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Kernel Dev

• Bran's Kernel dev tutorial: A short tutorial on how to setup an x86 kernel.
• OSdev wiki: A great wiki concerning OS development.
• The GNU HURD Documentation: A great resource for more advanced learning, despite the memes.
• GNU/Hurd hacking guide: A short GNU/Hurd tutorial.
• The GNU Mach microkernel: The kernel meant to run at the heart of the Hurd.
• x86 Instruction Set Reference: A list of 332 x86 instructions with relevant information like opcodes, arguments, side effects, etc.
• ATA and ATAPI Introduction: Quick reference page for ATA and ATAPI programming in assembly.
• OS Development Series: Walk-through of programming an operating system from scratch all the way up to user land and rudimentary multitasking.
• Write Your Own Operating System: A series of kernel dev tutorials on Youtube by some german guy.
• Osdev Workshop: Workshop held at University of Calgary building a simple x86_64 multiboot kernel.
• Linux Kernel Teaching: A great collection of courses and lectures in text form on the Linux kernel and kernel design.
• Old Linux Information: A historical walk-through of the Linux kernel with source snippets and examples.
• Linux Kernel Hacking: Kernel newbies' comprehensive tutorial on how to develop and submit linux kernel patches.
• 256-color VGA Programming in C: A five-part tutorial on VGA programming for the DOS operating system.
• SkelixOS: Creating a kernel from bootstrap to shell.

SNES Dev

• cc65 Documentation: In-depth 65(C)02 compiler documentation.
• Nesdoug: dougfraker's Seminal SNES Programming Tutorial: Very good tutorial, which covers the entire development process for a simple platformer game. I find that the tutorial sometimes glosses over things in a confusing way, but still very good. All code available on github.
• Wesley's SNES Development Tutorial: A well-written tutorial in 6 parts, covering the process from setup to putting sprites on the screen.
• Qwertie's SNES Documentation: Pretty detailed explanation of all things graphics on the SNES.
• 6502 Instruction Set Reference: Great reference for 6502 instructions, arithmetics, and addressing modes.
• Ersanio's Assembly for the SNES: A gitbook tutorial, slightly less detailed but great for getting the basics.

Hardware

• Project5474: A project documenting every aspect of the 54xx/74xx family of extremely simple processors.
• MIT Computer Architecture: An MIT lab course on the fundamental principles of computer architecture.
• MIT Constructive Computer Architecture: An MIT course on computer architecture with emphasis on FPGA and RISC-V.
• MIT Complex Digital Systems: An MIT course on processor design and advanced circuit design.
• Designing a Computer in VHDL: An ongoing 21-part series on designing a RISC-V CPU using the VHDL Hardware Description Language.
• Nyan-Sat: Tracking satellites in orbit using software defined radio.

Small Web

• The Small Web is Beautiful: An article on the virtues of a small and simple websites.
• Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web: How not to replace an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people.
• Rediscovering the Small Web: An essay about how a fun, creative and informative small web designed by regular people still exists and is worth exploring.
• What is the Small Web?: Advocating for a small and decentralized web.
• Wiby: Curated Search Engine An open source search engine, which only indexes independent and non-commercial sites through a submission process.
• Text-only websites: A directory of websites that primarily stick with simple, marked up, hyperlinked text.
• The 1Mb Club: A repository of websites less than 1Mb.
• The 512Kb Club: A repository of websites less than 512Kb.
• The 250Kb Club: A repository of websites less than 250Kb.
• The 10Kb Club: A repository of websites less than 10Kb.

Space

• NASA's Beginner's Guide to Rockets: The Glenn Research Center's resources for learning aerospace engineering.
• Rocket and Space Technology: An excellent resource for learning rocketry and orbital mechanics.
• NASA's GMAT: NASA's General Mission Analysis Tool used for plotting and simulating orbits and creating mission schedules.

Misc

• Problems with modern operating systems: An opinion piece on the flaws of modern software, technical debt and software bloat.
• COINTELPRO: Techniques for Dilution, Misdirection and Control of a Internet Forum Allegedly a leaked FBI handbook on controlling internet forums. Of dubious origin, but interesting nonetheless.
• r/a/dio: Online radio playing an assortment of anime and weeb music.
• Deep Space One: Online radio channel on soma.fm playing deep ambient electronic, experimental and space music. For inner and outer space exploration.
• Evergreen Gardenworks: A small nursery in California with a cool website that contains a wealth of information on raising bonsai.
• FreeDNS: Free dynamic DNS subdomain and domain hosting.
• All DARPA RFCs: A list of all RFCs sorted by index.
• X Window System Tutorial: Comprehensive tutorial and reference covering Xlib, the Xorg protocol client library.
• Vim as PID 1: Some lunatic tried using vim as PID 1.
• Hacking and Security pdfs: Big repository of cyber security books and articles.
• Bit Twiddling Hacks: A collection of bit manipulation tips and tricks.
• Awk Oneliners: A handy list of common and useful awk one-liners.
• Anime Girls Holding Programming Books: A git repo with pictures of anime girls holding programming books of every language imaginable.
• 0x0.st: Public pastebin interacted with using simple POST requests.
• Thought Experiments Lain: A Serial Experiments Lain information site.
• The Lainzine: The Lainchan image board's cyberpunk magazine.
• The Joyce Project: An annotated version of Joyce's Ulysses.