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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?

Dave Atkin's Web Site

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

Mystic Symbolic Art

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

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.

Lead Free Shooting

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

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.

Sci Hub

Science should be free.

Library Genesis

Pirate your textbooks here!

Imperial Library (TOR)

A site for downloading ebooks. I much prefer to buy and read physical books, however it can be really useful to keep a collection of the books I own in a DRM-free digital format. After all, you can't grep dead trees.

johnrayworth.info

My IB CS teacher's website; his class was my first real exposure to programming and computer science and I owe him a debt of gratitude for it.

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.

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Someone I encountered on the fediverse with an impressive body of fiction and some interesting essays. I also highly recommend checking out the Cortav project on c.hale.su, it's an intriguing new markdown language that I may eventually use myself as a replacement for org-mode. Also she's the only person I've encountered in the wild who uses the Fossil VCS used and created by the SQLite project.

niplav.github.io

A rationalist and essayist I met on the fediverse, I highly recommend their article Considerations on Cryonics.

dattagube

One of the few computer nerd blogs I still follow, he writes a lot about minimalist computing. The windowing system I've ran on my computer for the past few years is heavily based on his FVWM configs.

Applied Language

A Lisp hacker expressing her well justified distaste for the tragic state of modern software.

Yujiri's homepage

Another interesting person from the fediverse. I haven't had the chance to explore their site fully, but I'm really impressed by Sufec, a draft of a new instant messaging protocol designed to be totally private, decentralized, anonymous, and user-friendly.

100 Rabbits

A couple living on a sailboat and making cool art and software. A word of caution, reading their site too much will make you want to live on a boat too.

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 hostile websites without being spied upon or advertised at.