Useful Websites
Some websites/pages I find useful
Mapping
- OpenStreetMap - The most detailed online map for walking/cycling
- Ride with GPS - Easy route planning for cycling or walking, uses OpenStreetMap
- FlightRadar24 - Plane tracker
- Time and Date (sun) - Sunset/Twilight tracker, includes nice graph to show changing daylight hours throughout the year
- Project Mapping - A variety of railmaps, main focus on the UK but also a lot of worldwide maps
- London Rail and Tube Services Map - The full map of London rail services, showing all operators
Coding/Development
- What Unicode Character is this? - Tells you the name and codes of Unicode characters, useful for finding hidden characters in a string
- Pygments Example Code Files - Example files in every programming language in existance (probably), useful for testing syntax custom highlighting
Linux
- Arch Wiki - One of the best resources for Linux "stuff", even if you don't use Arch
Computer Hardware
- Passmark CPU Benchmark - Benchmarks for basically every CPU in existance, obviously one benchmark is not a perfect representitive of real world performance in various different tasks, but useful to get a quick idea how powerful a CPU is
- Passmark GPU Benchmark - Same as above but for GPUs
- Intel Quick Sync Video Wikipedia - Useful if you are buying a PC/CPU and want to check if certain video codecs have hardware decode/encode
Gaming
- Redump - Hashes and lists of older game ISOs
Other
- GB Rail Rovers - Good list of rail rover tickets in the UK. Not sure how up to date it is
- ProCyclingStats - Lightweight website showing lots of useful data about ongoing cycling races
- Bike Gear Ratio Calculator - Calculator for bike gear ratios
- Bike Tire Circumference Chart - Self explanatory, useful in combination with the above gear ratio calculator