allokkio

hello traveler

I am Daniel and this is my experimental website. In the following you find a collection of webthings that I like (or make). Enjoy browsing.

• micro reviews. Mini reviews from me (mostly movies).
• david lanham. One of my favourite illustrators.
• tiny subversion. Personal website of the “internet artist” Darius Kazemi. Many interesting things to discover.
• maya.land. This is a wonderful website with lots of interesting articles, snippets, thoughts, and opinions.
• argmin. Ben Recht’s blog is probably my favourite blog about ML foundations and other stuff. The only thing I am not a fan of are the American Football posts.
• fried cactus. Funny designs and illustrations.
• worldmodels. The best presented paper in the world.
• lowtech magazine. Dedicated to the exploration of low tech solutions to all kind of things. Very interesting and inspiring articles.
• etymonline. Many interesting articles about the history of words.
• sheng lam. Amazing hard surface concept design.
• mattias adolfsson. Master doodler.
• jose naranja. World traveler, notebook maker, artist.
• still drinking. Essays about technology. I wish I could write like that…
• timo kuilder. Very stylish illustrations.
• public.work. An array of beautiful public work images. Searchable and with infinite with scrolling.
• lil’log. One of the best ML blogs (a bit heavy on the math side).
• ira ville. Cozy and beautiful aquarell illustrations.
• statmodelling. The blog of Andre Gelman & Co (i.e., lots of statistics, causal modelling, and science).
• chevy ray. Intersting blog about game development and coding.
• molly white. Web3 research and more.
• tobias fried. Cool webthings and digital toys.
• tom lawton. Sculptor, designer, inventor. Inspiring stuff.
• folio society. For buying beautiful books.
• explorers club. Does never feel as great as it should. Still a cool website to poke around.
• distill.pub. ML concepts from around 2020 well explained.
• alex wucherer. A fantastic german illustrator.
• neuralhydrlogy blog a blog where we collect research results regarding neural hydrology.
• Inigo Quilez. Art from math.
• 100r. A website of two amazing human beings that explore computing and sustainability. Also see this talk by one of them.
• xxiivv. A webring! That is, even more links!!
• flair of machine learning. An old blog about machine learning by a very good friend.
• troubling waters. A introduction to water security.
• kottke. Probably the best (old-school) blog. And the one that I still read.
• mrshll. An amazing human being who’s path I had the pleasure to cross. Explore his website and get inspired.
• craig mod. Read about books and walks and japan and walks and books.
• worrydream. A lot of inspiration for thinking about computation.
• viznut. More thinking about computation. I especially recommend the essays on perma computing and machine learning.
• quentin monge. Art in search of the Mediterranean soul.
• our world in data. One of the best information sources to get some feeling about the state of the world.
• michelle rial. Charts that are whimsical, witty, and quirky.
• satyrs. I have no clue what this is, but the garden and the linkroll are awesome.
• daniel baskin. An artist that plays and reflects digital media. Sometimes delightful, sometimes a bit questionable.
• owen d. pomery. Illustrations and graphics.
• gruss aus der kueche. My favorite food “blog” (german).
• booncon. Some friends of mine once made a cool company…
• derek yu. The father of spelunky.
• bactra. The home of Cosma Shalizi. A source of endless knowledge. Extremely interesting notes, references, book critiques, lectures, etc.
• martin gauch. A good friend of mine. Check it out from time to time so see what he is doing.
• hydro74. Lots and lots and lots of inspiring (old school?) vector graphics.
• emanuele bevaqua. Climate scientist, fellow researcher, and friend.
• till koenneker. Art and design. An old inspiration of mine.
• jonathan j. harris. Another artist whose work I mostly like (I guess, here, I like the old stuff more than the new).
• probability book reviews. Reviews of non-technical books relating to probability. Some are quite technical still.
• robin rendle. Insightful readings about technology, aesthetics, and life.
• nik ramage. Fabulous modern sculptures.
• Lum. A friend of mine with vey interesting thoughts.
• the lost gipsy. An outdoor museum of little automata. See also this fantastic video about the man/project.
• some old images I drew. I just smuggle this in here somewhere in between the other links so that you can find or ignore it.
• retronator. a tumblr (crazy that tumblr still exists, right?) about pixel art. Still updated from time to time.
• the jolly contrarian. A sprawling wiki of interesting thoughts and references. Very good book reviews.
• bldblog. A truly interesting blog about the build environment.
• ralph ammer. Art, essays, animations, and philosophy.
• neal.fun. Little games to have fun (by neal).
• instagram. Perhaps my half secret instagram account…
• the pudding. The best visual essays on the web.
• unsplash. Good images for presentations and similar tings.
• craig mod. Writing, walking, Japan, and toasts.
• explorabl.es. A collection of explorable explanations.
• dynamical ecology. A blog about academia, ecology and links on Friday.
• making software. Beautiful, beautiful digital book with notes about all things software.
• tim hunkin. Builds funny machines and explains a lot of stuff very good. You can learn a lot from looking his videos.
• aegir. Probably the most beautiful blog that I know.
• mad maraca. Finest voxel art.
• poolsuite. New website is not as good as the old one. Also, I like it less and less the more I started to know about marty. But, hey. Its poooollsuiite.
• rogue projects. Build cool machines.
• dan nott. Fantastic comics and illustrations.
• paul kidby. Beautiful illustrations around the books of Terry Pratchett (mainly Discworld).

specifics

• in praise of shadows. An e-essay about photography. Inspired my to start an instagram account.
• intro: How the laws of physics lie (Cartwright, 1983; pdf). The introduction chapter of Nancy Cartwrights book “How the laws of physics lie”.
• immersion blender sauce hollandaise. This is how you (read “I”) do it!
• transport phenomena are interesting. Read about them!
• all the worlds polygons. An essay on the convergence between game- and scientific-simulations.
• Some dude build bio lab in his home. Yep. Of course some one did that; and of course there exist a sub community like that.

capitalism

fair warning, from here on out there are links to things like companies, shops, or products that I find interesting (for some reason or another).

• felix ure. Artisan metal puzzles from the UK.
• atelier-solaire. French cooking with the sun.
• teenage engineering. Playful and very well designed sound things.
• tom sachs. Art that imagines engineering, exploration, systems, capitalism, modernity… Often I am unsure what to think about Tom Sachs, but I do love the “making to understand” theme behind a lot of his work.
• mrjones watches. Very creative watches.
• art of play. A shop with many wonderful wondrous things.
• luvi fermente. Fermented products from Austria.
• logica giochi. A great (Italian owned) website for buying puzzles.
• olow. French clothing company that does a lot of things right.
• shangrila heritage. Expensive Italian leather clothing with a nice branding and idetentity.
• anchoasdeluxe. A good anchovie dealer.
• roark. Outdoorsy clothing.
• naked and famous denim. Jeans.
• manomama. More jeans.
• augora. Fermented delicacies from Austria.
• samuel zweig. Expensive. Well made clothing that tells little sotries.
• bddw. Auctions.
• flower mountain. Shoes.
• acrnm. Designer driven utility wear.
• kasperi. Finnish high quality leather wear.
• craft & lore. American company that makes leather goods.
• passenger clothing. More outdoorsy clothing.
• filter017. Japanese design and clothing company.
• nou nou. Stuff with faces.
• nohrd. German manufacturer of deluxe fitness machines.
• pastis 1212. Very good pastis.
• studio ciao. Italian lifestyle from Swiss (German).
• kalthoff axes. Artisan axes.
• pangaia. Sustainable sweaters.
• service projects. Tableware.
• bleu de chauffe. French hand-made bags and clothing.
• supermari. Italian foodstuff in Vienna (Austria, German). I dig the style.
• kaes.at. Order quality cheese online (Austria, German).
• the scientist gin. Austrian gin and limoncello.
• toms hot stuff. Hot sauces from Austria. Only some of them are good.
• knipex twinkey. Multipurpose key for all thikinds of electrical cabinets.

Well that is it.

PS: The name allokkio derives from my dialect way of saying/writing a occhio, which is again is an Italian idiom for doing things approximately (in a good way).