Web Directory

Low Tech Magazine & No Tech Magazine

Pragmatic discussions of and articles on simple and low impact alternatives to today's gratuitously complex technology.

Collapse OS

A self-hosted OS for Z80 and 6502 microcomputers written mostly in Forth and designed to help us effectively use basic computers long after the modern industrial infrastructure has collapsed.

Kestrel Computer Project

One of many interesting homebrew computer projects with a focus on simplicity and freedom.

Ergo Emacs

Lots of GNU Emacs resources.

Nuke Map & Missile Map

You never know when the ability to calculate the spread of fallout following an N megaton nuclear blast on your nearest metropolitan area in the middle of winter might come in handy.

Chart of the Nuclides

A collection of calculators and an interactive chart of all the nuclides, basically an equivalent to the periodic table but for isotopes.

Desmos Graphing Calculator

Interactively graph 2-variable functions! I'm still looking for a good offline alternative.

Wolfram Alpha

But professor, computing integrals by hand is so tedious, why should I bother when Wolfram Alpha will always be there for me?

Lead Free Shooting

Some resources for finding lead-free ammunition. Lead Free-Ammo Spreadsheet (WARNING: Google Docs), Hunting With non Lead.

Dave Atkin's Web Site

A whole bunch of cool resources about spacecraft design and aerospace engineering.

Documenta Latina

The Vatican's Latin documents. The website is styled exactly as you'd expect; I applaud the webmaster's good taste in not "modernising" it.

Mystic Symbolic Art

A tool for making mystical symbols! There's also a fun Fediverse bot.

Sci Hub

Science should be free.

Library Genesis

Pirate your textbooks here!

The Eye

An open-directory project with no respect for copyright.

textfiles.com

A collection of old text files and ascii art relating to early internet and hacker culture. The curator, Jason Scott also has a weblog and some talks that are worth checking out.

X-Files

An impressively massive, multilingual repository of tech information and computer science resources. The find.txt file that contains a list of repository contents is 96,000 lines long and weighs in at 8 MB.

​/x​/ Occult File Library

A collection of PDFs curated by a nice anon over on the Occult & Magic General on 4chan's paranormal board.

johnrayworth.info

My IB CS teacher's website; his class was my first real exposure to programming and computer science.

Justine Tunney's Web Page

A brilliant hacker and the author of some of the coolest projects I've ever seen; most notably Redbean, a webserver written in a single file of C that compiles into a ridiculously portable executable that's also a self-extracting Zip archive containing a Lua runtime and the pages of your website.

The modern web is a dystopian panopticon of over-engineered garbage and crass advertisements, so naturally clever hackers have written tools to help people interact with botnet websites without being spied upon, advertised at, or forced to enable cookies and JavaScript.