Interesting things found on the web
Just a list of things I find and like to save while browsing the World Wide Web.
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AI
- ComfyUI — stable diffusion GUI and backend
- Google’s AI guru, Ray Kurzweil, predicts humans and machines will merge within 20 years — Tristan Greene
- Here’s Why Scientists Think You Should be Worried about Artificial Intelligence — Andre Infante
- How to raise a moral robot — Prof. Bertram Malle
- Risks of Artificial Intelligence — Johannes Heidecke
- What if ET is an AI? — Aeon essay exploring whether first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence might be with artificial, not biological, life.
APIs
- Dad Joke API — Simple HTTP API for retrieving random or searchable dad jokes in JSON, text, or HTML formats.
- Trivia API — Configuration page for the Open Trivia Database API, which serves customizable trivia questions.
Business & Startups
- A checklist of marketing ideas for side projects — Checklist of practical marketing tasks and channels for launching and growing side projects.
- Accounting for Developers 101 — Introductory accounting guide aimed at developers and technical founders learning business basics.
- Accounting for Developers 102 — Follow-up accounting guide for developers covering additional finance and bookkeeping concepts.
- Starting a Business — Checklist for starting a business in the state of Ohio
- Startup School by YC — Y Combinator’s free startup curriculum, community, and resources for founders building companies.
Civic / Social Impact
- Call My Congress — Tool for finding congressional representatives and contact information from a U.S. address.
- Columbus social ventures — Marketplace and directory for Columbus-area social enterprises and mission-driven organizations.
Data & Statistics
Design
- picular.co - Google for colors — Color search engine that generates palettes from Google image results for a word or concept.
- unDraw - Open-source illustrations — Open-source illustration library with customizable SVG artwork for websites, apps, and presentations.
- Web design in 4 minutes — Quick interactive tutorial showing how a few CSS changes can improve a plain web page.
Development Tools
- Authentication Platform — Authentication platform offering APIs and SDKs for passwords, passkeys, OAuth, MFA, and session management.
- CSE Code-With Engineering Playbook — Microsoft playbook of engineering practices, collaboration patterns, and delivery guidance for software teams.
- Every formula in the script, and when you'd actually reach for it. — Reference for formulas used in a machine setup/tools script and when to use each one.
- Make Bullshit Generator — Generator for satirical startup, product, and corporate jargon phrases.
- Typescript Error Reference — Reference site explaining TypeScript compiler errors with examples and practical fixes.
Engineering & Programming
- Best websites a programmer should visit — Curated GitHub list of websites, tools, articles, and learning resources for programmers.
- Book: Web API Design: The Missing Link — Apigee ebook covering principles and patterns for designing usable web APIs.
- Configure two routers to the same network — Support article explaining how to use two routers on one network with the same SSID.
- Data Fetching in Single Page Applications — Martin Fowler article comparing patterns for data fetching in single-page applications.
- Developer’s guide to SEO — Developer-focused SEO guide covering technical foundations that affect crawlability and search visibility.
- How to do a code review - Google — Google engineering guide for reviewing code effectively, respectfully, and with the right level of rigor.
- Oh, shit, git! — Plain-language guide to recovering from common Git mistakes and confusing repository states.
- pASSWORD tYPOS and How to Correct Them Securely — Research on safely correcting common password typos without weakening online guessing security.
- React for Interactive Command-Line Apps (Ink) — React renderer for building interactive command-line applications with components.
- Software Development Explained With Cars — Infographic explaining software development methods through car-related analogies.
- The 12 Factor App — Methodology for building portable, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service applications.
- Wat - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012 — Gary Bernhardt lightning talk highlighting surprising behavior in Ruby, JavaScript, and programming languages.
Fun
- Listen to Wikipedia being updated — Ambient visualization that turns live Wikipedia edits into sounds and animated bubbles.
- Play Wordle over SSH — Command-line Wordle clone that can be played over SSH or locally in a terminal.
Interesting Reads
- 17 Equations that changed the world — Notion page collecting seventeen influential equations and the ideas behind them.
- 2018 Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt
- FaceID, TouchID, pins, no pins — Troy Hunt
- Internet Trends 2017 — Internet Trends 2017 - Code Conference, Mary Meeker
- No Hello — Short etiquette guide encouraging people to ask their question directly instead of sending only “hello.”
- Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era — Troy Hunt article summarizing modern password and authentication guidance for safer sign-in systems.
- The days are long but the decades are short — Sam Altman
- The Ovarian Lottery — A Thought Experiment from Warren Buffett — Overview of Warren Buffett’s ovarian lottery thought experiment about luck, fairness, and society.
- Thoughts on Flash (2010) — Steve Jobs
- Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen — BBC feature recounting a cave-diving survival story after two divers were trapped underwater with dwindling oxygen.
Local / Cleveland
- Cleveland is Hyper-Segregated — Cleveland Scene article highlighting mapping data that shows persistent racial and neighborhood segregation in Cleveland.
- Cleveland Tech — GitHub repository curating Cleveland-area technology companies, groups, events, and community resources.
Maps
- Hoodmaps — Crowdsourced neighborhood map labeling city areas with local stereotypes and community-submitted notes.
- MapFrappe Outlines — Tool for comparing map outlines and geographic shapes at matching scale.
Media & Talks
- Show and Tell — Dan Roam
- speaking.io — Thoughts on public speaking by Zach Holman
- Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you’ve never noticed – Roman Mars — Roman Mars TED talk on city flag design and why simple, meaningful civic symbols matter.
- Why incompetent people think they're amazing – David Dunning — David Dunning TED-Ed lesson explaining why people with low competence often overestimate their ability.
Music & Learning
- muted.io – A magical collection of interactive music theory tools & visual references to learn music online for free — Interactive music theory tools and visual references for learning chords, scales, rhythm, and instruments.
Product & Agile
- #NoEstimates … #NoSprints — Essay arguing for lightweight forecasting and flow over story-point estimates and fixed sprint iterations.
- #NoEstimates (Allen Holub) — Allen Holub talk explaining the #NoEstimates perspective on Agile planning and forecasting.
- Jeff Gothelf: Outcome-Based Product Planning — Hands-on Agile 43 — Jeff Gothelf explains how outcome-based planning keeps product teams focused on measurable customer and business results.
- Story Points Revisited — Ron Jeffries revisits story points, their original intent, and how teams often misuse them.
- Twelve — Ron Jeffries reflects on twelve Agile ideas and practices from a long-running software development perspective.
Productivity & Leadership
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule — Paul Graham essay contrasting maker and manager schedules and why meetings can disrupt creative work.
- Servant leadership: why being a servant leader is worth the work — Ness Labs guide to servant leadership and how leaders can support, empower, and unblock teams.
- The Best Leaders Are Feedback Magnets — First Round Review article on how leaders can actively seek, receive, and use feedback well.
Science
- Interactive map of the 2017 solar eclipse — NASA interactive map for exploring the path and timing of the 2017 total solar eclipse.