links
A collection of sites and pages I like or frequent, loosely categorised and occasionally curated.
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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
- The Screenless Office
- a conceptual system for working with media and networks without using a pixel-based display
inspiration
- 100R
- artist collective aboard a sailboat
- Comma Directory
- a website by Andrea and Marc,
a garden of knowledge, where ideas about technology, the humanities, artistry, sustainability, and philosophy intersect
- FormaFantasma
- Milan-based 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 - Nervous System
- generative design studio
- nnnnnnnn.co
- brian crabtree's site
- Noгma
- Turin-based design studio that does nothing special
- Simplifier
creating a stable foundation of technology that is reliable, understandable, and practical for an individual to build for themselves
- Special Projects
- London-based design and invention agency (co-founded by a magician)
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
- Frugal computing by Professor Wim Vanderbauwhede
- 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
- 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
- Calm Technology
- The Critical Engineering Manifesto
- Death to Bullshit by Brad Frost
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 by Jon Yablonski
- 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
- Permacomputing Principles
- Small, Sharp Tools by Brandur
programming
- The Art of Unix Programming by
Eric Steven Raymond - Becoming a dramatically better programmer by
Henry Stanley - Composing Programs by
John DeNero - 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 - Random Forests and Decision Trees by
Victor Zhou - Rosetta Code
- programming chrestomathy, solutions to tasks in as many different languages as possible
- 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
web
- Leanternet principles by
Alex Dragusin - 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 - Sustainable Web Design
- Web design as architecture by
Malte Müller - Web Field Manual
- a list of resources for web design and web development
- Webwaste by
Gerry McGovern Between and , the average webpage weight grew from about 100 KB to about 4 MB.
- why lowercase letters save data by Nathaniel
tools
- Graphemica by
William Melody - catalogue of Unicode characters
- NASA Open Source Software
- Poline by
David Aerne - enigmatic colour palette generator using polar coordinates
- Randoma11y by
John Otander Adam Morse - random accessible colour combinations
- SculptGL by
Stéphane Ginier - WebGL sculpting app
- Stuff that rocks — suckless
worldbuild
- Astronomy Answers: Position of the Sun — Quæ
- Worldbuilding — Atomic Rockets
- insane worldbuilding resource
podcasts
- Gastropod by
Cynthia Graber Nicola Twilley - the science and history of food
- Ologies by
Alie Ward - fields of study — ornithology, domicology, oneirology, etc.
- Serial by
Sarah Koenig Julie Snyder - investigative journalism
- Uncanny Japan by
Thersa Matsuura - Japanese folklore
YouTube
- 3Blue1Brown
- videos on maths
- ABSTRACT
documentaries about the horrifying
- 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
- Devine Lu Linvega
- software demos, music, and devlogs
- 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
- GeoWizard
- the adventures of Tom Davies, including walking across geographic areas in a straight line and across urban areas without going down roads
- Horses
- video essays by Michael Sorensen
- Hundred Rabbits
- the rabbits' sailing vlogs and talks
- 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
- Practical Engineering
- videos on infrastructure by Grady Hillhouse
- Primer
- explainer videos on topics like natural selection and game theory featuring animated blobs
- Primitive Technology
The challenge is seeing how far you can go without utilizing modern technology.
- 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