Matthew's Website

Useful websites, tools, links & articles

Tools

• RecoverPy - Interactively find and recover deleted or overwritten files from your terminal.
• PDF Shelter - Process PDF documents in your own browser, avoiding transferring data to third parties; no-cloud approach
• Czkawka - Remove unnecessary files from your computer; excellent at finding duplicate images and videos
• DNS Toys - Command line utilities and services using only the DNS protocol
• Spark Joy - Design tools and tips for developers in a hurry
• HTTP Cats - Feline HTTP status codes

Text-only versions of popular websites

Perfect when you are low on data or your Internet connection is slow. Or maybe you're just sick of the bloat on the Internet.

• NPR: National Public Radio
• CNN

Other people's blogs and personal websites

Personal websites keep getting rarer and those that do exist are hard to find. Here are the ones I find interesting:

• Ru - I like her style of writing
• Nikita Tonsky's Blog - I love his posts, he also is the creator of grumpy.website
• Drew DeVault's Blog - An American living in the Netherlands
• 487 photographs by Chris Niedenthal - Iron Curtain during the Cold War

Articles I find interesting

• Magic doesn't work that way - generally speaking, it's an article about anthropology (archived)
• Consumer Internet - interesting charts about how centralised the Internet has become (archived)

Random

• chicken.photos - photos of chickens taken by chickens