Here is a collection of links you may find useful. If there are some links you think ought to be here, feel free to suggest them to me.

Physics

• Bob McNees’s collection of useful conventions, definitions, identities, and formulas in general relativity
• Gravitational-wave resources list from Marc Favata
• Hyperspace list of gravity conferences and jobs
• Seminar and colloquium calendar at the U of MS physics and astronomy department

Papers

• arXiv preprints service. I typically read:
  • gr-qc,
  • hep-th,
  • astro-ph
• INSPIRE system
  • My papers on INSPIRE
• NASA ADS service

Software

• arXiv keys: I wanted keyboard navigation on the arXiv so I made this extension for Chrome and addon for Firefox . You can get the arXiv-keys source on github .
• xAct/xTensor: I make xTensive use of (and have contributed to) this system for abstract and component tensor math in Mathematica.
  • Community-contributed packages for xAct (I help maintain).
  • xTerior: I coauthored this package for exterior differential geometry
• I use emacs for writing everything.
  • Use a modern emacs and package management (package.el, should be builtin).
  • Add MELPA to your list of package-archives.
  • Make sure you have AUCTeX
  • Make sure you have magit
  • I’ve made my .emacs.d/ directory available on github .
• LaTeX
  • AUCTeX makes writing LaTeX in emacs better.
  • TeX Live; MacTeX
  • Make sure you use synctex. It works with Skim.app, which is a better PDF reader than Apple’s Preview.app.
• git: I recommend using git for revision control
  • Leo C. Stein on github
  • This web page’s repo
  • magit is the best way to use git from emacs.
• make-iop-author-list: If you find yourself in the unenviable position of needing to create a long LaTeX author list for an IOP publication, then you don’t get nice \affiliation{} macros (like in revtex, for example) to do the work for you. Therefore try this script.
• Jekyll: This web site was made using Jekyll.

Other

• Digital library of mathematical functions (DLMF): This NIST reference replaces Abromowitz and Stegun.
• Astrophysics jobs rumor mill wiki.