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# a collection of links
I have a little over four thousand bookmarks locally, categorized and growing.\
Here are some of the more interesting ones.
### books
* [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/) - the digital library of the internet age
* [Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/) - archeology of the internet
* [Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/) - public domain ebooks
* [Standard Ebooks](https://standardebooks.org/) - nicely typeset public domain ebooks
* [Library Genesis](https://gen.lib.rus.ec/) - the modern library of alexandria
* [Anna's Archive](https://annas-archive.org/) - preserving humanity's written heritage
### papers
* [Sci-Hub](https://sci-hub.se/) - public access research
* [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/) - public domain research
### education
* [Khan Academy](https://www.khanacademy.org/) - a free and online K-12 curriculum
* [3Blue1Brown](https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown) - visualized mathematics
### wikis
* [Wikipedia](https://www.wikipedia.org/) - the free encyclopedia
* [Wiktionary](https://www.wiktionary.org/) - the free dictionary
* [Moby Thesaurus](https://moby-thesaurus.org/) - the most comprehensive english-language thesaurus
* [TVTropes](https://tvtropes.org/) - the pop-culture tropes wiki
* [Bulbapedia](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/) - the wiki for all things pokémon
### mathematics
* [NLab](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage) - type theory, category theory, and homotopy theory
* [1Lab](https://1lab.dev/) - cubical methods in homotopy type theory
* [The Stacks project](https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/) - a reference work on algebraic geometry
* [an infinitely large napkin](https://web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html)
### linguistics
* [Glottolog](https://glottolog.org/)
* [Lingbuzz](https://lingbuzz.net/)
### protocols
* TCP [[RFC9293](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9293/)], UDP [[RFC768](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc768)], QUIC [[RFC9000](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000/)], IPV6 [[RFC8200](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8200)]
* HTTP 1.1 [[RFC9110](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110)], [[RFC9111](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9111)], [[RFC9112](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9112)] - we didn't really need anything past this
* [ActivityPub](https://activitypub.rocks/) [[W3](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/)] - a decentralized social networking standard
* [Messaging Layer Security](https://messaginglayersecurity.rocks/) [[RFC9420](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9420/)] - a security standard for group chat encryption
### formats
* [Markdown](https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown) - the *de facto* markup language for the web
* [HTML](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/) - the standard markup language for the web
* [HTMX](https://htmx.org/) - extending html to be a modern hypermedia
* [MathML](https://w3c.github.io/mathml-core/) - mathematical markup notation. renderable in all modern browsers
* [Wasm](https://webassembly.org/) - an abstract stack machine for safe, cross-platform, cross-language code
* [Uxn](https://100r.co/site/uxn.html) - an aesthetic virtual machine and computing stack
* [Quite OK Image](https://qoiformat.org) - a dead simple lossless image format
* [Quite OK Audio](https://qoaformat.org) - a dead simple lossy audio format
### ctf
* [godbolt](https://godbolt.org/) - compiler explorer
* [dogbolt](https://dogbolt.org/) - decompiler explorer
* [webhook.site](https://webhook.site) - inspect incoming http requests
* [CyberChef](https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/) - a cipher cookbook
* [AperiSolve](https://aperisolve.com/) - automated stego solving
### utilities
* [icanhazip.com](https://icanhazip.com/) ([ipv4](https://ipv4.icanhazip.com/), [ipv6](https://ipv6.icanhazip.com/)) - your ip address. nothing else.
* [canyouseeme.org](https://canyouseeme.org/) - open port check tool
* [curlconverter.com](https://curlconverter.com/) - convert curl commands to python etc
* [float.exposed](https://float.exposed/) - information about the IEEE 754 floating-point standard
* [integer.exposed](https://integer.exposed/) - visualizing bit patterns
* [remove.bg](https://www.remove.bg/) - image background removal
* [unscreen.com](https://www.unscreen.com/) - video background removal
* [waifu2x](https://waifu2x.udp.jp/) - anime-style art upscaling
### apps
* [photopea.com](https://www.photopea.com/) - photoshop in the browser
* [wavacity.com](https://wavacity.com/) - audacity in the browser
* [jspaint.app](https://jspaint.app/) - mspaint in the browser
* [graphite.rs](https://editor.graphite.rs/) - raster/vector graphics editor
* [svg-path-editor](https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/) - svg editor
* [q.uiver.app](https://q.uiver.app/) - diagram editor
* [letsboard.co](https://letsboard.co/) - collaborative drawing board
* [excalidraw](https://excalidraw.com/) - collaborative drawing board
### platforms
* [catbox.moe](https://catbox.moe/) - free file hosting
* [litterbox.catbox.moe](https://litterbox.catbox.moe/) - temporary file hosting
* [sourcehut](https://sourcehut.org/) - spartan code hosting.
* [git.gay](https://git.gay/) - code hosting for cool people. cooler than forgejo
* [pages.gay](https://pages.gay/) - static site hosting for git.gay users
* [codeberg](https://codeberg.org/) - code hosting. runs on forgejo. better than github
* [github](https://www.github.com) - the *de facto* code forge. better than sourceforge
* [printables](https://www.printables.com/) - prusa's platform for 3d models. better than thingiverse
* [modrinth](https://modrinth.com/) - the primary minecraft mod platform. better than curseforge
### various articles and written works
* [In defense of inclusionism](https://gwern.net/inclusionism)
* [How can you not be romantic about programming?](https://thorstenball.com/blog/2020/09/08/how-can-you-not-be-romantic-about-programming/)
* [Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them](https://thorstenball.com/blog/2019/04/09/learn-more-programming-languages/)
* [Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere](https://indieweb.org/POSSE)
### comics (looking for recommendations!)
* [Kill Six Billion Demons](https://killsixbilliondemons.com/) [active]
* [Homestuck](http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/) [complete]
* [Cool and New Web Comic](https://mspfa.com/?s=14113&p=1) [inactive]
* [Ava's Demon](https://www.avasdemon.com/) [inactive]