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Title: Recommendations
Date: 2021-03-30
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Recommendations for all sorts of things that don't cleanly fit in a blog article or a [Related Reading](/related_reading.html) section.

In the spirit of trying to be useful, I won't include extremely well-known items on this list.
You don't need me to tell you to play Half-Life but you might appreciate a nudge towards Superliminal or T.C. MITS.
This is meant to be stuff you might not have heard of, not a drop-in replacement for top charts.

I'll also try to avoid superlatives. If it made this page, I think it's excellent. 
In a similar spirit of concision, I'll avoid recommending projects I'm personally involved in. Check the ol' [portfolio](//blog.giovanh.com/portfolio.html) for that.

The 📚 icon means "I would also recommend extensive amounts of this person's back catalogue, but in order to not totally clutter this page. I'm not listing all their good content. You should still check it all out, though!"

::: spoiler "Index"
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=== "Articles"

    [](./_recommendations/articles.md)
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=== "Books"

    [](./_recommendations/books.md)
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=== "Videos"

    [](./_recommendations/videos.md)
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=== "Audio"

    [](./_recommendations/audio.md)
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=== "Software"

    [](./_recommendations/software.md)
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=== "Games"

    [](./_recommendations/games.md)
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=== "Services"

    [](./_recommendations/services.md)
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=== "Music"

    [](./_recommendations/music.md)
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=== "Unsorted"

    [](./_recommendations/unsorted.md)
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