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Updated on Sat 09 August 2025

My favourite places on the internet - idiosyncratic, fun, always interesting. A curated subset of the feeds in my RSS reader^[1]. Now with a bonus section on great tools.

Randomized on each page load for unbiased results.

Favourite Blogs

Marc's blog is where I first learned about the power of two random choices and the bane of TCP_NODELAY.

Craig Mod, in his own words "writer, photographer, & walker". Kissa Connoisseur and The Good Place.

matklad, aka Alex Kladov. I always learn something from his posts, and I love the minimal design. Of TigerBeetle fame.

kipply, great technical content. Things read / digests always inspire me to read more!

sive.rs, inventor of the now page, I dig the old-school look.

Astral Codex Ten, formerly Slate Star Codex by Scott Alexander. Rationalist-content, book reviews, incredibly in-depth posts. Unsong!

Tristan Hume, seriously high-performance engineering.

Near, also great AI takes (and trolls) on Twitter.

Ben Kuhn, taught me a lot about managing and leading large teams.

Squadrick, "Whatever works" - who can resist this tagline?!

sean goedecke, especially why good system design usually looks underwhelming.

Daniel Hooper taught me neat tricks like growable arrays with stable pointers and type safe generics in C.

Websites

Readwise, combined read-it-later and newsfeed reader. Switched after Pocket was unfortunately shutdown.

Hacker News, through Hacker News Digest every morning after breakfast. The daily email format is great to catch the most important stories without wasting time refreshing the front page.

Software

Pi-hole. Set it up on a spare machine in your network and never see ads again.

Obsidian. I went through a lot of note-taking software before finally discovering Obsidian. Markdown, multi-platform, sync, plugins, has it all!

Strongbox. Your passwords are too important to entrust to any central service, and secure per-site passwords are impossible to remember. You are using a different random password for each site, right?

Sublime Text. Obsidian is great for notes, but Sublime is what I use to inspect and edit one-off files.

Visual Studio Code. I used to code in Sublime, but the plugins and integration in VS Code is great. Plus it works great with Claude Code!

Claude Code increasingly does all the boring work for me. No more wasting time on CSS issues or boring refactors, Claude has it done in no time.

1. I am a big fan of RSS feeds, I'm subscribed to more than a hundred blogs - it's a great way to follow low-frequency, high-quality writers. ↩