Most Useful & Dearly Loved
Google
Meh. Mentioned for completeness. It gets better, it gets worse, it’s still essential…
OpenEvidence
LLM knowledge engine for professional medical use, requires NPI for access…
Sean Carroll’s Blog - Preposterous Universe
Quite a bit here, including the episodes from his Mindscape Podcast…
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This is a detailed academic encyclopedia of philosophy available for free online…
Wikipedia
The best website on the internet. The Library of Alexandria. No explanation needed…
Wolfram MathWorld
Mathematics reference, likely the best in existence at the moment…
ZoteroBib
Fantastic tool for converting URL sources into academic references…
Fun
Scale of the Universe
This was a very fun link that was in the opening to an OpenStax Physics textbook…
Computers & Programming
7-zip
Open source encryption, quite versatile…
Bitwarden Password Strength Calculator
Bitwarden
CommonMark specification
Standardized and simplistic Markdown specification. I use the expanded Pandoc version, but this is the basis and basics…
Compart
A comprehensive reference for Unicode with sections for HTML entities, character categories, etc…
DuckDuckGo
An privacy focused alternative to Google. Also hosts open weight models
Hugging Face
Repository for quantized open-weight LLMs for local use…
Hugging Face utility Helpful calculator for estimated LLM settings and fit for local systems…
KaTeX Support Table
A nice quick-reference to TeX functions supported by KaTeX, which should be similar to what I can use in Pandoc…
KeePass
KeePass Password Safe is a secure password database for Windows, with ports to all other platforms. It’s open source, and the database file can be safely served from a webserver, which automatically syncs with devices for offline use
Kiwix
ZIM reader, website to ZIM converter, library of precompiled ZIM files for saving websites for offline use… All of Wikipedia, all of Project Gutenberg.
LLaMA.cpp
C++ software for local inference with open-weight models in GGUF format.
Lucide
Open source SVG icon library…
Mongoose
Mongoose is a portable executable availabe for Windows/Linux/macOS. When opened it will serve the folder it is contained in to localhost.
Pandoc
Pandoc is an industry standard swiss-army knife markup conversion tool. Markdown to PDF? EPUB to docx? Haskell AST to MediaWiki? Sure…
Picocrypt NG
Picocrypt is a portable, cross-platform gui/cli encrytion and decryption tool…
Pico.css
A very effective lightweight semantic CSS framework, in use on this site…
Python.org
The official Python source and documentation…
Quarto
A complicated publishing workbench that wraps Pandoc with many features and capabilities…
Typst
A modern alternative to LaTeX…
uv
uv is a Python package manager replacing pip, pyenv, virtualenv, and more.
Rclone
Excellent file syncing tool (Like rsync or robocopy), cross-platform, and direct syncing to, from, or between cloud providers…
WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux
How to install Windows Subsystem for Linux. I use this mainly so that I have CLI access to rsync, but it’s great to have a Linux command line handy on my Windows 11 machine…
Zed
A new IDE to try out with Linux