Favorite tools

Programming Resources

Learn programming, build cool shit

• Learn X in Y minutes for scenic programming tours
• Beej's Guides learn the basics of dealing with Networking/Operating Systems/Git

Browsers

There are a bunch of interesting browser projects recently.

• Use Zen it's Firefox but nicer.
• Arc Browser went bad sadly.
• Bonsai Browser really enjoyed this project but it got killed off.

Text Manipulation

• Obsidian
• Berkley Mono typeface

Vim

I've vimified like 90% of my workflows. Worth learning just for the fun of it, but it does have a high learning curve.

• Vim Adventures

Lectures and courses

Academic CS Stuff (algorithms, AI, Math, etc.)

• Intro to Large Language Models by Andrej Karpathy (worked at OpenAI, Tesla AI, etc.)
• Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
• Math Academy, easily the best way to learn math outside of school
• The Humble Programmer by Edsger W. Dijkstra
• Tromp Diagrams

Hacker Culture

• In the Beginning was the Command Line
• EP 45: XBOX UNDERGROUND (PART 1)
• DEFCON 18: Pwned By The Owner: What Happens When You Steal a Hackers Computer
• Hackers (film)
• IPv4 Turf War
• The Jargon File (A little **edgy**)
• The Unix Operating System (1982)
• The Corrupted Blood Incident (2005)
• 37Signals
• The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer (1983)
• The New Jersey Programming Style

Software Engineering

• Effective Java (the best intermediate Java book I've found.)
• functional programming course from CMU
• Self taught CS resources. Read these books.
• Chaotic Programming Facts
• Google SRE Book
• I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
• Red Blob Games is a mid level algo resource
• Hyrum's law
• Evolution of Financial Exchange Architectures

Good Reads

Favorite Books/Essays/Articles

• Snow Crash
• On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise
• The old house at home
• Sort By Controversial
• SR-71 Speed Check Story
• Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
• The Ideal Candidate Will Be Punched In the Stomach
• Escalation Theory: Compliance, Violence, and Overachievement In Society

Design

• Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign
• NeXT Computers Branding by Paul Rand.
• Laws of UX
• Mobbin has UI/UX from every app out there so you can see what they're doing.
• Fran Sans a font inspired by the Muni in SF
• The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan

Economics/Investing

Beginner friendly resources

• Ray Dalio's explaination of how the economyworks
• Peter Lynch lecture on investing
• Intor to finance by Martin Shkreli his valuing things from scratch series is pretty good too.
• Market Wizards + Unknown Market Wizards
• Bits about money
• Everything Matt Levine Writes
• Stan Druckenmiller's Worst Mistake Ever
• A Quant's Perspective on the 2008 Financial Crisis from SIG

Indie websites

• groundhog-day.com has fun facts about weather pridicting groundhogs.
• Bopspotter is a phone taped to a pole at 24th and Mission running Shazam. Check out his other stuff too!
• One day I hope to be Good Enough
• Bartosz's visualizations are incredible!
• Koya Bound for the beautiful mapping and typography
• Subway Stories NYC
• brr.fyi is a blog from someone's time in antartica (and the best domain ever)
• Cube Rule for food solves the sandwich vs not sandwich debate
• The Pudding is a fun indie mag
• Xe Iaso's blog
• A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry