A collection of links to personal sites, blogs, social media accounts, and other things on the Web that I find interesting enough to share here.
As a software engineer, you are already familiar with these sites. If not, you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000.
The Old New Thing is a blog by Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen, who tells stories about the history and quirks of Windows.
Content about a special interest that has most definitely gone off the rails.
Despite what you might think when you look at this website, I don’t actually like trainspotting. But Francis Bourgeois does, and he makes videos about it.
This interactive metro-style map of the Dutch railway network, created by UI/UX designer and data engineer “Mr. Z”, shows how train services operated on 13 July 2026.
The man in Eurostar’s seat 61 is Mark Smith. He maintains a comprehensive website from a bygone era with useful information for pretty much anyone needing to travel internationally by train. This man has saved me a lot of stress during my travels.
That sound was the soundtrack to my student years. I really miss the distinctive, bagpipe-like sound of older VIRM trains, produced by their Holec GTO-VVVF traction systems.
Although The Tim Traveller makes videos about more than just public transport, he has made enough about it to earn him a place here.
Tom Scott needs no introduction. He is somewhere you are not.
Ariel doesn’t just make videos about public transportation, but it does come up a lot. He also makes videos about urban planning, architecture, and other topics that are relevant to the way we move through cities.
Personal websites and other online stuff in English, built by people I know or have known in the past.
Niels works on complex mathematical topics I do not purport to understand, such as homotopy type theory.
One of the few people outside of academia I know personally who also has a somewhat active personal website.
Things that didn’t fit into any of the other categories.
Trying to answer the age-old question of whether “software engineering” is a real engineering discipline.
This may be one of my all-time favourite videos on YouTube, second only to the multiviewer of the 2024 edition in which the Netherlands was disqualified.
The Pink Trombone is supposed to be an educational human voice simulator, but it’s also fun(ny) in the same way that QWOP used to be fun(ny).