This is a collection of websites I find cool and useful

They are roughly divided into subcategories

Learning

• Typing.com Increase the bandwidth between you and your computer.
• Missing Semester (a bunch of basic stuff put together by some M.I.T. profs)
• Learn markdown in 10 mins looks like it’s not going away or getting changed anytime soon, like txt files, unlike the everchanging glorious MS docx files
• rwxrob personal website Boost/Skilstak has a lot of goodies (specially for tmux, bash, vim, ssh and lynx quick searching)
  • RwxRob condensed summary. This is just a list of stuff that I learnt or want to learn from him which I find useful
• Khan Academy One of the best websites for learning anything in general

Many of these things if not all I use for note taking and I regard them as basic knowledge everyone should have

• I haven’t tried this one but it is said that it is pretty good: Learn X in Y minutes
• Make magazine

Media in general

• r/piracy on reddit

Books

• Z library Most likely has the book you are looking for (link on this page might not work where you are at so google for you local mirror of this site)
  note: if book limit download reached use a temp mail service to make an account and if book
  not available in through regular internet you might have to use tor protocol to access it
• Librivox Has a lot of audiobooks but isn’t very easy to search (uses torrent protocol for sharing files)
• Standardebooks Best for old books that are out of copyright and for EPUB books, they have the best text formatting I’ve seen
• Biblio a better site than amazon for buying used book
• Ebay for second hand books
• Local second hand book shops

Book recomendations and lists

• Luke Smith video where he goes through his book he bought in 2019

Movies

• YTS movies
• thepiratebay.org
• il corsaro nero for italian films/media
• Also torrentfunk for italian films/media
• IMDb/Google for info about movies and looking for similar movies
• Palm d’Or winners list over the years A list of the winners of the Cannes film festival’s biggest prize over the years
• List of only Palm d’Ors (Original Website) The biggest prize changed names over the years
• Leone d’Oro winners list over the years A list of the winners of the Venice film festival’s biggest prize over the years

I still can’t find Frédéric Rossif’s films he made with Vangelis composing the soundtracks

Music

• Annum Integrum Cool guy who posts a lot of New Age and vaporwave music (only annoying this is that it’s on archive.com so petty to sort and filter)

Internet wisdom

• Poetry aplenty

On note taking

• $\LaTeX$/vim PhD student
• $\LaTeX$ HTML american undergrad student
• Niklas Luhmann’s two essays He is the guy who invented the zettlekasten (slip papers/boxes) method for taking and organizing notes. (The website also has a really clean css file)
• Math support in markdown - github blogpost
• RwxRob Knowledge Net (KN)

Other websites worth losing time on

• The Archive Cornucopia of the internet, and most beautiful of nymphs for the eyes of a procastinator
• Luke Smith’s personal website personification of redpilled, equisde
• Xah Lee’s personal website He has a shit tonne of stuff, as he said the website is his life’s work (I have stolen some css from his sites). Strong stuff to highlight: Programming section (has self learning material for a lot of language and has a good tutorial on emacs which he used to sell but it is free now, same as his javascript course) and Keyboard section
• Fravia’s website (Learn How to search)
  • Who was Fravia
  • Fravia Youtube talk
  • Reddit post about Fravia’s site
  • Google advanced search operators Youtube video. Explain stuff like the Filetype: search
  • https://fravia.net/machine_translation.htm
  • https://fravia.net/dictiona.htm
• Jeff Atwood’s personal blog site (he founded stackoverflow and has some nice blog articles and reading list recommendations)
• Cool blog with nice animations This blog explains with thorough animations how mechanical watches work and other stuff like GPS in the archives section of the site
• Rotary LTE phone
  • Youtube video - longer video with assembly breakdown in the same channel
  • She is selling a no soldering assembly kit, but it’s quite costly and I think it’s more fun to build it from scratch. Would be a nice side project, upgrade in difficulty from the code (Like going up the age difficulty on legos)
  • Firmware - Github
  • STL 3D printer files - ThingiVerse
  • KiCAD files
  • Root dir with all files
  • A github repo of someone who forked it
• Make magazine
• Dexter Chua’s personal site - He is a Physics PhD student at Harvard, and did undergrad at Cambridge. He has a bunch of notes typed up in $\LaTeX$ typed up on his site. Recommended addition by Ahmed Kallushi
  • Stylesheet used by Dexter Chua to make his website look like a latex document in the browser

Mathematics

• MacTutor - has a bunch of mathematician stamps and stuff about the history of math language and notation

Physics

• Arxiv - a website where people post papers before publishing them.

Computer Science Resources

• rosikand blog with CS notes
• Stanford CS103 all class material (PSets and solutions) Found this, I wonder how much other stuff I can find floating around in the ether
• A tour of Go Go is the language to learn after Python imo. (It was designed by Dennis Ritchie, that should be enough reason to learn it!)
• RwxRob vid on best way to learn data structure and algorithms
• PicoCTF a site to learn cyber security for free by Carnegie mellon Uni
• Free CS resources
• List of lists of resources the same guy has other lists which might be worth checking out
• Very nice ted talk by Neil Gershenfeld
  • Neil Gershenfeld
  • Wikipedia
• Nand2Tetris * Awesome computer science course starting from the fundamentals
• The legendary Don Knuth’s personal website
  • It suffices to say that this guy created $\TeX$ but, here is his wiki if you are curious.
• https://dzackgarza.com/writing/

Vim

• My Personal Vim Config Explained
• The primaegen’s six video series really good at covering the basics
• Luke Smith’s g command tutorial
• gundo vim plugin for using g to navigate undo tree
• vim-be-good from the primeagen
• dotfiles of the primeagen
• checkout tmuxinator and primeagens tmux script and his harpoon script
• Elijah Manor’s blog has a bunch of Vim resources at the end of the blog post
• Ctrl-k to insert special characters (accents and diacritics) Luke Smith video which briefly mentions it
• Vimhelp website
• Neovim, Latex & Zathura
• Real-time $\LaTeX$ using (Neo)Vim, VimTex, and snippets
  • Original reddit post

Plugins

• Lightspeed

Linux

• Rofi ricing

Keyboards

• This is in a seperate page because I don’t want to populate this page full of keyboard resource links :)
• Custom computers in old thinkpad chasis xy tech site. I have suspicions that he is a student in Singapore
• Blogpost about the guy building new laptops in old thinkpad chassis

Random Extra Stuff I use

• Temporary mail address Useful for one time burn accounts

Other (sites I liked the design of to later copy)

• gigamonkeys Peter Seibel’s personal website… here mainly because I liked the design but the articles might be interesting
• ryan ferris sweep guy Has some articles on 34 key layouts and an article on tmux start up scripts
• Nice Hugo templates I will have to look for some nice jekyll ones too
• Toshima clean blog site

Resources & Plan of this site

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