jake's favorite stuff
A collection of my favorite stuff from across the web, loosly assorted into categories.
This page is way too l o n g, so click the links below to jump to jake's favorite [blank]:
JUMP -> Competitive Programming Resources
JUMP -> Software Engineering Resources
JUMP -> Cybersecurity Tools
JUMP -> Misc. Tech Stuff
JUMP -> News Sources & Link Aggregators
JUMP -> Wikis
JUMP -> Mathematics Resources
JUMP -> Academia Resources
JUMP -> Blog Posts and Articles
JUMP -> Personal Websites
JUMP -> Misc.
• USACO.guide - A collection of high-quality resources curated for the USA computing olympiad
• Clist.by - A database of future and active programming competitions
• USACO Training - Hundreds of hours of computational problem solving instruction and countless practice problems
• Codeforces - A great website for practicing
• Leetcode - An inferior website for practicing. Use codeforces. Nerd.
• Anime.js - A javascript animation library that, in my opinion, is better than Three.js
• Autohotkey - Good tool for creating hotkeys on Windows. Best utilized for video editing workflows imo.
• Unsplash - Free stock images
• Pexels - More free stock images
• One Page Love - Pretty one page websites
• Learn-regex - A great guide on regular expressions
• Github Is My Resume - An interesting article on resumes vs portfolios
• Github Student Developer Pack - Free access to great developer tools if you're a student
• How to improve at any programming language - A great read
• Carbon - Create pretty images of your source code
• Weather.com API - A great weather API
• Stanford large Network Dataset Collection - A massive amount of free data
• Wikidata - Free and open data platform from wikipedia
• Tech Jobs For Good - How to work in tech and not be evil
• x0.at - File pastebin
• hakyll - Using Haskell to build static websites
• Cybersec Basics & Armor - Basically covers everything
• CTF101.org - Learn how to compete in CTFs
• CTFtime - See upcoming CTFs
• Sherlock Project - Track down social media accounts
• EK's pentest tips and tricks one and two
• Cheet Sheets - pentestmonkey
• FaradaySEC - Multi-user pentest environment
• Vulnhub.com - Practice on vulnerable virtual machines
• Reverse Engineering for Beginners - Good book on assembly and reverse engineering. My go-to.
• Massscan - "TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes."
• https://gbhackers.com/sn1per-a-detailed-explanation-of-most-advanced-automated-information-gathering-penetration-testing-tool/
• NSA@home - password cracker
• testssl.sh - /bin/bash based SSL/TLS tester
• 2019 OSINT Guide
• OSINT Dojo
• PowerSploit - A (now archived) Powershell Post-Exploitation framework
• Discord Exploit Collection
• the-backdoor-factory - Patch PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries
• BDFProxy
• Veil - Tool for generating metasploti payloads that bypass common antiviruses
• An old intro to fuzzing
• pwntools - CTF framework and exploit development library
• From 0x90 to 0x4c454554
• Sec Cheet Sheets
• A Cyberpunk Manifesto, by Christian A. Kirtchev (kinda edgy)
• Geekhack.org - Mechanical Keyboard Community
• Gopher Proxy - Proxy for an old, minimal internet protocol that was eventually supplanted by the current web stack
• arrl.org - Ham Radio Licenses
• https://prism-break.org/en/ - Alternatives to modern applications that emphasize privacy
• portquiz - See if your ports are open
• Labgopher - Tool for getting great deals on ebay
• r/homelab's software wiki - List of software for home servers
• OpenVPN - Best VPN
• Lubed Holy Pandas - No Explaination Necessary
• WTFPL - The epicly named "Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License
• The World's Most Advanced Video Editing Tutorial - The best video editing tutorial avaiable, done by the main editor for Linus Tech Tips
• xkcd 195
• Preserving Laptop Stickers on Laptops
• Don't Hex The Water - Digital privacy is important!
• Online Spyware Watchdog
• Mullvad VPN - The second best VPN
• 996 - fuck the ccp
• 12ft - "hop" any paywall
• Text Files - Reading
• notes.andymatuschak.org - Andy Matuschak's fantastic working notes
• pgp.mit.edu - MIT's PGP key server
• HTTP Cats - HTTP Cats
• The Invisible Internet Project
• Temp Mail - Temporary email addresses
• Xyte.ch - Sells modified Thinkpads
• privacyguides.org - Privacy is important
• secret.club - A group of people who break software
• libreboot.org - don't boot intel management engine on system startup
• orgroam.com - An emacs-based organization system that I do not use
• loopsnoop - A proof that the halting problem is undecidable
• catb.org/hacker-emblem/
• plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ - Formally verifying rust
• syncthing.net - A nice tool for syncing things between devices
• The Internet Hosting Cooperative
• Phoronix - Mostly Linux News
• Pluralistic - Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• lobste.rs - Similar to Hacker News
• tildes.net - Similar to Hacker News and Lobste.rs
• news.t0.vc - Tech and science-oriented link aggregation across different sites
• Lemmy - Link aggregator for the fediverse
• Krebs On Security
• n-o-d-e.net - Byte-sized tech news
• Arch Linux Wiki - Anything and everything Arch Linux
• r/linuxmasterrace Reddit Wiki
• Kernel.org - Linux Documentation Project
• The Linux Documentation Project - Huuge repo of linux info
• Wolfram Alpha - Because, of course
• The Natural Number Game - See the power of induction!
• Erdos Number
• web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html - The napkin
• Sci-Hub - Because open access is king
• Library Genesis - Free books galore
• Arxiv - A free, highly used distribution service for research papers
• Mendely - An effective citation manager
• Collaboration & Credit Principles - Interesting article on trust between researchers
• The Academic Family Tree - A single, interdisciplinary academic genealogy
• search.marginlia.nu - A search engine that prioritizes information-dense websites
• Faculty Job Search Resources
• HeVeA - LaTeX to HTML
• 6-045j - MIT's automata theory course
• The Danger of Journaling IS Introspection
• A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
• "On Writing" by Terence Tao
• NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography
• Google says it mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017
• Computer Science Open Data: CS Faculty composition and hiring trends
• From Novice to Master, and back again
• your data is not safe
• hallucinating the cloud
• What Did I Learn This Decade? 2010-2019
• The sum of all knowledge
• CLOSURE
• A History of Trnashumanist Thought
• How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
• Intentionally Making Close Friends
• FFmpeg - The Ultimate Guide
• How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
• The Decline of Usability
• What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
• Quantum Computing for the very curious
• Postscript on the Societies of Control (edgy, ik)
• Overclocking my old Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
• Love
• Notes on technology in the 2020s
• A Nod to Ned Ludd
• Alienation, Marvelous Persuits and the New Nomadic Sciences
• Wat
• Getting a Computer Science PhD in the USA
• Teaching the Hidden Curriculum
• Why we stopped maing Einsteins
• The End of Trust
• Magic Ink
• How To Deflate An SUV Tyre
• How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?
• An extensive guide to optimizing a Linux laptop for battery life
• The Dark Mountain Project's Manifesto - edgy af
• Writing as Distilled Thought
• Your Computer Isn't Yours
• Why Metadata Matters
• Cities and Ambition - An absolute favorite. Boston <3
• My Dream Text Editor
• I'm a fucking webmaster
• How to get a busy person to respond to your email
• Life Is Short
• I Hacked the Dutch Government, and all I got was this t-shirt!
• Mechanical Watch
• Analyzing Rail Tickets
• The Philisophical Implications of Complexity Theory
• What is ChatGPT and why does it work?
• How to Kill Decentralized Networks
• Running a single-user Mastodon instance
• The Collatz Conjecture & Non-Archimedean Spectral Theory
• [The Silent (R)evolution of SAT](https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/6/273222-the-silent-revolution-of-sat/fulltext)
• E-Ink is so Retropunk
• bramadams.dev
• jeffhuang.com/ - Prof at Brown researching HCI
• henryneeds.coffee
• blog.cr.yp.to - D.J. Bernstein's great blog
• azdavis.net - A Fella
• sookocheff.com - A distributed systems engineer
• zhangmingming.org - A security researcher at Tsinghau university with similar research interests to mine
• void.cc/
• nilfm.cc - Digital minimalist
• everest-pipkin - Great art
• blog.ncase.me - Game dev
• matt.might.net - Incredible prof
• msx.gay - Radio person
• kae.si
• icyphox.sh
• danielkirs.ch
• samuelgruetter.net/ - Compiler guy
• jmilne.org
• cyber.dabamos.de
• faultlore.com - Author of "you can't spell trust without rust"
• h313.info
• bernsteinbear.com
• scottaaronson.blog - A guy who loves quantum computers
• www.gwern.net - many edges
• people.cispa.io
• eli.thegreenplace.net
• castel.dev
• neelnanda.io
• The Creative Independent
• mattcolewilson.com
• louismeunier.net
• henryheffernan.com - ThreeJS<3
• mogami.neocities.org
• amieko.space - Great photographer
• yin.neocities.org
• sigbus.info
• coelacanth-dream.com
• analogdreams.blog
• demin.ws - реверс-инжиниринг человек
• maya.land
• suragu.net
• wowana.me - a guy big into fediverse
• datagubbe - Monke
• gir.st
• blog.bemoe.online
• zlkj.in
• surenaga.neocities.org
• drkhsh.at - Gopher user
• neugierig.org
• raymii.org
• m455.casa
• swindlesmccoop.xyz - Serial Experiments Linux
• casual.agency
• ELI DOURADO - A great writer
• blog.cjeller.site - Classical Guitar by Training, Cloud Engineer by Accident
• cass.si
• sneak.berlin
• stephenfay.xyz - Good writing
• www.lukeheine.com
• www.boringcactus.com - An immortal programming person who works for the MBTA
• mm4rk3t.neocities.org - Space
• badd10de.dev
• 100r.co - Offgrid living
• mrshll.com
• electro.pizza
• ad044.neocities.org - Another lain-er
• evasive.tech - Art
• Danish Prakash - A dev from India
• Lisa Lee - PhD in ML at CMU who likes pokemon
• Maruan Al-Shedivat - The founding editor of CMU's machine learning blog
• Ariel Procaccia - CMU and Harvard prof into the relationship between algorithms and society. He's taught some interesting courses, including "Optimized Democracy" (Harvard CS238) and "Truth, Justice, and Algorithms" (CMU I5896)
• Daniel Roy Greenfeld - ex-Nasa employee
• Shriram Krishnamurthi - CS Prof at Brown into programming languages and formal methods
• Qntm - Qntm
• blog.soykaf.com - Lain person
• Neg Serg
• Daniel Howe - Prof at HKU focusing on privacy, surveillance, and disinformation
• Jordan Ellenberg - Great mathematician and speaker
• eta.st
• sqrtminusone.xyz - emacs freak. I prefer (n)vim, but I respect it.
• bryndr.sn
• calnewport.com - Great author
• justchokingaround - My favorite choker
• Marc Lange - A philosophy prof at Purdue with a hilarious webpage
• Swapfest: The Flea at MIT - Flea market at MIT
• Vessi Everyday Classic - Nice shoes
• Eat Well Guide - Search by location for hand-picked restaurants, farms, markets and other sources of local, sustainable food
• zettelkasten.de - Organization method
• getting-rich-from-zero-to-hero-in-one-blog-post
• polyphasic.net - Sleep 2 hours a day
This page is way too l o n g, so click the links below to jump to jake's favorite [blank]:
JUMP -> Competitive Programming Resources
JUMP -> Software Engineering Resources
JUMP -> Cybersecurity Tools
JUMP -> Misc. Tech Stuff
JUMP -> News Sources & Link Aggregators
JUMP -> Wikis
JUMP -> Mathematics Resources
JUMP -> Academia Resources
JUMP -> Blog Posts and Articles
JUMP -> Personal Websites
JUMP -> Misc.
Competitive Programming Resources
• Benjamin QI's USACO Repo - A cracked competitive programmer's repository containing his Q&A, solves, and resources• USACO.guide - A collection of high-quality resources curated for the USA computing olympiad
• Clist.by - A database of future and active programming competitions
• USACO Training - Hundreds of hours of computational problem solving instruction and countless practice problems
• Codeforces - A great website for practicing
• Leetcode - An inferior website for practicing. Use codeforces. Nerd.
Software Engineering Resources
• The C Programming Language - A PDF of the greatest programming book of all time, imo• Anime.js - A javascript animation library that, in my opinion, is better than Three.js
• Autohotkey - Good tool for creating hotkeys on Windows. Best utilized for video editing workflows imo.
• Unsplash - Free stock images
• Pexels - More free stock images
• One Page Love - Pretty one page websites
• Learn-regex - A great guide on regular expressions
• Github Is My Resume - An interesting article on resumes vs portfolios
• Github Student Developer Pack - Free access to great developer tools if you're a student
• How to improve at any programming language - A great read
• Carbon - Create pretty images of your source code
• Weather.com API - A great weather API
• Stanford large Network Dataset Collection - A massive amount of free data
• Wikidata - Free and open data platform from wikipedia
• Tech Jobs For Good - How to work in tech and not be evil
• x0.at - File pastebin
• hakyll - Using Haskell to build static websites
Cybersecurity Tools
Critical Reminder: I am not responsible for what you do with this stuff.• Cybersec Basics & Armor - Basically covers everything
• CTF101.org - Learn how to compete in CTFs
• CTFtime - See upcoming CTFs
• Sherlock Project - Track down social media accounts
• EK's pentest tips and tricks one and two
• Cheet Sheets - pentestmonkey
• FaradaySEC - Multi-user pentest environment
• Vulnhub.com - Practice on vulnerable virtual machines
• Reverse Engineering for Beginners - Good book on assembly and reverse engineering. My go-to.
• Massscan - "TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes."
• https://gbhackers.com/sn1per-a-detailed-explanation-of-most-advanced-automated-information-gathering-penetration-testing-tool/
• NSA@home - password cracker
• testssl.sh - /bin/bash based SSL/TLS tester
• 2019 OSINT Guide
• OSINT Dojo
• PowerSploit - A (now archived) Powershell Post-Exploitation framework
• Discord Exploit Collection
• the-backdoor-factory - Patch PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries
• BDFProxy
• Veil - Tool for generating metasploti payloads that bypass common antiviruses
• An old intro to fuzzing
• pwntools - CTF framework and exploit development library
• From 0x90 to 0x4c454554
• Sec Cheet Sheets
Misc. Tech Stuff
• xkcd comics - Comics• A Cyberpunk Manifesto, by Christian A. Kirtchev (kinda edgy)
• Geekhack.org - Mechanical Keyboard Community
• Gopher Proxy - Proxy for an old, minimal internet protocol that was eventually supplanted by the current web stack
• arrl.org - Ham Radio Licenses
• https://prism-break.org/en/ - Alternatives to modern applications that emphasize privacy
• portquiz - See if your ports are open
• Labgopher - Tool for getting great deals on ebay
• r/homelab's software wiki - List of software for home servers
• OpenVPN - Best VPN
• Lubed Holy Pandas - No Explaination Necessary
• WTFPL - The epicly named "Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License
• The World's Most Advanced Video Editing Tutorial - The best video editing tutorial avaiable, done by the main editor for Linus Tech Tips
• xkcd 195
• Preserving Laptop Stickers on Laptops
• Don't Hex The Water - Digital privacy is important!
• Online Spyware Watchdog
• Mullvad VPN - The second best VPN
• 996 - fuck the ccp
• 12ft - "hop" any paywall
• Text Files - Reading
• notes.andymatuschak.org - Andy Matuschak's fantastic working notes
• pgp.mit.edu - MIT's PGP key server
• HTTP Cats - HTTP Cats
• The Invisible Internet Project
• Temp Mail - Temporary email addresses
• Xyte.ch - Sells modified Thinkpads
• privacyguides.org - Privacy is important
• secret.club - A group of people who break software
• libreboot.org - don't boot intel management engine on system startup
• orgroam.com - An emacs-based organization system that I do not use
• loopsnoop - A proof that the halting problem is undecidable
• catb.org/hacker-emblem/
• plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ - Formally verifying rust
• syncthing.net - A nice tool for syncing things between devices
• The Internet Hosting Cooperative
News Sources & Link Aggregators
• Hacker News - Kind of like reddit, but for tech bros• Phoronix - Mostly Linux News
• Pluralistic - Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• lobste.rs - Similar to Hacker News
• tildes.net - Similar to Hacker News and Lobste.rs
• news.t0.vc - Tech and science-oriented link aggregation across different sites
• Lemmy - Link aggregator for the fediverse
• Krebs On Security
• n-o-d-e.net - Byte-sized tech news
Wikis
• Thinkwiki - Wiki for all things Thinkpads• Arch Linux Wiki - Anything and everything Arch Linux
• r/linuxmasterrace Reddit Wiki
• Kernel.org - Linux Documentation Project
• The Linux Documentation Project - Huuge repo of linux info
Mathematics Resources
• A Manga Guide to Linear Algebra - A cute educational manga on linear algebra• Wolfram Alpha - Because, of course
• The Natural Number Game - See the power of induction!
• Erdos Number
• web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html - The napkin
Academia Resources
• CSRankings.org - A website I use to systematically discover interesting professors and PhD students.• Sci-Hub - Because open access is king
• Library Genesis - Free books galore
• Arxiv - A free, highly used distribution service for research papers
• Mendely - An effective citation manager
• Collaboration & Credit Principles - Interesting article on trust between researchers
• The Academic Family Tree - A single, interdisciplinary academic genealogy
• search.marginlia.nu - A search engine that prioritizes information-dense websites
• Faculty Job Search Resources
• HeVeA - LaTeX to HTML
• 6-045j - MIT's automata theory course
Blog Posts and Articles
• So you want to reform democracy• The Danger of Journaling IS Introspection
• A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
• "On Writing" by Terence Tao
• NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography
• Google says it mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017
• Computer Science Open Data: CS Faculty composition and hiring trends
• From Novice to Master, and back again
• your data is not safe
• hallucinating the cloud
• What Did I Learn This Decade? 2010-2019
• The sum of all knowledge
• CLOSURE
• A History of Trnashumanist Thought
• How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
• Intentionally Making Close Friends
• FFmpeg - The Ultimate Guide
• How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
• The Decline of Usability
• What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
• Quantum Computing for the very curious
• Postscript on the Societies of Control (edgy, ik)
• Overclocking my old Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
• Love
• Notes on technology in the 2020s
• A Nod to Ned Ludd
• Alienation, Marvelous Persuits and the New Nomadic Sciences
• Wat
• Getting a Computer Science PhD in the USA
• Teaching the Hidden Curriculum
• Why we stopped maing Einsteins
• The End of Trust
• Magic Ink
• How To Deflate An SUV Tyre
• How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?
• An extensive guide to optimizing a Linux laptop for battery life
• The Dark Mountain Project's Manifesto - edgy af
• Writing as Distilled Thought
• Your Computer Isn't Yours
• Why Metadata Matters
• Cities and Ambition - An absolute favorite. Boston <3
• My Dream Text Editor
• I'm a fucking webmaster
• How to get a busy person to respond to your email
• Life Is Short
• I Hacked the Dutch Government, and all I got was this t-shirt!
• Mechanical Watch
• Analyzing Rail Tickets
• The Philisophical Implications of Complexity Theory
• What is ChatGPT and why does it work?
• How to Kill Decentralized Networks
• Running a single-user Mastodon instance
• The Collatz Conjecture & Non-Archimedean Spectral Theory
• [The Silent (R)evolution of SAT](https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/6/273222-the-silent-revolution-of-sat/fulltext)
• E-Ink is so Retropunk
Personal Websites
• Terence Tao's Blog - The blog of a fantastic mathematician• bramadams.dev
• jeffhuang.com/ - Prof at Brown researching HCI
• henryneeds.coffee
• blog.cr.yp.to - D.J. Bernstein's great blog
• azdavis.net - A Fella
• sookocheff.com - A distributed systems engineer
• zhangmingming.org - A security researcher at Tsinghau university with similar research interests to mine
• void.cc/
• nilfm.cc - Digital minimalist
• everest-pipkin - Great art
• blog.ncase.me - Game dev
• matt.might.net - Incredible prof
• msx.gay - Radio person
• kae.si
• icyphox.sh
• danielkirs.ch
• samuelgruetter.net/ - Compiler guy
• jmilne.org
• cyber.dabamos.de
• faultlore.com - Author of "you can't spell trust without rust"
• h313.info
• bernsteinbear.com
• scottaaronson.blog - A guy who loves quantum computers
• www.gwern.net - many edges
• people.cispa.io
• eli.thegreenplace.net
• castel.dev
• neelnanda.io
• The Creative Independent
• mattcolewilson.com
• louismeunier.net
• henryheffernan.com - ThreeJS<3
• mogami.neocities.org
• amieko.space - Great photographer
• yin.neocities.org
• sigbus.info
• coelacanth-dream.com
• analogdreams.blog
• demin.ws - реверс-инжиниринг человек
• maya.land
• suragu.net
• wowana.me - a guy big into fediverse
• datagubbe - Monke
• gir.st
• blog.bemoe.online
• zlkj.in
• surenaga.neocities.org
• drkhsh.at - Gopher user
• neugierig.org
• raymii.org
• m455.casa
• swindlesmccoop.xyz - Serial Experiments Linux
• casual.agency
• ELI DOURADO - A great writer
• blog.cjeller.site - Classical Guitar by Training, Cloud Engineer by Accident
• cass.si
• sneak.berlin
• stephenfay.xyz - Good writing
• www.lukeheine.com
• www.boringcactus.com - An immortal programming person who works for the MBTA
• mm4rk3t.neocities.org - Space
• badd10de.dev
• 100r.co - Offgrid living
• mrshll.com
• electro.pizza
• ad044.neocities.org - Another lain-er
• evasive.tech - Art
• Danish Prakash - A dev from India
• Lisa Lee - PhD in ML at CMU who likes pokemon
• Maruan Al-Shedivat - The founding editor of CMU's machine learning blog
• Ariel Procaccia - CMU and Harvard prof into the relationship between algorithms and society. He's taught some interesting courses, including "Optimized Democracy" (Harvard CS238) and "Truth, Justice, and Algorithms" (CMU I5896)
• Daniel Roy Greenfeld - ex-Nasa employee
• Shriram Krishnamurthi - CS Prof at Brown into programming languages and formal methods
• Qntm - Qntm
• blog.soykaf.com - Lain person
• Neg Serg
• Daniel Howe - Prof at HKU focusing on privacy, surveillance, and disinformation
• Jordan Ellenberg - Great mathematician and speaker
• eta.st
• sqrtminusone.xyz - emacs freak. I prefer (n)vim, but I respect it.
• bryndr.sn
• calnewport.com - Great author
• justchokingaround - My favorite choker
• Marc Lange - A philosophy prof at Purdue with a hilarious webpage
Misc.
• Pool Suite - R e t r o Internet Radio Station• Swapfest: The Flea at MIT - Flea market at MIT
• Vessi Everyday Classic - Nice shoes
• Eat Well Guide - Search by location for hand-picked restaurants, farms, markets and other sources of local, sustainable food
• zettelkasten.de - Organization method
• getting-rich-from-zero-to-hero-in-one-blog-post
• polyphasic.net - Sleep 2 hours a day