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