This is a random list of links that I find interesting. Feel free to comment and/or suggest other links. You won’t find links to closed software or to software which make use of closed frameworks/libraries/languages.
Music Informatics links
- PLUM: list of programming languages used for music (most of them are old)
- A reasoned list of music installations updated at 2007
- TOPLAP : the home of live coding
- A very nice repository of various computational musicology tools
- ORCA : programming language for live-coding: be fast, don’t mind if it is unreadable for others.
- Ajax sound studio : have fun with artistic sound synthesis and processing in python
General computer science links
- How OpenType fonts work (i.e. a case study about how free market fucks up technology)
- Don’t bother your computer nerd friend because your computer isn’t working. Check this instead.
- A wonderful collection of ImageMagick scripts
Ethic computing suffs
- Framasoft : French no-profit association
- Riseup : US no-profit association
- Disroot : Netherland no-profit association
- List of secure and privacy respecting chats
- List of alternative tools to free yourself from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and co.
- e-foundation : no-profit who develops a usable Google-free Android OS
- Mozilla : probably, the biggest no-profit in the computer world: develops computer technologies focused on web, especially the Firefox browser, the Rust language, and the Thunderbird mail client
- LiChess : no-profit organization to play chess