that start up with your computer, and Process Explorer, which is like a higher-power version of the Task Manager that gives better visibility into resource usage and makes it easy to find the process linked with a certain displayed window.
- System Requirements Lab / Can You Run It: A utility that looks at your computer’s hardware specs and tells you how well it should run a particular video game.
- Liquid Rescale Library: Rescale images without distortion using the Seam Carving technique. Notably, links to the GIMP plugin so you can use it from an image editor.
Programming
- free-for.dev: A big list of free resources geared towards developers. The web host I’m using for this website, HelioHost, is one of the many things I’ve found from there.
- What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
Role-Playing
- Donjon.bin.sh: A collection of tools and generators for a variety of setting genres and game systems. First place I go if I need help coming up with stuff.
- Science Fiction Technology Terms (NASA): NASA’s guide to technology terms for use in science fiction (archived website, as it’s no longer available online)
- Dave’s Mapper: A tool for assembling or generating grid maps out of tiles.
- Azgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator: Randomly generates maps meant for fantasy settings. Lots of settings for generation and lots of options for display.
LARP
- Larp2Go: A whole lot of links to web shops useful for kitting yourself out for LARP. Maintained by a good friend of mine.
Home Ownership
- ABC Carpet Pro / Carpet Professor: Websites managed by Alan Fletcher, who has a lot of experience in the carpet industry, for the purpose of providing information on carpets to consumers. I highly recommend reading these sites before you start shopping for carpets; I saved a lot of money and ended up with carpets that I liked a lot better than I was about to get before coming across these sites.