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+title: 'just a bunch of great links'
+description: 'just a ton of really cool links i have found'
+pubDate: 'Apr 07 2026'
+heroImage: '../../assets/article_hero_images/books.png'
+---
+
+# cool websites
+- https://ratfactor.com/
+- https://n-o-d-e.net/
+- https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
+- https://onio.club/
+- https://rxi.github.io/
+- https://deaddrops.com/
+- https://jordanhay.com/
+
+# philsophly
+- https://tilde.town/~dozens/sofa/
+- https://thoughts.melonking.net/guides/introduction-to-the-web-revival-1-what-is-the-web-revival
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIBUGQ0aYnc
+
+# programming
+- https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html
+- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus–Naur_form
+- https://wiby.org/about/guide.html
+- https://pgrandinetti.github.io/compilers/page/how-to-design-a-parser/
+- https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
+- https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
+- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_(computer_science)
+- https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
+- https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-expression-parsing-made-easy/
+- https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf
+
+# programming langs
+- https://www.gura-lang.org/
+- https://vala.dev/
+- https://www.beeflang.org/
+- https://harelang.org/tutorials/introduction/
+- https://reasonml.github.io/
+
+# embeddedable scripting langs
+- https://gitlab.com/zsaleeba/picoc
+- https://github.com/berry-lang/berry
+- https://wren.io/getting-started.html
+- https://github.com/vtereshkov/umka-lang
+
+# embedded systems
+- https://n-o-d-e.net/pinouts.html
+- uuid ic : https://www.analog.com/en/products/ds2401.html
+- Transconductance Amplifier : https://www.ti.com/product/LM13700
+- https://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/proper-decoupling-practices-and-why-you-should-leave-100nf-behind/
+- 60GHz : https://www.st.com/en/wireless-connectivity/st60a3h1.html
+- using uart as a bus : https://www.uartbus.eu/
+- https://milkv.io/docs/duo/overview
+- https://multitude.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/BLESS_Book.pdf
+
+# forges
+- https://sourcehut.org/
+- https://codeberg.org/
+- https://about.gitea.com/
+- https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/
+
+# cool projects
+- https://www.hackster.io/news/boot-selector-switch-for-linux-or-windows-8f655f240743
+- https://keyboard-layout-editor.com/
+- https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-printer-cured-my-procrastination
+
+# zines
+- https://n-o-d-e.net/zine/index.html
+
+# academics
+- https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/site/research/media/posters/2022/R22229p.pdf
+- https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1965/ERL-m-132.pdf
+
+# RF
+- http://www.n5dux.com/ham/kite/
+
+# cad 
+- https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html
+- https://github.com/pythonscad/pythonscad/
+- https://github.com/openscad/openscad
+- https://jlcmc.com/
+- https://codeberg.org/microcad/microcad
+
+# text editors
+- https://github.com/neurocyte/flow?tab=readme-ov-file
+- https://lite-xl.com/
+- https://pragtical.dev/
+- https://amp.rs/
+- https://micro-editor.github.io/
+- https://github.com/microsoft/edit
+
+# knowledge management tools
+- https://docmost.com/
+- https://affine.pro/
+- https://logseq.com/
+- https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan
+- https://www.bookstackapp.com/
+- https://standardnotes.com/
+- https://github.com/brufdev/many-notes
+- https://enclosed.cc/
+- https://joplinapp.org/
+- https://triliumnotes.org/
+- https://www.giuspen.net/cherrytree/
+- https://silverbullet.md/
+- https://doc.anytype.io/anytype-docs
+- https://www.amplenote.com/
+- https://heptabase.com/
+- https://dendron.so/
+- https://www.inkdrop.app/
+- https://notemark.docs.enchantedcode.co.uk/
+- https://github.com/Dullage/flatnotes
+- https://foamnotes.com/
+- https://notesnook.com/
+- https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng
+
+# cool videos
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7mc-D5V4L8
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5WBLd95rqI
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfSO-LCKmrA
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t8xT-2vBE0
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5hVYZIcfyA
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDhbZ8-BZI
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFw4F2AyaP4
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMVjTlV-n8
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bBVQaAD_jI
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLv1s7rKeCM
+
+# cool docos
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi-f_J6hV-g&pp=ygURY2FydHMgb2YgZGFya25lc3M%3D
+- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Like_Killing_Flies
+
+# books i want
+- https://www.amazon.com/Portraits-Above-Informal-Rooftop-Communities/dp/3980967778
+- https://modernistcuisine.com/