Some Resources I find Useful

Random bits I often send friends

General

• CS50 - CS50 is Harvard's introduction to computer science.
• Goalkicker - Programming Notes on everything
• Codewars - Practice Programming and see how others do it. Similar to Leetcode
• How to make a Pitch Deck by Chris Mcclelland

Useful Apps

• VsCode - The Best Text Editor, Highly Extensible
• VirtualBox - My Personal favorite Hypervisor. This allows you to create Virtual Machines
• Notion - A great notetaking app
• Porkbun - My Favorite Domain Registrar
• Cloudflare - Great Domain management and much more
• Ninite - Useful Tool especially when you are setting up a new PC
• Gitlab - Github but better
• Gitfiend - A FOSS Crossplatform Git Client
• Dracula Theme - Themes for all of your apps

Game Development

• Gamemaker Studio - The Game engine I use. Simple but powerful. (Undertale was made in it)
• Kenney - Kenney is a company which makes free high quality game assets
• Resources for Jammers - A huge list of Resources for all things gamedev
• Game Creation Resources - Another Huge list
• Itch.io - Useful for all things game dev from assets to game jams

Data Science/AI

• Kaggle - Datasets on almost anything. Owned by Google
• Tensorflow - Google's AI framework. Also See PyTorch
• 🤗Hugging Face - An AI Community

Linux/Pentesting

• Linux for Everyone - by NetworkChuck. Good intro to linux.
• Linux from Scratch - Build a Linux distro from scratch
• WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux - Host a Linux instance in windows.
• VulnHub - A site with vulnerable virtual machines often themed
• Networking Fundamentals - Great intro to networking

Books

• O'Reilly - Book publisher, all of their books are great
• No Starch Press - Book publisher, all of their books are great
• Stripe Press - Great books on a bit of everything
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden - Great Book about Snowden's Whistleblowing on US Mass Surveillance
• Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick - An autobiography by a former most-wanted hacker
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold - Computers from the Ground up
• Hello World by Hannah Fry - Book on AI in Society
• Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking by Christopher Hadnagy
• The Great Philosophers: Turing by Andrew Hodges - Great Book on Turing only 83 pages