Wandering the 'net
The following is a list of things online I point my eyeballs at frequently - a various collection of topics but angled mostly at tech. Many of these things are constant and will often appear on the Now page.
It's a little bit like a blogroll but I'm taking inspiration from that jamesg and making it much more generalised.
Blogroll & Websites
The web is filled with awesome tools and resources. Of course, we do have to include blogs in this list too!
- ben.akrin.com - Inspiring - Join Ben on his adventures building his own home, being awed by snow, and creating some truly inspired tools
- rachelbythebay.com - Fantastic thoughts and perspective on tech, code and people
- shellsharks.com - Infosec primarily, but also the inspiration for the redesign of this little website. Mike introduced me to the concept of the indieweb. This site also contains a bunch of cool resources, tools and ideas
- crankysec.com - vCISO's hate it! Check out some hard truths about the infosec industry
- exoticsilicon.com - Highly technical and incredibly smart folk publishing programming, hardware, BSD and more articles - you can hire them too. In particular pay attention to their research page and take some time to fully appreciate their web design. There's more to it than you may think at first glance!
- intel.taggartinstitute.org - A curated, public FreshRSS feed of infosec and tech news
- talkback.sh - Similar to the above, an infosec news aggregator that's very slick
Social Media communities
Finance
- Reddit (old) - UKPersonalFinance - UK finance questions and answers, great resource. Have you checked the flowchart?
- Reddit (old) - LeanFireUK - Financial Independence, but sensibly
Infosec & Tech
- Reddit (old) - netsec - subreddit dedicated to all aspect of [info|net|tech] security
- infosec.exchange mastodon server - One of the homes of the fediverse infosec community, without any ads or algorithms
- lobste.rs - A computing focused link aggregation community
Youtube channels
- juxtopposed - Sensible UI/UX design
- kurzgesagt - Learn scientific concepts and theories in a cool way
- CGP Grey - Amazingly informational and entertaining video content from the greatest youtuber
Podcasts
- 2.5 Admins - Two and a half Real Sysadmins (so, about 12 of me) discuss tech news, ZFS, linux, ZFS, security, ZFS and answer listener questions
- Building Reddit - How the team behind Reddit make things work. Lots of behind the scenes interviews and stories about the tech and the people
- Darknet Diaries - The infosec tales podcast. Stories typically about crimes committed with technology. Very good.
- k12 Tech Talk - Technology in the k12 space. America-oriented so not entirely applicable to the UK, but it's pretty close.
- Risky.Biz - Security news and product interviews - great discussions about the bigger picture
- Internet Storm Center StormCast - A daily (Mon-Fri) 5 minute roundup of the latest happenings in the security world
- Secure AF & Secure After Dark - Great content in both podcasts, covering all infosec topics from management to technical
- Sysadmin Today - Hasn't posted in a while but loads of great content here
- Black Hills Infosec - Talkin' 'bout Infosec News - Great org that posts loads of tools and learning resources and discusses the latest infosec news
- The Shellsharks Podcast - Infosec, tech and life in general. Mike has told me he plans on rebooting the podcast soon!
Useful tools
- realtimecolors.com - Get your interface colors right
- Visual Subnet Calculator - Visualise your network subnets
- LeanTime - My chosen work management tool, it's a great way to manage and prioritise project work and it's open source, too
Fun/entertainment/misc
- xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language