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A collection of links to websites I often forget to check regularly. The content on these sites is updated on a fairly regular basis, so I should visit them more often. Most are technical, though some are simply interesting. There’s probably something here to make you think — or at least give you a laugh.

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Jeremy Reimer’s Blog - Combines science fiction and technology, showcasing how a developer can integrate creative writing with technical discussions.

The Sci-Fi Writer’s Guide to Reality by Arthur H. Manners - A data scientist and software developer’s blog focused on helping others write grounded sci-fi, blending technical expertise with creative writing advice.

Software Engineering Fiction by Caffeinated Bitstream - Explores how science fiction illuminates future paths of software technology, discussing software concepts through a sci-fi lens.

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science - An interesting mix of authors covering a wide range of topics in stats, machine learning, social, political, cognitive, behavioral, and data sciences. One or two new articles are posted almost daily.

LessWrong - A self described online forum and community aimed at improving human reasoning, rationality, and decision-making, with the goal of helping its users hold more accurate beliefs and achieve their personal objectives.

Janes Defence News - International defence and security news and analysis that provide impartial and independent insight into the latest developments.

Polymarket - A decentralized prediction market that allows you to speculate on the outcome of real world events.

MIT Technology Review - News and commentary on emerging technologies and their societal, commercial, and political impacts.

MindMatters - News and analysis of artificial and natural intelligence. Articles exploring the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and the mind.

The Gradient - An online magazine that offers in-depth coverage of the latest research in AI and machine learning.

Gwern.net - A unique and extensive collection of essays on a wide variety of topics, including AI, statistics, and psychology.

Public Domain Review - Dedicated to the exploration of the history of art, literature, and ideas – focusing on works now fallen into the public domain. Material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restrictions.

Fediverse Party - a decentralized network of social platforms to communicate and share content. Microblogging, photo sharing, video sharing, and more.

more misc

VS Code Workspace - A browser-based version of Visual Studio Code and GitHub. Create a workspace, sign in anywhere, and start coding.

SharpLab - A .NET code playground designed to showcase the compiling of C#, Visual Basic, and F# code. See how code is transformed into IL and JIT Asm, helps understand the compiler’s workings and how code is lowered.

.NET Fiddle - Another .NET playground for C#, VB.NET, and F#. Focused more on collaboration and sharing code snippets rather than the compiler’s workings.

glot.io - an open source pastebin with runnable snippets and API. A language playground with 40-ish languages ranging from assembly to Zig to play around with.

Excalidraw - A whiteboard tool for sketching diagrams and whatnot. It has a nice hand-drawn look and feel - great for brainstorming.

Chatbot Arena - A research platform to compare and test different chatbots. Compare the performance of various chatbots in a head-to-head format. Choose the best chatbot for your needs. Be on the right side of Roko’s Basilisk!

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John Skeet’s coding blog - Usually a Microsoft MVP, Jon Skeet is a prominent personality in the C# community. Smart guy.

Microsoft Developer Blogs - Focus by language, tool, technology… a good place to find the latest news and updates.

Microsoft Research Blog - Research and development in computer science, engineering, and related fields. Something interesting is usually happening here.

Google - The Keyword - A mix of news, updates, and information about Google products, services, and initiatives.

Coding Horror - explores various aspects of software development, including the humorous and sometimes terrifying side of coding.

The Register - BOFH - The “Bastard Operator From Hell” - still going strong after 20+ years by Simon Travaglia.

The Daily WTF - A how-not-to guide for developing software.