What are some of your favourite little corners of the internet?
Non skateboarding, or lesser known skate things?
What patreons do you belong to, that we should know about?
What’s your favourite onlyfans account?
etc, etc.
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I’ll go first…
One of the things I really got into over the lockdown years was a Sudoku/puzzle Youtube channel called Cracking the Cryptic.
https://www.youtube.com/c/CrackingTheCryptic
They went viral around the start of Covid for this video, which you think would be entirely boring, but then Simon kinda captivates you as he discovers the secrets of the puzzle.
Adjacent to this is a weekly newsletter of variant sudoku that vary in difficulty.
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Interested to see what gets posted here as I’m so very disappointed by the Internet these days.
Keen for suggestions
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Not exactly a corner of the internet but I followed along with the restoration/rebuild of a big sailboat that an English guy was doing in America for a couple of years, he’s finished now so it’s more about him sailing about now but it was a nice thing to watch.
https://youtube.com/@sampsonboatco?si=yz2GOQ1g6_QpMzYm
Then after that I got suggested another similar thing of a guy doing the same thing to a boat stored in the forest at his friend’s house.
https://youtube.com/@aboatinthewoods?si=alxBRvzb_U9seLMN
This guy
- Soothing ASMR voice
- Medieval survival skills
- Roams countryside
- Often wears cloak
- Has beautiful dog that he often strokes
what’s not to like
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Basically stuck in a loop of…
Here, Insta & Threads. Plus the odd look at a drone forum called Grey Arrows and a few bits on reddit…
r/ davinciresolve, DJIMini2, DjiNeo, heatpress, polarizerSkateboarder, SCREENPRINT, suffolk & VolcaSamples
rotten dot com, goatse, meatspin, ebaumsworld, newgrounds
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Seem to check less specific sites these days when I’ve got a few mins spare but usually have a look through:
https://bluecote.tumblr.com/ - design / architecture image archive
https://testpressing.org/ - various new music / archive stuff
https://skatebylines.com/ - @PiledriverWaltz’s site is great, loads of good stuff on there
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Recently started using Hacker News again. Thought it had died years ago.
I like it because sometimes people share gold from bygone days and I’m getting nostalgic in my old age
Google maps. There is nothing else of value to my life (on the internet).
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I moderate a discord server about Gundam and the building of Gundam model kits and it is a consistent delight.
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YouTube’s hardly a secret corner but the Softwhiteunderbelly channel has some insane interviews on it. There’s a four hour long one with a New York undercover cop who spent years inside the mafia and his stories are so good.
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I’ve been keen to try building a gundam kit and nearly purchased one online only 2 days ago. Any adive on where to start?
Don’t. Don’t start. It’s a right rabbit hole.
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Listened to that one a couple weeks ago, so good
“I hope you ain’t sayin’ what I think you’re sayin’”
Balls the size of basketballs
As someone who exists in a constant state of different aspects of nostalgia/homesickness for England, I find this Youtube channel about a random Yorkshire guy restoring an old building very relaxing and cathartic
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For a while I was really into videos of people building log cabins in Alaska/Canada but then I saw them all and stopped
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The UKclimbing logbooks. I’ll check it every day to log my climbs, see what routes my friends have been climbing, and find out what areas of the country have good climbing conditions, ready to plan the upcoming weekend.
It’s a huge database where people comment on the particular route they’ve climbed with the difficulty and if it needs speciality equipment. It’s an absolute treasure trove of info. There is a busy forum attached to it too, with a lifetimes worth of info on there too. I’m basically addicted to it, and it’s always the first thing I check when I pick up my phone in the morning lol.
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E7 you hard bastard. I only ever scratched out one E2 when I was climbing.
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There’s a sweet spot between the project and the personality for me on building things content.
I’ve been wanting to do some storage renovations to my garage recently and ended up watching a youtube video series of a guy building out his workshop who looked a lot like Julien Stranger.
