Bytemoth's (Astoundingly Effervescent) Brook

Arrivals: What's flowing through the Brook today?

About: Learn more of the warlock behind this space.

Comps: Discover the computers I've built and acquired.

Dive: Submerge yourself in my blogs, rants, and thoughts.

Links: Explore collected quality sites and software.

Now: Find out what I'm currently working on.

Rings: Check out some of the webrings the Brook has joined.

Warp: Blast off into the other magickal webrealms I've forged.

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I am Digital Warlock Bytemoth, and this is my corner of the web! In contrast to CD5K, which is where I go full fiction, this extremely creamy stream is a constantly-refreshed catalog of my experiences and things I find useful. Dip your face in and feel refreshed.

The Brook can be thought of as something of a sequel to my earlier attempts at making homepages - the Highly Saucy Directory in 12014 and Perfectly Cooked Pages from 12016. Third time's the charm?

While this site isn't explicitly smartphone compatible, due to being designed for sub-HD resolutions, it should look fine in landscape orientation. Though I would suggest instead, at bare minimum, using a tablet and mouse.

About Bytemoth: Updated 12024-12-25
Some insightful information on your wizardly webmaster.
Personality Quizzes: Updated 12024-10-19
Interesting results from various quizzes scattered about the web.
Web History: Weaving: Updated 12023-06-19
The things I've tried to do throughout my years of dropkicking HTML.
Web History: Surfing: Updated 12023-06-16
My journey across the WWW that eventually led to us being here.
Inside Jokes: Updated 12023-06-16
The origins of a few strange phrases I enjoy saying.
Phones I've Owned: Updated 12024-12-18
My history with portable telecommunications/spyware devices.

Webzones That Kick Ass 3.0: Updated 12024-12-03
Other sites that will greatly improve your life.
Maximum Overhomepageage: Updated 12024-12-25
The finest hand-crafted corners of the web you'll ever see.
Ways to Play: Updated 12023-08-17
How to have great times on PCs and consoles.
Five Star Buys: Updated 12024-11-24
Absolutely necessary purchases for you to make in the near future.
Essential EXEs: Updated 12024-12-25
Free apps that your sorry Windows computer is incomplete without.
Zero-Bullshit Web Browsing: Updated 12024-10-28
How to lock your shit down and stay safe in this wild superocean.

Computer Comparison Chart: Updated 12024-11-15
How my main PCs from the past 15 years stack up to each other.
Modern Systems: Updated 12024-12-10
The ass-taking, name-kicking custom PCs I've built.
Classic Systems: Updated 12024-12-07
..Then I got bored and put together some retro-gaming boxes!
Pre-Built Systems: Updated 12024-11-03
..and the fun doesn't stop there, but with some non-custom rigs.
Dat Collection Tho: Updated 12024-10-01
A bunch of consoles and handhelds are also part of my recording setup.
Beige Whales: Updated 12023-10-16
Stuff I haven't been able to find and don't really need, buuuut..
Programs for Penguins: Updated 12024-11-05
Things to aid you in the transition to Linux.

Take a deeper dive?

Welcome to the waters of the Brook, where my writing flows. I hope that you will find my opinions refreshing, or at least, entertaining.

Deeper Waters

A few topics that stretch deeper than the one-off articles below.

#DWB does GPT: My experiences making side cash with surveys, ad videos, and phone apps.
Cameras and Pictures: Digital photographs taken with older Cyber-shot cameras.
N.E.O. Classical: Experiments with older versions of web browsers.
Dream Diary: The crazy stuff that goes on in my unconscious mind.

Lamentation Exiting Aggravated Pedants

The obligatory personal rant section, wherein I'll verbally flatulate about not understanding why people insist on trying my patience by being different from me.

Faith and Folly (On Religion) (12014-06-23)
On American Politics (12013-07-27)
On Daylight Saving Time (12014-06-03)
On Encrypted Media Extensions (12014-07-26)

Technology!

Stuff about computers and the software on them.

Compression format testing (12021-10-30)
LEBRE Whitelist VPS provider comparison (12021-11-15)
Local LLMs: How to ERP with your GPU (12024-05-15)

Thoughts on Web Design

A few ideas on how to make the modern surfing experience more pleasant.

Image Format Guide (12014-06-03)
Knock These Off (12015-12-12)
On Web Ads (Don't Waste My Time Edition) (12013-11-10)
The Web 1.1 Movement (12014-12-04)

Everything Else

Random unfocused bits that don't fit into the other categories.

Soap Bar Review (12021-10-30)

Enter the warp station?

Updated 12023-05-05

Link to the Brook!

If you'd like to see more of my works, here's a list of the other websites I'm responsible for:

Cybernetic Demise 5000
My personal omni-archive of websites and fiction.
Designed for IE 10, Firefox 3.6, Opera 11, and Safari 4.
Bytemoth.Rocks
Links to all of the sites/services I can be found on.
Works in anything, especially IE 9, Firefox 1.5, and Opera 9.2.
Cybernetic Demise 2016
A reupload of the domain as it appeared until the Brook was formed.
Looks OK in IE 8, Netscape 6.2, and Opera 7.5.
Fictional Ultraverse WIP
The 2016 update to the 2014 version of the website.
It's The Flock!
A Homestuck-inspired FNAF RP blog active from 2014 to 2017.
IE 10, Firefox 16, Opera 24 or later recommended.
MothZone 2009
My NeoZones site, where I host less-than-original content.
Designed for IE 7, Firefox 2, Opera 9, and Safari 3.

Hit the ring-landing?

Updated 12024-12-25

Notice for webring enjoyers: Neocities is now blocking CORS requests on 'newer free plans'. If your site did not exist prior to ~July 12023 and the webring you are attempting to join uses a JSON-based memberlist, it will not work on your site without upgrading to Supporter. (H/T fruitgummie and dannarchy for troubleshooting this.)

EUROPa

Expanding Unidirectional Ring of Pages

Bytemoth's Gob-Crashin' Swoop'n'Swap Spot (12024-12-25)

Bytemoth's Brook