Blogroll

Here’s this fixed directory of links that I try to update and prune and organise into sections that feel right. I also sometimes make posts that round up interesting things I’ve found in the month or so prior. You can also check out highlights, which are just excerpts from elsewhere that I saved, and posts tagged links, where I generally round up a bunch of links I found interesting. Finally saved links are just things I quickly earmarked online as worth saving.

Blogs & Personal Websites

OMGLORD - A designer that has a good link directory
Devin Argenta - I know him I like him
Monokai - The creator of the Monokai font creates nice web experiments too
100 Rabbits - Permacomputing couple on a sailboat
Melanie Musings - A personal blog
Printing a book at home - If the publishers say no
No Days Off - A running freak is also a data visualisation freak
Deez Links - Great blog, points off for Substack
Maggie Appleton - Best thinker about things

Outside

Postcrossing - Postcard exchange, this was huge during lockdown
Highland Walks - Personally vetted walks in the Highlands
London Walks - The same but for those trapped in London
FATMAP - Curated and well-mapped walks in Britain
Ian’s Shoelace Website - When I was a teenager I got into shoelaces
Tree Talk - London Tree Explorer
Diamond Geezer - Incredibly detailed London blog focused on trivia and transport
Dan’s Motorcycle Repair Page - I don’t own a motorcycle but I love the craft
Jim Machalak’s Boat Designs - This is like the online version of an old book I found called Know Your Own Ship
The Mother of all Maritime Links - Again, not a seafarer but just a fan of the sailnet
Hand-Counted Ballots - How to do democracy
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Gas Masks and Goggles

Indie Web

omg.lol - $20/yr for a domain, Mastodon account, email forwarding and more indie stuff
Tilde Town - Get a user on a Linux box of nerds
Low Tech Magazine - The original solar-powered website
compost-party - A Berlin solar-powered website running on an old Android phone
Making RSS more fun - RSS as StumbleUpon
WebDAV Isn’t Dead Yet - I love people who can’t let it drop

Link Directories

Tools

Barbra - Flash cards
Old Fashioned - Cocktail recipes
ZLibrary - Free e-books
Annas Archive - Free knowledge!
Witeboard - Online shared whiteboard
ScreenplaySubs - Read screenplays alongside Netflix
Percollate - Convert web pages to nice e-reader renders
All the DIY Links You Never Knew You Needed - Links and pointers for DIY tabletop games
Chest of Books - A collection of non-fiction books painstakingly converted to HTML
Death Generator - Generate the death screens from classic games with whatever text you want

Language

My Knipe List - I think this is rot-n encoded and I don’t remember what it is
Etymonline - Etymology resource for people who can’t afford OED

Science

Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction - Great AI demonstration showing human-like behaviour adaptation
Proceedings of the IRCS Workshop on Prosody in Natural Speech - One summer in the 90s
So you want to learn physics
The Pudding - The absolute best in using web technologies when publishing explainers

Film

Phantom Thread camera tests