Links and Bookmarks

This page features a curated living list of cool stuff I use or have discovered on the internet. I maintain this list for my own reference, and publish it in the hope you will find something useful! No affilliate links or sponsorships here.

Technology

Kagi
Paid search engine with no ads or sponsored results. Allows for personalized customization of results. Tasteful, useful and unobtrusive AI tool implementations.

Proton
Privacy-aware email service, easy integration with custom domains. Allows for E2EE with other Proton users, or PGP encryption for others.

Bitwarden
Reliable workhorse password manager.

FreshRSS
Self-hostable RSS feed aggregator. Long live the chronological feed! I self-host it from a docker container and access it remotely via a VPN.

Music

RadioParadise
User-sponsored, eclectic mix of human-curated music. No ads or commercials. Great music!

musicForProgrammers();
Episodic mixes of experimental ambient music chosen to help you lock in and reduce distraction while working. Sick HTML animations!

Science

Cell Press
Collection of scientific journals, with >70% of articles published with Open Access.

"Forbidden" Colour Illusion
See a colour you’ve probably never seen before with this optical illusion that selectively fatigues your eye’s overlapping cones.

Programming

Calc.50x.ca
My own tool created to easily convert between binary, hex and decimal, with individually togglable bits. Great for embedded systems programmers!

CSS Grid Garden
Interactive lessons on learning CSS Grid. It was my first introduction to Grid.

Languages

Forvo
Database of word pronunciations across many languages, all recorded by native speakers.

Mandarin Blueprint
The course I’m using to learn Chinese. I though learning Hanzi would be like pulling teeth, but the ‘memory palace’ method they teach, and the logical progression of the course has made things easy and quite fun.