Real pages by real people:

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With all the LLM generated content flooding the internet since late 2022, it's become increasingly hard to find human written sites through search engines. This is a small, hand curated list of those places. Most of the blog-format ones have an RSS feed, but not all of those are updated regularly.

If you like this place, you can think of this as a non-creepy recommendations feed.

Blogs and personal websites:

Lcamtuf (blog): Infosec, mathematics, electronics, hobby machining
Ken Shirriff: Electronics reverse engineering and restoration
XKCD (what if?): Prolific nerd webcomic
Beej's Bit Bucket: Programming notes and guides.
Rob Ruark: Electronics, radio, calculators.
Bartosz Ciechanowski: Physics and math. Excelent animations.
Andrew Holme: Electronics, radio.
Kris Slyka: Photography, software.
Mike Ware: Exotic photography
Michał "rysiek" Wożniak: Security
PhysicsOpenLab: Homebrew scientific equipment. Lots of optics and radiation.
GigaBecquerel: Radiation experiments.
Andrey E. Stoev: Radiation detectors and radios.
Carl Willis: Nuclear history and tourism.
Lyra Rebane: CSS abuse and browser security.
Inigo Quilez: Computer graphics.
Nyle Steiner: DIY semiconductor and vacuum tubes.

Weirder blogs:

Also human written, but not closely related to what I write about here.

Rachel By The Bay: Software, sysadmin.
Aditya Athalye: Programming
Dennis Schubert: Software
Shamus Young: Game development, game design and programming rants.
Marius: Web commentary.
Lionel Dricot: Programming and meta-blogging.
Cory Doctorow: Politics of the internet
David Marodre: Programming, math, literature.
Taylor Troesh: Random commentary.
Marcin Wichary: Design.
Dhole moments: Cryptography.
Algernon: Plagarism machines.

Forums:

It's like social media, except it's not owned by a billionaire. May contain trolls.

Cloudy Nights: Astronomy and imaging
EEV Blog Forum: Electronics
Sciencemaddness: Amateur chemistry.
Gamma Spectacular: Gamma spectroscopy.
fusor.net: DIY Fusion reactors.

Misc:

Single topic websites: Very intresting to a select group.

Hugo: Random photos.
Siliconp0rn: IC die shots.
Amateur telescope optics: Telescope optics.
Theodore Gray’s periodic table: Extensive element collection.
Mantrap Skies (Rick Johnson): Excellent image catalog.
Mindat.org: Rocks and stuff.
The Valve Museum: Vacuum tubes
Old calculator museum: Old calculators.
Marginalia (blog): Hobby search engine development.
TechLib: Electronic circuits.
Paul's Math Notes (Paul Dawkins): Math.
Stellafane ATM: Griding telescope optics.

Other link lists:

We should link more.

Marginalia
Lcamtuf

Detritus:

These used to be on the list, but have since vanished off the internet.

Alan’s Lab [archived]: Electronics and radio.
Paul Nicholson [archived]: Very low frequency radio.

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