Links

This is an in-progress list of curated resources, blogs, articles I rely on and things I /use. It's intended to stay short and concise and focused on the best sites so far. Maybe 1000 links would be a maximum, while I already collect tens of thousands of links in other places like Shaarli, Obsidian and Git.

Feeds

🇫🇷 In French

Great but a bit depressing feeds
Such feeds tend to cause me quite some anxiety 😅.

🇬🇧 In English

Werd I/O - RSS - Writing at the intersection of technology, democracy, and society.
by Ben Werdmuller

🏴‍☠️ Privacy / Security / Tech independence

Dig Deeper - RSS - your guide to Software Privacy. Lots of great articles and sometimes extreme views on the topic. Author's identity kept secret.

🎧 Podcasts

Bombo Podcast - RSS(🇫🇷🇧🇪) French speaking interviews of people with very personal stories of very sensitive people trying to make a difference in this world. Expect to e-meet passionate authors, creators, entrepreneurs, chefs, foodies, ceramists, illustrators. I highly recommend to listen to it and I admit I'm biased 😀 as I fund it !
by Frédérique Scarnière.

C'est plus que de la SF - French speaking podcast interviewing scifi authors.

😹 Satire

  • (archive) The Profound Programmer ironised the life of programmers with wallpapers.
  • 🧑🏻‍💻 KRAZAM - Excellent satire channel for Devs & Ops & Tech workers. Quite niche as if you laugh at those videos it's likely nobody in your family understands what you do for a living.
  • 🧑‍💻 Developer Timeline - Recently discovered, I've been quite amused by a few of their videos even if it feels sometime closer to my day 2 day than to a fiction.

🔎 Search engines

  • DuckDuckGo - a so-so privacy focused search engine, basically an anonymous wrapper for Bing (Microsoft) and hosted on Microsoft infrastructure. Check also this very lite version.
  • Feedle - a world of (RSS) feeds from blogs and podcasts. They link back to me, see my /discovery page.
  • QuackQuackGo - a front-end UI for Google Search. No ads or tracking. JS not required. I use this a lot for monitoring search results in Changedetection.
  • Marginalia search - an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and favors lesser known sites over popular ones.
  • FrogFind! - maximizes accessibility for vintage computers. Based on DuckDuckGo.
  • Mojeek - search engine with privacy in mind.
  • Wiby - search engine for the classic web.
  • Search My Site - independent search engine for the small web / indie web.

🍄 Small web

Site directories and blogrolls

Autistic As Fxxk - (RSS) Through my content, I aim to explore ways to find your own path in a neurotypical world while being unapologetically Autistic - Rachel

  • IndieWeb Wiki - Learn more about the IndieWeb.
  • Indieseek.xyz - A human edited, Indieweb directory.
  • Neocities - is a social network of 864,800+ web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web. They offer free static web hosting and tools that allow you to create your own web site.
  • Nownownow.com - Directory of people having a /now page on their website.
  • ooh.directory - find good blogs that interest you.
  • The 512KB Club - is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet.
  • Ye Olde Blogroll - a humanly curated list of fine personal & independent blogs that are updated regularly. No algorithms ever!
  • More in /discovery section.

Slow web / Indie web

32-Bit Cafe - a community of website hobbyists and professionals helping to make the web personal again, a web full of self-expression. Check their resources for the personal web.

neal.fun - a tiny website by Neal, lot of sometimes useful, sometimes useless apps and games. Always experimental.

⌨️ Terminal tools and CLI

🍿 Video channels

  • 🛩️ Aldo Sterone - Aviation - 🇫🇷 Analyses de crash d'avion (post-mortems).
  • ☕️ James Hoffmann - Coffee entrepreneur, barista, influencer.
  • 🧑🏻‍💻 KRAZAM - Excellent satire channel for Devs & Ops & Tech workers. Quite niche as if you laugh at those videos it's likely nobody in your family understands what you do for a living.
  • The Game Archivist - Full video records of a great variety of video games to keep their experience preserved, without commentary.
  • Ryan George - Comedy videos
  • Message à caractère informatique - 🇫🇷 détournements absurdes et cocasses de vieux films d'entreprise des années 1980

🗯️ Web Comics

Gone with the Blastwave 🪦 dead ?
in same tone and visual style, look for Romantically Apocalyptic.


Nose Ears
an absurd comic about the absurd things in life / everywhere.


Work chronicles
the joys and frustrations of the workplace.

xkcd
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. by Randall Munroe.

Web development

Web standards

  • Manual of Me - a framework which helps you communicate how you prefer people to work with you.

2 thoughts on “Links”

  1. hey, i saw on your shaarli many “films a l’arrache” channel videos, i invite you to reconsider posting them, as they are funded by a far-right billionaire: see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Firode#Cha%C3%AEne_YouTube or https://www.humanite.fr/politique/alain-finkielkraut/apres-les-echecs-marianne-et-bayard-sterin-investit-dans-la-presse-en-ligne-dextreme-droite
    hence the recurring themes of the videos and the youtube comments on the videos, so unless you endorse this ideology you shouldn’t keep those links

    Reply

    1. Thanks for the feedback! I enjoyed watching those videos as they open interesting discussions with some people I share them to, but wasn’t aware of who funded them. I might reconsider spamming links to them in my Shaarli 🙂 , for the reasons you mention also for keeping my Shaarli focused on other contents.
      By the way thanks for posting on this blog, it’s rare.

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