Links
Human curated list of resources I find interesting
Created Jan 20, 2024 - Last updated: Jun 6, 2024
Growing 🌿
Art Stuff
- Pixel Art Paletts
- Choices are hard, let someone else pick your colors.
- TS Dower
- Alt-process photography and other obsolete technology as art
- Extinct Flightless Art Collective
- Joanna Barnum’s Art
- Dark fantasy & gothy water colors
- Mountain of Ink
- Fantastic reivews of fountain pen ink
- Metropolitan Museum Open Access
- Smithsonian Open Access
- Classic Camera Database
Balitimore Stuff
- Baltimore Open Data
- Baltimore Trees
- including the Baltimore Flowering Trees Map
- Balitmore Banner
- Non-profit-ish local news
- Bolton Hill Community Association
Covid Stuff
- CDC Wastewater Data
- Probably the best we have right now for knowing Covid risk levels
- Biobot Wastewater Data
Culture Stuff
- The Al Capone Theory of Sexual Harassment by Valerie Aurora and Leigh Honeywell
- Ballotpedia Vote!
- Little Free Library
- These are all over Baltimore, and I love them!
- The Safezone Project
- Resources for learning about and supporting the LGBTQ+ community
- Trans Travel Guide
- Trans Legislative Risk map
- Wealth, shown to scale
- This is one of the most powerful data visualizations I’ve ever seen. I encourage everyone to scroll through the whole thing.
Journaling Stuff
Postcard Stuff
- Postcrossing
- Exchange postcards with folks all around the world (but mostly Germany)
- National Postcard Week
- Design your own postcard, and trade with others doing the same
- Airport Mailboxes
- A guide for what airports have mail boxes and where to find them
Tech Stuff
- Timezone-Sensitive Rounding by David Turner
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time and More Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time
- A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital
Garden by Maggie Appleton
- Most of the inspiration for the design and layout of this site comes from Mx Appleton’s work
- A company blog post I wrote about finding a bug in the Java date formatting logic. I’m pretty proud of the bug, and the write-up
- Wizard Zines by Julia Evans
- Easy to understand resources for a lot of computing fundamentals. Great illustrations.
- Ascii particle effects
- Permacomputing
- There’s some good ideas here. Not sure it’s totally on the right track, but worth thinking about.
- The Doctor’s Blog
- John Colagioia’s Blog
- uthash
- C data structures written in pre-processor directives.
- TOSDR
- Summaries and ratings of terms of service agreements
- Maze Algorithms Visualized
Software Tools
- Kitty terminal
- Fish Shell
- Firefox Browser
- ObsidianMD Markdown based note taking app
- LunarVim (an IDE-like neovim distribution)
- Note - Lunar Vim is no longer being maintained. I’ll update this list with whatever I migrate to, when I do.
Web Comics!
- XKCD If you found my page, but somehow don’t know about XKCD, I am very confused.
- SMBC
- Something Positive
- Sluggy Freelance
- Questionable Content
- Schlock Mercenary (Finished, but worth reading)
- EGS
- Nietzsche Family Circus (they’re all amazing, but this might be my favorite)