David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
www.davidrumsey.com
The David Rumsey Map Collection provides access to tens of thousands of historical maps, many scanned at high resolution.
Digital Preservation (Library of Congress)
www.digitalpreservation.gov
Run by the Library of Congress, this site gathers resources and guidelines on digital preservation, including format specifications and training materials, making it a primary reference for archivists and librarians.
FileFormat.Info: The Digital Rosetta Stone
www.fileformat.info
An exhaustively researched repository of file format documentation, from common media types to obscure legacy specifications.
Adrian Courrèges – Graphics Studies & Projects
www.adriancourreges.com
Adrian Courrèges dissects graphics rendering in major games, providing frame-by-frame breakdowns with annotated screenshots.
yurichev.com
yurichev.com
A rich collection of self-published books and articles on reverse engineering, assembly language, and low-level programming.
Tyranid's Lair
www.tiraniddo.dev
The blog contains detailed write-ups on Windows security mechanisms, vulnerability discovery, and low-level system internals.
Photons to Photos
photonstophotos.net
Photons to Photos provides extensive sensor measurement data for digital cameras, including dynamic range, read noise, and quantum efficiency.
Food Timeline: food history research service
www.foodtimeline.org
A comprehensive reference on food history, covering ingredients, dishes, and culinary traditions across centuries.
dirkjanm.io
dirkjanm.io
The blog contains original security research on Microsoft identity systems, focusing on Active Directory and Azure AD internals.
Create Fieldbooks: Technical Note 2012
siarchives.si.edu
A straightforward instructional document from the Smithsonian Institution Archives detailing standards for field book creation.
Off the convex path
www.offconvex.org
This blog gathers lucid, mathematically rigorous posts on non-convex optimization and related topics in machine learning.
Typeset In The Future
typesetinthefuture.com
A meticulous exploration of typography in science fiction cinema, examining the fonts and visual design choices that shape futuristic worlds.
Made of Bugs
blog.nelhage.com
The site hosts meticulously detailed articles that often unpack real-world debugging sessions or deep dives into systems internals.
NASA Oral Histories
www.nasa.gov
The NASA Oral Histories archive preserves firsthand accounts from astronauts, engineers, and administrators, providing personal insights into pivotal space missions.
CoReMA - Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages
gams.uni-graz.at
A scholarly resource providing direct access to transcribed medieval cooking recipes and detailed manuscript metadata, useful for historical and culinary research.
brain of mat kelcey...
matpalm.com
The blog documents hands-on experiments at the intersection of machine learning and hardware, including running neural oscillators on an FPGA-based eurorack module and converting Keras3 models to TFLite.
mattst88's blog
mattst88.com
The blog documents a detailed reverse-engineering project that decompiles SGI O2 PROM firmware into reassemblable source code, offering technical depth for retrocomputing enthusiasts.
marcan.st - marcan's personal site
marcansoft.com
Visit for deep technical write-ups such as the 2025 post on resigning as Asahi Linux project lead, and for original open-source projects like BlitzLoop and OpenLase.
Zodiac Killer Ciphers – Can you help solve the codes?
zodiackillerciphers.com
Zodiac Killer Ciphers is the most complete public resource on the Zodiac's encrypted messages, created and maintained by the researcher who cracked the infamous 340 cipher.
winternl - cybersecurity & programming
winternl.com
This blog publishes detailed technical articles on Windows internals, reverse engineering, and offensive security techniques.
ATLAS – Home | CERN
home.cern
The ATLAS page presents detailed documentation of one of CERN's flagship experiments, from hardware schematics to physics results.
Historical Regions of the World
www.oldmapsonline.org
This interactive map displays historical regions across centuries, drawn from a large collection of old maps.
Trump / Russia: A Definitive History
sethhettena.com
Seth Hettena's site serves as a companion to his book, compiling evidence and narratives about Trump's Russian ties.
Financial Cryptography
financialcryptography.com
The site hosts decades of writing on financial cryptography, including the invention of Ricardian contracts.