Rouxbe (opens provider site in a new tab)
An online culinary school with structured certificate courses. Closest thing to professional training at home.
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127 picks added in the last 14 days across 30 feeds. Catalog updated 28 September 2026.
Cooking
6 newThomas Keller Teaches Cooking Techniques (opens partner site in a new tab)
Vegetables, stocks, and sauces from one of the world's most exacting chefs. Refines your basics.
Maangchi (opens provider site in a new tab)
Korean home cooking taught with warmth and clarity. Proof one cuisine can teach you a lot.
Modernist Cuisine (opens provider site in a new tab)
The deep science of cooking, lavishly documented. The free articles alone are an education.
Ethan Chlebowski (opens provider site in a new tab)
Thoughtful videos on how to think about cooking — flavor, efficiency, and building your own recipes.
Free Intermediate
Chinese Cooking Demystified (opens provider site in a new tab)
Authentic Chinese home cooking explained with precision. A model for learning any cuisine properly.
Free Intermediate
Personal Finance
7 newAswath Damodaran — NYU Stern (opens provider site in a new tab)
NYU's valuation professor shares courses, data, and spreadsheets free. The gold standard on valuation.
Safe Withdrawal Rate series (Early Retirement Now) (opens provider site in a new tab)
A deep, data-heavy series on retirement withdrawal rates. For people planning decades ahead.
Rational Reminder podcast (opens provider site in a new tab)
Long interviews with finance academics about evidence-based decisions. Nerdy in the best way.
Monevator (opens provider site in a new tab)
A thoughtful UK passive-investing blog with excellent explainers on funds and tax wrappers.
Finance Theory I (15.401) (opens provider site in a new tab)
MIT's full finance theory course with video lectures. Rigorous grounding in valuation and risk.
Collaborative Fund blog (Morgan Housel) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Morgan Housel's essays on behaviour, risk, and patience. The mindset side of money, beautifully written.
Free Intermediate
Ben Felix (opens provider site in a new tab)
Evidence-based investing explained through academic research. A rare antidote to finance hype.
Free Intermediate
Public Speaking
6 newAmerican Rhetoric (opens provider site in a new tab)
A huge archive of great speeches with audio and transcripts. Study how the best build an argument.
Silva Rhetoricae (opens provider site in a new tab)
BYU's encyclopedia of rhetorical devices and figures. The classical toolkit, clearly organized.
TED Masterclass (opens provider site in a new tab)
TED's own course on developing an idea into a talk. Structured, with exercises.
The Moth (opens provider site in a new tab)
True stories told live without notes. Listening teaches narrative speaking better than any textbook.
The secret structure of great talks (Nancy Duarte) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Duarte maps the shape of history's greatest speeches. Useful for structuring persuasive talks.
Free Intermediate
Vinh Giang (opens provider site in a new tab)
Vocal variety, body language, and presence — demonstrated rather than described.
Free Intermediate
Video Editing
4 newSchool of Motion (opens provider site in a new tab)
Intensive motion design courses for After Effects and Cinema 4D. Demanding and well regarded.
Cinecom (opens provider site in a new tab)
Creative transitions and effects tutorials for Premiere and Resolve.
Free Intermediate
Mixing Light (opens provider site in a new tab)
Professional colorist training and tutorials. The place to go deep on grading.
Paid Advanced
Video editing classes (opens partner site in a new tab)
Project-based classes on editing, YouTube workflows, and short-form video.
Writing
5 newQuery Shark (opens provider site in a new tab)
Real query letters critiqued bluntly by a literary agent. Read the archive before writing yours.
The Chicago Manual of Style Online (opens provider site in a new tab)
The editor's reference for style and usage. Worth subscribing if you write or edit professionally.
Malcolm Gladwell Teaches Writing (opens partner site in a new tab)
How to research and structure compelling nonfiction. Useful for essays, reports, and blogs.
Helping Writers Become Authors (opens provider site in a new tab)
K.M. Weiland's detailed guides to story structure and character arcs. Great when a draft stalls.
Free Intermediate
Jane Friedman (opens provider site in a new tab)
Clear, honest advice on publishing, agents, and author platforms. Essential before you query.
Free Advanced
Data Science
4 newTrustworthy Online Controlled Experiments (opens provider site in a new tab)
The A/B testing reference from Microsoft, Google, and LinkedIn veterans. Essential for product analysts.
The Data Science Course: Complete Data Science Bootcamp (opens partner site in a new tab)
Math, statistics, Python, and ML in one package. Breadth over depth, at a modest price.
Causal Inference: The Mixtape (opens provider site in a new tab)
Causal inference for people who need answers, not correlations. Free online and very readable.
Data Engineering Zoomcamp (opens provider site in a new tab)
A free cohort course on pipelines, warehouses, and orchestration. Where analysis meets infrastructure.
Free Advanced
Graphic Design
5 newGlyphs tutorials (opens provider site in a new tab)
If you want to design typefaces yourself, Glyphs' free tutorials are the clearest starting point.
The Bézier Game (opens provider site in a new tab)
Learn the pen tool through a game. Removes the most common frustration in vector software.
Pentagram — case studies (opens provider site in a new tab)
Project write-ups from one of the world's leading studios. Study how briefs become identity systems.
KernType (opens provider site in a new tab)
A browser game that trains your eye for letter spacing. Five minutes a day sharpens it fast.
Free Beginner
It's Nice That (opens provider site in a new tab)
Thoughtful coverage of contemporary graphic design and illustration. Keeps your references current.
Free Intermediate
Guitar
6 newTom Morello Teaches Electric Guitar (opens partner site in a new tab)
Riffs, effects, and creativity from Rage Against the Machine's guitarist. Unconventional and fun.
TrueFire (opens provider site in a new tab)
A huge library of style-specific courses from pro players, with tabs and jam tracks.
Berklee Online (opens provider site in a new tab)
Accredited courses and degrees in guitar, theory, and production. The serious formal path.
Songsterr (opens provider site in a new tab)
Accurate tabs with synced playback. Slow tricky parts down and loop them while you practise.
This Is Classical Guitar (opens provider site in a new tab)
Free classical lessons, scores, and studies. The best starting point for fingerstyle and notation.
Free Intermediate
Rick Beato (opens provider site in a new tab)
Ear training, harmony, and song analysis from a producer and educator. Deep musicianship.
Free Advanced
Photography
5 newJimmy Chin Teaches Adventure Photography (opens partner site in a new tab)
Planning, safety, and storytelling from a leading adventure photographer. Great for outdoor shooters.
The Art of Photography (Ted Forbes) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Essays on master photographers and their methods. Builds visual literacy beyond technique.
LensCulture (opens provider site in a new tab)
Contemporary photography from around the world. Keeps your sense of what's possible current.
Photography classes (opens partner site in a new tab)
Short project-based classes on specific styles — street, food, portraits. Learn by assignment.
Sean Tucker (opens provider site in a new tab)
Reflective videos on seeing, creativity, and the photographer's mindset. Rare depth on YouTube.
Free Intermediate
Product Management
4 newReforge (opens provider site in a new tab)
Programs from senior operators on growth, retention, and strategy. Expensive, but dense.
Working Backwards (opens provider site in a new tab)
Amazon's PR/FAQ and narrative memos explained by insiders. Useful templates for senior PMs.
Escaping the Build Trap (opens provider site in a new tab)
Why output-focused teams stall and how to shift toward outcomes. Short and very practical.
Paid Intermediate
Stratechery (opens provider site in a new tab)
Ben Thompson's analysis of tech strategy and business models. Sharpens how you think about markets.
Sales
5 newMEDDICC (opens provider site in a new tab)
The qualification framework enterprise teams use to forecast deals. Learn its vocabulary before joining one.
Sales Gravy (Jeb Blount) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Direct, practical training on prospecting and objection handling. Good for daily discipline.
Winning by Design (opens provider site in a new tab)
Frameworks for recurring-revenue sales teams, from the bowtie model to SPICED discovery.
Program on Negotiation — Daily (opens provider site in a new tab)
Research-based articles from Harvard's negotiation program. Short, practical, and free.
Free Intermediate
Predictable Revenue (opens provider site in a new tab)
Aaron Ross's playbook for splitting prospecting from closing. The origin of the modern SDR role.
Paid Intermediate
SQL & Databases
3 newDatabase Internals (opens provider site in a new tab)
Alex Petrov on storage engines and distributed algorithms. A natural companion to CMU 15-445.
SQLZoo (opens provider site in a new tab)
Old-fashioned but reliable practice problems with instant feedback. Good for drilling.
Free Beginner
Relational Database (opens provider site in a new tab)
Real PostgreSQL, Bash, and Git in a virtual environment. Closer to actual work than browser drills.
Free Intermediate
Startup Founding
4 newHigh Growth Handbook (Elad Gil) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Scaling from ten to a thousand people: executives, boards, and M&A. For after product-market fit.
The Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation (opens provider site in a new tab)
The definitive guide to options and equity. Read it before issuing your first grant.
Stripe Atlas guides (opens provider site in a new tab)
Clear guides on incorporation, equity, and business basics, written for first-time founders.
Free Intermediate
YC SAFE financing documents (opens provider site in a new tab)
The standard seed documents, with explanations. Understand them before you sign one.
Free Advanced
Statistics
3 newCausal Inference: What If (opens provider site in a new tab)
Hernán and Robins' standard text on causal inference from observational data. Free to download.
Bayes Rules! (opens provider site in a new tab)
A friendly, modern introduction to Bayesian thinking with R.
Regression and Other Stories (opens provider site in a new tab)
Gelman, Hill, and Vehtari on regression done carefully. Practical, skeptical, and free to download.
Deep Learning
3 newDeep Learning A-Z (opens partner site in a new tab)
Intuition-first videos with practical projects. Gentler pacing than fast.ai.
Lil'Log (opens provider site in a new tab)
Long, carefully referenced surveys of attention, diffusion, and agents. Better than most review papers.
Understanding Deep Learning (Simon Prince) (opens provider site in a new tab)
The modern textbook: clear figures, current architectures, and free. Our pick over older references.
Japanese
5 newJLPT — Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (opens provider site in a new tab)
Official test information and sample questions. Picking a level gives your study a concrete target.
Nihongo no Mori (opens provider site in a new tab)
JLPT N1–N2 grammar and vocabulary taught in Japanese. Demanding and very effective.
Aozora Bunko (opens provider site in a new tab)
Thousands of public-domain Japanese literary works, free. The ultimate advanced reading library.
NHK News Web Easy (opens provider site in a new tab)
Real news rewritten in simple Japanese with furigana. Your first steps into native reading.
Free Intermediate
Satori Reader (opens provider site in a new tab)
Graded stories with explanations for every sentence. Makes native-level text feel achievable.
Machine Learning
4 newPattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Bishop) (opens provider site in a new tab)
The Bayesian classic. Heavy going, but the most complete probabilistic treatment of ML.
Kaggle Competitions (opens provider site in a new tab)
Real problems and public leaderboards. Read the winners' write-ups after every competition.
MLU-Explain (opens provider site in a new tab)
Amazon's visual essays on bias-variance, ROC curves, and more. Beautiful and accurate.
Free Beginner
Made With ML (opens provider site in a new tab)
MLOps done properly: testing, versioning, serving, and monitoring models in production.
Free Advanced
Mandarin
5 newHSK — Chinese Proficiency Test (opens provider site in a new tab)
Official test information and registration. HSK levels give clear long-term milestones.
Chinese Text Project (opens provider site in a new tab)
Classical Chinese texts with translations and dictionary tools. For learners heading toward literature.
Bilibili (opens provider site in a new tab)
China's main video platform, with native content in every niche. Where listening meets real life.
The Chairman's Bao (opens provider site in a new tab)
News articles graded by HSK level. Current events make reading practice less of a chore.
Paid Intermediate
Mandarin Companion graded readers (opens provider site in a new tab)
Classic stories adapted with limited characters. The best path to finishing your first book.
Paid Intermediate
Product Design
4 newMicrosoft Inclusive Design (opens provider site in a new tab)
Microsoft's methods and toolkit. Reframes accessibility as a source of better products.
Baymard Institute research (opens provider site in a new tab)
Large-scale e-commerce UX research. The free articles alone improve most checkout flows.
Figma blog (opens provider site in a new tab)
Behind-the-scenes posts from Figma's designers and customers on process, systems, and craft.
Free Intermediate
DesignSystems.com (opens provider site in a new tab)
Figma's publication on building and scaling design systems, with case studies from large teams.
Free Advanced
UI/UX Design
4 newInclusive Components (opens provider site in a new tab)
How to build common interface components accessibly, pattern by pattern. For designers close to code.
Designing Interfaces, 3rd Edition (opens provider site in a new tab)
A pattern library in book form: navigation, forms, data display. A reference you'll keep returning to.
UI/UX design classes (opens partner site in a new tab)
Short project-based classes on Figma, wireframing, and portfolios. Learn one skill at a time.
Interaction Design Foundation courses (opens provider site in a new tab)
Membership-based UX courses plus a huge free literature library. Good value for structured theory.
Competitive Programmer's Handbook (opens provider site in a new tab)
Antti Laaksonen's concise handbook. The gateway into competitive programming.
CSES Problem Set (opens provider site in a new tab)
Three hundred carefully ordered problems. Finishing the early sections is serious evidence of skill.
Abdul Bari — Algorithms (opens provider site in a new tab)
Whiteboard explanations of dynamic programming, graphs, and complexity that many find clearer than textbooks.
Free Intermediate
The Algorithm Design Manual (opens provider site in a new tab)
Skiena's practical catalogue of problems and war stories. The book for applying algorithms at work.
Paid Advanced
French
4 newDictionnaire Le Robert (opens provider site in a new tab)
A trusted monolingual dictionary. French-only definitions accelerate real fluency.
ARTE (opens provider site in a new tab)
Franco-German public broadcaster with superb documentaries, many free with French subtitles.
Kwiziq French (opens provider site in a new tab)
Adaptive grammar quizzes that diagnose weak spots, aligned to CEFR levels.
France Culture (opens provider site in a new tab)
Thoughtful French radio on ideas, history, and science. Demanding, rewarding listening.
Free Advanced
Go (Golang)
3 new100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (opens provider site in a new tab)
Catalogs subtle bugs experienced Go developers still write. Reading it prevents real outages.
Go Concurrency Patterns (Rob Pike) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Rob Pike's classic talk on goroutines and channels. Still the best mental model for Go concurrency.
Free Intermediate
Exercism Go track (opens provider site in a new tab)
Mentored exercises that nudge you toward idiomatic, well-tested Go.
Free Intermediate
Spanish
4 newDELE exams (Instituto Cervantes) (opens provider site in a new tab)
The official proficiency certificate, with sample papers. A concrete goal for serious learners.
RTVE Play (opens provider site in a new tab)
Spain's public TV and radio, free online. Series and documentaries for immersion.
Radio Ambulante (opens provider site in a new tab)
Award-winning Latin American narrative journalism, with transcripts. Superb advanced listening.
Free Advanced
Diccionario de la lengua española (RAE) (opens provider site in a new tab)
The official monolingual dictionary. Switching to Spanish-only definitions is a real milestone.
Free Advanced
Web Development
4 newHTTP (MDN) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Caching, headers, CORS, cookies. Read it once and a whole class of bugs becomes obvious.
High Performance Browser Networking (opens provider site in a new tab)
Ilya Grigorik on TCP, TLS, HTTP/2, and WebSockets — the layer most web developers never learn.
Full Stack Open (opens provider site in a new tab)
University of Helsinki's modern stack: React, Node, MongoDB, TypeScript. Rigorous and free.
Free Intermediate
Frontend Mentor (opens provider site in a new tab)
Real design files to build from. The fastest way to practise turning a mockup into a page.
Digital Marketing
4 newObviously Awesome (April Dunford) (opens provider site in a new tab)
The clearest method for product positioning. Most marketing problems are positioning problems first.
Occam's Razor (Avinash Kaushik) (opens provider site in a new tab)
Blunt, data-driven writing on analytics and measuring what matters. Still very relevant.
Really Good Emails (opens provider site in a new tab)
A searchable gallery of well-designed emails. Borrow patterns instead of starting from blank.
Free Intermediate
Seth's Blog (opens provider site in a new tab)
Daily short posts on marketing as trust and generosity. A counterweight to growth-hack thinking.
Free Intermediate
iOS & Swift
3 newobjc.io books (Advanced Swift, Thinking in SwiftUI) (opens provider site in a new tab)
The best books on Swift internals and SwiftUI's layout model. Worth it once you ship regularly.
Human Interface Guidelines (opens provider site in a new tab)
What makes an app feel native. Users and App Review notice when you ignore it.
Free Intermediate
Swift Evolution proposals (opens provider site in a new tab)
Why each language feature exists, argued in public. Great for understanding design trade-offs.
Free Advanced
Python
3 newasyncio — Asynchronous I/O (opens provider site in a new tab)
Async Python confuses almost everyone. The official docs are the least-wrong place to learn it properly.
mCoding (opens provider site in a new tab)
Short videos on Python's sharp edges — mutable defaults, descriptors, performance traps. Dense and precise.
Packaging Python Projects (opens provider site in a new tab)
The official, current answer to "how do I make this installable?" Skip the outdated blog posts.
Free Intermediate
Rust
4 newThe Little Book of Rust Macros (opens provider site in a new tab)
Declarative macros demystified. Makes macro-heavy crates readable instead of magic.
Rust Atomics and Locks (opens provider site in a new tab)
Mara Bos on memory ordering, atomics, and building your own locks. Clear on a notoriously hard topic.
Asynchronous Programming in Rust (opens provider site in a new tab)
Futures, executors, and async/await explained by the people who designed them.
Free Intermediate
Tokio tutorial (opens provider site in a new tab)
Build a mini Redis to learn the async runtime nearly every Rust server relies on.
Free Intermediate
JavaScript
2 newV8 blog (opens provider site in a new tab)
Engine engineers explaining how JavaScript is really optimized. Changes how you think about performance.
Learn Node.js (opens provider site in a new tab)
The official introduction to JavaScript outside the browser: modules, the file system, and async I/O.
Free Intermediate