Links

A selection of links to useful web sites.

Startup stuff

• Hack news a news site for startups and technology
• YC blogsBlog posts by Ycombinator people
• Conference for Self Funded Startups with talk vidoes.
• Marc Andreessen on Product-market fit
• How was your first enterpise sale ask HN
• Startup podcasts Lots of talking

Blogs

• Joel software management
• fun fun function Video blog about JavaScript
• Netflix blog Debugging NodeJS in production
• Douglas Crockford JavaScript Conventions
• Jan Schaumann List of stuff you should know, but is not taught in schools
• Jacques Mattheij technology
• Jouke-Thiemo Waleson programming JavaScript
• Robin Doherty privacy
• Ken Shirriff computers and stuff
• Michael Nielsen computer technology
• Tony Arcieri programming (Ruby) and crypto
• Patrick Walton programming
• James Hague programming
• Chris Parnin programming and the brain
• Nate Good client certificates
• JavaScript Weekly links to JavaScript related articles and blog posts
• Keving Dangoor One of the guys behind the CommonJS initiative
• Allen Pike software
• Raph Koster games and MMO's
• Warren Mosler on money
• Adrian Colyer How word vectors work
• Amit Patel game programming

Server Hosting

• HostHatch Quality hosting all over the world
• Time4VPS East European server provider
• openvz VPS hosting all over the world
• Dedicated Servers for affordable prices
• Server auction for Dedicated servers in Germany
• VPS providers Compare prices etc between providers of Virtual Private Servers

Psychology

• What makes a great listener Harward Business Review
• Thought viruses Thought worms that spread

Programs, tools and services

• Screen recorder Capture your screen
• Voice recorder and sound editor has a neat tool that removes background noise
• Tern stand-alone code-analysis engine for JavaScript
• Bandwith meter Check your download bandwith
• Convert PNG to ICO (for your favicon.ico)
• Take a screen-shot with any device ... or make it look like you did
• Whois and GeoIP Make a "whois" and see where on a map a IP-address resides
• Programming fonts Compare different programming fonts
• Resources hacker Change a programs icon etc
• Color Picker Find out what the color is from a pixel (if you can't afford Photoshop et.al)
• Mix two images art creation for lazy artists
• Download Youtube videos
• Ejecta make canvas apps for iOS (not tried)
• Convert xps to pdf convert the stupid xps format you get from printing in Windows to PDF
• Stripe API for visa/mastercard payments
• Subnet Mask Cheat Sheet when writing IP/firwall rules
• Binisoft a program to enchance Windows firewall
• Create music for lazy artist and non artists
• Inno Setup a free Windows installer/packager (not tried)
• SSL test see if your SSL config is ok
• Reverse DNS lookup se the domain name of a IP-address
• Write image to USB useful when installing OS
• GNU Spell checker with dictionaries
• Whois lookup see where a IP is located
• Algebra calculator like the one you had in highscool, but web based
• web page test Test a website's performance
• SMS Gateway send SMS message via HTTP
• Check DNS reseult from different DNS servers, useful when setting up anycast OR DNS routing
• thesaurus find synonymes. However don't use it when you are writing or it will break your flow.
• EcmaScript compability table see what works on your target browser/platform
• Internet radio Listen to "radio" in your browser
• Email web client Community funded and supported
• Google Trends If you have to use the latest and greatest in software fashion
• Unicode Table Get the HTML code for different characters
• Gandi Domains search for available domain names
• Cool looking real time graphs (look at graphs instead of working)

Guides

• User interface design myth some good advice on user interface design
• How to put Github's gh-pages into a separate folder
• Git Documentation RTFM!
• GPG Tutorial How to send enctrypted messages
• RegExp Regular expressions in JavaScript
• Ubuntu containers A guide about Linux (Ubuntu) containers
• Guide on how to write a 3d soft (not webgl) engine in JavaScript
• How to automatically run commands when a file/folder change or updates
• Apparmor profile guide
• Restrict CPU usage for some process
• Running iOS inside Linux
• Check for errors in common Linux/Unix programs. Find out why the deamon doesn't start
• Writing a dissertation guide on how to write an article
• WebGL fundamentals Learn the low level WebGL stuff
• NASA math guide learn abut scales and vectors
• Git Tips
• Mercurail repository hosting with Nginx
• Escape HTML inside HTML how to write HTML code that is not rendered
• hgweb with nginx tutorial useful code snippets
• Client SSL certificate guide which is deprected and no longer supported by browsers

Software development

• Real programmers program in machine code
• Javascript type table. What do you get when you compare different types in JavaScript?
• Hardware board that can be programmed with JavaScript
• See what's going on with the optimizer in V8 and Dart JavaScript engines
• Erik Meijer A guide in functional programming
• How Facebook scaled up Mercurial
• PHP coding standard and best practices
• vbScript language reference
• A voxel engine in JavaScript
• Resources for writing a compiler
• Gabriel Gambetta dealing with network issues (like rubber-banding) in multiplayer games
• CommonJS JavaScript standard like EcmaScript but better
• glMatrix JavaScript Matrix and Vector library
• x86 Assembly Guide Learn to program in Assembly
• Eloquent JavaScript Free web "book" about JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke
• Nodeschool NodeJS and JavaScript workshop
• Subpixel antialias About subpixel antialias in the Canvas element
• CommonJS group talk about JavaScript modules People made history by coming up with the module system used in NodeJS that changed the software industry. Probably one of the most important forum posts in software history.
• Mercurial Source Code Management or distributed version control system like git
• Algorithms for text fingerprinting? ask HN
• Oper source as a buisness ask HN: How large does the open source project need to be for you to make a living off it
• Avoid being forked into oblivion A blog post about software licence
• Eat Me A story about software licensing gone wrong

Misc.

• Typography in the Alien movie
• The lets encrypt specification
• IP ports Information about IP standard ports
• Library for openGL I didn't get it to work :(
• Programming fonts Popular programming fonts
• Open clipart Database of royalty free images
• Popular text editors What is the best text editor ?
• IoT and robotics development platform Make robots with JavaScript and NodeJS
• Libreoffice dictionaries when you need spellchecking for various languages
• highlight.js Syntax highlighting for the Web
• CAcert community-driven Certificate Authority
• purple planet royalty free music
• Steam PC gaming platform
• Hacking game a game that test your computer skills
• MS-DOS games Feel nostalgic
• xkcd cartoons mostly about technical stuff
• Facebook ads prank A story about a prank using Facebook ads