Daily

• Fastmail

  Solid email service that predates Gmail.

• YouTube Subscriptions

  Just the YouTube channels you're subscribed to. Toxic recommendations, begone.

• MetaFilter

  Community link blog operating since 1999. Quality internet links and discussion.

Internet Radio

• NTS

  Online radio station simulcasting between London & Los Angeles. They have an extensive back catalog of specialty shows hosted by DJs around the world.

• KEXP

  Seattle-based public radio station that regularly hosts live in-studio performances by up-and-coming artists with an excellent lineup of specialty shows.

• WREK

  Student run radio station of Georgia Tech. In a past life, I was a co-host on The Mobius. I'm also a fan of Goldsoundz and Destroy All Music. RIP WREKRoom Renaissance & Longboards 'n Longhorns.

• WFMU

  Listener-supported free-form radio station based out of Jersey City, NJ featuring a grab bag of programming by area DJs.

• KFJC

  Broadcasting out of Foothill College in Los Altos, California. I used to listen to them a great deal on my Bay Area commute, and were a regular presence in local shows.

• KCRW

  Los Angeles based NPR affiliate renowned for its music programming. Features a 24 hour music station as well as an archive of live in-studio performances.

• SomaFM

  Burning Man pirate FM station turned online stream with over 30 specialty channels hand curated by SF Bay Area DJs. Recommended: Groove Salad, Secret Agent, Drone Zone, Seven Inch Soul, Heavyweight Reggae. Seasonal streams are also quite fun.

• Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast

  Ambient internet stream going strong for over 25 years. SEB has been deemed safe for long-term use. Avoid operating heavy machinery while under the influence of SEB.

• The Lot Radio

  Independent online radio station streaming live DJ sets from a shipping container on an empty lot in Brooklyn. Past shows are archived on Mixcloud.

Web Tools

• Time and Date

  Useful tools for time zone calculations and meeting planning.

• internet-ti.me

  Shareable reference card for coordinating online events showing Swatch Internet Time and common time zones.

• CyberChef

  The Cyber Swiss Army Knife. Quick tools for analyzing and decoding data in all forms.

• Diceware

  Generate random sequences of words. For use in passphrase or username creation.

• DeepL Translate

  Preferred online language translator.

Research

• Wikipedia (EN, ES, SV)

  The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. A great first stop to research general topics online. The site has its flaws, but it's automatically better than most of the Internet by virtue of actually including sources for you to verify.

• Internet Archive

  Best damn web site in all of the realms. Must be protected. Home to the Wayback Machine and a treasure trove of media.

• archive.today

  Time capsule for web pages. Use it to find old snapshots of specific web pages and to bypass article paywalls.

• Ask MetaFilter

  Popular Q&A section of MetaFilter. I oftentimes search the archives when I have questions of my own.

• Bellingcat Online Investigations Toolkit

  A collection of OSINT tools & guides assembled by Bellingcat volunteers.

• Forums Are Still Alive

  An updated list of modern Internet forums across a variety of categories. Great for researching niche topics or lurking.

Maps

• Google Maps

  Even with the rest of Google's services going steadily downhill, Maps is still chugging along. Likely the most updated service as far as driving directions and business listings go.

• HERE WeGo

  Snappy map software owned by German auto makers. Includes the ability to download maps for offline road and public transit navigation.

• OpenStreetMap

  Crowdsourced map database and application with favorable licensing terms for dev projects.

Games

• Pagat

  Card and tile game rules from around the world operating since 1995. Includes traditional games as well as new user-submitted games. Includes my own high school invention, Colosseum.

• Video Game History Foundation Library

  Digital archive of video game history research materials including out-of-print video game magazines, press kits, and development materials.

• Insert Credit Forum

  Video game forum with a friendly community. Associated with the Insert Credit podcast.

Fighting Games

• Fightcade

  The leading online matchmaking service for retro fighting games. Bundles my own project, Flycast Dojo. Catch me in the lobbies for Street Fighter 2X, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Vampire Savior, and Akatsuki Blitzkampf Ausf Achse.

• Arkadyzja

  A new matchmaking platform, initially created for DuckStation multiplayer games, that provides matchmaking and a slick game management interface running on top of Flycast Dojo's existing P2P & Relay features.

• SuperCombo Wiki

  Resurrected from the ashes of the Shoryuken Wiki, the SuperCombo Wiki is the first place I go to find information on competitive fighting games. Any games not covered by the web site are helpfully linked to other wikis across the community.

• Mizuumi Wiki

  Wiki specializing in niche (doujin, poverty, kusoge, etc) fighting games. Favorites include Vampire Savior, Akatsuki Blitzkampf, and Toy Fighter.

• Dream Cancel Wiki

  Wiki specializing in SNK fighters. On my speed dial are Samurai Shodown VI, The King of Fighters '98 UMFE, and The King of Fighters 2002 UM.

Music

Listening

• AllMusic

  Extensive music database operating since 1991. From the time I was a wee lad, so much of my musical taste was formed via the combination of this site's recommendations and checking out CDs from inter-library loan.

• Discogs

  Music database operating with the goal of "cataloging every single piece of physical music ever created". Another great reference alongside All Music Guide with easy access to active vendors of CDs and vinyl.

• Bandcamp

  The definitive music marketplace. You can get lost on this site streaming albums all day long. Also host to a first-rate music recommendation blog, Bandcamp Daily.

Lyrics

• Genius

  Most updated modern music lyrics site. Hella annotations.

• Song Meanings

  More lyrics. Cleaner interface.

Playing

• musictheory.net

  Lessons, exercises and tools for concepts in music theory.

• ChordFind

  Chord mapping for stringed instruments and piano.

Guitar

• JGuitar

  Tools for guitar. Chord & scale calculator, dictionaries, and harmonizer.

• Freetar

  A cleaner frontend for guitar tabs and chords via the typically ad-ridden Ultimate Guitar.

Piano

• The Jazz Piano Site

  Exhaustive collection of jazz piano lessons & YouTube video tutorials.

Arts

• UbuWeb

  Shadow library for the avant-garde.

• Monoskop

• Electronic Poetry Center

Academia

• JSTOR Daily
• Nature
• Communications of the ACM
• IEEE Access
• PLOS Journals

Social

• Bluesky

  Twitter methadone.

• FGC.Network

  Fighting Game Community on the Fediverse.

News

• ProPublica

  Non-profit investigative journalism outlet that has partnered with a whole swathe of partner outlets.

• The Conversation

  Network of news outlets with stories authored by domain experts across academia. Frequently published in partner news outlets with relevant links to research.

• 404 Media

  Quality technology news coverage from the former editors of Vice's Motherboard. Reporter-owned and subscription-based.

• The Aftermath

  Video game and internet culture news outlet and group blog. Much like 404 Media, a reader-supported feed featuring writers from previously shuttered video game blogs.

• Quanta Magazine

  Science and math research news.

• Undark Magazine

  Long form science journalism from the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT.

• Yle (SV, EN)

  Finland's national public service broadcasting company.

Privacy

• EFF Surveillance Self-Defense
• A Defensive Computing Checklist
• Riseup Digital Security

Programming

Web Tools

• IT Tools

  Extensive collection of tools for development, network plumbing, and cryptography.

• Rubular

  Ruby regular expression editor and reference.

Reference

• MDN

  Web technologies reference. HTML, Javascript, & modern web browser features.

• Linux man pages online

  When in doubt, read your man pages.

• cplusplus
• cppreference
• Ruby Documentation
• ECMAScript Standard
• JWT
• Memory Management Reference

Literature

• The C Programming Language (PDF)

  K&R. The classic.

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

  The famous "Wizard Book" formerly used as an introductory text in the MIT Computer Science program. Well worth cracking open from time to time to review concepts.

• why's (poignant) guide to ruby

  I'll be straight with you. I want you to cry. To weep. To whimper sweetly. This book is a poignant guide to Ruby. That means code so beautiful that tears are shed. That means gallant tales and somber truths that have you waking up the next morning in the arms of this book.

Courses

• PortSwigger Web Security Academy

  Web security tutorials using PortSwigger's Burp suite.

My Projects

• Flycast Dojo

  A fork of Flycast, a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, NAOMI, and Atomiswave emulator optimized for netplay and practice.

• Supermodel Dojo

  A fork of Supermodel, a Sega Model 3 arcade system board emulator, with a focus on usability and competitive play for fighting games.

• Fightcade+ Installer

  Post-install wizard that performs the most common post-installation steps Fightcade users take.

• TV

  TV party tonight! TV party tonight! (My music track, live performance, and music video playlists as TV channels in sync with any other viewers.)

Software

Browsers

• LibreWolf

  My daily driver. It's Firefox with defaults tailored for the paranoid and extraneous services removed. I like that saving cookies and local storage is opt-in on a per-web site basis by clicking on the lock. The only real tweak I perform after install is disabling RFP.

• Ungoogled Chromium

  It's Chromium, with all of the Google integrations removed. I hate being surprised by new features I didn't ask for during new updates, which disqualify Edge, Brave, and vanilla Chrome for me. On Windows, be sure to use UniGetUI to keep it updated.

Browser Extensions

• uBlock Origin

  Best adblocker around at the browser level. Defaults work well. Can be supercharged with HaGeZi's DNS Blocklists.

• Consent-O-Matic

  Automates clicking through those annoying GDPR cookie consent boxes. A project from the Centre for Advanced Visualisation and Interaction (CAVI) at Aarhus University.

• OneTab

  Clears and saves all of your active tabs. For those times when you are in too deep, but still want the safety of knowing that all of your open pages aren't lost forever.

• Web Archives

  Lets you quickly navigate to archived and cached versions of most any web page, with several built-in sources including the Wayback Machine and archive.today.

• FB Purity

  Makes Facebook usable. Allows you to filter posts by keyword, removes obnoxious ads, and gets rid of the unrelated garbage meme pages that the service pushes on your feed. Between this extension and unfollowing by default, my Internet life has greatly improved.

Tools

• Visual Studio Code

  My main code editor these days. Cross-platform, reasonable defaults, and a vast array of extensions. Vim extension is a must for me.

• SpeedCrunch

  Preferred scientific calculator. Snappy, keyboard-driven minimal interface that keeps a running history of all operations.

• Notepad++ (Windows)

  Secondary text editor and general scratch pad on Windows. Extremely quick to load and saves all text progress on window close, which is nice for ephemeral notes. Full-featured and great for editing code in a pinch.

• Vim

  It's everywhere, and well worth learning if you code or frequently edit files on remote servers. Even learning just a few commands will have you flying across text like a hot knife through butter.

Operating Systems

• Debian

  Rock solid, stable, and has a large community behind it for development and support. My default choice for any servers I set up, and even makes a great desktop if you don't mind using AppImages for newer applications.

• Arch Linux

  Yang to Debian's yin. Bleeding edge, and pretty nice if you want a workstation with all of the latest packages. The ArchWiki is an excellent resource no matter what flavor of Linux you are using, and the AUR is a treasure trove of user-submitted packages.

• Xubuntu

  Whenever I set up a disposable virtual machine for desktop development, Xubuntu is my default choice. It's compatible with the most popular Linux distribution around as a build target, and comes with an extremely lightweight desktop. It's comfortable.

Windows System Utilities

• The Ultimate Windows Utility - Chris Titus Tech

  Post-install utility to debloat, remove extraneous Windows features, toggle common tweaks, and install new applications in bulk.

• UnattendedWinstall

  Custom Windows Answer file that can either be slipstreamed into a Windows USB key, or applied using the Ultimate Windows Utility. You can also generate a custom configuration to apply in the same manner.

• UniGetUI

  GUI frontend for Windows package managers including Winget and Chocolatey. Find and automatically upgrade the applications you have in one place.

Self-hosted Services

• WireGuard

  VPN software I use to connect to my home network from anywhere. I can access my self-hosted services via my phone or laptop when I am not home.

• AdGuard Home

  Network-wide ad & tracker blocker. Combined with WireGuard, this allows me to browse the Internet on all of my devices without ads no matter where I am. Used in conjunction with HaGeZi's DNS Blocklists.

• FreshRSS

  Lightweight, self-hostable RSS and Atom feed reader. My preferred way to read regularly updated sites.

• The Lounge

  Web IRC client. It keeps me logged in to my IRC servers of choice with a nice web interface I can access on any web browser.

• Jellyfin

  Streaming media player. Allows me to watch my TV and movies on any device. Apart from phones & laptops, pairs great with Android streaming TV sticks when traveling.

• SilverBullet

  Markdown note-taking application with wiki-style linking. Allows for offline operation on any device used and has a Vim mode.

• SearXNG

  A meta search engine that collects results from a variety of search providers without those annoying AI features Google insists upon. I also host a public instance that can be used on the top of this very page.