Cooking added a pick
An online culinary school with structured certificate courses. Closest thing to professional training at home.
Updated 28 September 2026
The Chicago Manual of Style
Chinese Testing International
Chinese Text Project
Baymard Institute
Instituto Cervantes
The Little Book of Rust Macros
Rational Reminder
Interaction Design Foundation
DataTalks.Club
Bradford Werner
Amazon Machine Learning University
Mandarin Companion
Real Academia Española
Really Good Emails
Collaborative Fund
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127 picks added in the last 14 days across 30 topics, newest first.
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Personal Finance added a pick
NYU's valuation professor shares courses, data, and spreadsheets free. The gold standard on valuation.
Personal Finance added a pick
A deep, data-heavy series on retirement withdrawal rates. For people planning decades ahead.
Public Speaking added a pick
A huge archive of great speeches with audio and transcripts. Study how the best build an argument.
Public Speaking added a pick
BYU's encyclopedia of rhetorical devices and figures. The classical toolkit, clearly organized.
Video Editing added a pick
Intensive motion design courses for After Effects and Cinema 4D. Demanding and well regarded.
Writing added a pick
Real query letters critiqued bluntly by a literary agent. Read the archive before writing yours.
Writing added a pick
The editor's reference for style and usage. Worth subscribing if you write or edit professionally.
The Chicago Manual of Style Online (opens provider site in a new tab)
The Chicago Manual of StyleYesterday
Cooking added a pick
Vegetables, stocks, and sauces from one of the world's most exacting chefs. Refines your basics.
Data Science added a pick
The A/B testing reference from Microsoft, Google, and LinkedIn veterans. Essential for product analysts.
Graphic Design added a pick
If you want to design typefaces yourself, Glyphs' free tutorials are the clearest starting point.
Guitar added a pick
Riffs, effects, and creativity from Rage Against the Machine's guitarist. Unconventional and fun.
Guitar added a pick
A huge library of style-specific courses from pro players, with tabs and jam tracks.
Guitar added a pick
Accredited courses and degrees in guitar, theory, and production. The serious formal path.
Photography added a pick
Planning, safety, and storytelling from a leading adventure photographer. Great for outdoor shooters.
Photography added a pick
Essays on master photographers and their methods. Builds visual literacy beyond technique.
Photography added a pick
Contemporary photography from around the world. Keeps your sense of what's possible current.
Product Management added a pick
Programs from senior operators on growth, retention, and strategy. Expensive, but dense.
Sales added a pick
The qualification framework enterprise teams use to forecast deals. Learn its vocabulary before joining one.
SQL & Databases added a pick
Alex Petrov on storage engines and distributed algorithms. A natural companion to CMU 15-445.
Startup Founding added a pick
Scaling from ten to a thousand people: executives, boards, and M&A. For after product-market fit.
Statistics added a pick
Hernán and Robins' standard text on causal inference from observational data. Free to download.
Saturday 26 September
Deep Learning added a pick
Intuition-first videos with practical projects. Gentler pacing than fast.ai.
Deep Learning added a pick
Long, carefully referenced surveys of attention, diffusion, and agents. Better than most review papers.
Japanese added a pick
Official test information and sample questions. Picking a level gives your study a concrete target.
Japanese added a pick
JLPT N1–N2 grammar and vocabulary taught in Japanese. Demanding and very effective.
Japanese added a pick
Thousands of public-domain Japanese literary works, free. The ultimate advanced reading library.
Machine Learning added a pick
The Bayesian classic. Heavy going, but the most complete probabilistic treatment of ML.
Machine Learning added a pick
Real problems and public leaderboards. Read the winners' write-ups after every competition.
Mandarin added a pick
Official test information and registration. HSK levels give clear long-term milestones.
HSK — Chinese Proficiency Test (opens provider site in a new tab)
Mandarin added a pick
Classical Chinese texts with translations and dictionary tools. For learners heading toward literature.
Chinese Text Project (opens provider site in a new tab)
Chinese Text Project
Mandarin added a pick
China's main video platform, with native content in every niche. Where listening meets real life.
Product Design added a pick
Microsoft's methods and toolkit. Reframes accessibility as a source of better products.
Product Design added a pick
Large-scale e-commerce UX research. The free articles alone improve most checkout flows.
Baymard Institute research (opens provider site in a new tab)
UI/UX Design added a pick
How to build common interface components accessibly, pattern by pattern. For designers close to code.
UI/UX Design added a pick
A pattern library in book form: navigation, forms, data display. A reference you'll keep returning to.
Friday 25 September
Data Structures & Algorithms added a pick
Antti Laaksonen's concise handbook. The gateway into competitive programming.
Data Structures & Algorithms added a pick
Three hundred carefully ordered problems. Finishing the early sections is serious evidence of skill.
French added a pick
A trusted monolingual dictionary. French-only definitions accelerate real fluency.
French added a pick
Franco-German public broadcaster with superb documentaries, many free with French subtitles.
Go (Golang) added a pick
Catalogs subtle bugs experienced Go developers still write. Reading it prevents real outages.
Spanish added a pick
The official proficiency certificate, with sample papers. A concrete goal for serious learners.
DELE exams (Instituto Cervantes) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Spanish added a pick
Spain's public TV and radio, free online. Series and documentaries for immersion.
Web Development added a pick
Caching, headers, CORS, cookies. Read it once and a whole class of bugs becomes obvious.
Thursday 24 September
Digital Marketing added a pick
The clearest method for product positioning. Most marketing problems are positioning problems first.
Digital Marketing added a pick
Blunt, data-driven writing on analytics and measuring what matters. Still very relevant.
iOS & Swift added a pick
The best books on Swift internals and SwiftUI's layout model. Worth it once you ship regularly.
Python added a pick
Async Python confuses almost everyone. The official docs are the least-wrong place to learn it properly.
Rust added a pick
Declarative macros demystified. Makes macro-heavy crates readable instead of magic.
The Little Book of Rust Macros (opens provider site in a new tab)
The Little Book of Rust Macros
Rust added a pick
Mara Bos on memory ordering, atomics, and building your own locks. Clear on a notoriously hard topic.
Sales added a pick
Direct, practical training on prospecting and objection handling. Good for daily discipline.
Sales added a pick
Frameworks for recurring-revenue sales teams, from the bowtie model to SPICED discovery.
Wednesday 23 September
Cooking added a pick
Korean home cooking taught with warmth and clarity. Proof one cuisine can teach you a lot.
Cooking added a pick
The deep science of cooking, lavishly documented. The free articles alone are an education.
JavaScript added a pick
Engine engineers explaining how JavaScript is really optimized. Changes how you think about performance.
Product Management added a pick
Amazon's PR/FAQ and narrative memos explained by insiders. Useful templates for senior PMs.
Startup Founding added a pick
The definitive guide to options and equity. Read it before issuing your first grant.
Web Development added a pick
Ilya Grigorik on TCP, TLS, HTTP/2, and WebSockets — the layer most web developers never learn.
Tuesday 22 September
Graphic Design added a pick
Learn the pen tool through a game. Removes the most common frustration in vector software.
Graphic Design added a pick
Project write-ups from one of the world's leading studios. Study how briefs become identity systems.
Personal Finance added a pick
Long interviews with finance academics about evidence-based decisions. Nerdy in the best way.
Rational Reminder podcast (opens provider site in a new tab)
Rational Reminder
Personal Finance added a pick
A thoughtful UK passive-investing blog with excellent explainers on funds and tax wrappers.
Personal Finance added a pick
MIT's full finance theory course with video lectures. Rigorous grounding in valuation and risk.
Public Speaking added a pick
TED's own course on developing an idea into a talk. Structured, with exercises.
Public Speaking added a pick
True stories told live without notes. Listening teaches narrative speaking better than any textbook.
Python added a pick
Short videos on Python's sharp edges — mutable defaults, descriptors, performance traps. Dense and precise.
Monday 21 September
Statistics added a pick
A friendly, modern introduction to Bayesian thinking with R.
Statistics added a pick
Gelman, Hill, and Vehtari on regression done carefully. Practical, skeptical, and free to download.
UI/UX Design added a pick
Short project-based classes on Figma, wireframing, and portfolios. Learn one skill at a time.
UI/UX Design added a pick
Membership-based UX courses plus a huge free literature library. Good value for structured theory.
Interaction Design Foundation courses (opens provider site in a new tab)
Interaction Design Foundation
Video Editing added a pick
Creative transitions and effects tutorials for Premiere and Resolve.
Video Editing added a pick
Professional colorist training and tutorials. The place to go deep on grading.
Writing added a pick
How to research and structure compelling nonfiction. Useful for essays, reports, and blogs.
Writing added a pick
K.M. Weiland's detailed guides to story structure and character arcs. Great when a draft stalls.
Writing added a pick
Clear, honest advice on publishing, agents, and author platforms. Essential before you query.
Sunday 20 September
Data Science added a pick
Math, statistics, Python, and ML in one package. Breadth over depth, at a modest price.
Data Science added a pick
Causal inference for people who need answers, not correlations. Free online and very readable.
Data Science added a pick
A free cohort course on pipelines, warehouses, and orchestration. Where analysis meets infrastructure.
Data Engineering Zoomcamp (opens provider site in a new tab)
DataTalks.Club
Guitar added a pick
Accurate tabs with synced playback. Slow tricky parts down and loop them while you practise.
Guitar added a pick
Free classical lessons, scores, and studies. The best starting point for fingerstyle and notation.
This Is Classical Guitar (opens provider site in a new tab)
Bradford Werner
Guitar added a pick
Ear training, harmony, and song analysis from a producer and educator. Deep musicianship.
Photography added a pick
Short project-based classes on specific styles — street, food, portraits. Learn by assignment.
Photography added a pick
Reflective videos on seeing, creativity, and the photographer's mindset. Rare depth on YouTube.
SQL & Databases added a pick
Old-fashioned but reliable practice problems with instant feedback. Good for drilling.
SQL & Databases added a pick
Real PostgreSQL, Bash, and Git in a virtual environment. Closer to actual work than browser drills.
Video Editing added a pick
Project-based classes on editing, YouTube workflows, and short-form video.
Saturday 19 September
Deep Learning added a pick
The modern textbook: clear figures, current architectures, and free. Our pick over older references.
Japanese added a pick
Real news rewritten in simple Japanese with furigana. Your first steps into native reading.
Japanese added a pick
Graded stories with explanations for every sentence. Makes native-level text feel achievable.
Machine Learning added a pick
Amazon's visual essays on bias-variance, ROC curves, and more. Beautiful and accurate.
MLU-Explain (opens provider site in a new tab)
Amazon Machine Learning University
Machine Learning added a pick
MLOps done properly: testing, versioning, serving, and monitoring models in production.
Mandarin added a pick
News articles graded by HSK level. Current events make reading practice less of a chore.
Mandarin added a pick
Classic stories adapted with limited characters. The best path to finishing your first book.
Mandarin Companion graded readers (opens provider site in a new tab)
Mandarin Companion
Product Design added a pick
Behind-the-scenes posts from Figma's designers and customers on process, systems, and craft.
Product Design added a pick
Figma's publication on building and scaling design systems, with case studies from large teams.
Friday 18 September
Data Structures & Algorithms added a pick
Whiteboard explanations of dynamic programming, graphs, and complexity that many find clearer than textbooks.
Data Structures & Algorithms added a pick
Skiena's practical catalogue of problems and war stories. The book for applying algorithms at work.
French added a pick
Adaptive grammar quizzes that diagnose weak spots, aligned to CEFR levels.
French added a pick
Thoughtful French radio on ideas, history, and science. Demanding, rewarding listening.
Go (Golang) added a pick
Rob Pike's classic talk on goroutines and channels. Still the best mental model for Go concurrency.
Go (Golang) added a pick
Mentored exercises that nudge you toward idiomatic, well-tested Go.
Spanish added a pick
Award-winning Latin American narrative journalism, with transcripts. Superb advanced listening.
Spanish added a pick
The official monolingual dictionary. Switching to Spanish-only definitions is a real milestone.
Diccionario de la lengua española (RAE) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Thursday 17 September
Digital Marketing added a pick
A searchable gallery of well-designed emails. Borrow patterns instead of starting from blank.
Really Good Emails (opens provider site in a new tab)
Digital Marketing added a pick
Daily short posts on marketing as trust and generosity. A counterweight to growth-hack thinking.
iOS & Swift added a pick
What makes an app feel native. Users and App Review notice when you ignore it.
iOS & Swift added a pick
Why each language feature exists, argued in public. Great for understanding design trade-offs.
Rust added a pick
Futures, executors, and async/await explained by the people who designed them.
Rust added a pick
Build a mini Redis to learn the async runtime nearly every Rust server relies on.
Sales added a pick
Research-based articles from Harvard's negotiation program. Short, practical, and free.
Sales added a pick
Aaron Ross's playbook for splitting prospecting from closing. The origin of the modern SDR role.
Wednesday 16 September
Cooking added a pick
Thoughtful videos on how to think about cooking — flavor, efficiency, and building your own recipes.
Cooking added a pick
Authentic Chinese home cooking explained with precision. A model for learning any cuisine properly.
JavaScript added a pick
The official introduction to JavaScript outside the browser: modules, the file system, and async I/O.
Product Management added a pick
Why output-focused teams stall and how to shift toward outcomes. Short and very practical.
Product Management added a pick
Ben Thompson's analysis of tech strategy and business models. Sharpens how you think about markets.
Startup Founding added a pick
Clear guides on incorporation, equity, and business basics, written for first-time founders.
Startup Founding added a pick
The standard seed documents, with explanations. Understand them before you sign one.
Web Development added a pick
University of Helsinki's modern stack: React, Node, MongoDB, TypeScript. Rigorous and free.
Web Development added a pick
Real design files to build from. The fastest way to practise turning a mockup into a page.
Tuesday 15 September
Graphic Design added a pick
A browser game that trains your eye for letter spacing. Five minutes a day sharpens it fast.
Graphic Design added a pick
Thoughtful coverage of contemporary graphic design and illustration. Keeps your references current.
Personal Finance added a pick
Morgan Housel's essays on behaviour, risk, and patience. The mindset side of money, beautifully written.
Collaborative Fund blog (Morgan Housel) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Collaborative Fund
Personal Finance added a pick
Evidence-based investing explained through academic research. A rare antidote to finance hype.
Public Speaking added a pick
Duarte maps the shape of history's greatest speeches. Useful for structuring persuasive talks.
Public Speaking added a pick
Vocal variety, body language, and presence — demonstrated rather than described.
Python added a pick
The official, current answer to "how do I make this installable?" Skip the outdated blog posts.