Links about topics I’m learning.
Quick access
- WHOAMI - About me and my profile
- Awesome - Curated lists of resources
- Digital Nomad / Traveller - Flights, accommodation, community
- Offline Traveller - Apps and tools that work offline (FOSS prioritized)
- Blog - Personal blog posts and writings
- Data - Curated datasets and IPFS links (mostly geographic)
- Presentations - Slides of my public presentations
- Skills - Agent skills and capabilities
Links are ordered by language: English, French (🇫🇷), then other languages.
Table of Contents
- 📝 Blogs
- 📚 Books
- 📖 Documentations
- 🎬 Films
- 💻 Free and Open Source Softwares (FOSS)
- 🎮 Games
- 🐧 Linux Setup
- 🎒 My Gears
- 📹 Videos
- 📺 Youtube channels
📝 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.
AI
2026
- Qwenputer: a fully functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5 - https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer - A RISC-V CPU compiled into the weights of Qwen 3.5 4B, running small programs during normal text generation
- LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale - https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification - Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team and Theorem on Claude writing machine-checked proofs of security properties for open-source libraries
- OSS Verify: add-project skill - https://github.com/theorem-labs/oss-verify/blob/main/.claude/skills/add-project/SKILL.md - Agent skill for enrolling an open-source project in Theorem’s formal verification of fuzz targets
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
- 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
- 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
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
2026
- MeshCore - https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore - Lightweight hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios
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
Empty
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
- E-Ink tablet (Boox Go 10.3) - https://shop.boox.com/products/go103
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
- 🇫🇷 L’horreur existentielle de l’usine à trombones. - YouTube - EGO
- 🇫🇷 DeepSeek choque encore toute l’industrie de l’IA (actu IA) - YouTube - Eliott Meunier
Blockchain
Bitcoin implementation
2025
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
- Undercover Journalist Unpacks Essential Tools to Escape Detection - YouTube - Proton
- How Hackers Paralyzed an Entire Country - YouTube - Cybernews
- 🇫🇷 Comment corrompre un fonctionnaire ? - 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
- 🇫🇷 La Chute du dernier dirigeant de l’URSS : Mikhaïl Gorbatchev - YouTube - La Folle Histoire
- 🇫🇷 Le PAYS qui a PROVOQUÉ une RÉVOLUTION… sur Discord 💀 - YouTube - taoqan
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
- 🇫🇷 Ma vie Maga - YouTube - ARTE Reportage
- 🇫🇷 Malik Bentalha - L’heure de trop sur TNEWS - YouTube - Malik Bentalha
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
- 🇫🇷 EGO x WWF : Lettre d’amour à l’espoir - YouTube - EGO x WWF France
- 🇫🇷 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
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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
- this is the worlds cheapest SOLAR CAR - YouTube - Electric Elliot
- How does an Electric Motor work? (DC Motor) - YouTube - Jared Owen
- The Insane Engineering of Fiber Optics - YouTube - Veritasium
- 🇫🇷 L’actualité est un parasite mental. Faut-il vraiment en consommer ? - YouTube - DirtyBiology
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🇫🇷 La menace existentielle de la vie MIROIR ЯIOЯIM - YouTube - DirtyBiology - 🇫🇷 Ce qui nous rend heureux : le résultat de 10.000 études scientifiques - YouTube - DirtyBiology
- 🇫🇷 Serina : Le Grand Simulateur d’Évolution. - YouTube - EGO
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
- Time 2 meet again. - YouTube - Citroën
- 🇫🇷 On a reçu le géographe qui cartographie le net - YouTube - Underscore_
- 🇫🇷 Le projet français pour remplacer Microsoft - YouTube - Samouraï TV
- 🇫🇷 Le piège économique de l’open source (Hugging Face) - YouTube - Samouraï TV
- 🇫🇷 Comment des logiciels (nul) ont coûté 1 milliards à l’État Français ? - YouTube - Samouraï TV
- 🇫🇷 Pas d’antenne 5G, pas d’internet : communiquer sous les radars avec les réseaux mesh - YouTube - ARTE Tracks
- 🇫🇷 VTECH : La pire voiture de l’histoire, c’est elle ( Yugo GV ) - YouTube - Sylvain Lyve
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
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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
- Exploring the Super-Rich Arab Country Nobody Goes To - YouTube - Yes Theory
- 96 Hours in the World’s Coldest City (-64°C,-84 °F) - YouTube - Yes Theory
- Why is this piece of America still owned by France? - YouTube - Yes Theory
- 🇫🇷 100H dans un lac radioactif créé par une bombe nucléaire ! - YouTube - CYRILmp4
- 🇫🇷 2€ dans la ville la MOINS CHÈRE du MONDE ! - YouTube - CYRILmp4
- 🇫🇷 HASHIRIYA – La double vie d’un motard japonais / Documentaire 2025 - YouTube - Samouraï TV
- 🇫🇷 SOY YO - Entre France et Cuba / Documentaire 2025 - YouTube - Samouraï TV
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🇫🇷 Mañana cuesta más — Une jeunesse argentine face à l’inflation Documentaire 2026 - YouTube - Samouraï TV
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
- 🇫🇷 Le fiasco du plus grand train américain ? - Lucas explique - YouTube - Brut
📺 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
Engineer popularization
2025
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