Blog/My (kinda) blogroll
From ~esantoro
In this page i collect links to website if visit often, including youtube channels and autonomous website.
I'm doing this for a few reasons, like:
- I don't like to sign up to youtube on my iphone and on my ipad, so i need some other way to remember what channels i follow.
- I've been having the feeling, lately, that standalone/autonomous websites [1] don't link each other very much and this leads to people spending most of their time on the same few website. This kinda feels wrong.
- I don't want to log into youtube with my personal account on my work laptop (which i have to use for ~40 hours a week) so i want to keep a link to channels i watch
Websites and blogs
- https://news.ycombinator.com/
- https://skimfeed.com/
- https://hackaday.com/
- https://www.emacs.dyerdwelling.family/
- A lot of interesting GNU Emacs stuff
- https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/ - for the old-school sysadmin vibes
In staging
- https://www.hackster.io/ a website dedicated to learning hardware
- https://mischianti.org/ - Electronic, 3D printing and embedded programming
Podcasts
- Oxide and friends
- OnTheMetal: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal
- Tintoria Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@tintoriapodcast for the guests
In staging
- https://changelog.com/ looks interesting
- https://corecursive.com/tags/
- https://www.youtube.com/@hubermanlab
- https://www.youtube.com/@lexfridman
Weekly schedule
Quick Links for podcasts to listen to during the week, while I work / when I'm at the gym
- Monday:https://www.youtube.com/@hubermanlab (?)
- Tuesday: https://www.youtube.com/@tintoriapodcast
- Wednesday:https://www.youtube.com/@lexfridman (?)
- Thursday: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends
- Friday:
On-line publications
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/
- Communications of ACM
- All issues: https://cacm.acm.org/issues
- I used to have an ACM subscription as a student, back in the day
- The articles I used to read in CACM were largely irrelevant opinions at best and money-driven hypocritical at words
- ACM recently went for open-access, I want to keep an eye on it in case something changes (ideally for the better)
Youtube channels
- https://www.youtube.com/@ElectroBOOM of course
- https://www.youtube.com/@lexfridman interesting guests
- https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips this is where i get my tech tips
- https://www.youtube.com/@IlTronodelMuori che te lo spiego a fare
- https://www.youtube.com/@ExploringAlternatives for different approaches
- https://www.youtube.com/@GioPizzi
- https://www.youtube.com/@Einzelganger
- https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium
- https://www.youtube.com/@IlMilaneseImbruttito figa
- https://www.youtube.com/@PopCultureDetective for some different takes on pop stuff
- https://www.youtube.com/@dariobressanini - everyday chemistry stuff, nicely explained
- https://www.youtube.com/@muschioselvaggioo - interesting guests from time to time
- https://www.youtube.com/@Nerdwriter1
- https://www.youtube.com/@AndreaLorenzon
- https://www.youtube.com/@crashcourse
- https://www.youtube.com/@clarkkegley
- https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder
- https://www.youtube.com/@lyleforever - occasionally deeper than it would casually appears
- https://www.youtube.com/@ParkerNotes philosophy topics, explained
- https://www.youtube.com/@MicroarchClub
- https://www.youtube.com/@UsenixOrg/playlists - (day)dreaming big
- https://www.youtube.com/@Dronebotworkshop - amateur electronics: arduino, esp32 stuff etc
- Java stuff
- @java main channel
- JUG Milano
- JUG Torino
Youtube Channels in staging
These are essentially new channels i'm watching and for which I'm not yet sure i want to subscribe and keep around.
- Horses - Essays
- https://www.youtube.com/vprodocumentary documentaries on various topics
- https://www.youtube.com/@greatscottlab
- https://www.youtube.com/@upgradedmentality - book summaries
- MegaProjects / SideProjects
- Practical Engineering
- https://www.youtube.com/@MayimBialik
- https://www.youtube.com/@NDC developer conference
Music I listen to while I do other stuff
- Chill Lofi Mix [chill lo-fi hip hop beats] I usually listen to this while I work
- Chill Village 🌙 Chill Lofi Mix [chill lo-fi hip hop beats]
- Japan Cafe Vibe ☕ Lofi Coffee 24/7 beats🍃 Lofi Hip Hop 24/7 / Lofi Music to sleep,relax,study...
Other generally interesting websites
- Metadata by Murat Buffalo
- many interesting articles, mostly about databases and distributed systems
- example: Distributed transactions at scale in Amazon DynamoDB
- Marc's blog by Marc Brooker
- again, mostly databases and distributed systems
Footnotes
- ↑ To be intended as: "websites" that stand on their own without being deployed on some other publishing platform -- essentially "walled gardens"
