Alliances
No wizard works alone. These are the ones I actually vouch for.
The references, instruments and voices I genuinely rely on. Nine allies, no affiliate codes, and nothing listed here that has not personally saved me at 1am.
Building the Web
The tabs that never close. At this point they pay rent.
MDN Web Docs
The reference for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. When a browser starts behaving like a haunted appliance, the exorcism instructions are here.
developer.mozilla.orgCSS-Tricks
Flexbox and grid guides, layout patterns, and hard-won tricks from people who actually ship. Centering a div stops being a personality test here.
css-tricks.comGitHub
Where the source lives. My own workshop is public—wander in, fork anything useful, ignore the commit messages written after midnight.
github.com/neilozaData & Analysis
For turning a heap of records into a sentence a human being would actually say out loud.
pandas
The workhorse for wrangling tabular data in Python. The user guide is genuinely good reading, which I say about very few pieces of documentation and no novels about pandas.
pandas.pydata.orgOur World in Data
Carefully sourced datasets and charts on how the world is actually changing—an antidote to vibes, administered in chart form.
ourworldindata.orgProject Jupyter
Notebooks for thinking out loud in code. Most of my analyses hatch here, cell by cell, like sensible little chickens.
jupyter.orgGames & Craft
Where the good ideas hide and the honest tools ask for nothing in return.
itch.io
The best place to find—and publish—independent games by small teams and lone builders. A flea market where every third stall contains a masterpiece.
itch.ioGodot Engine
A free, open-source game engine that respects your time and never asks for a cut. Suspiciously wholesome. We are keeping an eye on it.
godotengine.orgKnow a Good One?
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