Resources I Recommend
An assortment of informational resources and publications for the intellectually curious.
This page is expected to be updated over time and will never be considered ‘final.’
For that reason, this page has its own Atom feed and is excluded from the sitewide feeds.
Other than alphabetization, this list is in no particular order.
Descriptions coming soon™.
Audio Hardware
Civil Engineering and Construction
- Ashville
- Building Integrity
- City Beautiful (also on Nebula)
- Not Just Bikes (also on Nebula)
- Practical Engineering (also on Nebula)
- Road Guy Rob
Computer Hardware and Software
- apalrd’s adventures and his blog
- Blocks and Files
- Chyrosran22
- Ctrl blog
- der8auer
- DistroWatch
- Gamers Nexus
- Hacker News
- Hardware Haven
- r/homelab and r/homelab wiki
- Jeff Geerling
- Lawrence Systems and Lawrence Systems forum
- Level1Techs and Level1Linux
- Linux Uprising
- Phoronix
- Rip It Apart – Jason’s electronics blog-thingy
- Seirdy
- ServeTheHome and STH forum
- StorageReview.com
- TechTechPotato
- TuxPhones
- Tyblog
Cybersecurity and Privacy
- BleepingComputer
- Krebs on Security
- Lawrence Systems and Lawrence Systems forum
- Live Overflow
- Cybersecurity Tips: “👻 Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?”
- I have very mixed feelings about other content on Cybersecurity Tips.
- Positive Security blog
- Privacy Guides
- PrivSec.dev
- PwnFunction
- Seirdy
- Wonderfall
Electric Vehicles
- Bjørn Nyland and his test results
- News Coulomb
Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Asianometry and the Asianometry newsletter
- bigclivedotcom (also on Odysee/LBRY)
- CuriousMarc
- EEVblog (also on Odysee/LBRY and Utreon) and EEVblog forum
- ElectroBOOM (also on Odysee/LBRY)
- Julian Ilett (also on Odysee/LBRY)
- Louis Rossmann (also on Odysee/LBRY) and his beginner’s guide to electronics
- Marco Reps (also on Odysee/LBRY)
- Repair Wiki
- Rip It Apart – Jason’s electronics blog-thingy
- Strange Parts (also on Nebula)
- Technology Connections and Technology Connextras
Flashlights
General Math and Science
- Bartosz Ciechanowski
- Brainiac75
- Quanta Magazine and their YouTube channel
- standupmaths
- Technology Connections and Technology Connextras
- Veritasium (also on Odysee/LBRY)
Human Geography and Economics
- Asianometry and the Asianometry newsletter
- Company Man
- PolyMatter (also on Nebula)
- RealLifeLore (also on Nebula)
- Wendover Productions (also on Nebula)
Law
Maker
- Aging Wheels and Under Dunn
- AvE
- Julian Ilett (also on Odysee/LBRY)
- LED Gardener
- Maker’s Muse
- Marco Reps (also on Odysee/LBRY)
Physical Security
- LockPickingLawyer and his talk
- Deviant Ollam and his many talks
Programming
- Fireship (also on Odysee/LBRY), Beyond Fireship, and Fireship’s paid courses
- Hacker News
- Kevin Powell
- Low Level Learning
Retro Tech
- LGR
- LowSpecGamer (also on Nebula)
- Michael MJD
- Modern Vintage Gamer
- NCommander
- Techmoan
- Technology Connections and Technology Connextras
Right to Repair
Tool Reviews
Trades
- blancolirio
- Electrician U (also on Odysee/LBRY)
- Hugh Jeffreys
- HVACR VIDEOS
- Louis Rossmann (also on Odysee/LBRY)
- ThePoolGuy
Other
- BioArk (also on Nebula)
- r/BuyItForLife
- CGP Grey
- Climate Town
- Defunctland
- Geoff Marshall
- Half as Interesting (also on Nebula)
- Hansen Wholesale Ceiling Fan FAQs
- Jim Browning
- Retail Archaeology
- Thunderf00t
- Tom Scott
Honorable Mentions
For various reasons, I have chosen not to include these in the above sections, but I still think they are worth checking out.
- Atomic Shrimp
- Kevin Norman
- Linus Tech Tips, Techquickie, and TechLinked (also on Floatplane)
- maker.moekoe (also on GitHub)
- Mike Boyd (also on Nebula)
- scottbez1 (also on GitHub)
- Stuff Made Here
- Tom Scott plus