Links

Computing

General

• A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011: Index
• AWK Cheatsheet
• Alexander Leidinger — FreeBSD guy.
• Bit Twiddling Hacks — Code.
• Brendan Gregg
• Brian Kernighan — UNIX and K&R author.
• Brian Raiter’s Resources — Cryptography, Reverse Engineering.
• Buffer Overflows in C — Code examples.
• Capabilities for Coders
• Codemadness — Suckless software author.
• Dylan Beattie: Plain Text — There are many versions of this talk, not sure which one is the best.
• Fabien Sanglard — Computer graphics.
• FreeBSD Architecture Handbook
• Jonathan Blow: How 3D video games do graphics
• Jonathan Blow: Preventing the Collapse of Civilization — A must-watch for every programmer.
• Julius Orion Smith III {Index, Publications} — Audio signal processing.
• M. Douglas McIlroy — UNIX author.
• OSDev — Operating systems development wiki.
• OpenBSD Amsterdam — OpenBSD hosting.
• Programming in the 21st Century
• Russ Cox — Go and Plan 9 engineer.
• SDF Public Access UNIX System
• Spyware Watchdog — Catalogue of programs known to be spyware.
• Squoze – Mostly old UNIX archives.
• The Cheapskate’s Guide to Computers and the Internet
• The FreeBSD Project
• The OpenBSD Project
• The Unix Heritage Society — Great archive of UNIX history and code.
• The little book about OS development
• Troff Resources
• Why Email is the Best Discussion Platform
• Why IRC is Still Good in $CURRENT_YEAR
• Wojciech Muła — Optimizations, SIMD, algorithms.
• cat -v — “Random contrarian insurgent organization”.
• javidx9
• suckless.org — Software that sucks less.

Plan 9

• 9P Specification
• 9front Wiki — I’ve made some contributions there as well.
• 9front — “9front is an operating system for ladies and gentlemen.”
• C Programming in Plan 9
• Henesy
• In praise of Plan 9
• International Plan 9 Workshop
• OS Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs
• Plan 9 - The Documents
• Plan 9 Desktop Guide
• Plan 9 Foundation
• Plan 9 from Bell Labs
• Plan 9 from User Space — Plan 9 utilities ported to UNIX-like operating systems.
• Postnix
• SDF PeerTube
• Shithub
• Sigrid
• Stanley Lieber
• The Organization of Networks in Plan 9
• XXIIVV
• adventuresin9
• qwx

x86 Assembly

• FreeBSD x86 Programming
• Guide to x86 Assembly - Yale University
• x86 Assembly - Shichao’s Notes
• x86 Assembly - Wikibooks
• x86 Instructions
• x86 Interrupt Jump Table
• x86 and amd64 Instruction Reference

Electronics

• Ben Eater — Computers from scratch.
• Circuit Collection
• EEVblog
• From transistors to gates!
• Grant Searle — Electronics guru.
• MJLorton
• Science Hobbyist — Terrible 90s design but interesting pages.

Firefighting

• Aurora Fire Rescue Training Branch
• CFBT-GR — A Greek CFBT information hub maintained by one of my colleagues from the Fire Service.
• EuroFirefighter
• Fire Science: Back to Basics
• FireFighting.eu — Firefighting trainings in the South Tyrol region.
• Lars Axelsson - Things I wish I knew when I went to my first fire
• Man Alive: The Bronx Is Burning FDNY 1972
• Matt Davis — Fire science.
• R1 SmokeEater — Old Fire Department clips from the US.
• RRFR Training
• StocktonFireHistory Originals — Excellent and educational in-field videos from Stockton FD.

Travel

• Finland National Parks
• Mapa Turystyczna — Map with mountain trails in Poland.
• OpenStreetMaps
• Syros, Greece marked trails
• Syros, Greece unmarked trails
• alpenvereinaktiv.com
• e-DolnyŚląsk — Lower Silesia historial-tourist portal.

History

• Academy for Ancient Texts
• Folk Texts
• Fotopolska — Historical photo archive of Poland.
• Medieval England Murder Map
• OpenHistoricalMap
• Revolutions Podcast {Index}
• Secular Byzantine Music
• TIKhistory
• The Great War — Week-by-week coverage of World War I.
• The History of Byzantium {Index}
• The History of Rome {Index}
• Voices of the Past — Historical accounts narrated.
• World War Two — Week-by-week coverage of World War II.
• drakegoodman — Rare and high quality photos from Germany in World War I.

Linguistics

• Ecolinguist
• Greek Linguistic PDFs
• Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana — Biglottic Koine Greek <-> Latin learning textbook from the 1st-3rd centuries AD.
• Jackson Crawford — Old Norse specialist.
• Language PDFs
• Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata — Inspired by Hans Ørberg’s “Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata”, which you should definitely read if you’re interested in learning Latin.
• NativLang
• The Latin Library
• The pronuncation of Ancient Greek

Friends

• Eilivev — Norwegian friend.
• Goran Mekić — FreeBSD hacker from Serbia
• Recetat e Lisës — Albanian cuisine. I cannot read Albanian.
• Smyru — Friend and FreeBSD hacker.
• Stefanos Strauss — Childhood friend.

Unsorted

• 0 A.D. — Open-source RTS game.
• Based Cooking — Git-driven recipe website.
• Bullshit Jobs
• Central and Eastern European Online Library
• Computer Stupidities
• Eric S. Raymond — Old-school Linux hacker.
• Fourmilab — Founder of Autodesk Inc.
• Freya India — Mostly targeted towards women, but really good insights in general.
• Jazz Guitar Online — Jazz guitar lessons.
• Jean Piaget’s Theory and Stages of Cognitive Development
• Jitsi — Video-conferencing.
• John DuBois — Electronics, pyrotechnics.
• LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
• LindyPress — On-demand reprinting of out-of-print classical and medieval books.
• Lotus Eaters
• Luke Smith — Known for his YouTube channel.
• Matt Fuller — Fun website.
• Mental Outlaw — Mainly tech and online security.
• Not Related! Podcast
• Parimal Satyal
• Pornography is evil
• Project Gutenberg — Library of free eBooks.
• Ray Thomas — Real boomer website.
• Roger Scruton: Architecture and Aesthetic Education
• Simplifier — Minimal handmade technology.
• The Childhood That Governments Take from Us — On the state of modern schooling.
• Things People Said
• Usenet Archives
• Ventusky — Interactive weather maps.
• WTF Happened in 1971?
• YT RSS Feeds — Generate RSS feeds for YouTube channels.
• herpetofauna.gr — Catalogue of all reptilian and amphibian species found in Greece.
• wttr.in — Plain text weather.

Find more websites

I do not necessarily recommend all the websites you will find through the following links.

• Cheapskate’s Guide: Resources
• Hyperlinked Text
• Matt’s Link-O-Rama
• Wiby — Search engine for the Classic Web.