Do not trust folk etymologies. Figuring out where words actually came from is extremely difficult, and making up stories that excite people and get spread is much easier. This is the most accessible and reliable source for etymologies.
At the beginning of the pandemic, JSTOR set up a thing where randos like us can register and read 100 closed-access articles a month for free. To their credit, as of January 2024, they're still doing it. If you're looking for something that academics publish journal articles about, you can find some of those academic journal article takes on it here.
Do you ever have questions which can be answered in the form of a list of integers in order? It's a niche need, but if you need it, there's a resource for it.
The ... flagship? version of an encrypted online collaborative scratchpad tool. You can do documents, you can do whiteboards, you can make forms for people to fill out.
A good code of conduct. If you need a code of conduct and don't know where to start, start with a good one. There's resources about your responsibilities enforcing it, too.
A tool for sending files from one computer to another without uploading it to a website. There's lots of other things that use Magic Wormhole and they're compatible with each other.
A console music player for Unix-like operating systems. Our computer seems to suck at playing music and this is resource-light enough that it actually doesn't stutter (much).
The most famous fantasy console. Screen that's 128 pixels square with fixed(ish) palette, a Lua dialect for programming, a lovely little built-in music tracker, cross-platform and web compatibility. We love it.
A philosophical conlang. An attempt to find the meaning of life in 120(ish) words. A language that is fun to learn and play with. We've had some really bad experiences with the online community, but we really enjoy the language.
An essay from a few years back about writing, using sources, and never copying anything into your original text that does not immediately get its citation put in at the same time. Plagiarism has been a hot topic around the end of 2023 and this seems like a good contribution to that conversation.
the webbed page for many in faer vtuber role as the faerie Viscountexx of Chitin. you may not have faer names. fae stream and also make online things. we are fans and friends of faer.
Quinn Dunki is an impressively knowledgeable maker. She is most famous as a YouTube machinist, but we really enjoyed going through her blog posts, such as the Veronica series about making a homebrew 6502-based computer.
Do we distrust anyone who openly accepts donation in bitcoin in 2024? We very much do. That important note having been made, Ben Eater's breadboard computer series on YouTube have been tremendously educational for us specifically, giving us a much clearer understanding of what a computer is and how simple ones work.
Exploring the world of homebrew computing led us on to James Sharman's pipelined 8-bit computer project. It's going very slowly - there's well over a hundred videos about it - but we love the approach it takes, focusing on building every part - CPU, VGA card, UART, everything - rather than using stock components.
An eloquent essay about abled people focusing on 'access' to abled-people stuff in a way which isn't about the autonomy and self-actualization of disabled people.
An extended description of a very specific kind of harassment, abuse, and monstering campaign that some will sometimes engage in when told they did a bad thing. Been there, it's a bad time.
An essay about a common fantasy in the Toki Pona community, of the theoretically-utopian society where everyone speaks the constructed language they love, and the colonialist, racist, etc. tropes that quickly follow.
A zombie webcomic, telling a zombie apocalypse story where people come together and find ways to rise to the challenge, and being an asshole is a good way to get killed. It's been going for ages, and while there are some artistic decisions early on that are a bit ... gaze-y, it's also very cool and has whole animated sequences?? It's a good time.