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A collection of web sites and pages I like or frequent, loosely categorised and occasionally curated.

Note: I currently don’t have a mechanism to detect dead/broken links. If you find any, please notify me.

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How Many Plants
a collection of guides for caring for various houseplants
The Phrontistery
a collection of obscure and lost words
Quantified Self
community of people interested in quantified self and self-tracking tools
The Screenless Office
a conceptual system for working with media and networks without using a pixel-based display
Simple Open Data

inspiration

100R
artist collective aboard a sailboat
Formafantasma
design studio
Joana Moll
Barcelona/Berlin based artist and researcher
julian.digital
Julian Lehr's lifelog and digital playground
Love Hultén
Gothenburg-based audiovisual artist and woodworker
Marie Verdeil
Marie Verdeil's personal website
Nervous System
generative design studio
nnnnnnnn.co
brian crabtree's site
Noгma
Turin-based graphic design studio that does nothing special
Special Projects
London-based design and invention agency (co-founded by a magician)
Simplifier
creating a stable foundation of technology that is reliable, understandable, and practical for an individual to build for themselves

fun

Bellwoods by Matt DesLauriers
an art game where you fly a kite through a field
Constraint Systems by Grant Custer
a collection of experimental web-based creative tools
Sunday Sites
monthly HTML code jam

eco

Appropedia
a wiki on sustainability, poverty reduction and international development
CarbonPlan
a California-based non-profit that analyzes the design and implementation of climate programs across the public and private sectors
energypedia
a wiki on renewable energy, energy access, and energy efficiency topics in developing countries
Howtopedia
another sustainability wiki with a focus on simple technologies
Low-tech Lab
a collection of low-tech projects
Low Tech Magazine
the solar-powered version of Low Tech Magazine, a blog on solving modern problems with past technologies
Open Sustainable Technology
a list of open technology projects to sustain a stable climate, energy supply, biodiversity and natural resources
Pollution
notes on air pollution, by Patrick Collison
Principles of Green Software Engineering
a core set of competencies needed to define, build and run green sustainable software applications
Solar Protocol
a website hosted on a network of solar-powered servers
Website Carbon
estimate your website's carbon footprint
What can a technologist do about climate change by Bret Victor

design

10 principles for good design by Dieter Rams
Ambient Product Design
Brutalist Web Design
guidelines for brutalist web design
Calm Technology
The Critical Engineering Manifesto
Death to Bullshit
a rallying cry to rid the world of bullshit and demand experiences that respect people and their time
Design Principles
an open source collection of design principles and methods
Fictional Brands Archive
a collection of many fictional brands found in films, series and video games
Humane by Design
a guide for designing ethically humane digital products and services
In Pursuit of Production Minimalism by Brandur

typography

Butterick's Practical Typography
this made me obsess over typography for a while…
The Elements of Typographic Applied to the Web by Richard Rutter
The Futures of Typography by Robin Rendle
Mass-Driver™
Rutherford Craze's typeface design studio
The Typographic Scale by Spencer Mortensen
the origin of my obsession with φ-based type scales

food

GrimGrains
the Hundred Rabbits' cookbook

maths

Building 4D Polytopes by Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen
Fungrim
the mathematical functions grimoire, an open source library of formulæ and data for special functions
Maths and trigonometry cheat sheet for 2D and 3D games
toywiki
a collection of maths notes

computers

Generative Artistry
interactive tutorials in generative art
Ink & Switch
an independent research lab working on digital tools and computing for creators
Malleable Systems Collective
Modern computing is far too rigid.
N-O-D-E
Small, Sharp Tools by Brandur

programming

A Guide to Recursion — Algosaurus
The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Steven Raymond
Becoming a dramatically better programmer by Henry Stanley
Design Patterns for Humans
Esolang
a wiki of esoteric programming languages
Esoteric.Codes
articles and interviews on esolangs
Fundamentals of Optimal Code Style by Aleksandr Skobelev
Cognitively-Oriented Approach to Improving Program Readability
Neural Networks From Scratch by Victor Zhou
Programming Algorithms: Data Structures
Random Forests and Decision Trees by Victor Zhou
Think in Math. Write in Code. by Justin Meiners
Writing Efficient Programs
a summary of Jon Louis Bentley's Writing Efficient Programs
Visualizing Algorithms by Mike Bostock

privacy

The New Oil
a beginner's guide to data privacy and cybersecurity
Surveillance Self-Defense
tips, tools and how-tos for safer online communications
What every Browser knows about you

web

Leanternet principles
The modern web on a slow connection by Dan Luu
Slow Net
a series of experiments that explore how slow networks can be used to protect against data-collecting entities that threaten our autonomy and influence our identities
Resilient Web Design by Jeremy Keith
Responsible Web Applications by Joy Heron
Web design as architecture
Web Field Manual
a list of resources for web design and web development
Webwaste — A List Apart
Between 2003 and 2019, the average webpage weight grew from about 100 KB to about 4 MB.

tools

Colormind
Coolors.co
CSS Stats
Graphemica
NASA Open Source Software
Randoma11y
random accessible colour combinations
SculptGL
WebGL sculpting app
Stuff that rockssuckless
Tools for better thinking by Adam Amran
a collection of thinking tools and frameworks
What Does My Site Cost?

worldbuild

Astronomy Answers: Position of the Sun — Quae
Worldbuilding — Atomic Rockets
insane worldbuilding resource

podcasts

Gastropod by Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
the science and history of food
Ologies by Alie Ward
fields of study — ornithology, domicology, oneirology, etc.
Serial by Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder
investigative journalism
Uncanny Japan by Thersa Matsuura
Japanese folklore

YouTube

Here’s a list of some channels I subscribe to that you might find interesting:

3Blue1Brown
videos on mathematics
Atrocity Guide
the anomalies of the internet
Barely Sociable
analysis videos for the odd corners of the internet
Baumgartner Restoration
painting restorations by Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration
Extremities
how and why the world's most remote settlements exist
Folding Ideas
videos on a broad range of subjects rooted in stories and how they reflect and shape the world around us
Fredrik Knudsen
Down the Rabbit Hole documentaries
Horses
video essays by Michael Sorensen
Jacob Geller
video essays on video games, history, politics, empathy, and more
Kurzgesagt
animated videos on various topics like space, ants, the far future, and dinosaurs
The Nerdwriter
video essays
Our Changing Climate
video essays on climate change
Peaceful Cuisine
cooking channel (vegan-friendly recipes included)
Practical Engineering
videos on infrastructure by Grady Hillhouse
Primer
explainer videos on topics like natural selection and game theory featuring animated blobs
Real Engineering
videos on the mechanics of various technological marvels
Real Science
videos on science, mostly biology
RealLifeLore
answers to questions that you've never asked
The Thought Emporium
science experiments — genetic engineering, chemical synthesis, etc.
Tom Scott
random but interesting videos
Vsauce
tangents, random topics
Wendover Productions
various explainer videos on topics like geography and œconomics