Programming
535 sites
https://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/ie6
A novelty JavaScript experiment by mrdoob that recreates the infamous broken-rendering experience of Internet Explorer 6 as a humorous visual effect in a modern browser. It captures the nostalgic frustration of the old web era in a tongue-in-cheek interactive demo.
https://essem.space/
Essem's personal homepage showcases a developer who builds open-source projects including esmBot and runs Fediverse instances like wetdry.world and lethallava.land. The site serves as a hub linking to their code projects, microblogging presence on both Fediverse and Bluesky, and a Ko-fi support page.
https://alexsci.com/
Robert Alexander's personal site hosts a tech blog focused on Internet technology and security, alongside a collection of open-source hobby projects. Visitors will find tools like an RSS Blogroll Network mapper, a license approval GitHub Action, a white noise web app, and even simple games for toddlers, all with links to code repositories.
https://grugbrain.dev/
Written in the voice of a caveman programmer named Grug, this humorous yet genuinely insightful guide tackles software development philosophy with sections on complexity, testing, microservices, type systems, and other real engineering concerns. The deliberately simple writing style makes it both entertaining and surprisingly practical for developers of all experience levels.
https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms
Mike Bostock's in-depth essay explores how algorithms can be understood through visualization, covering sampling, Poisson-disc distributions, Voronoi diagrams, and sorting with rich interactive diagrams. Adapted from his Eyeo 2014 talk, this piece bridges computer science and visual communication in a way that makes abstract algorithmic concepts genuinely intuitive.
https://toyos.dev/
Guillermo Toyos-Marfurt is a computer scientist and PhD researcher at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, sharing his work on distributed systems, consensus algorithms, and blockchain state machine replication protocols. The site includes published academic papers, a portfolio of public projects, and course notes, making it a tidy hub for a serious researcher's professional presence.
https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/split
Beej's Guide to Network Programming is a comprehensive, freely available tutorial by Brian 'Beej Jorgensen' Hall covering Internet sockets, IP addressing, system calls, client-server architecture, and advanced networking techniques in C. It includes detailed man pages for key socket functions and has been a beloved reference for systems programmers for decades.
http://jenitennison.com/xslt/index.html
Jeni Tennison's comprehensive reference site dedicated to XSLT, the XML-based transformation language, offering tutorials, book recommendations, and curated solutions drawn from the XSL-List mailing list. Jeni has authored three books on XSLT and XPath, and the site covers everything from fundamentals to advanced topics like namespace handling, keys, and XPath expressions.
https://thufie.lain.haus/
Sietch Tabor is the personal homepage of Thufie, a self-described computer scientist and researcher who shares their interests in programming, language learning, and open-source culture. The site features links to a blog, creative work, and a cyberspace startpage, along with fediverse badges and a distinctly queer, anti-corporate web aesthetic.
https://sqlite.org/flextypegood.html
An official SQLite documentation page that makes a detailed case for the database engine's flexible typing system, explaining why storing any value in any column is a feature rather than a flaw. It covers practical use cases like attribute tables, dirty data storage, and dynamic languages, while systematically rebutting common objections to flexible typing.