I think personal websites can serve as a fantastic source of discovery, particularly when they link to other websites also linking elsewhere. So here is my list of links, mostly of things that I already tend to recommend to friends often.
Blogs/Personal Websites
near.blog: A huge inspiration for making this website. Has his own links page full of incredibly high quality blog posts. Some of my favorite posts:
Nadia Asparouhova: Also inspiration for this website. Worth the link if only for her post on the jhanas
LudwigAbap: Great jumping off point for programming related reading. This post on becoming competitive when joining a new company may prove useful for your career
RegisterSpill: Thorsten Ball posts a weekly “Joy & Curiousity”, containing interesting and joyful things from the previous week. Feels like the gems you might find by sifting through tech twitter and Hacker News but without the sifting
Benthams Bulldog: Blog on “utilitarianism, ethical veganism, culture war stuff, philosophy, morality, and more!”. Some that I think you should read:
- A Million Is Made Out Of A Million Ones
- The Best Thing You Can Do
- The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe
- Be A Marginal Reducetarian
- The Objections to Veganism Are All Wrong
Some standalone posts:
Tools
Tools I use and highly recommend, primarily for software development:
- Helix: very tastefully made modal editor (like vim) with a selection-first model (selection -> action rather than vim’s action -> selection). Supports multiple cursors, has fantastic defaults (other than the theme), has LSP support out of the box, and has a plugin system coming soon.
- opencode: open source AI coding agent like Claude Code/Codex. Highly configurable and built with a client-server architecture that let’s them develop a TUI, desktop app, and web app simultaneously. It’s being improved at an unreal pace and I think it has a very bright future.
- Ghostty: The best all around terminal.
- Nushell: A reimagined shell. Much nicer to use than bash and doesn’t require much configuration. Also check out fish if you want something a little closer to bash.
- niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. I use this along with Noctalia as my desktop shell (much nicer than whatever I would cobble together myself). The scrollable window management hasn’t been life changing (most of the time I just use one fullscreen window per workspace) but for me it is strictly better than simple tiling. I generally don’t want multiple windows crammed into view at once (although niri can do that!), I would rather just have a more flexible way of managing my fullscreen windows. It also has very nice trackpad gestures if you’re into that.
- Home Row Mods: Lifechanger. Shift, alt, ctrl, and super all accessible without leaving home row. No more twisting your hand into strange shapes when attempting to combine multiple modifiers. I think this is best done at the keyboard firmware level with something like QMK, although it is possible at the software level.