Great stops along the information superhighway.
I don't necessarily endorse the opinions of anyone listed.
Articles and talks
Pieces of writing about interesting stuff.
- /dev/urandom doesn't run out of entropy
- 24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed
- A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
- An Introduction to BGP... from the operator of a small AS
- An RNG that runs in your brain
- Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs
- Correct Cursor on Active Elements
- D-Bus overview
- Film grain synthesis in AV1
- Flexbox Containers, PRE tags and managing Overflow
- How NAT traversal works
- How software gets color wrong
- How to (and how not to) fix color banding
- Let's implement buffered, formatted output
- Parsing JSON is a Minefield
- Phishing with Unicode Domains
- Photography Basics: The Complete Beginner’s Guide
- Planes, Trains and Plantains: The Story of Oedipus
- Reinventing Minecraft world generation by Henrik Kniberg
- Settings, in a sandbox world
- Shortest URLs on the Internet
- State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?
- Synthesizing arithmetic operations using bit-shifting tricks
- TV backlight compensation
- The data model behind Notion's flexibility
- The WebDot Campaign
- The Website Obesity Crisis
- U+237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW
Blogs and magazines
Regular articles on a certain topic.
Design resources
Anything that can aid or inspire digital design.
- Apache Icons
- Artvee
- Classic patterned bitmap tiled wallpapers
- Compart Unicode browser
- Freesound
- GUIdebook
- Getty Museum Open Content Program
- Interactive color picker comparison
- Justia Trademarks
- Public Domain Pictures
- Public Domain Vectors
- This X Does Not Exist
- Unsplash
- Version Museum
- Visual Center
- Wikimedia Commons
- Win32 widget visual index
- X.Org bitmaps
- X.Org cursor bitmaps
- YayText: A text styling tool
Documentation
Remarkable technical specifications.
- ECMAScript Proposals
- Firefox Graveyard
- Firefox front-end documentation
- Generating a self-signed certificate using OpenSSL
- Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS
- OSTA Universal Disk Format Specifications
- Open UI
- POSIX.1-2017 Specifications
- RFC 2119 - Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
- RFC 8375 - Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'
- Resampling Filters -- ImageMagick Examples
- RISC-V Specifications
- SiFive Interrupt Cookbook
- Summary of C/C++ integer rules
- The Open Graph protocol
- The Rust Book
- The Wayland Book
- Windows 7 tutorials
- YouTube API Services - Required Minimum Functionality
- YouTube Oddities
- XUL/XBL Replacement Roadmap
- exFAT file system specification
File archives
Information I'm glad someone preserved.
Fonts
Typefaces that stand out.
Lists and datasets
Nothing but raw data.
- Big List of Naughty Strings
- Camera FV-5 device database
- EFF passphrase word list
- Firefox Public Data Report
- License List Data
- List of pangrams
- List of top level domains
- Names in Latin script languages
- Nextcloud Statistics
- RetroArch cheats
- The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
- U.S. names sorted by popularity
Personal websites
People talking about themselves.
- Adachi Yoshinori
- Alan Resnick
- Angelino Desmet
- Artemy Lebedev
- Bill Wurtz
- Bradley Taunt
- Cathode Ray Dude Gravis
- Daleen Coetzee
- Dan Luu
- Drew DeVault
- Erik McClure
- Fabrice Bellard
- Frederick Morton
- Geoff Adams
- Grogono family
- Hacker known as "Alex"
- Henri Sivonen
- Jason Summers
- John Duncan
- Jukka Korpela
- Lionir Deadman
- Luke Harris
- Manuel Matuzovic
- Mu-An Chiou
- Nathan Toasty
- Nikita Tonsky
- Owen Taylor
- Richard Stallman
- Rohan Kumar
- Simon Ser
- Simone Marzulli
- Tiny Projects Ben
- Tom Halfhill
- Tom Murphy VII
- heaven_online
Project websites
Groups of people working on something.
Software
Things you can run on your computer.
- Android's internal command line utilities
- Arachne DOS Web Browser
- Blocks for the TI 84 CE
- Cap'n Proto
- Cassette
- Cathode Retro
- Chisel
- ClassiCube
- Dogma Metalanguage
- Helm by Matt Tytel
- Jpegli
- Kaboom
- Legacy Update
- Louvre
- NetSurf
- Oklab color space
- PaperBack
- Pkl
- PortableGL
- Protoweb
- Quite OK Audio Format
- Quite OK Image Format
- Ruffle
- Ryu
- SerenityOS
- ThumbHash
- Universal Android Debloater GUI
- WikiSort
- Windows 9x Video Minidriver HD+
- Wuffs
- Zonelets
- cmacro
- ntsc-rs
- pass
- ratarmount
- rclone
- vhs-decode
- yt-dlp
Tech help
Solutions that are either not documented or hard to find.
- Add additional files into a Python package
- Enable touchpad tap-to-click in GDM
- Expand shell variables in a file
- Install a GSettings schema without root privileges
- Laptop doesn't see the microphone
- Launch apps under root on Wayland
- Link to a specific glibc version
- Pass an environment variable to a systemd unit
- Permanently set an environment variable for a Flatpak application
- Precalculate printf output length
Videos
People recording themselves rant about nerdy shit.
- A defense of the imperial measurement system
- Advice for time traveling to medieval Europe
- Alan Becker's Animator vs. Animation series
- Antvenom's Breaking Minecraft series
- But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction
- Can you fit a whole game into a QR code?
- Dots
- Explaining Every Sorting Algorithm
- Geologist answers: What is Stone
- GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines
- History of the Minecraft Universe
- How "How Star Wars was saved in the edit" was saved in the edit (sort of, but not really)
- How Ray Tracing Works And How To Do It 600x Faster
- How To Uninstall Internet Explorer
- I Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found
- I mapped out YouTube's Recycle Bin (Vids w/ 0 views & no titles)
- NES Scrolling Basics featuring Super Mario Bros.
- Orangutan Card Trick Debunk
- RGME's Audiovisual Effects series
- RGME's Super Mario Bros. Glitch Levels series
- S.R.A.L.K.E.R. 2034
- Searching for Fallen Angels' Lost Lens
- Shesez's Boundary Break series
- Tom Scott Gay Pirate Extravaganza
- The Autochrome; Color photos? Just add potatoes
- The Cryptids of Wikipedia
- The Forgotten History of Home Video
- The Invention Of Blue
- The Minds Behind Windows: Raymond Chen
- The Oldest Joke: Is Humor Timeless?
- The Sponge Boy Mop™ Does Not Exist
- The Zipf Mystery
- The complete history of the Gävle Goat
- The man who tried to fake an element
- The mystery of Michaelsoft Binbows
- Vinyl is digital. Get over it!
- What oil, sugar and yeast do in pizza dough (in varying amounts)
- Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
- Xiph.org's video series
- YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is
- history of the entire world, i guess
- Пенёк ТВ's Пёздные Войны series
- Прокто HERBS commercial
Web apps
Interactive websites that could as well be regular apps.
Wikis
Articles written in open collaboration.
- Based Cooking
- BetaWiki
- Crusty Windows Wiki
- Emojipedia
- Esolang
- Hidden Palace
- JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia
- Just Get My Data
- MDN Web Docs
- Minecraft Discontinued Features Wiki
- Penny's Pages
- Screamer Wiki
- The Anglish Moot
- The Cutting Room Floor
- The Minecraft Wiki
- The Lost Media Wiki
- Wikimedia projects
- Windows Wallpaper Wiki
- colornames.org
- endoflife.date
- wiki.vg