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.

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