j-james' collection of links
-Software
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- Fraidycat - follow from afar -
- slides.com and reveal.js - presentations on the web -
- Manim - mathematical animations -
- Asciinema - record and share your terminal sessions -
- 0x0.st - temporary file hosting -
- Let's Board - collaborative online whiteboards -
- JSPaint - simple paint tool -
- Photopea - online photo editor -
- remove.bg - remove image backgrounds -
- unscreen - remove video backgrounds -
- TinEye - reverse image search -
- OpenStreetMap - the wikipedia of mapping -
- Windy - real-time weather patterns -
- Gemini Proxy - browse the textual web -
- sdl.org and teknik.io - public access services -
Knowledge
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- Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia -
- Internet Archive - universal access to knowledge -
- Library Genesis - modern library of alexandria -
- Sci-Hub - public access research -
- Project Gutenburg - free ebooks -
- Standard Ebooks - nicely typeset, public domain ebooks -
- Moby Thesaurus - the most comprehensive english-language thesaurus -
- 3Blue1Brown - visualized mathematics -
Tutorials
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- Khan Academy - a free and online K-12 curriculum -
- The Organic Chemistry Tutor - simply the best basic chemistry resource -
- 3Blue1Brown's Essence of Linear Algebra - linear algebra, visualized in the R^n -
- Interneting Is Hard - friendly html+css tutorial -
- The Modern JavaScript Tutorial - how it's done now, from the basics -
- The Rust Programming Language - the rust book -
- The Best Textbooks on Every Subject -
Websites
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- The Library of Babel - every book ever or to be written -
- HTTP Cats - appropriate status codes -
- colors.lol - overly descriptive color palettes -
- Picular - The color of anything -
- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows -
- This Word Does Not Exist -
- Word Histories -
- Talk Obama To Me -
- This Website Will Self Destruct -
- superbad.com -
- beesbeesbees.com -
- scamdaddy.net -
- href.cool - somebody else's collection -
Articles
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- Simple, correct, fast: in that order -
- A brief rant on the future of interaction design -
- How can you not be romantic about programming? -
- How to write a spelling corrector -
- Donut math: how donut.c works -
- State machines are wonderful tools -
- Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere -
- Userscripts are fun and are very much still relevant -
- Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out -
- Old CSS, new CSS -
Aesthetic
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- Simon Ser -
- Simon Højberg -
- Thea Flowers -
- Julien Voisin -
- Catherine Zeng -
- Leonora Tindall -
- Victoria Drake -
- Kiëd Llaentenn -
- Christine Dodrill -
- Derek Meer -
- Julian Lehr -
- Abhinav Sarkar -
- Lea Verou -
- Josh Comeau -
- Steven Wittens -
- Gwern Branwen -
- Alicia Neptune -
- marginalia -
- alun -
- Seattle Kraken -