Here are some great sites that I recommend:
Blogs
- Daemonology – Lots of writings on FreeBSD
- Dan Luu – Newsletter focusing on economics and tech
- Gwern – An absolutely incredible blog, so much here
- James Sinclair – Austrailian web dev, lots of writings on functional programming
- Joey Hess – Debian core maintainer
- Jsomers – Writer and programmer based in NY
- Lukesmith.xyz – Tech, linguistics, and more
- Mike McQuaid – Principle engineer working on MacOS Homebrew
- Neil Gaiman’s Blog – Need I say more
- Naima El Bassunie – Great perspectives on the startup scene in Africa
- The Autodidacts – Blog of three self-educating brothers
Tech
- Arch Linux – The Arch Linux homepage and wiki
- Gizmodo – Tech, science, and culture
- Hacker News – Tech news focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship
- Haskell in Production – Collection of interviews of various companies and devs who use Haskell in a production environment
- New Atlas – New science and technology news
- No Tech Magazine– Hosts low-tech magazine posts, plus some additional content
- Lobste.rs – Another link aggregator like HN; generally more tech focused
- Low-Tech Magazine – Tech magazine focusing on sustainability. Website is totally powered by solar energy
- The Register – IT news
- The cheapskate’s guide to computers and the internet
- Slashdot – News for nerds, stuff that matters
- 2600- The hacker quarterly
Educational
- Advent of Code – An annual holiday coding challenge
- The Cultural Tutor – Collection of tweets about historical trivia
- Fullstack Economics – Newsletter focusing on economics and tech
- Great Works in Programming Languages –
- Nautilus – Scientific stories
- Palladium – Political science magazine on governance, law, and justice
- Project Euler – Challenging math and computer science problems
- Timeline of Computer History
- The Gradient –
- Visualgo – Visualizing data structures and algorithms through animation
- Top Documentary Films – Documentaries on the Internet
Literary, Philosophy, and AI Ethics
- Bigthink – Multimedia web portal including discussions with experts of various fields
- Dynomight – A pretty dynomight internet website!
- Hands and Cities – Now links to Joe Carlsmith’s blog. Great philosophical writings.
- Less Wrong – AI ethics
- Pluralistic – Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Literary Hub – Daily literary website
- Singularity Hub – Philosophy and CS/AI
- The Critic – Good ole’ conservative british takes! Some good stuff here though
- The Marginalia – An excellent literary magazine
- The Walrus – Indie magazine producing current affairs and literary writingfor s
Personal Finance
Collections
- Internet Archive – Probably the greatest repository of human knowledge to ever exist
- Judy Records– Database of 630 million+ US court cases
- Library of Babel– Complete library of all possible 410-page books
- Global Grey Ebooks – Massive collection of free Ebooks
- Valve archive – Collection of valve assets, art, and games
- Standard Ebooks– Free and liberated ebooks
Chicago
- Chicago Boyz – A bunch of Chicago school economists and Co.
- Chicago contrarian – Conservative-leaning commentary on urban affairs in Chicago
- Chicago Jazz – A great way to find local jazz performances on the cheap
Cooking
- Based cooking –
- Food Unfolded –
- Bon appetit –
Utility
- Smort.io – Edit, annotate, and share articles
- 12ft.io – Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder!
Travel
- Atlas Obscura – Essays and tips on travel
Discover the Fediverse
- Cloud Hiker –
- Geocities –
- Indieblog –
- Neocities –
- The Old Net –
Art
- Artnet –
- Visualize Value – Awesome minimalist visual representations of various sayings and maxims
Other
- Dilbert – Hilarious comics
- TheBoat – An animated comic adventure making use of parallax
- Sucrasia Online – Toronto-based ISP staffed by antropomorphic sharks
- xkcd – More great comics
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Essays
Witness by billy woods (everseeker) dr. hamming - you and your research why schools don’t educate - john taylor Thomas pynchon - is it O.K to be a luddite