Links about topics I’m learning.

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Links are ordered by language: English, French (🇫🇷), then other languages.

Table of Contents

📝 Blogs

Ordered by preferences.

Decentralization / Web3 / Blockchain

2026

  • Manfred’s blog - https://moul.life/blog/ - Essays on decentralization, blockchain, open-source, governance, and software design
  • Rekt News - https://rekt.news/ - Analysis and investigation of DeFi hacks, exploits, and security incidents in crypto

📚 Books

Cryptography

2026

  • “Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption 2nd Edition” by Jean-Philippe Aumasson - https://nostarch.com/serious-cryptography-2nd-edition

📖 Documentations

Ordered by addition date.

Blockchain

Consensus

2025
  • Reaching Consensus: Developing Fault-tolerant SMTs using Golang - https://gno.land/r/gnoland/blog:p/reaching-consensus

Layer 2

2025
  • Ethereum layer 2 guide - https://www.risein.com/blog/ultimate-layer-2-guide-from-l1s-to-l2s

Cryptography

Algorithm

Argon2

2025
  • Password Hashing Competition - https://www.password-hashing.net/
  • White Paper - https://github.com/P-H-C/phc-winner-argon2/blob/master/argon2-specs.pdf

Math

2025
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction - https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryptography-a-gentle-introduction/

Post-Quantum

2025
  • Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets - https://signal.org/blog/spqr/

Cyber-security

AI

2026

  • Death by a thousand slops - https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/ - curl maintainer on AI-generated fake security reports overwhelming OSS projects
  • On AI Slop vs OSS Security - https://devansh.bearblog.dev/ai-slop/ - Bug bounty industry perspective on AI slop in vulnerability reporting and maintainer burnout

Hacker culture

2026

  • Calling All Hackers - https://phrack.org/issues/71/17#article

Geography

2026

  • Geomastr - https://geomastr.com/ - Visual guide to country-specific bollards and road clues for GeoGuessr training
  • OpenGuessr Education Guides - https://education.openguessr.com/guides - Country-specific guides with visual clues and tips for OpenGuessr
  • Geometas - https://geometas.com/ - Interactive quizzes and visual metas for country identification in geography games
  • Plonk It - https://www.plonkit.net/ - Country guides, tips, and map recommendations for GeoGuessr players
  • GeoHints - https://geohints.com/ - Country-specific hints and Street View coverage maps for GeoGuessr training
  • geo.emily.bz - https://geo.emily.bz/ - Interactive geography quizzes and GeoGuessr tools including coverage date explorer and map quizzes
  • GeoGuessr Meta Library - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UNvkoY-LaktF75nU_cP7-wVRAEvH3fSqVZet20HqxXA/edit?gid=1829787855#gid=1829787855 - Community-curated meta library with country-specific clues, road signs, and visual identification tips

Programming

Good practice

2026

  • 2025 DORA Report on AI-assisted development - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-the-2025-dora-report - Findings on AI adoption (90%), team archetypes, and platform engineering’s impact on org health
2025
  • Linux kernel coding style - https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html

🎬 Films

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💻 Free and Open Source Softwares (FOSS)

FOSS I’m using in my daily life.

Android

2025
  • GrapheneOS - https://github.com/GrapheneOS - Privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility

Cross-platform

2025
  • Obsidian - https://github.com/obsidianmd - Markdown-based knowledge base and note-taking app

Development

2026

  • BMAD-METHOD - https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD - AI-driven agile development framework with specialized agents and guided workflows
  • Spec Kit - https://github.com/github/spec-kit - GitHub’s toolkit for Spec-Driven Development, building software from executable specifications

Linux

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Self-host

2025
  • Immich - https://github.com/immich-app/immich - High-performance self-hosted photo and video management solution

🎮 Games

Geography

2026

  • Biome Atlas - https://afoviz.com/biomeatlas - Interactive world map of biomes, by Afonso Duarte
  • FoodGuessr - https://www.foodguessr.com/ - Guess countries from dishes
  • OpenGuessr - https://openguessr.com/ - Free open-source GeoGuessr alternative

🐧 Linux Setup

2026

  • Dotfiles: https://github.com/davd-gzl/dotfiles - Arch Linux config
  • Keymap: Workman FR - https://github.com/davd-gzl/Workman-fr
2025
  • Distro: Arch Linux

🎒 My Gears

Everyday carry (EDC)

2026

  • Camera (Sony a6700) - https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/interchangeable-lens-cameras/aps-c/p/ilce6700-b
  • Earbuds (Sony WF-1000XM5) - https://electronics.sony.com/audio/headphones/truly-wireless/p/wf1000xm5-b
  • Bone conduction headphones (Shokz OpenRun Pro 2) - https://shokz.com/products/openrunpro2
2025
  • Camera bag (Thule Covert DSLR backpack 32L) - https://www.thule.com/en-us/backpacks/camera-backpacks-bags/thule-covert-dslr-backpack-32l-_-3205344
  • E-Ink reader (Boox palma 2) - https://shop.boox.com/products/palma2
  • Headset (Sony WH-1000XM4) - https://electronics.sony.com/audio/headphones/headband/p/wh1000xm4-b

Tech Gear

2026

  • Power Bank (Anker 25000mAh, 165W) - https://www.anker.com/products/a1695-anker-power-bank-25000mah-165w
2025
  • Laptop (Framework 16) - https://frame.work/laptop16
  • Split Keyboard (Halcyon Corne - splitkb.com) - https://splitkb.com/collections/keyboard-kits/products/halcyon-corne

📹 Videos

Ordered by preferences.

AI

2026

  • Bernie vs. Claude - YouTube - Senator Bernie Sanders
  • But how do AI images and videos actually work? - YouTube - 3Blue1Brown
  • 🇫🇷 On ne paie plus les développeurs pour écrire du code - YouTube - Underscore_ - What AI actually changes inside a 15-year-old tech company
  • 🇫🇷 The existential horror of the paperclip factory. - YouTube - EGO

Blockchain

Bitcoin implementation

2025
  • But how does bitcoin actually work? - YouTube - 3Blue1Brown
  • 🇫🇷 viens, on recode Bitcoin pour le comprendre - YouTube - V2F

Cyber-security / Privacy

2026

  • How to protect yourself from data leaks (before it’s too late) - YouTube - overfl0w
  • Becoming Anonymous: The Complete Guide To Maximum Security Online - YouTube - Techlore
  • GrapheneOS Review: Your BEST Secure & Private Mobile OS! - YouTube - Techlore
  • 🇫🇷 How to bribe a public official? - YouTube - Micode
  • 🇫🇷 Comment un selfie a fait tomber un empire criminel - YouTube - Micode

Geopolitical / History

2026

  • How to go BROKE like Nauru - YouTube - hoser - How phosphate mining made and then broke Nauru’s economy
  • The New “Made in China” - YouTube - hoser
  • The Fastest Shrinking Country in Europe - YouTube - hoser
  • How Empires Fall and Why the US is Next - YouTube - uncivilized
  • Gold Explained, Finally - YouTube - Johnny Harris
  • The Shady Company That’s Taken Over The USA - YouTube - hoser
  • Why Taiwan Makes All The Chips That Go Beep Boop - YouTube - hoser
  • By Far, The Biggest Scandal In World History - YouTube - hoser
  • Why Europe Hates Tourists Now - YouTube - hoser
  • Africa’s North Korea - YouTube - hoser
  • Why Lebanon Made Their Pound Worth $0.000066 - YouTube - hoser
  • Why Fiji’s Biggest Export is Literal Water - YouTube - hoser
  • Who’s In The Most Debt? - YouTube - hoser
  • The Most Broken Economy on Earth - YouTube - hoser
  • Zimbabwe: How NOT To Run an Economy - YouTube - hoser
  • The Crazy Plan to Make an African Giant - YouTube - hoser
  • How Venezuela was Destroyed - YouTube - hoser
  • MrBeast, Saudi Arabia, and The New Internet - YouTube - hoser
  • A little story of how Iceland got so rich - YouTube - hoser
  • How The Last Soviet Republic Will Collapse - YouTube - hoser
  • How China Broke Plastic - YouTube - hoser
  • America’s History Is Repeating Itself - YouTube - hoser
  • How North Korea Makes Money While Sanctioned - YouTube - hoser
  • Why Almost All Fighters Use The AK-47 - YouTube - hoser
  • Saudi Arabia’s Gamble to Stop a Total Collapse - YouTube - hoser
  • How Finland Became the World’s Happiest Country - YouTube - hoser
  • South Korea is in a Hidden Crisis - YouTube - hoser
  • I Went to Georgia to See Russia’s Silent Invasion - YouTube - Johnny Harris
  • How Humans Invented Nationalism - YouTube - Johnny Harris
  • The Indian Genius Nobody Understands - YouTube - fern
  • WW1 - OverSimplified (Part 1) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • WW1 - OverSimplified (Part 2) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • Hitler - OverSimplified (Part 1) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • Hitler - OverSimplified (Part 2) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 1) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 2) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The American Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 1) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The American Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 2) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 1) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 2) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The Cold War - OverSimplified (Part 1) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The Cold War - OverSimplified (Part 2) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • Three Kingdoms - OverSimplified - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The French Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 1) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The French Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 2) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • Henry VIII - OverSimplified - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The Russian Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 1) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The Russian Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 2) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • Prohibition - OverSimplified - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The Napoleonic Wars - OverSimplified (Part 1) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The Napoleonic Wars - OverSimplified (Part 2) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The Pig War - OverSimplified - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The First Punic War - OverSimplified (Part 1) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The First Punic War - OverSimplified (Part 2) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The Second Punic War - OverSimplified (Part 1) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The Second Punic War - OverSimplified (Part 2) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • The Second Punic War - OverSimplified (Part 3) - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • Emu War - OverSimplified - YouTube - OverSimplified
  • 🇫🇷 Lee Kuan Yew : Le Meilleur Dictateur de l’Histoire - YouTube - Crésus
  • 🇫🇷 Pourquoi la France a colonisé l’Algérie ? - YouTube - Nota Bene
  • 🇫🇷 Pourquoi l’Indonésie est Musulmane ? - YouTube - La Minute Géographie

Journalist

2026

  • 🇫🇷 J’ai enquêté sur les soldats israéliens qui se filment dans la bande de Gaza - YouTube - Charles Villa
  • 🇫🇷 2 ans en immersion dans l’enfer de Gaza - YouTube - Charles Villa & Suhail Nassar
  • 🇫🇷 J’ai passé un mois avec un criminel de guerre - YouTube - Camille Reporter
  • 🇫🇷 Clandestins : les routes les plus dangereuses vers l’Europe - YouTube - Investigation

Open Source Interviews

2026

  • 🇫🇷 PARTI DE RIEN, IL EST DANS LE TOP 3 DES FORTUNES BELGES : SA BOITE VAUT 5 MILLIARDS DE $ ! (ODOO) - YouTube - LEGEND - Story of Fabien Pinckaers, who built Odoo (open-source ERP) from nothing into a $5B company
  • 🇫🇷 Ce logiciel devrait être payant (tellement il est ouf) - YouTube - Underscore_ - Interview with an open-source software entrepreneur behind an exceptional free product

Philosophy / Concept

2026

  • I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I’m Unemployed And Alone In The Mountains - YouTube - Goobie and Doobie
  • 🇫🇷 Le Jeu de la Vie. - YouTube - EGO
  • 🇫🇷 Visite banale du musée de l’oubli. - YouTube - EGO
  • 🇫🇷 1089 pixels pour comprendre que vous n’existez pas. - YouTube - EGO

Programming

Good practice

2025
  • 🇫🇷 Comment la NASA code sans bug - YouTube - V2F

Operating Systems

2026

  • 🇫🇷 Vas-y, viens, on recode Windows de zéro - YouTube - V2F

Science

2026

  • Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones - YouTube - Veritasium
  • We Built This to Film What’s 7,500 Light-Years Away - YouTube - HTX Studio - The editing is so cool
  • We Built a Chinese Typewriter… - YouTube - HTX Studio
  • Project Gigapixel Developing a 3200MP linear scan medium format camera - YouTube - Gigawipf
  • Backyard Squirrel Maze 1.0- Ninja Warrior Course - YouTube - Mark Rober
  • Backyard Squirrel Maze 2.0- The Walnut Heist - YouTube - Mark Rober
  • Backyard Squirrelympics 3.0- The Summer Games - YouTube - Mark Rober
  • Octopus vs Underwater Maze - YouTube - Mark Rober
  • Bed Bugs- What You’ve Been Told is Totally False - YouTube - Mark Rober
  • Testing The World’s Smartest Crow - YouTube - Mark Rober
  • What Is the Rarest Biome on Earth? - YouTube - Afonso Duarte
  • 🇫🇷 L’actualité est un parasite mental. Faut-il vraiment en consommer ? - YouTube - DirtyBiology
  • 🇫🇷 La menace existentielle de la vie MIROIR ЯIOЯIM - YouTube - DirtyBiology
  • 🇫🇷 Ce qui nous rend heureux : le résultat de 10.000 études scientifiques - YouTube - DirtyBiology

Tech

2026

  • The Internet, Reinvented. - YouTube - Data Slayer - Building a decentralized, encrypted mesh network over LoRa and Wi-Fi HaLow using the Reticulum stack — no ISP, no central servers
  • Go isn’t secure?!? feat. Low Level Learning - YouTube - Backend Banter
  • 🇫🇷 On a reçu le géographe qui cartographie le net - YouTube - Underscore_

Travel / World documentaries

2026

  • I Spent A Day With Kids Who Walk 5 Hours To School - YouTube - Drew Binsky
  • I Spent 5 Weeks in IRAN. Here’s What I Learned! - YouTube - Drew Binsky
  • The Coldest Village on Earth: Oymyakon (-71°C, -96°F) - YouTube - Ruhi Cenet Documentaries
  • Visiting the Most Crowded Island on Earth (I can’t forget what I saw) - YouTube - Ruhi Cenet Documentaries
  • Entering Bangladesh World’s Deadliest Traffic - YouTube - Drew Binsky
  • I Spent 3 Days With World’s Last Hunter-Gatherer Tribe - YouTube - Drew Binsky
  • I Visited Every Country in Europe. Here’s My Rankings - YouTube - Drew Binsky
  • Entering the World’s Largest City (Chongqing, China) - YouTube - Drew Binsky
  • $100 Challenge in World’s Cheapest Country (Uzbekistan) - YouTube - Drew Binsky
  • 🇫🇷 100H dans un lac radioactif créé par une bombe nucléaire ! - YouTube - CYRILmp4
  • 🇫🇷 2€ dans la ville la MOINS CHÈRE du MONDE ! - YouTube - CYRILmp4

Urbanism

2026

  • Every Reason to Hate Cars - YouTube - Not Just Bikes
  • The Absolute Best Transportation for Cities (trams) - YouTube - Not Just Bikes
  • These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us - YouTube - Not Just Bikes
  • Why Dutch Bikes are Better (and why you should want one) - YouTube - Not Just Bikes
  • Cities Aren’t Loud: Cars Are Loud - YouTube - Not Just Bikes
  • How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) - YouTube - Not Just Bikes
  • More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing (Induced Demand) - YouTube - Not Just Bikes

📺 Youtube channels

Ordered by preferences. Descriptions are my personal view, visit the channels for the full picture.

📌 Geopolitical / History

2025
  • h0ser - YouTube - Map-based geopolitical deep dives and predictions
  • OverSimplified - YouTube - Hilarious animated summaries of major historical events
  • Johnny Harris - YouTube - Visual explainers on borders, maps, and global issues
  • fern - YouTube - In-depth documentaries on countries and conflicts
  • neo - YouTube - Short explainers on current global events

📌 Journalist

2025
  • 🇫🇷 Charles Villa - YouTube - Investigative journalist and war correspondent

📌 Tech popularization

2026

  • 🇫🇷 EGO - YouTube - Storytelling deep dives on tech, AI, and complex intellectual subjects
2025
  • 3Blue1Brown - YouTube - Animated math explanations (linear algebra, calculus, neural networks)
  • Low Level - YouTube - Systems programming, Rust, C, and computer internals
  • 🇫🇷 Micode - YouTube - Tech investigations and stories behind famous hacks
  • 🇫🇷 V2F - YouTube - Recreating tech from scratch (Bitcoin, compression, AI)
  • 🇫🇷 overfl0w - YouTube - Ethical hacking and security CTF walkthroughs

📌 Travel / World documentaries

2025
  • Drew Binsky - YouTube - World traveler (visited every country), cultural vlogs
  • Ruhi Cenet Documentaries - YouTube - Cinematic documentaries on extraordinary lives
  • Little Chinese Everywhere - YouTube - Chinese diaspora stories and cultural exchanges

Engineer popularization

2025
  • Mark Rober - YouTube - Ex-NASA/Apple engineer with viral science experiments
  • HTX Studio - YouTube - Creative engineering builds and challenges

Entrepreneurship

2025
  • 🇫🇷 Fuzay² - YouTube - Entrepreneurship insights and business stories

Podcast

2025
  • 🇫🇷 Underscore_ - YouTube - Long-form interviews with French tech figures

Urbanism

2026

  • Not Just Bikes - YouTube - Urban planning, cycling infrastructure, and why car-dependent cities fail