Bookmarks

By putting my bookmarks online I

• unclutter my hoarded bookmarks in the browser,
• make them potentially useful also for others and
• help with small website discoverability crisis.

See also learning related bookmarks and software engineering bookmarks.

Science

• Fermat’s library – a platform for illuminating academic papers
• Junk DNA – the complex truth about junk DNA
• Metaculus – a platform for crowd-sourced predictions

Corpus linguistics

• Visualization of corpus data
• Guess that word (Uhádni to slovo)
• The best anagram in English
• Text Visualization Browser – choose the most appropriate visualization

Philosophy, moral, personality

• No vehicles in the park
• Absurd trolley problems
• How Normal Am I? – I am 83% normal
• Dead or Alive
• The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

Photography / vide, editing, tools

• Nikon lenses
• Lenses comparison
• Gyroflow – open source image stabilizer
• Photo Pills – an app for photographers

Music, audio

• Digital signal processing – a DSP primer
• Awesome Music Theory – a collection of links
• Alternative pianos – pianos with narrower keys
• Bespoke synth – a modular DAW
• GETMusic – music generating
• Wonky – an exploration of rhythm and grooves that break the rules
• All of Bach – a project to record and release Bach’s work
• Binary synthesizer – a simple concept
• Eric Satie as FSA
• Butt music Bosch – a music from a painting
• Erbarme Dich Allah – Bach’s aria in Arabic
• Harmony Mapping Keyboard – a new kind of keyboard
• Music Theory for 21st Century Classroom
• Helio.fm – minimalist music sequencer
• ChucK – a programming language for sound
• GNOD – a music map and discovery tool

Miscellaneous

• Softening hard water
• Rewind.ai – everything you do on Mac, searchable
• Portable Puzzle Collection
• Solar protocol – [the] website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine.
• Life hacks – a poster
• HeyWhatsThat – what can you see from a given location
• Animated knots – how to tie knots
• Blogroll – many blogs in one place
• Remember Anything Foreverish – spaced repetition
• Open Food Facts – a database of food products
• Marginalia – DIY search engine
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – about a cognitive surplus

Travel, vanlife

• Croatia Maps – hiking maps
• Hot Springs – free hot showers around the world
• FarOutRide – probably our biggest inspiration for our own vanlife

Interesting blog/authors

• Kevin Kelly – thinker, tinkerer
• Edwin Wenink – plain text enthusiast, data scientist
• Alex Chan – software engineer
• Alex West — entrepreneur, software engineer, traveller
• Filip Hráček – software engineer
• Lexi Mattick – a very young software engineer
• Julia Evans – learning and teaching software engineering topics
• Dave Gauer – software engineer
• Geoffrey Litt – software engineer
• Scott Turner – The Forever Project
• Gordon Brander – tools for thoughts
• Nathan Rooy – data scientist
• Nintil – aging, science, innovation
• XXIIVV – minimalist, artist, traveller
• Derek Sivers – entrepreneur, musician, writer
• Paul Graham – entrepreneur, investor, writer
• Karlicoss – guru of self tracking, excellent exobrain
• Paul Bricman – thoughtware, AI safety
• Second brains – list of digital gardens
• Matt Might – computer scientist turned medical researcher
• Ralph Ammer – drawer and explainer
• Joel Spolsky – software engineer, entrepreneur
• Blub – minimalist
• Nikita Voloboev – a wiki of everything
• Steph Ango – tools for thought
• James Tauber – software engineer, linguist

Writing, creating, building

• Stopping at 90% – the last 10% are hard but worth it