Sam Booth

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.