Useful links
Become a web crawler.
Japanese
- JPDB: Japanese learning platform. Provides flashcards decks and difficulty analysis of animes, mangas, novels, etc.
- All Japanese All the Time: The guide I chose to follow. Has an extensive resources page.
- TheMoeWay: An alternative guide. Also contains a resources page.
- Kaishi 1.5k: A basic Anki vocabulary deck. I use this deck to learn basic words and grammar.
- Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese, a guide for grammar: Very good grammar book.
- Sakubi: A “from scratch” grammar guide. I haven’t read this personally.
- Ixrec’s Guide to Japanese: Media recommendations
- Nyaa: Easy access to Japanese media.
- Jisho.org: A popular online Japanese dictionary. Convenient for quick look-ups.
- Jiten: A local version of Jisho.org
- ichi.moe: Can be used to break down a simple sentence.
Social platforms
- Qiita: Japanese blogging platform focused on technology and programming. Recent articles are more into AI, though.
- Hatena: Japanese blogging platform for all kinds of topics.
- zenn.dev: Another tech-focused blogging platform
- Lobste.rs: Technology blog sharing platform. Alternative to Hacker News.
- https://bvll.neocities.org/ccd0/: Interactive list of imageboards
- Neocities: Community of indie websites. A resurrection of Geocities.
Privacy / Security
- BrowserLeaks: Comprehensive IP checker and various checks for your browser
Game - Information
- Prydwen: Detailed guides and informations for some gacha games.
- Azur Lane Wiki: A wiki for Azur Lane. I dropped the game a long time ago, but the wiki is worth mentioning for its quality.
- SanityGone: A pretty site to view details of Arknights’ operators.
- An Arknights Tier List - Dead Site Edition: Tier list for Arknights’ operations. A recreation of the now-defunct GamePress Arknights page.
Softwares
- copyparty: Extremely bloated web-based file manager.
- puremania: Like copyparty but less powerful and written in Go.
- dired-hacks: Collection of useful Emacs’
diredadditions - LibrePods: AirPods liberated from Apple’s ecosystem
- shimizu: Library for interfacing with Wayland at a low level in Zig.
- GoldenDict-ng: A powerful native dictionary app. Setup guide for Japanese.
Stores
- FairySailor: A Japanese shop selling uniforms of all kinds. They also sell various types of clothings on different domains.
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