Things I like
This is an incomplete, inexhaustive list of works of media that I like. These things describe a part of me quite well and you should check them out if you want to understand something about me. With some of these I identify closely. Some others I think you should check out regardless.
Video Channels
- Tom Scott — short videos about all sorts of interesting things
- BobbyBroccoli — Audiovisually delightful, interesting documentaries with intriguing, immersive visualizations of data
- CGP Grey — neat, animated, cartoon-style videos about all sorts of interesting things — especially including flags
- Defunctland — Comprehensive, in-depth documentaries about amusement parks and their inner workings
- fern — short, surface level, entertaining documentaries about all kinds of things
- Simplicissimus — German speaking channel by one half of fern. Very similar to and often overlapping with fern
- Hoog — the other half of fern — visually aesthetic video essays about random things
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Folding Ideas — Simple, calm yet cinematic and enthralling video essays about quite random things; very personal and soulful
- In Search Of A Flat Earth
- Jamie Oliver's War on Nuggets — a sillily specific rant
- Fredrik Knudsen — Down the Rabbit Hole
- Jay Foreman — Map Men — short videos about maps
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LEMMiNO — Beautiful, soothing audiovisual masterpieces
- Bygone Visions of Cosmic Neighbors — one of the most calming, mesmerizing videos in existence, that will make you feel small
- Michael Reeves — building hacky things, but on crack
- NileRed — Chemistry — I don't know what's going on, but it's fascinating
- Technology Connections — calming video essays about neat technology; perfect to fall asleep to and to then watch again
- Louis Rossmann — videos for right to repair and right to own; I cannot watch his videos without getting overly angry, but he is fighting the good fight
- Coldmirror — Coldmirror (German speaking)
Websites
Personal websites and blogs
- xkcd — "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language."
Blog posts and articles
- Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible?
- I'm betting on HTML
- How They Bypass YouTube Video Download Throttling
- Orthodox Privilege
- If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
- Finding The Air Cannon
- JavaScript Bloat in 2024
- Upside-Down-Ternet — "My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun."
- Identity
Web apps and similar cool stuff
- brute.fail — "Watch brute force attacks fail in real time"
- Wealth shown to scale
- Code Galaxies Visualization
- Visual Sorting aka The Sound Of Sorting
- The Birthday Paradox Experiment — a visual explanation of the Birthday Paradox
- The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection — "Every byte explained and reproduced"
General websites
- Wiby surprise me... — a random web 1.0 site
- factoryfactoryfactory.net (archived) — modern software development
- The no-JS Club — a list of sites without JavaScript
- No CSS Club — a list of sites without CSS
- No HTML Club — a list of sites without HTML
- Bruce Schneier Facts — "Things you might not know about Bruce Schneier"
- LOW←TECH MAGAZINE — "This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline"
- explain xkcd — "It's 'cause you're dumb."
Literature
Short stories
Other
- The Conscience of a Hacker — Reads somewhat arrogant and cringe, but this describes a core part of my view on the world. This is from 1986 and I just know him... even if I've never met him, never talked to him. after all, we're all alike.