Websites I find useful enough to want to be able to visit them later. Completely for my own convenience, but have a look if you like. Possibly wildly outdated at any point in time.


Tree Sheets: Spreadsheets with a hierarchical structure enabling tree-like spreadsheets.

Notepad Calculator: Text and sums - could be a really good tool for budgets, etc. For greater functionality I'd go with Jupyter, but sometimes you just need a simple tool.

Strflow: A way to take notes like messages. Cool idea, but it doesn't seem to be available on Android right now (maybe never), so I'll just sit back and watch for now...


brycedrennan/imaginAIry: AI photo image generation and manipulation.

Dataframe Showdown – Polars vs Spark vs Pandas vs DataFusion. Guess who wins?: Just so I remember that there are alternatives to Pandas (which I find useful but the syntax is a bit weird to me). More of a blog, but seems to fit with programming, also see this post on replacing pandas with polars by the same guy.

Use Bing Image Creator in the terminal because why wouldn't you want to do that? Bing Image Creator in terminal.

Setup Jupyter Notebook for R: exactly what it says

Mesh Anything: Haven't had time to explore but it apparently meshes anything. Might be useful for reducing 3D scan data without losing significant information about form.


"Creative" coding

Rabbit Ear: a javascript library for creating origami, um, graphs?

Noise in creative coding: a nice overview of the use of noise in making things look good or natural.

Introduction to bash scripting: something I should already be good at...


Statistical tables

T-table: San Jose State University t-distribution table.

F-table: UCLA F-distribution table.

Populations

Population pyramid: Landing page for South Africa, but most other countries are available.


Graphing

CalcPlot3D: Best 3D Graphing website.

Desmos Graphic Calculator: Best 2D graphing calculator.


Reference tables

Integral Table (BE Shapiro): Go-to integral table.


Misc

Mathematical and Physical Journal for High Schools: looks cool, will explore later.


Keep your identity small: A post on identity and labels we give ourselves, especially concerning politics and religion.


How to correctly configure Snap'd Firefox to open local html-file, generated by Jupyter Notebook launcher?: This answer is how I made Jupyter Lab work in Jammy.

How to set custom resolution using xrandr when the resolution is not available in 'Display Settings': For when I struggle with the resolution of my second screen.

How to run script on startup on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Server/Desktop: Running a script on startup using systemd services.

How to write startup script for Systemd?: Similar to above link of systemd startup script, just gives some clarity.


Bluetooth

Stack Exchange - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 22.04 Bluetooth Issues (Not Connecting To Bluetooth Device): There's a useful script here for activation of Bluetooth on startup.

Stack Exchange - Unix & Linux - Turn on bluetooth on login screen: Edits required to /etc/bluetooth/main.conf.


Meet Iranian Lionel Messi imposter who slept with 23 women before his arrest: This guy impersonated Messi, it's just a crazy story.

Snarls over ‘Dr Smile’ name : A fight between two dentists over a ridiculous name. Never figured out what happened in court - to do list.

Fake food flooding SA’s townships : Fake food, who knew such a thing existed.

Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket: Exactly what it says...oops.

One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel : When you get annoyed at the relatively minor mistakes with minimal fall-out you've made using Excel...


DPSA remuneration policy: for when you're looking for the government salary scales again.

SARS tax deduction tables: tax deduction tables for South Africa.


Academ-ai: a list of suspected uses of AI in research. Tough I'm not against using AI, doing it to the extent where you don't even read the paper is a bit crazy.

PubMed: Just the landing page, nothing crazy.

Google Scholar Profile - Yasin Gamieldien: Just my own profile for reference


Easy identification of the most common freshwater algae: A guide for the identification of microscopic algae in South African freshwaters.

12th Annual Conference of the African Society of Forensic Medicine (ASFM): Congress organised by the Lightning pathologist, Ryan Blumenthal.

Kawloon Walled City Cross-section: An architectural cross-section of the Kawloon Walled City.

Hack your way to Scientific Glory: A nice demonstration of p-hacking and other tricks in publishing.

Excalidraw: Sort of a paint analogue, I guess.

Detect Migrating Birds With a Plastic Dish and a Cheap Microphone: not that I'm at all into birding, but seems like a cool project for...someday...

Rulers of the ancient world: A guy who makes old period-correct rulers. No particular reason I'm putting it here other than the fact that it's a cool and nerdy curiosity for me.