jake's favorite stuff
A collection of my favorite stuff from across the web, loosly assorted into categories.
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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 -> Music
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
• 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/
• [email protected] - 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
• 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!
• 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
• 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
• 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
• nilfm.cc
• 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
• Yosra Hashim - My favorite med student
• blog.soykaf.com - Lain person
• Neg Serg
• Daniel Howe - Prof at HKU focusing on privacy, surveillance, and disinformation
Android52, Arcade High, Astrophysics, Boxplot, C418, Camellia, Coldplay, Creo, cute girls doing cute things, Dance With the Dead, Delta Heavy, dark cat, deadmau5, Depeche Mode, El Tigr3, Env, Eve, FM Attack, Fokushi, Fox Stevenson, fusq, GHOST DATA, glass beach, Gorillaz, Hello Meteor, Home, Hotel Pools, INZO, Infected Mushroom, Jai Wolf, K-391, Kalax, LeaF, Logic, Lucy In Disguise, Madeon, MASTER BOOT RECORD, Magic Sword, Magnetude, Mega Drive, Meganeko, Miami Nights 1984, Mili, Milkoi, Moe Shop, ODESZA, PSYQUI, Panda Eyes,Perturbator, Porter Robinson, potsu, Power Glove, Reol, Rusty K, Snail's House, Sou, Stonebank, THE ORAL CIGARETTES, Tao H, The Algorithm, The Strokes, Timecop1983, Virtual Self, VHS Dreams, WRLD, Waveshaper, WIndows 96, YOASOBI, Zombie Hyperdrive
If there's any one artist or song you think I'd like, pls send. I love listening to new music.
• 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
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 -> Music
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
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/
• [email protected] - 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
News Sources & Link Aggregators
• Hacker News - Kind of like reddit, but just startups and tech• 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!
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
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
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
• nilfm.cc
• 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
• Yosra Hashim - My favorite med student
• blog.soykaf.com - Lain person
• Neg Serg
• Daniel Howe - Prof at HKU focusing on privacy, surveillance, and disinformation
Music
not all-inclusive & not limited by any one genreAndroid52, Arcade High, Astrophysics, Boxplot, C418, Camellia, Coldplay, Creo, cute girls doing cute things, Dance With the Dead, Delta Heavy, dark cat, deadmau5, Depeche Mode, El Tigr3, Env, Eve, FM Attack, Fokushi, Fox Stevenson, fusq, GHOST DATA, glass beach, Gorillaz, Hello Meteor, Home, Hotel Pools, INZO, Infected Mushroom, Jai Wolf, K-391, Kalax, LeaF, Logic, Lucy In Disguise, Madeon, MASTER BOOT RECORD, Magic Sword, Magnetude, Mega Drive, Meganeko, Miami Nights 1984, Mili, Milkoi, Moe Shop, ODESZA, PSYQUI, Panda Eyes,Perturbator, Porter Robinson, potsu, Power Glove, Reol, Rusty K, Snail's House, Sou, Stonebank, THE ORAL CIGARETTES, Tao H, The Algorithm, The Strokes, Timecop1983, Virtual Self, VHS Dreams, WRLD, Waveshaper, WIndows 96, YOASOBI, Zombie Hyperdrive
If there's any one artist or song you think I'd like, pls send. I love listening to new music.
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