The criteria for this list:

1. Adds value to my life.
2. Does not add value but is cool.
3. I visit frequently.

This list is not exhaustive and may be updated.

stilldrinking.org

A blog made infamous from the widely shared Programming Sucks essay. The author is a film student turned developer whose writing I find pretty entertaining. Programming Sucks is pretty iconic, but I find his non-tech essays more interesting.

rinkokawauchi.com

One of the 21st century’s greatest photographers. Her work is like a memory. You have no direct association with the photos she takes, but you feel as if it’s a moment that you could’ve experience. A moment you have most certainly lived through.

Ninite

A site for Installing and updating all of your programs at once. Just pick the apps you want. Really good if you reformat your PC often.

Windows10 Debloater

Makes Windows less of a piece of shit. Removes anything you don’t want.

neetcode.io

Interviewing for softdev jobs is broken. neetcode provides a roadmap that helps with navigating the dumpster fire that is the softdev interview. It’s also a great resource if you are a psycho that just wants to solve data structure and algorithm riddles for fun. I’d rather yank my eye lashes out from my eye lids one by one.

Wandbox

You can smash your face against the keyboard in your favorite language without the need to do any tedious installations. Wandbox is an online compiler that allows you to write and compile code in your browser. It supports 35 popular programming languages and allows you to select different compilers. Feel like using Python 2.7 over Python 3.11? Go for it. I’m not sure why, but you can do that. Wandbox is open-source and you can check it out on GitHub. Good luck, it’s all in Japanese.

Cobalt

Cobalt is the best media downloader I have used in years. It’s clean, simple and it just works. Media downloader’s are web apps that allow users to easily download media content by providing a URL. It’s perfect for downloading a copy of Steamboat Willy, a Disney film that is in the public domain, or notable classical pieces in the public domain such as Piano Concerto No.1 from my favorite composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Now of course, do not download anything you do not have any legal right to use or distribute. Don’t steal media. It’s illegal. The project is open-source, has its own API, and provides solid documentation on how to run your own instance of cobalt if you would like to contribute.

NZ:Portable

The solution to one of my greatest problems: I want to play zombies on a potato.
NZ: Portable or Nazi Zombies: Portable, is a Call of Duty: Zombies “de-make” powered by various forks of the Quake engine. The project is open source and can be accessed on GitHub. As a kid, Zombies was a pretty big deal for me when World at War first came out in 2008. As a developer, I think it’s very impressive that devs in the PSP homebrew community have ported, essentially a mod of a port, to so many devices. You can play the game in your web browser through WebGL, a JavaScript API for rendering high-performance 3D and 2D graphics within the browser without the need for plug-ins. Included will be a list of other supported devices.