🔗 Finds #9

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #9 of Finds — the articles, sites, and corners of the web I bookmarked this week:

🌐 Websites / blogs

worksinprogress.coWorks in ProgressA magazine of long-form essays on the ideas driving scientific and technological progress — from housing policy to medical breakthroughs.

learn.sparkfun.comSparkFun Learn900+ hands-on electronics tutorials — Arduino, sensors, wireless, robotics — from beginner blinks to full builds.

opguides.infoOpinionated GuidesOne person's curated map for self-teaching engineering, music, and design — the good resources kept, the junk filtered out.

📚 Books

toc.cryptobook.usA Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography — Boneh & Shoup's free graduate textbook, from secret-key basics to elliptic curves, post-quantum lattices, and secure multi-party computation.

whitman.eduCombinatorics and Graph Theory — David Guichard's free online text: counting, generating functions, and graph theory from Euler circuits to Pólya counting.

📄 Articles

theoi.comStar Myths (Theoi) — The Greek katasterismoi — the heroes and beasts set among the stars, each constellation retold as the myth that named it.

🎬 Videos

youtube.comThe Violent Desire to Change — Final Somow — A video essay on the ache to reinvent yourself, told through anime and manga.

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🌱 Promoted to the wiki: these now live on their topic pages — Technology, Electronics, Learning, Cryptography, Mathematics, Mythology, and Essays — so they’re easy to find later. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.