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Ask HN: Favorite Little Corners of the Internet?

4 points by makk ↗ HN
When I tuned into SomaFM this morning, I found myself reflecting on how much joy it's brought me over the years, and how its most popular station has only a couple thousand listeners at any given time.

Stuff like this is what I love about the Internet: Sub-scale, non-commercial services run by a handful of people who are doing something with heart, that makes life better for the rest of us.

By definition, these things aren't widely known.

I'm curious: What's your favorite little corners of the Internet?

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Ethan_Barry
Definitely my Mastodon server---there's a lot of discussion on the Fediverse, and I've had nothing but enjoyment from it. Also, I have a long list of blogs in my RSS reader that qualify as "small corners." I could share some if you're interested!
baldgeek
would love to see some of the blogs you follow.
Ethan_Barry
You got it! By approximate category and in no particular order:

## MISCELLANEOUS

- [Low Tech Magazine](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com), a solar-powered website showcasing the amazing low-tech things you can do with a little ingenuity,

- [Stephen Wolfram's Blog](https://writings.stephenwolfram.com) on math, compsci, and everything else,

- [Cool Macrophotography](https://www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro/Slime-Moulds-...) for amazing pictures of tiny things (WARNING: Time Sink!),

## COMPUTER SCIENCE

- [While-True-Do](https://blog.while-true-do.io) has lots of stuff on Linux administration and self-hosting,

- [Backend Banter](https://www.backendbanter.fm) for a great podcast on backend development,

- [Two Wrongs](https://two-wrongs.com) for statistics and functional programming,

- [Math ∩ Programming](https://www.jeremykun.com/) where math and programming intersect! Written by a Googler...

- [Paul Bourke's site](https://paulbourke.net/) where you can get happily lost exploring old pages on every topic CS touches,

- [Jason Punyon's blog](https://jasonpunyon.com) for some fun algorithms and things,

- [Yossi Kreinin's blog](https://yosefk.com/blog) for C, Python, and plenty of non-technical topics,

- [Adrian Sampson's academic blog](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog) for an academic's perspective,

- [Cool polyhedra viewer project](https://georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/vp.html) if you like geometry,

- [Another academic blog on CS](https://11011110.github.io/blog) from a prof at UCal Irvine,

- [A Linux & Rust blog](https://harald.hoyer.xyz) which has a lot of older content, but isn't very active now,

- [Matt Palmer's blog](https://hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog) is pretty neat. More varied CS topics...

- [Austin Henley's blog](https://austinhenley.com/blog.html) stays pretty active, and it's a former MS researcher writing it,

- [Jack Vanlightly's blog](https://jack-vanlightly.com/) on system architecture and data processing,

- [Computational Complexity blog](https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org) written jointly by academics,

- [Matt Might's blog](https://matt.might.net/articles) which covers everything related to CS and academia,

- [Dr. Brian Callahan's blog](