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Here's this fixed directory of links that I try to update and prune and organise into sections that feel right. I also sometimes make posts that round up interesting things I've found in the month or so prior. You can also check out highlights, which are just excerpts from elsewhere that I saved, and posts tagged links, where I generally round up a bunch of links I found interesting. Finally saved links are just things I quickly earmarked online as worth saving.

Blogs & Personal Websites

  • OMGLORD - A designer that has a good link directory
  • Devin Argenta - I know him I like him
  • Monokai - The creator of the Monokai font creates nice web experiments too
  • 100 Rabbits - Permacomputing couple on a sailboat
  • Melanie Musings - A personal blog
  • No Days Off - A running freak is also a data visualisation freak
  • Deez Links - Great blog, points off for Substack
  • Maggie Appleton - Best thinker about things
  • avhvn - Brilliant illustrator with a cosy blog

Outside

  • Postcrossing - Postcard exchange, this was huge during lockdown
  • Highland Walks - Personally vetted walks in the Highlands
  • London Walks - The same but for those trapped in London
  • FATMAP - Curated and well-mapped walks in Britain
  • Ian's Shoelace Website - When I was a teenager I got into shoelaces
  • Tree Talk - London Tree Explorer
  • Diamond Geezer - Incredibly detailed London blog focused on trivia and transport
  • Dan's Motorcycle Repair Page - I don't own a motorcycle but I love the craft
  • Jim Machalak's Boat Designs - This is like the online version of an old book I found called Know Your Own Ship
  • The Mother of all Maritime Links - Again, not a seafarer but just a fan of the sailnet
  • Hand-Counted Ballots - How to do democracy
  • A Demonstrator's Guide to Gas Masks and Goggles

Indie Web

  • omg.lol - $20/yr for a domain, Mastodon account, email forwarding and more indie stuff
  • Tilde Town - Get a user on a Linux box of nerds
  • Low Tech Magazine - The original solar-powered website
  • compost-party - A Berlin solar-powered website running on an old Android phone
  • Making RSS more fun - RSS as StumbleUpon
  • WebDAV Isn't Dead Yet - I love people who can't let it drop

Link Directories

  • Electric Trash
  • Mx Tynehorne's Cabinet of Hypertext Curiosities
  • Terra
  • href.cool
  • Gossip's Web
  • Garden of Blogs
  • Molly White's Blogroll
  • Jacob Hall's Linkroll

Tools

  • Barbra - Flash cards
  • Old Fashioned - Cocktail recipes
  • ZLibrary - Free e-books
  • Annas Archive - Free knowledge!
  • Witeboard - Online shared whiteboard
  • ScreenplaySubs - Read screenplays alongside Netflix
  • Percollate - Convert web pages to nice e-reader renders
  • All the DIY Links You Never Knew You Needed - Links and pointers for DIY tabletop games
  • Chest of Books - A collection of non-fiction books painstakingly converted to HTML
  • Death Generator - Generate the death screens from classic games with whatever text you want

Language

  • The Phrontistery - A website dedicated to rare words
  • Etymonline - Etymology resource for people who can't afford OED
  • My Knipe List - I think this is rot-n encoded and I don't remember what it is

Coding

  • Simon Willison - Best writer about AI
  • uv is the best thing to happen to Python in a decade
  • Learn X in Y minutes - The fatest reference I've found for checking language syntaxes
  • window.location Cheatsheet
  • Responsive Image Syntax in HTML
  • Scraping Recipe Websites
  • Web History
  • Redis Inventor on Code Comments
  • Goodreads to SQLite
  • Postgres Configuration for Humans
  • Linux Command Library - Handy Linux one-liners

History

  • Pamphlets About Police Violence
  • How Your History Gets Made
  • Cookbooks and Home Economics - Internet Archive of historical cookbooks
  • The Public Domain Review
  • 800s Years of English Handwriting - Points off for Google

Writing

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Simply Scripts
  • Berlin Writers' Workshop
  • QUISBN - Who gets the money for this book?
  • Printing a book at home - If the publishers say no

Science

  • Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction - Great AI demonstration showing human-like behaviour adaptation
  • Proceedings of the IRCS Workshop on Prosody in Natural Speech - One summer in the 90s
  • So you want to learn physics
  • The Pudding - The absolute best in using web technologies when publishing explainers

Film

  • Phantom Thread camera tests
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