My Faves

Modified

January 13, 2026

I have bookmarked a billion things and tested hundreds of different software and projects. These are the things that I liked enough to write about.

Sites

Here are some sites that I really like.

  • GitHub Trending - There’s always something interesting on here.
  • Hacker News - I’ve ditched Reddit and all social media, but I still can’t stop myself from checking Hacker News.

Software

  • Quarto - Technical publishing software. This blog is written with it!
  • Obsidian - A note taking app that I use for everything.
  • Positron - Visual Studio Code and RStudio Desktop had a baby.
  • Vim - (Neo)Vim, or anything that supports Vim keybindings is my favorite.
  • Oh-my-zsh - Zsh framework that just makes my life better.
  • asdf - Manage all of your runtimes with one tool. Python, R, nodejs, uv, etc…
  • uv - And speaking of uv, the fastest Python package manager around written in Rust.

Courses/Books

Learning is always fun, and some resources are better than others.

  • R Inferno - If you are using R and you think you’re in hell, this is the book for when you start running into all of the footguns that R gives you. It’s also hillariously written, following the ‘9 circles of hell’ as a guide to avoiding them.

Games

  • Rocket League - If Pong, chess, and soccer had a baby. Low barrier to entry, high skill ceiling, and free-to-play with no pay to win.
  • ARC Raiders - Extraction shooter (like Escape from Tarkov) with some of the best sound design I’ve ever heard.