Links

Here's my carefully curated list of interesting links from all around the Internet. This list is still a work in progress, especially when it comes to programming websites. Enjoy!

The Outline

• Related to programming
• Media and News
• Youtubers
• Education / Information
• Miscellanous / Fun / Entertainment

The List

• Releted to programming:
  • Harvard/edX CS50x - The course I'm currently doing. One of the best introductory courses for computer science and programming, where you can learn basics of C, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and all that for free.
  • List of HTML entities - where you can find snippets of code that allow you to use signs such as: ∃ ∈ ∑ ♥ ℜ φ
  • Scratch - A graphical programming language (and a platform) aimed at kids and beginners, still powerful enough to illustrate core programming concepts. There is a large community of programmers, who mostly make simple video games.
  • Programiz - Lots of tutorials for various programming languages, as well as online compilers, that allow you to directly run source code written in these languages.
  • HTML validator - Checks HTML code for errors
  • Roadmap.sh - A website offering detailed roadmaps towards various careers / learnign goals in software development.
• Media and News:
  • BBC - News from British perspective. No subscription required. Regularly you can find articles about big picture, global issues, and future of civilization.
  • Wion - An Indian news website, covers global news from Indian perspective.
  • Forbes - Business, Finance, Economics, Tech and Social online magazine.
  • The Verge - a portal focusing on newest and futuristic tech.
  • Rolling Stone - A famous music magazine that now features a wide range of topics, including politics and popular culture in general. Important feature of the website are lists of greatest songs and albums according to their opinion.
  • Vice - A lifestyle oriented online magazine, focused mostly on subcultures and alternative lifestyles, sometimes also delving into more serious topics, such as politics, tech, climate change, minority rights, etc.
  • Wired - Tech, Society and Culture News
  • Psychology Today - Easily accessible news and articles about psychology, as well as treatment of society and current events from psychological perspective
  • Wetterzentrale - a German meteorological website where you can directly access various weather models, such as GFS and ECMWF
  • Ventusky - Another meteorological website where you can follow weather conditions in real time all around the world
• Youtubers
  • Elizabeth Filips - Productivity, organization, art, philisophy, reading...
  • Lex Friedman podcast - In depth conversation with some of the most influential thought leaders
  • Sabine Hossenfelder - A German theoretical physicist known for her witty treatment of science topics and occassional music videos.
  • Two Minute Papers - A Hungarian scientist examines the advances in AI with lots of excitement, by focusing on particular scientific papers, and concludes each video with a catchphrase "What A Time to Be Alive"
  • Biznis priče - A Serbian channel with lots and lots of inspiring stories of self-made enterpreneurs. If you need some inspiration for your next endeavor, look no further. Do take these with a grain of salt though.
  • Crypto Kirby - Short term forecasts of cryptocurrency prices, done in a unique style with lots of humor. Treat it simply as entertainment.
  • Low Budget Stories - Started as a channel about crypto, but evolved into a channel that treats some of the modern existential dilemmas and crises in a fresh way that combines drama and humor.
  • ItaListen - A series of videos about languages and in particular Italian and life in Italy, by an Italian guy called Lorenzo, with lots of comprehensible input, ideal for more advanced students of Italian.
  • Learn Italian with Lucrezia - A very dedicated and easy to understand Italian teacher, with a very large number of videos. Explores Italian language, culture, and life in Italy.
  • miOffroio - Another Lorenzo from Italy. This guy is studying physics and has a deep love for studying in general. Many educational videos in Italian. Unique approach.
  • In Russian From A Far - Lots of Russian comprehensible input videos, ideal for beginners.
  • Russian With Max - Another great Russian comprehensible input channel, this one a bit more advanced.
  • Boris Teodosijević - A Serbian vlogger who used to be a president of Mensa Serbia, makes content on pretty much any topic, particularly various life skills, dealing with people, business skills, etc.
• Education / Information:
  • edX - A great platform for learning featuring lots of high quality courses by prestigious universities. Many courses are free to audit, and you only pay if you want a certificate.
  • Coursera - Another great platform, with many courses by leading universities.
  • Udacity - Yet another fantastic learning platform, with particular focus on more advanced fields, such as machine learning, data science and AI.
  • Udemy - Low cost courses on practically any topic. They frequently do "sales" of their courses, so it's best to wait for such a sale, instead of paying the full price. A bit less academic and more practical/popular type of platform.
  • A language learners' forum - A very good place for discussions about learning languages
  • Infopedia - Tech, Fin and Social blog - A very detailed information about the history of bitcoin and concepts it's based upon. You can also find some info about C# libraries and other related content.
  • Digital Dream Door - A very comprehensive website featuring lists of all time best movies, books, video games, and most importantly best songs and albums from wide variety of different music genres
  • Our World In Data - The title says it all. Bunch of statistics on various topics. Interesting stuff.
  • Pew Research - Another source of statistical data, this one more focused on polls and surveys.
  • Brain Workshop - a Dual N-Back game - This is a website where you can download eponymous program that allows you to do Dual-N-Back training... a type of cognitive training that according to some research can improve working memory and fluid intelligence.
  • Jakub Marian's blog - A Czech data scientist who became famous for his maps showing various statistics. He's interested in a wide range of things, and also offers some cheap resources for perfecting your English pronunciation.
• Miscellanous / Fun / Entertainment:
  • Imprimatur - A publishing house based in Banja Luka, focusing on young authors, as well as cultural exchange between different countries.
  • EURO 200 - European music charts
  • Dudarim - one of the most legendary humorous blogs in Serbian of all times.
  • Talk Classical - One of the best forums/communities about classical music. Also features in-depth discussion of non-classical genres.
  • Vukajlija - A Serbian language website originally conceived as a slang dictionary (which is still its main feature) that over time grew to include countless humorous definitions of not just slang-terms but also pretty much any kind of concept or idea. Also features a relatively active forum
  • Personality Cafe - Online community for casual discussions of psychology, and especially personality psychology
  • Sporcle - Lots of interesting and unique trivia quizes.