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- [Mutant Standard emoji color reference](mutant-standard)
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## Games

### Diablo II
- [The Arreat Summit](http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/files.shtml)
- [Basin Wiki](https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.php/Diablo_II)
- [FAQtoids](http://www.mannm.org/d2library/faqtoids/faqtoids_eng.html)
- [The Phrozen Keep](https://d2mods.info/home.php)
- [Diablo II File Guide (pdf, 2.2 MiB)](/files/diablo/D2Fileguide.pdf)

### Final Fantasy XIV
- [Yoshida Uncensored 1](https://blog.kouhi.me/translation-ffxiv-yoshida-uncensored-1/), fan translation (Shini-tan, 2018)
- [Yoshida Uncensored 2](https://blog.kouhi.me/translation-ffxiv-yoshida-uncensored-2-complete-extra-afterword/), fan translation (Shini-tan, 2018)

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## Disability and Mental Health
- [The Spoon Theory](https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/) (Miserandino, 2003) - the original. none of this fucking appropriated-for-management "out of spoons" that i've seen before, but a disabled woman explaining how she has to manage energy doing tasks that most people don't even think about.
- [i almost killed myself before i could finish making this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOw8fEnT8YE) (scotch, 2018) - i watch this shit every 6 months and it makes me cry and gives me the strength to carry on at the same time
- [I am not always very attached to being alive](https://theoutline.com/post/7267/living-with-passive-suicidal-ideation) (Borges, 2019) - frank discussion of passive ideation.
- [Reviving the concept of cousins.](https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/cousins/) (Baggs, 2016)
- [Common Cyborg](https://granta.com/common-cyborg/) (Weise, 2018)

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## Technology
- [How Complex Systems Fail](https://how.complexsystems.fail/) (Cook, 2000)
- [Agile Manifesto](https://agilemanifesto.org/) (2001) - the original, as I like to call it "shut up and let us work"
- Hillel Wayne's The Crossover Project, debunking "software engineering is not engineering" by talking to engineers who've done both software and other engineers
    - [Are We Really Engineers?](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/)
    - [We Are Not Special](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/we-are-not-special/)
    - [What engineering can teach (and learn from) us](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/what-we-can-learn/)
- [should we stop making software?](https://blog.spencermounta.in/2021/should-we-stop/) (Kelly, 2019)

### Lessons? - TBA a better name here

- [Julia Evans Comics](https://wizardzines.com/comics/), mostly about command line tools, HTTP, and CSS
    - [git cheat sheet](https://wizardzines.com/comics/git-cheat-sheet/)
- [The Missing Semester of Your CS Education](https://missing.csail.mit.edu/), student-run course at MIT in 2020

### Luddism

Criticism of tech, from knowledgeable folks, on the basis of ethics, anti-capitalism, privacy, environmentalism...

- [Lowtech Manifesto](http://www.lowtech.org/projects/n5m3/) (Wallbank, 1999)
- [Even in tech, words matter](https://deninet.com/blog/2018/09/09/even-tech-words-matter) (socketwench, 2018)
- "[Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.](https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920)"
- [Contra Chrome](https://contrachrome.com/) (Elliot, 2022), edit of the original 2008 Chrome introduction webcomic to explain just how much of a surveillance machine Google products and the modern Internet as a whole is
- [Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages](https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages) (Prereira et. al., 2017-2021)
- [Environmental impact assessment of online advertising (pdf, 2.0 MiB)](/files/Pärssinen2018.pdf) (Pärssinen et. al, 2018)

### Code Format & Style

I intend to write a summary of what I've learned from these (and my own experience) at some point... but until then, here are the links.

- [Four Strategies for Organizing Code](https://medium.com/@msandin/strategies-for-organizing-code-2c9d690b6f33) (Sandin, 2016)
- [Towards Inclusive Source Code Readability Based on the Preferences of Programmers with Visual Impairments](https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642512) (Pandey, Oney, & Begel, 2024)
    - available for personal use on request
- [A systematic literature review on the impact of formatting elements on code legibility (pdf, 594 kiB)](/files/Oliveira2023.pdf) (Oliveira et. al., 2023)
- [Understanding Misunderstandings in Source Code](https://doi.org/10.1145/3106237.3106264) (Gopstein et. al., 2017)
- [Typographic Style is More than Cosmetic](https://doi.org/10.1145/78607.78611) (Oman & Cook, 1990)
- [Program Indentation and Comprehensibility](https://doi.org/10.1145/182.358437) (Miara et. al., 1983)

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## Short Fiction
- Aphyr's software witch interviews
    - [Reversing the technical interview](https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-interview)
    - [Hexing the technical interview](https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview)
    - [Typing the technical interview](https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview)
    - [Rewriting the Technical Interview](https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-interview)
    - [Unifying the Technical Interview](https://aphyr.com/posts/354-unifying-the-technical-interview)

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## Other

- [Ian's Shoelace Site](https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm)

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