Here is a compilation of links to blogs and websites related to economics and things I find interesting. Caveat emptor applies as these may increase the potential for chronic procrastination. Excuse me while I take some time to work on this page.
General economics and current events
https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman - The great Paul Krugman's blog for the New York Times, and a good place to check up on current centre-left economic thinking.
https://gregmankiw.blogspot.com - The also great Greg Mankiw's blog, good place to check up on (non-Trumpian) Republican economic thinking.
http://marginalrevolution.com - Marginal Revolution
https://afinetheorem.wordpress.com - My favourite for bedtime reading. Kevin Bryan is a Professor in Toronto and nicely summarizes and puts in context new and important papers in the economic literature, plus has been outlining the work of recent winners of the Noble Prize.
Macroeconomics
https://paulromer.net/ - Paul Romer's blog
http://www.rogerfarmer.com/rogerfarmerblog - Roger Farmer's blog
http://economistsview.typepad.com - MarkThoma's blog (mainly US Macro)
Economic history, comparative development, history of economic thought, and philosophy
Pseudoerasmus - A blog about global economic history & comparative development
http://deirdremccloskey.org - Deirdre McCloskey's webpage, the worlds most interesting economist
http://whynationsfail.com - Acamoglu and Robinson's blog on 'Why Nations Fail'
Stats and metrics'
http://davegiles.blogspot.com - David Giles blog about econometrics and statistics (techy!)
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ - Nassim Taleb's blog
http://andrewgelman.com - Statistician Andrew Gelman is quite critical of current practices in econometrics, so this makes for an interesting blog.
Stuff for Stata:
Stuff for R:
Podcasts - I spend an hour a hour walking to-and-from class, podcasts are a nerdy cool way to keep company
http://www.econtalk.org - Russ Roberts' podcast. Every week he releases a new interview with someone to do with economics. Highly recommended, even though Roberts proclivity to interrupt and state his skepticism of econometrics/mainstream economics/most forms of government intervention.
http://freakonomics.com - Freakonomics, cool books, cool website and cool podcasts.
Personally, I use TeXstudio as a nice front end editor. It has a user friendly console (e.g. you can 'point and click' to open a new template, or a specific mathematical symbol) which lets you preview your work, and it auto-completes commands. An easier way, requiring no installation of software is to use ShareLaTeX. It is also a good idea if you are working on a project in a group (its a bit like working on a google drive document).
Anyway check this link out for resources and help.