Links
The order of the categories and the links within them is random and will change every time you visit this page.
Making
| Aging Wheels | Car enthusiast and home machinist. Interesting projects presented with a dry sense of humour. |
| AvE | Home machinist with a unique, surreal and amusing perspective on life. |
| Tim Hunkin | Eccentric British artist and engineer making electromechanical arcade machines which poke fun at society. |
| This Old Tony | Home machinist producing beautiful videos with humour and depth. |
| Stuff Made Here | Detailed and engaging videos of astounding hobby robotics projects. |
| amazingdiyprojects | Incredible home-made machines, eg. a human-rideable quadcopter. |
| Ben Eater | High-quality videos teaching you about computing from first principles. |
Technology
| SITALWeek | Weekly posts on technology and business, providing insight and hyperlinks to other brilliant content. |
| Tiny Subversions | Darius Kazemi. Internet artist with an interest in bots/generators and human-scale social media. |
| Venkatesh Rao | Essays on the future of technology, society and freelance work. Occasional deviations into storytelling and art. |
| Hillel Wayne | Eye-opening thoughts on software development with a focus on testing. |
| charity.wtf | Fresh and impactful thoughts on software engineering and managing people. |
| A Lot to Learn | David Knott (CTO for UK Government). Enterprise technology challenges from a holistic executive perspective. |
| AI Weirdness | Poking fun at AI doing badly. Not sure how long this will last. |
| Let's POWER Automate | Practical tutorials and guides helping you get the most out of Microsoft Power Automate. |
| Not Boring | Business strategy and technology trends in an entertaining and engaging format. |
| Ben's Bites | Daily AI newsletter. Commentary sometimes twee but recommendations are excellent. |
| Martin Fowler | Detailed technical articles on software development and data management. |
| Austin Z. Henley | Reflections on software engineering, academia, product design, and usability. |
| Ben Myers | Highly readable and actionable accessibility advice. |
| Tom Critchlow | Deep thoughts on the nature of freelance consultancy work, technology strategy and blogging. |
| Simon Wardley | Thoughts and reflections on culture and government from the inventor of Wardley Value Chain Mapping. |
| jeeb.uk | James Cross. Thoughts/guides from a software developer. Introduced me to the 'digital garden' concept. |
| Coding Horror | Jeff Atwood. Thoughts on technology and human interaction. |
| Open Educational Thinkering | Doug Belshaw. Thoughts on technology, social networks, and life. |
| Tiny Projects | Young entrepreneur launching new small businesses for fun and profit. |
| Future of Transportation | Punchy newsletter covering transportation of all forms, with a high-tech investor-driven focus. |
| Interconnected | Matt Webb. Fresh takes on technology, society, the future, and blogging. |
| Joel Samuel | Thoughts and reflections on technology and life, with a slight focus on UK government. |
| Adam Drake | Pragmatic thoughts on digital transformation and technology strategy. |
| Ken Kantzer's Blog | Reflective blogs from a technology, security and management professional. |
| Robin Sloan | Fiction Author / Technologist writing deep thoughts about technology and human interaction. |
Architecture
| BiZZdesign Blogs | Articles on Business Architecture, generally focused on engaging executive leadership in BizArch thinking. |
| Steven Mileham | ArchiMate tips and examples, including diagrams. |
| Holistic Enterprise Development | Fresh thoughts on ArchiMate and architectural thinking from the author of the 'ArchiMate Cookbook'. |
| R&A Enterprise Architecture | Deep thoughts on ArchiMate, EA and IT governance from the author of 'Mastering ArchiMate'. |
Tools
| Inoreader | The best RSS reader around. |
General
| London Reconnections | Aggregator of interesting UK transport news. |
| diamond geezer | Old-school blogger. Daily posts about life and travel with a slight focus on London. |
| Think Defence | Interesting long-form articles about British defence topics. |
| Low-tech Magazine | Insightful long-form articles about historic technology that is ripe for a comeback. Environmental focus. |
| Met Office 10 Day Trend | Long-range weather forecast with a sprinkling of technical meteorological detail. |
Other
| Braggoscope | Interactive and engaging way to explore the BBC In Our Time radio archive. |
| That Classical Podcast | Upbeat podcast making classical music accessible to all audiences. |
| Smith & Sniff | Rambling and amusing weekly podcast by two accomplished car guys. |
| c90adventures | Eccentric and funny travel documentaries from a young British engineer on a C90 motorbike. |
| BOFH | Short fictional pieces about a demonic system administrator. |
Comics
| Poorly Drawn Lines | My favourite comic. |
| Mr. Lovenstein | One of my favourite comics. |
| Buttersafe | One of my favourite comics. |
Culture
| The Spectator | Long-running magazine with quality coverage of current affairs, politics, arts and life. |
| Dominic Cummings | Deep thought on British society and the mechanics of government. |
| Joxley Writes | Deep thought on the future of British society and politics. |
| Himbonomics | Deep thought on the future of British society and politics. |
Outdoors
Mapping
| Spatial NI | Free access to OS Northern Ireland 1:50K (Discoverer) and 1:25K (Activity) maps. |
| Chasing Maps | Supplier of innovative mapping, including contour-only maps. |
| Grid Reference Finder | Convert any grid reference format to any other grid reference format, with a friendly user interface. |
| Generate a panorama | Generates a labelled diagram of the skyline visible from a specified point. |
| Doogal | Loads of useful location-based tools, eg. coordinate conversion, postcode lookup, travel time map generator. |
Paddling
| Ray Goodwin | Instructional and expedition videos from a canoeing legend. |
| PaddlePoints | User-contributed mapping service for paddlers, showing launches, hazards, parking, clubs, etc. |
Walking
| Geograph (my profile) | A project to regularly photograph every grid square on the map. |
| Audio-guided walks by Moors for the Future | Audio guides for some of the Peak District's most popular walks. |
| Survey of English Place-Names | Look up the origin and history of the names of places in the UK. |