The following is a list of particular cool things I've found on the internet, including, but not exclusive to: blogs, videos, articles, pdfs. This list subsumes Music Resources and the blog list at the bottom of Home. It is sorted alphabetically.
- Like Rate Your Music but better -- less elitist and less grade-inflated. I prefer AOTY over RYM.
- Similar to Pitchfork, but apparently less trusted.
- If you want to find truly underground and cutting edge music, Bandcamp is the place to check. It is primarily a website to purchase music, but it also includes a lot of resources to find music. You can search by location and very specific genres such as, "San Francisco Witch House". Moreover, Bandcamp is likely the best platform to support artists. On select Fridays all revenue is given to artists.
- Lecture notes from Steve Awodey's course on categorical logic at Carnegie Mellon.
- Constructive languages (conlanging), inventor of Dothraki and other languages in the Game of Thrones universe.
- A useful explanation of De Bruijn indices.
- This is my personal favorite music website; it is a map of all 6000+ musical genres of Spotify. Every Noise at Once is connected to the Spotify API and can tell you information about artists, tracks, and genres that aren't readily accessible to the average Spotify user. Most notably, the website provides the genre tags associated with each artist but are hidden in the app. Now you can finally know why you get "Stomp and Holler" as a top genre in your Wrapped but have never heard the term before. For each genre, there are four different playlists that are generated: Sound, Intro, Pulse, New (I will let you explore the differences between these).
- As far as I understand, the creator of the website, Glenn McDonald, no longer works at Spotify and hence does not have access to the backend data that ran some features of the site. The website is still up but isn't as powerful as it used to be, which is a real shame.
- An excellent talk on lambda calculus and combinatory logic. Its theme is inspired by Raymond Smullyan's text To Mock a Mockingbird
- Forall x is an open-access introductory text in formal logic. It was originally written by P.D. Magnus, now there are countless variations. A popular choice is Forall x: Cambridge and is the one I've linked to. Forall x is part of the larger Open Logic Project which can be found here and includes more advanced topics.
- The Global Network of Discovery (GNOD) is a website that uses a massive amount of listening data to recommend artists. Impressive features include Discover and the Music-Map. Discover allows you to list three artists you enjoy and GNOD will recommend 11 more. The Music-Map visualizes the proximity between artists. GNOD also offers similar tools for literature, film, and other forms of media.
- Potentially questionable views on AI, but any blogger can appreciate the design of Gwern's site
- An explanation of popular glitches in Super Mario 64 using algebraic topology and hyperbolic geometry.
- If you care about your listening statistics and habits more than what the Year in Review of your favorite music corporation decides to show you, check out Last.fm. You can connect it to your Spotify, Apple Music, or other music platform. Last.fm then collects "scrobbles", i.e. your music listening data, to give very personalized recommendations and an analysis of your musical habits.
- John Sturdy's dissertation. I'm honestly not quite sure how to describe this. All I know is there is an infinite tower of interpreters. Consult Ty if you have questions, he's read it.
- Freelance journalist covering ICE occupation in the Twin-Cities.
- Music criticism from Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism and Ghosts of my Life.
- "The most trusted voice in music."
- An emulator of Pokemon Red run on compass and straightedge computations, built in Python.
- A similar website to Pitchfork where music is reviewed and given a rating; user ratings are given a higher priority...for better and for worse.
- An eclectic collection of Tom7's wide sprawl of interests, at the core is computer science. He is also on YouTube as Suckerpinch.
- Personal site of Ty Kozic. Some topics include lisp, emacs, linux, and meditation.
- Blog about music and the mundane.