Resources
135 sites worth bookmarking — search any of them from here, keep your own shortcuts, and skip the search results when you already know where to go.
+ search target
The query is appended to the URL, so end it where the query goes — ?q=, ?wd=, ?search=. Kept in this browser only.
+ personal site
Anything with an https address. Kept in this browser only.
Web platform and browser documentation
The platform itself: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, the DOM and the HTTP that carries them. When a behaviour has to be settled rather than recalled, it is settled here.
Language and runtime documentation
One canonical reference per language. Where a language has both a tutorial and a reference, the reference is listed because it is the one that stays correct.
Frameworks and UI libraries
Official documentation for the frameworks most frequently hired for, plus the CSS frameworks people mean when they say "just use a framework".
Databases and data stores
Official manuals. Database documentation is the one place where the exact wording of a default, an isolation level or a locking rule is the answer to the question you are asking.
Infrastructure and operations
Everything between a commit and a running system. The official documentation is unusually good here, and it is also where the defaults are documented that nobody reads.
Code hosting, registries and package managers
Where the code and the packages live. Worth knowing the registry for a language even if you never publish to it: the metadata and the version history are the fastest way to judge a dependency.
Specifications, security and reference data
The documents everything else is derived from, plus the vulnerability databases. Dense, and the only place where a contested detail is settled rather than paraphrased.
Learning and deliberate practice
Structured material rather than collections of articles. Each of these is a route with an order to it, which is the thing a search result can never give you.
Design, fonts and iconography
The resources that make a page look considered. Fonts and icons with clear licences, colour tools, and the writing that explains why a layout works.
Developer tooling worth a bookmark
The small number of external tools that are genuinely better than doing it yourself. Everything here is free to use, and most of them run in the browser without an account.
How this list is chosen
Four rules, applied by hand to every entry:
- Canonical or nothing. Official documentation, the specification itself, or the recognised community hub. A blog post that explains a feature is not a substitute for the documentation of that feature, and it is not listed here.
- Free to read. No paywalls and no forced accounts to reach the reference. Paid products appear only where the tool is the de facto standard for a job, and then it is named as a product.
- One entry per thing. If two sites cover the same ground, the one that owns the information wins. A list where the same three links appear in four categories is padding, not coverage.
- Somebody still maintains it. A project that has not shipped in years leaves the list even if it is still the best explanation of something, because a reader who follows it will build on an abandoned foundation.
Nothing here is sponsored or affiliated. Links are plain links: no tracking parameters, no redirects, no affiliate identifiers. Each name carries a line saying what the site is for and when to reach for it — hover a link, or read it in a screen reader. If an entry stops being right, it gets removed rather than left to rot.