Interesting links from around the web
March 2026 Random links I find worthy of sharing. Regularly updated. Hope you find something cool!
Featured blog
- Cory Doctorow - Updated almost daily with interesting links and his work.
One time reads
- How Complex Systems Fail - A concise, 18-point treatise by Dr. Cook analyzing the inherent hazards of complex systems (such as transportation) and challenging traditional views on causality and human error.
- A Plea for Lean Software - Niklaus Wirth's famous paper from 1995.
- Reflections on trusting trust - Ken Thompson, co-author of UNIX, recounted a story of how he created a version of the C compiler that, when presented with the source code for the "login" program, would automatically compile in a backdoor to allow him entry to the system...
- Seven Habits of effective text editing - From the primary author of Vim, this paper presents guidelines and hints for doing your work more quickly and with fewer mistakes.
Miscellaneous
- How a car works - Pretty self explainatory. Very fun to kill time with.
- Louvre Museum - Browse through this huge database which consists of entries for more than 500,000 works in Louvre.
- Computers in movies and TV - Still updated, still interesting. still worthy of mention.
- Vimm's Emulation Lair - A large collection of video game emulators from yesteryear.
Music
- myNoise - A highly versatile and customizable background sound generator. Been around for ages.