Most frequently bookmarked

Date: 2023-02-27

I follow more than 4,500 blogs or other Web sites at the moment and have bookmarked over 15,500 pages in recent years. My rule is no feeds before 6pm, even at weekends (reading, Anki, guitar practice and either a run or pull-ups take priority in leisure time), but I can skim through a lot quite quickly, bookmarking those that might come in useful later and reading only those that are relevant to what I am doing now.

I have listed my most frequently bookmarked sites of all time (excluding scientific journals, which I should be adding to Zotero) below, in decreasing order, with some comments on each (WIP):

GitHub: lots of interesting or relevant repos, gists, issues etc, often discovered via Track Awesome List - Track your Favorite Github Awesome List Daily
DEV Community ??????????: site for posting pretty much anything relating to coding or software development, but mainly about web development and the cloud in my experience
R-bloggers: aggregator for R blogs
Explore / Twitter: I used to try to keep up to date via Twitter (and sometimes Reddit), but now prefer the much better signal-to-noise ratio of RSS feeds; people put more thought into blog posts than Tweets (or Toots as they are called on Mastodon I think); following someone on Twitter means you can read the things they say that interest you, but can also read what they think about politics, religion, sport or other wedge issues - no thanks
Reddit - Dive into anything: I don’t have to choose between RSS feeds and Reddit, as I can follow some Reddit communities (mainly about self-hosting) via RSS feeds
Stack Overflow - Where Developers Learn, Share, & Build Careers: another biggie; mainly bookmarked after I have Googled how to do something (i.e. a lot)
ROBERT Stéphane - Devops: prolific French blogger who does a lot on open source cloud automation
YouTube: you can follow YouTube channels via RSS feeds; I admit I bookmark a lot of YouTube stuff but rarely/never go back to it; I would rather read a blog
Opensource.com: Red Hat-funded site with a lot of articles on Linux, programming and the cloud
DHIS2 Community: helpful forum where I have occasionally posted; more useful than the documentation for obscure DHIS 2 issues
vegibit: a massive resource of articles on Python, web development and the cloud
Towards Data Science: a Medium community focussing on machine learning
The Comprehensive R Archive Network: I seem to bookmark a lot of R package documentation
DigitalOcean | The Cloud for Builders: very beginner-friendly cloud hosting tutorials
Cross Validated: Stack Overflow for statistics
Analytics Vidhya | Learn everything about Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Web 3.0: good blog mainly focussed on machine learning and related areas
Data Science, Machine Learning, AI & Analytics - KDnuggets: many articles about machine learning etc, but also SQL, Python and data engineering
Medium – Where good ideas find you.: Medium (like Substack) is now where a lot of interesting people host their blogs
Linux Hint: lots of short tutorials related to Linux
Rob J Hyndman: blog on time series analysis and forecasting in R
Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides: another sponsored site churning out Linux articles
Python Tutorials – Real Python: Python training; the free articles are good
Yi’s Knowledge Base - Yi’s Knowledge Base: articles spanning statistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, Linux, R and Python
Home - Documentation - OpenMRS Wiki: community wiki on the OpenMRS open source electronic medical record system
Modern BI Powered by Open Source Apache Superset™ | Preset: lots of articles on Apache Superset, the open source business intelligence dashboard (which is very good)
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Bayesian statistics blog specialising in dodgy statistics and science fraud
Home | RWeekly.org - Blogs to Learn R from the Community: more R blogs
sleeplessbeastie’s notes: wide-ranging on notes on Linux and open source software
DZone: Programming & DevOps news, tutorials & tools: good articles on machine learning, the cloud, data engineering and Java
Home - DHIS2 Documentation: the main DHIS 2 documentation; unfortunately many of my bookmarks are now dead links since they switched platform
Linux.com - News For Open Source Professionals: general Linux articles
Swizec Teller: articles on web development
Red Hat - We make open source technologies for the enterprise: excellent resources on Linux and the cloud
nixCraft - Linux Tips, Hacks, Tutorials, And Ideas In Blog: sponsored Linux tips site
John Myles White: statistical blogger who may not be be blogging any more
InfoSec Write-ups: fascinating accounts of ethical hacking
Datamethods Discussion Forum - Data-related methods: Stack Overflow for epidemiology and practical data analysis
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia
SENAITE Community: the forum for the SENAITE open source laboratory information management system
Learn How To Code by Envato Tuts+: free software development tutorials
HackerNoon - read, write and learn about any technology: articles on data science and other areas of tech
DevOps and Cloud tutorials | DevCoops: anonymous site with lots of articles mainly on the cloud
It’s FOSS: a newsletter about free and open source software i.e. Linux and Android apps
Home - DHIS2: the home page for DHIS 2
Python-bloggers: aggregator for Python blogs
R Shiny | Enterprise R Shiny Dashboards | R Consulting: company producing various packages for Shiny apps, with tutorials
World Health Organization (WHO): lots of useful resources about digital health
Home | Bookdown: RMarkdown package for making books
Heimdal Security: cybersecurity articles
Talk TW - Community discussion forum about TiddlyWiki: forum for Tiddlywiki users
Yihui Xie | ???: blog of author of various useful R packages
Checklists - Linux Security Expert: useful Linux security resources
SERious EPI | A podcast from the Society for Epidemiologic Research: excellent podcast on epidemiological methodology
Linux Audit - The Linux security blog about Auditing, Hardening, and Compliance: Linux security blog
OpenMRS Talk: forum for OpenMRS implementers
rOpenSci - open tools for open science: initiative doing peer reviews of R packages
SitePoint – Learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, UX & Responsive Design: free and paid articles and courses on Web development and Python
CSS-Tricks - Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets.: sponsored site on Cascading Style Sheets, i.e what you format Web pages with; followed this a lot while in a Web developer phase, but not so much now
LowEndBox - Cheap VPS, Dedicated Servers and Hosting Deals: articles on cloud hosting plus cheap hosting deals
FlowingData | Data Visualization and Statistics: data visualisation blog, partly free
Learn to Code — For Free — Coding Courses for Busy People: thousands of free tutorials on many aspects of coding
Find the best online Programming courses and Tutorials - Hackr.io: tutorials on many aspects of coding, some free
Essential Programming Books: free books on many programming languages
R Views: blog about R packages from Posit/RStudio
Win Vector LLC – Data science advising, consulting, and training: great little blog about R and Python
Expert consulting in applied mathematics & data privacy: blog about maths and sometimes coding
InfoWorld - Technology insight for the enterprise: IT blog with wide ranging articles
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology: articles to make you more computer savvy
Journal of Statistical Software: in-depth articles on statistical software, mostly R and Python related
RPubs: publish any RMarkdown document for free
Stack Abuse: useful articles on Python, JavaScript, Web development, data science, Linux
Count Bayesie - A Probability Blog: good Bayesian blog
Learn Data Science - Tutorials, Books, Courses, and More – LearnDataSci: tutorials on data science, Python, SQL; maps out a useful curriculum
MDN Web Docs: one of the best Web development resources
Self-Hosted: podcast to follow once the cloud hosting bug has bitten you
Tidyverse: information on tidyverse packages, plus a blog
Bayesian Spectacles – Powered by JASP: good Bayesian blog, from the people bringing you JASP, the easy to use statistical software based on R
The DevSecOps Platform | GitLab: useful information on Git and GitLab
DHIS2 Trainingland: used to be an odd assortment of sometimes quite useful DHIS 2 stuff, but now revamped for DHIS 2 courses
learnbyexample: programming blog on Python, JavaScript, Vim; some of his books are available for free
Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine: data science and artificial intelligence blog
rstudio.github.io: nothing there now
Hacker News: the best feed for geeks of any stripe, but follow the more specialised subfeeds rather than the main “drinking from the firehose” feed
dlford.io: useful IT blog
Vim Newsletter - VimTricks: weekly Vim newsletter
demographeR’s notes | Ilya Kashnitsky: infrequent but excellent R blogger
Noobunbox - Tutoriels : NAS, Serveur, Sécurité, NGinx, Apache, Vmware, Virtualisation tout y est :): articles in French related to cloud hosting
Spatial Galaxy: long running blog about QGIS, your open source mapping tool
Posit | The Open-Source Data Science Company: information and articles on RStudio
Notes from a data witch: phenomenal blog, posts usually somehow related to R but exploring lots of other technologies; maybe one day my blog will be this good
Jumping Rivers: great blog on R, Python and other useful things
Big Data, Cloud, DevOps and container orchestration | Adaltas: blog mainly on the IT side of data science
Open Health News | The Voice for the Open Health Community: news on interesting developments in the intersection between digital health and open source, open data etc
DevOps by How-To Geek: articles on DevOps (the collaboration between those writing code and those delivering/deploying the product; sometimes now extended to DevSecOps to bring in the cybersecurity angle)
Home - Rtask: some interesting articles on R (in English and French) by an consultancy outfit
Lazybear: blog about Vim, other open source tools, sometimes other things
Ansible is Simple IT Automation: Ansible is a great tool from Red Hat for automating all the things, e.g. deployment of software on a server; I have played with it but want to learn more; some good articles
Learn X in Y Minutes: Scenic Programming Language Tours: very concise summaries of many programming languages (or things that can be scripted)
Collaborative data platform and canvas | Observable: cutting edge Web-based data visualisation; partly motivates my intermittent attempts to learn JavaScript
Machine Learning Mastery: interesting articles on data science, focussing on the code more than the maths
Shiny: lots of resources on Shiny (for writing Web apps in R); was really interested in Shiny at one time (my interests are currently more down the technology stack)
Vim Tips Wiki | Fandom: a wiki with lots of tips on Vim, the text editor that you can spend a lifetime learning
Garrick Aden-Buie: blogs on R, Shiny, RMarkdown, RStudio - also creates some useful packages
Proxmox Support Forum: using Proxmox as the virtualisation environment (i.e. where I can create virtual machines and containers) for my open source experimentation; bit of a learning curve but I am comfortable with it now
The Hacker News | #1 Trusted Cybersecurity News Site: articles mainly about cybersecurity; different from Hacker News as mentioned above (which is of more general geek interest)
SQLServerCentral – The #1 SQL Server community: not just articles on SQL, but also on broader/related areas such as data management and PowerBI
Linux Tips, Tricks and Tutorials | Linuxize: simple articles on how to do various things on various distributions of Linux
Econometrics and Free Software: blog on open source software, with a big focus on R; not that much about econometrics actually
Tom’s Blog: Python/data science blog
Ask Ubuntu: StackOverflow for Ubuntu users; Ubuntu is the version of Linux I would recommend to new Linux users
Let’s Encrypt Community Support: free service (something to do with the excellent Electronic Frontier Foundation I think) allowing you to set up your Web sites with an https://… URL for free; basically anything you put on the Web should use HTTPS (the encrypted Web protocol) for security and authentication (assurance that the Web site is what it says it is); useful forum for queries, which I have needed at times
Michael’s and Christian’s Blog – R and Python, Machine Learning and Actuarial Topics: says it all really
R Package Documentation: search for help on any R packages
Posit Forum (formerly RStudio Community): forum for queries on RStudio, tidyverse, Shiny and lots more
Practical Business Python -: great Python articles with a business focus
coolbutuseless: blog mainly on R
rud.is: data science blog with a big R focus
TechRepublic: News, Tips & Advice for Technology Professionals: general IT news
Le Courrier du hacker, la newsletter du Logiciel Libre et de l’Open Source: French open source software newsletter, with links to various blogs
Snyk | Developer security | Develop fast. Stay secure.: blog on open source security and sometimes Snyk products
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 1) | alvinalexander.com: prolific blogger, recently focussing on functional programming
DevOps - The Web’s Largest Collection of DevOps Content: articles and news on DevOps (see above)
Home - Hacker Bits: newsletter collating links to a variety of articles, also covering issues like productivity and work-life balance
Leanpub: Publish Early, Publish Often: self-publishing site with many cheap e-books on all things data science and computing; you can often choose what you pay
edX | Free Online Courses by Harvard, MIT, & more | edX: thousands of courses that I would like to do (and a few I have done); often free (but you pay for the certificate/qualification)
Server Fault: StackOverflow for system administrators
Git: downloads and other useful resources
Programming with R: R blog
Le blog technique de Microlinux – Unix est long et la vie est brève: French Linux blog
Welcome to the DHIS2 Developer Portal | DHIS2 Developer Portal: good for keeping up with the latest DHIS 2 developments
Le blog de Seboss666 – Les divagations d’un pseudo-geek curieux: French Linux blog
Cloud Computing Services - Amazon Web Services (AWS): AWS is a big cloud provider; some useful articles
JustDjango | The Definitive Django Learning Platform: Django is a very comprehensive Web app framework for Python coders; learning Django is a medium-term objective of mine; this is a good place to start
Analytics4All – An Analytics Education for All. Unraveling the Mystery Behind Big Data and Analytics: useful data science blog
NHS-R Community – Promoting the use of R in the NHS: “Promoting the Use of R in the UK Health & Care System”; I follow the blog
Free Fonts! Legit Free & Quality » Font Squirrel: good place to find interesting fonts for those interested in typography
Erik Marsja - Erik Marsja: Python and R blog
All Code No Brain - Colin Fay: blog on R (and sometimes other things)
H2S Media: Technology News, Gadgets, Howto, Reviews & More: tech news (some good Linux stuff)
Julia Evans: wide-ranging geek blog
Linux Systems Analyst | Hayden James: Linux blog
Home Page - I Love Free Software: free/open source software blog
miku86: blog about personal philosophy and tech
Home - ratfactor: general geek blog
ouR data generation - ouR data generation: blog on R, statistics and simulating data
The Intersection - Philipp Muens: blog with various thoughts relevant to data science
Technology, Design, and Inspiration - Hongkiat: tech news and tips
Álvaro Ramírez: blog sharing various geek stuff (and occasional recipes)
unixsheikh.com: opinions and tips/tricks on open source tools

A lot of the other things I bookmark most often are individual blogs - check out the following if you have time:

You can follow some or all of the above via their RSS feeds - the software I use for this is mentioned here. I would share my OPML file (a file format allowing you to import/export a “blogroll” of multiple RSS feeds) but since I imported a number of OPML files shared by others, I’ve had to exclude quite a few blogs because of extreme politics, manga, gaming, fetishism, religiosity, wrong language (accidentally imported a ton of Dutch and Chinese blogs) and other reasons, and I am not sure I have extirpated all of these just yet.