Bookmarks
Internet things, saved for later.
99% of the bookmarks on this page are my favorite URLs from Hacker News. As of May 2024, I’m not adding new URLs anymore. Instead, I collect them each month and post them under my writing page as "[month]'s web discoveries."
- Tags: AI Browser Database Design Developer Domain Financial Hacking History Humor Internet Marketing News Open Source Personal Practical Privacy Programming Project Projects Security Self Skills Social Software Tech Tools Travel Web Writing
AI
- GPU Survival Toolkit for the AI age
- AI Your Home on Street View
- Every app that adds AI looks like this
- Generative AI exists because of the transformer
- What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing
- What can LLMs never do
Browser
- Google has another secret browser
- 67 Weird Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn't Want You to Know
- Browser extensions are underrated
- Extension
Database
Design
- Draggable objects
- In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
- The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
- Curated web design inspiration catalog
- The Design Philosophy of Great Tables
- Maze Generator
- Mini Tokyo 3D
- The Cheap Web
Developer
- Hacking ADHD Strategies for the Modern Developer
- I love programming but I hate the programming industry
- Finding a New Software Developer Job
- Becoming a Dungeon Master for an Interview
- Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible?
- Deciphering Glyph Let Me Tell You A Secret
- From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38
- My solopreneur story zero to $45K/mo in 2 years
- How I got here Inside thoughts
- Not a real engineer
- Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
- The Online Maze of Job Applications
- Programming Is Mostly Thinking
- The Worst Programmer I Know
- What I've learned from 6 years as a developer advocate
- Typing Fast Is About Latency, Not Throughput
- Unicode
- You Don't Need to Learn Svelte
Domain
Financial
- Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
- Does Market Timing Work?
- The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
- I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars
- Just paying Figma $15/month because nothing else fucking works
- My solopreneur story zero to $45K/mo in 2 years
- Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023
- Credit card debt collection
Hacking
- GPSJAM GPS/GNSS Interference Map
- Things Every Hacker Once Knew
- Dieselgate, but for trains some heavyweight hardware hacking
- Don’t Believe Your Eyes A WhatsApp Phishing Vulnerability
- I looked through attacks in my access logs. Here's what I found
- Making it clear when we’re on a call with you to protect you from fraud
- The train manufacturer accused the hackers of slander.
- The Man Who Killed Google Search
- I hacked a train toilet
- ttibi email hack
- vss-lab-guide
History
Humor
Internet
Marketing
- 1,000 True Fans
- Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool
- A guide for finding product-market fit in B2B
- How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
- I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
- Worst users referral trials coupons gamification
News
Open Source
Personal
- Impacts of Lack of Sleep
- Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
- Return To Office Mandates Can Take A Hike
- What I learned getting acquired by Google
- As I get older, I just don't care about new technology
- Overcoming the Illusion of Being Stuck
- Career Advice
- Cars suck, man
- How to Create Luck
- How Did I Get Here?
- How to become a pirate archivist
- How to hire low experience, high potential people
- How I got here Inside thoughts
- New talk Making Hard Things Easy
- Why I like Obsidian
- On Craft
- On The Experience of Being Poor-ish, For People Who Aren't
- My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
- 11 Reasons Not to Become Famous
- Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”
- Sleeping Our Way to Being Productive
- Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
- Stop Acting Like You're Famous
- This is a teenager
- The Man in Seat 61
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation
- Things you're allowed to do
- Things Unexpectedly Named After People
- What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry?
- When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
- Why you need a "WTF Notebook"
- Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash—Asterisk
- You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It
- Your Organization Probably Doesn't Want To Improve Things
Practical
Privacy
Programming
Project
Projects
Security
- A Million Ways to Die on the Web
- Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
- Making it clear when we’re on a call with you to protect you from fraud
- Passkeys A Shattered Dream
- The dark age of authentication
Self
- 1,000 True Fans
- 100 Positive News from 2023
- GPSJAM GPS/GNSS Interference Map
- Hacking ADHD Strategies for the Modern Developer
- Impacts of Lack of Sleep
- Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
- Return To Office Mandates Can Take A Hike
- Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
- Learn how to tie knots with step-by-step animation
- If Architects had to work like Programmers
- As I get older, I just don't care about new technology
- Balancing cube
- Overcoming the Illusion of Being Stuck
- Career Advice
- Cars suck, man
- How to Create Luck
- Dear Europe, please wake up
- Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
- Does Market Timing Work?
- How To Edit Your Own Lousy Writing
- Extra Screen
- The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
- The Design Philosophy of Great Tables
- How people laugh online
- How to hire low experience, high potential people
- I Nearly Died Drowning. Here’s What it’s Like to Survive.
- I Skipped to the Ending
- Incredibly, I Face Investigation for Terrorism
- Infinite Craft
- Mini Tokyo 3D
- How I got here Inside thoughts
- New talk Making Hard Things Easy
- On Craft
- On The Experience of Being Poor-ish, For People Who Aren't
- The Online Maze of Job Applications
- Pinball Map
- My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
- 11 Reasons Not to Become Famous
- Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”
- Sleeping Our Way to Being Productive
- Snowden Archive
- Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
- Stop Acting Like You're Famous
- 12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World
- This is a teenager
- The Man in Seat 61
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation
- Things you're allowed to do
- Timelock Encryption Send a secret into the future
- Things Unexpectedly Named After People
- vss-lab-guide
- When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
- Why you, personally, should want a larger human population
- Why you need a "WTF Notebook"
- Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash—Asterisk
- Worst users referral trials coupons gamification
- You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It
- YOU’VE JUST BEEN FUCKED BY PSYOPS
- Your Organization Probably Doesn't Want To Improve Things
Skills
Social
- Dear Europe, please wake up
- How people laugh online
- Incredibly, I Face Investigation for Terrorism
- Inside the Pro-Israel Information War
- How to run a small social network site for your friends
- Snowden Archive
- 12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World
- Why you, personally, should want a larger human population
- YOU’VE JUST BEEN FUCKED BY PSYOPS
Software
- Code is run more than read
- Software disenchantment
- You are never taught how to build quality software
- Where does my computer get the time from?
- Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?
Tech
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
- A Million Ways to Die on the Web
- Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
- Draggable objects
- Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts
- Ephemeral P2P
- GPU Survival Toolkit for the AI age
- HTML First
- I love programming but I hate the programming industry
- Things Every Hacker Once Knew
- What I learned getting acquired by Google
- Your Website Search Hurts My Feelings
- AI Your Home on Street View
- Anmeldung form filler
- Google has another secret browser
- Write code for the web
- Archive Your Old Projects
- 67 Weird Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn't Want You to Know
- Browser extensions are underrated
- canvas confetti
- Challenging projects every programmer should try
- In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
- Code is run more than read
- The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
- Curated web design inspiration catalog
- Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool
- Dieselgate, but for trains some heavyweight hardware hacking
- Software disenchantment
- Fun with DNS TXT Records
- Don’t Believe Your Eyes A WhatsApp Phishing Vulnerability
- Encrypt. Now.
- Every app that adds AI looks like this
- Extension
- Finding a New Software Developer Job
- A guide for finding product-market fit in B2B
- Generative AI exists because of the transformer
- Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website
- What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing
- Home Lab Beginners guide (Hardware)
- How Did I Get Here?
- How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
- How to become a pirate archivist
- I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars
- I looked through attacks in my access logs. Here's what I found
- Inside the Pro-Israel Information War
- Becoming a Dungeon Master for an Interview
- Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible?
- Just paying Figma $15/month because nothing else fucking works
- Deciphering Glyph Let Me Tell You A Secret
- From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38
- I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
- Making it clear when we’re on a call with you to protect you from fraud
- The train manufacturer accused the hackers of slander.
- Maze Generator
- My solopreneur story zero to $45K/mo in 2 years
- My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her A Radar
- You are never taught how to build quality software
- Not a real engineer
- Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
- Why I like Obsidian
- OPML is underrated
- Passkeys A Shattered Dream
- The dark age of authentication
- Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023
- Programming Is Mostly Thinking
- Projects
- Protomaps A free and open source map of the world
- Random Hacker News Front Page
- Reading QR codes without a computer!
- How to run a small social network site for your friends
- Scrollbars are becoming a problem
- Search query
- smolsite
- So you want to Scrape like the Big Boys
- Start Your Own ISP
- Stop building databases
- The World's Fastest Growing Subdomain and Shadow IT Database
- The Cheap Web
- The Man Who Killed Google Search
- Credit card debt collection
- The Worst Programmer I Know
- There's never been a better time to build websites
- What I've learned from 6 years as a developer advocate
- Tech Independence
- tinyworldmap
- I hacked a train toilet
- ttibi email hack
- Typing Fast Is About Latency, Not Throughput
- Unicode
- We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak
- 10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped The Internet
- What can LLMs never do
- What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't
- What PWA Can Do Today
- What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry?
- Where does my computer get the time from?
- Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?
- x.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
- You Don't Need to Learn Svelte
Tools
- Anmeldung form filler
- Extra Screen
- Home Lab Beginners guide (Hardware)
- Why I like Obsidian
- We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak
Travel
Web
- Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
- Draggable objects
- Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts
- Ephemeral P2P
- HTML First
- Your Website Search Hurts My Feelings
- Write code for the web
- canvas confetti
- Curated web design inspiration catalog
- Fun with DNS TXT Records
- Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website
- I Skipped to the Ending
- Infinite Craft
- Maze Generator
- Mini Tokyo 3D
- My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her A Radar
- OPML is underrated
- Pinball Map
- Protomaps A free and open source map of the world
- Random Hacker News Front Page
- Scrollbars are becoming a problem
- Search query
- smolsite
- So you want to Scrape like the Big Boys
- The World's Fastest Growing Subdomain and Shadow IT Database
- The Cheap Web
- There's never been a better time to build websites
- Tech Independence
- tinyworldmap
- 10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped The Internet
- What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't
- What PWA Can Do Today
- x.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?