Resources

EHP Logos

For the Education, History, and Philosophy of Computing research group at Swansea University, of which I am a member.

• Archive of all variants (png and svg) [375kb]

Cool stuff

Places

Attractions, restaurants, bars, and similar I’ve visited and enjoyed in a variety of places.

• Swansea

Software

Programming

• Anubis: firewall for web servers to block scrapers (especially LLM ones that don’t respect robots.txt) easily)
• Helix: text editor derived from Kakoune, which is derived from vi and Vim, which is derived from… (I have got used to the keybinds and don’t want to go back to anything else)

Typesetting

• texlab: LSP implementation for LaTeX
  • Config options for Helix text editor
• Tables Generator: code generator for tables in LaTeX (and HTML, Text, Markdown, and MediaWiki)
• typst: typesetting system similar to LaTeX written in Rust (very quick and powerful, can be installed locally

Research

• Zotero: free and open source academic reference manager (does more than this actually
• archive.is: useful web archive, and for bypassing paywalled newspaper articles

Websites

Graphics

• Betty’s Graphics: lots and lots of Web 1.0 graphics

Programming

• Sourcehut: set of tools for hosting open-source projects (e.g., git, mailing lists, bug trackers, wikis, CI/CD)¹
• regular expressions 101: excellent RegEx checker

Games

• Catfishing: daily game where you guess the Wikipedia articles from its categories
• FoodGuessr: daily game where you guess the country from a picture of its cuisine

Transport

• bustimes.org: live-updated bus times across the UK and Ireland
• Realtime Trains: live train times for Great Britain (they also have a site for booking tickets that has a split ticketing feature)

Food and drink

• Honest Coffee Guide: useful tools, recipes, reference charts, and articles for coffee enjoyers
  • James Hoffmann’s Ultimate V60 Recipe: my most visited webpage, halve the recipe for one serving

General

• NoAiList.org: “List of projects that have chosen not to use AI”

Quick Reference

These are links to items I commonly need to reference: link.

Footnotes