These essentials include my favorites sites and resources on the web.

Tech News

Hacker News
Slashdot
GeekWire
TechCrunch
TechMeme

Artistic

Daily Dose of Imagery
NOTCOT.ORG
Seattle Daily Photo

Frequently Interesting

Ben Casnocha (Entrepreneur)
Credenda Agenda (Theology)
Kottke (Liberal Arts 2.0)

WordPress

WordPress
WordPress.com
WordPress TV

Codex (Documentation)
PHPDoc
Plugin Directory
Trac

Programming Languages

JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript Libraries

Cufon – font rendering
Google AJAX Libraries API
jQuery
jQuery UI – effects and widgets
SWFObject – embed flash

Developer Resources & Blogs

Amazon Web Services Blog
W3Schools – language reference, tutorials

Software Version Control / Code Hosting

Git
GitHub – secure code hosting using git
Subversion (SVN)
Unfuddle – hosted SVN and git