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This is where I keep a list of links and resources about topics that I’m interested in. My list of books contains other topics I’m interested.

# cs theory/math/crypto

• An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography, Boaz Barak
• Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell
• Complexity Zoo
• Ryan O’Donnell’s CS Theory toolkit lectures
• Graph theory notes from Laci Babai’s 2019 class
• Discrete Mathematics notes from David Cash’s 2022 class
• How Computers Use Numbers
• MIT Open CourseWare
• Probabilistic Machine Learning
• On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• Cryptology City

# privacy

• Privacy Guides
• Privacy tools
• Privacy Tests browser comparison
• Messenger comparison
• Vehicle Privacy Report
• John Oliver talking about surveillance and data brokers
• Link shortener

# linguistics

• Interactive IPA chart
• Etymonline
• Lingthusiasm
• Grambank
• World Atlas of Language Structures

# website building

• pandoc (what I currently use)
• Nathaniel R. Stickley’s Pandoc Example
• Kunal Marwaha’s website advice
• hugo (what I previously used)

# data sources

• Our World in Data
• Pew polls and datasets
• YouGov polls
• NASA’s climate change benchmarks
• Wind and current measurements
• Chicago public data
• City data
• US Treasury report
• Federal Reserve Economic Data
• Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances
• Propublica’s Nonprofit Explorer
• CDC FastStats
• The US Census

# free and open source software

browsers

• Firefox
• Brave
• Chromium
• Freetube (private youtube client)

messaging

• Signal
• Thunderbird
• Proton Mail
• Keybase

rss readers

• NetNewsWire
• Vienna RSS
• NewBlur

games

• Lichess
• Slippi (and Dolphin)
• Veloren

media

• mpv (media player)
• VLC (media player)
• Jellyfin (self-hosted media server)
• Calibre (ebook library manager)
• Audacity (audio editing)

misc tools

• Standard Notes (e2ee notes application)
• Excalidraw (e2ee shared whiteboard)
• LibreOffice (MS office alternatives)
• LanguageTool (grammar checker)
• Zotero (reference manager)
• Proton VPN (vpn)
• Proton Drive (cloud storage + document editor)
• Google Teller (audio indicator for connections to google)

There is a lot more FOSS software out there! You can find a more comprehensive lists on websites like:

• Open Source Alternatives
• AlternativeTo

If you have the means, supporting these projects is a great way to encourage the building of more FOSS projects!

Last updated: 2024-08