Favorite programmer website?
57 points by schmudde
57 points by schmudde
I recently stumbled across John Walker's awesome old website. It's such a gem of personality and interests: https://www.fourmilab.ch/.
What's your favorite website made by a programmer that isn't just a blog?
Maybe it's a bit reductive to call Oleg a "programmer", but I think it fits the theme. Otherwise also http://tom7.org/ of course
Love the random digressions into the good old days mixed in with hardcore theory. https://okmij.org/ftp/Babel/
"Isn't just a blog" immediately excluded multiple of my top options š . I will put this here: https://samwho.dev/
Same here, including this pearl: https://ciechanow.ski/
Edit: I wouldn't even categorize these links as "just a blog".
Hard to pick one
John Walker, RIP (he died a year ago)
Seemingly no-one is actively updating his site anymore. Hopefully it stays up for a long time (the cert is by Let's Encrypt, so that's a good sign.)
Check your digital wills, people! Ensure the stuff you care about is documented enough for your survivors to keep running it.
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I have two highly curated picks for you: https://www.cameronsworld.net/ https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/evolution.html
I love exploring https://wiki.xxiivv.com and https://dercuano.github.io/.
Edit: another favorite: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
Solar punk and solar punk-adjacent is maybe the most interesting thing happening in tech. And Love how XXIIVV lives the philosophy.
Inigo Quilez has a fantastic array of articles and reference documentation on computer graphics techniques, especially SDF shaders.
I also love Ken Perlin's website, but sadly the Java Applets will not be usable on most browsers today.
That's⦠impossible to answer. But spencer.place is definitely up there, humming with fascinating ideas, toys, and experiments. I collect personal websites that focus on their owner's creative output over at are.na. Lots of programmers & hackers in there (plus some artists and other folks, too).
All the obvious ones are taken already so let me go a bit back in time: http://acme.com/
When I first connected to the Internet, circa 1998, Jef Poskanzer's page was full of treasures. I played a lot with his CGIs, like http://acme.com/licensemaker/ (not sure if it was already online tho), and that contributed to how magic the Internet was for me!
Also, back in 2005 Jeff received a lot of spam: http://acme.com/mail_filtering/
Finally, let me point out that acme.com was registered on 1991-04-17. That's a pioneer.
I really like Michael Lazar's many projects. He's great. https://mozz.us/
John Goertzen also has my serious admiration: https://www.complete.org/john-goerzen/
I love this archive of research papers by Henry Baker, of "Cheney on the M.T.A." fame:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191008012407/http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/home.html
This and okmij are a graduate level education in themselves