friends
intersting stuff
- 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.
- 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.
- house of errors. Weird and wonderfull knitware.
- 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.
- tenc. Jackets. Look nice, but I am not sure how good they are.
- 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 kinds of electrical cabinets.