Collections
A curated repository of digital assets and inspirations.
Blogs, essays, tools and resources I keep coming back to.
Personal sites and blogs
- Sinclair Target sinclairtarget.com
- Sam Burns sam-burns.com
Tech blog.
- Austin Z. Henley austinhenley.com
- Jay Taylor’s notes jaytaylor.com
- Lily’s Things at The Cool Site lilysthings.org
- Sergey Kaplich kaplich.me
Web developer, based in New York.
- Breck’s Blog breckyunits.com
- ho.ax ho.ax
- Mark J. Nelson kmjn.org
- jimmyhmiller.github.io jimmyhmiller.github.io
- fasterthanli.me fasterthanli.me
- pilcrow pilcrowonpaper.com
- Aether Mug aethermug.com
- Zwit zwit.link
- Brajeshwar brajeshwar.com
- Jordan Eldredge jordaneldredge.com
- brr brr.fyi
- The Craft of Coding craftofcoding.wordpress.com
Musings on programming and education.
- XXIIVV wiki.xxiivv.com
- ~bt btxx.org
- Terence Eden’s Blog shkspr.mobi
- ooh.directory ooh.directory
A place to find good blogs that interest you.
Software and the web
- Do You Even Need a Database? dbpro.app
DB Pro Blog.
- The paper computer jsomers.net
- Go Data Structures: Interfaces research.swtch.com
research!rsc.
- Six thoughts on generating C wingolog.org
wingolog.
- Self-Hosting Email Like It’s 1984 maxadamski.com
- The computer built to last 50 years ploum.net
- Conservative web development drewdevault.com
- How Does the Internet Work? web.stanford.edu
- How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal gieseanw.wordpress.com
Andy G’s Blog.
- You should write “without bugs” korshakov.com
- “You can’t do that because I hate you.” bvisness.me
Ben Visness.
- Boring tech is mature, not old rubenerd.com
Rubenerd.
- Is stuff online worth saving? rubenerd.com
Rubenerd.
- The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website devever.net
- Why Do We Have So Many Screwdrivers? blog.codinghorror.com
Coding Horror.
- Brooks, Wirth and Go. fredrikholmqvist.com
Fredrik Holmqvist.
- Software Design is Knowledge Building olano.dev
- That’s not an abstraction, that’s just a layer of indirection fhur.me
- The Grug Brained Developer grugbrain.dev
- How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 hackernoon.com
HackerNoon.
- How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript theregister.com
The Register.
- Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep fasterthanli.me
- There is beauty in the minimalism of email j3s.sh
j3s.
- Feed readers which don’t take “no” for an answer rachelbythebay.com
- All the data can be yours jero.zone
Jerome Paulos.
- Build It Yourself lucumr.pocoo.org
Armin Ronacher.
- Using static websites for tiny archives alexwlchan.net
alexwlchan.
- I’m OK being left behind, thanks! shkspr.mobi
Terence Eden.
- Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? danluu.com
Dan Luu.
- My favourite computer ergonomics hack blog.jacobvosmaer.nl
Open source
- A letter to open-source maintainers xuanwo.io
- Paying people to work on open source is good actually jacobian.org
Jacob Kaplan-Moss.
- Free Software Needs Free Tools mako.cc
Benjamin Mako Hill.
- From where I left antirez.com
antirez.
- A selfish personal argument for releasing code as Open Source simonwillison.net
Simon Willison.
- Haunted by my own projects cassidoo.co
Cassidy Williams.
Life, work and writing
- Bill Gates says three-day work week possible: ‘Purpose of life not just job’ hindustantimes.com
Hindustan Times.
- How to Destroy a Generation joanwestenberg.com
- My struggle with doom scrolling allthatjazz.me
- David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way herbertlui.net
Herbert Lui.
- You’ve Read Your Last Free Article, Such Is the Nature of Mortality mcsweeneys.net
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
- An Unreasonable Amount of Time allenpike.com
Allen Pike.
- I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life vinay.sh
- The Checklist Manifesto brajeshwar.com
Brajeshwar.
- The Trap of “I am not an Extrovert” orkohunter.net
Himanshu Mishra.
- Jake Seliger is Dead marginalrevolution.com
Marginal Revolution.
- Why To Not Write A Book gwern.net
Gwern.
- You Too Can Write a Book! parentheticallyspeaking.org
Design and typography
- Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines dev.os9.ca
PDF.
- Palm OS User Interface Guidelines cs.uml.edu
PDF.
- Getting Clarity on Apple’s Liquid Glass css-tricks.com
CSS-Tricks.
- Tufte CSS edwardtufte.github.io
- Sidenotes In Web Design gwern.net
Gwern.
- Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites danilafe.com
- Features of your font you had no idea about sinja.io
OlegWock.
- How I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust chevyray.dev
Chevy Ray.
- VCR OSD Mono Font dafont.com
dafont.com.
- Textured Paper transparenttextures.com
Transparent Textures.
- Yanko Design yankodesign.com
Modern industrial design news.
- player.style player.style
Video and audio player themes for every web player and framework.
- srcl sacred.computer
- Aceternity UI Svelte aceternity.sveltekit.io
Components list, free source code.
- SortableList cult-ui.com
Cult UI, shadcn templates and components.
- Sunset wallpaper pack ko-fi.com
Mattia / SirBean’s Ko-fi shop.
Tools
- listmonk listmonk.app
Free and open source self-hosted newsletter, mailing list manager, and transactional mails.
- Gulugulu cbrincoveanu.github.io
The anti-SEO search engine.
- Image to ANSI Art Converter textarttools.com
Instant colourful terminal graphics.
- Blog Anonymously anon.btxx.org
- WikiBoard wikiboard.org
- Notepat aesthetic.computer
Aesthetic Computer.
- Blender Shortcuts hollisbrown.github.io
- They See Your Photos theyseeyourphotos.com
- Restore old right-click context menu in Windows 11 learn.microsoft.com
Microsoft Q&A.
Medicine and science
- Visual Processing: Cortical Pathways nba.uth.tmc.edu
Neuroscience Online, Section 2, Chapter 15.
- “Triangle of pain” clinicalanatomy.com
- Histology at SIU, cells of GI system histology.siu.edu
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics feynmanlectures.caltech.edu
- Arvind Gupta archive.org
Internet Archive.
Computing history
- Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers geekhistory.com
- History Of Window Systems blog.dshr.org
DSHR’s Blog.
- Steve Jobs’ Calculator article.app
jordan.
- We’ll buy back your Typewriter…for Uncle Sam! pncnmnp.github.io
- Bogus Software minesweepergame.com
- Victor V-Saturn old-computers.com
OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum.
Games and fun
- Wizard Masters wizardmasters.io
Spell based third-person shooter game.
- Desktop Goose samperson.itch.io
by samperson.
- Cave Story saves cavestory.org
Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari), a tribute site.
- Canon Creative Park creativepark.canon
- cats github.com
BSD licensed cat photos by max-mapper.
- Mil’s Apology Homepage thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com