Links and Bookmarks
This page features a curated living list of cool stuff I use or have discovered on the internet. I maintain this list for my own reference, and publish it in the hope you will find something useful! No affilliate links or sponsorships here.
Blogs
Astronomy Photo of the Day
Beautiful daily views of the heavens, captioned by a professional astronomer. I have this set as my new tab page.
Atoms vs Bits
I’m not sure how I would describe this blog yet, but I’ve been enjoying the content since subscribing!
Low-Tech Magazine
Explores unique solutions for sustainable energy practices. The blog’s server is powered entirely by solar energy, and although the site is highly optimized for efficiency, sometimes the battery runs out and it goes offline!
Technology
Kagi
Paid search engine with no ads or sponsored results. Allows for personalized customization of results. Tasteful, useful and unobtrusive AI tool implementations.
Proton
Privacy-aware email service, easy integration with custom domains. Allows for E2EE with other Proton users, or PGP encryption with others.
Bitwarden
Reliable workhorse password manager. Supports hardware token 2FA, generation of TOTP, automatic passwords, and more.
FreshRSS
Self-hostable RSS feed aggregator. Long live the chronological feed! I self-host it from a docker container and access it remotely via a VPN.
Consumer Rights Wiki
Collaborative project tracking changes, removal or ensh(t)fication of consumer product features after the sale.
Music
RadioParadise
User-sponsored, eclectic mix of human-curated music. No ads or commercials. Great music!
musicForProgrammers();
Episodic mixes of experimental ambient music chosen to help you lock in and reduce distraction while working. Sick HTML animations!
Science
Cell Press
Collection of scientific journals, with >70% of articles published with Open Access.
"Forbidden" Colour Illusion
See a colour you’ve probably never seen before with this optical illusion that selectively fatigues your eye’s overlapping cones.
Programming
Calc.50x.ca
My own tool created to easily convert between binary, hex and decimal, with individually togglable bits. Great for embedded systems programmers!
CSS Grid Garden
Interactive lessons on learning CSS Grid. It was my first introduction to Grid.
Platform.io
An excellent step beyond the Arduino IDE, Platform.io is an entrance into professional embedded systems programming.
Jekyll
Easy to use static website generator. Write your content in markdown and let Jekyll generate the site using premade or hand-designed HTML/CSS templates for page structure. It’s a great way to enjoy manual HTML/CSS web development without the gruntwork of manually updating dozens of pages.
Languages
Forvo
Database of word pronunciations across many languages, all recorded by native speakers.
Mandarin Blueprint
The course I’m using to learn Chinese. I thought learning Hanzi would be like pulling teeth, but the ‘memory palace’ method they teach, and the logical progression of the course has made things easy and quite fun.
