Read-it-Later

• Interesting Things About the Lua Interpreter (2024-01-07)

  • https://thesephist.com/posts/lua/

• Why and how I got my own ASN! - Daniel Jakots (2024-01-07)

  • https://chown.me/blog/getting-my-own-asn

• “Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking (2024-01-07)

  • https://charity.wtf/2024/12/17/founder-mode-and-the-art-of-mythmaking/

• I Have That On Vinyl (2025-01-11)

  • https://ihavethatonvinyl.com/

• A working library by Mandy Brown (2025-01-15)

  • https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/

• Stories - Robin Rendle (2025-01-15)

  • https://robinrendle.com/stories/

• JetBrains Remote Development with X2Go (2025-01-21)

  • https://reemus.dev/article/jetbrains-remote-development-with-x2go

• How I Think About Zig and Rust (2025-01-18)

  • https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/250117.html

• Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index (2025-01-24)

  • https://swtch.com/\~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html

• Bad Shape (2025-01-27)

  • https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

Blogs Without RSS

• Dan Luu #dev

  • https://danluu.com/
  • https://danluu.com/everything-is-broken/

• The Grug Brained Developer #dev

  • https://grugbrain.dev/

• Sarah Ting #dev

  • https://sarahjting.com/blog

• Reuben Son’s absolutely stunning personal site

  • https://reubenson.com/

• Mike Hoye

  • https://exple.tive.org/blarg/

• Untapped Journal #architecture #urbanism

  • https://www.untappedjournal.com/

• Milk Kommunikations Ko-Op - an all-time classic

  • https://milk.com/

• Martin Fowler

  • https://martinfowler.com/

• Mikroverlag - New blog about European tech stories (2025-11-12)

  • https://www.mikroverlag.com/en

Other Blogging

• Webrings

  • https://endgameviable.com/post/2024/08/webrings-really/
  • https://ring.recurse.com/

• Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30245247

• George Hotelling - RSS Tricks (2025-01-09)

  • https://george.hotell.ing/2025/01/07/rss-tricks/

• Your Favorite Newsletter’s Favorite Newsletters (2025-01-20)

  • https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/your-favorite-newsletters-favorite

Games

• Riddl.ing (2025-01-11)

  • https://riddl.ing/

• Survive the Tyrant - An RPG-style guide to surviving an authoritarian regime (2025-01-26)

  • https://survivethetyrant.infy.uk/

Cycling

• Spencer McCullough’s bike trip to 48 national parks (+ an excellent bike camping map)

  • https://onelongtrip.bike/
  • https://gobikecamping.com/map

• Helmet Wind Straps

  • https://youtube.com/shorts/8-Ph6CjKopY?si=QGVb7HrKT7FejGZI

• A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair

  • https://tegowerk.eu/posts/bicycle-repair/

Art

• Scott Boms’ “Ignore All Previous Instructions” print set

  • https://scottboms.com/shop/ignore-all-previous-instructions-print-set

• Public Domain Image Archive (2025-01-11)

  • https://pdimagearchive.org/

• “everyday” by Noah Kalina (2025-01-21)

  • https://everyday.photo/

• Lachlan Turczan - incredible exploration of light and nature (2025-02-16)

  • https://www.lachlanturczan.com/

Places

• Indianapolis

  • https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/best-of-indy/best-of-indy-dining-2/
  • https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/downtown-indianapolis-lunch-spot-to-be-featured-on-diners-drive-ins-and-dives
  • https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/uncategorized/review-shadow-lounge-restaurant/
  • https://www.devourindy.com/
  • https://www.filigreebakery.com/

• Chicago

  • https://joymachine.art/

Evergreen Posts

• Command Line Interface Guidelines #dev

  • https://clig.dev/

• Code Rant - The Configuration Complexity Clock #dev

  • https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complexity-clock.html

• Terence Eden - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple HTML #dev

  • https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

• Mark L Irons - Patterns for Personal Websites #dev #archive

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20190904131208/http://www.rdrop.com/\~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/index.html
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20190826113439/http://www.rdrop.com/\~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/standard.header.and.footer.html
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20200107155946/http://www.rdrop.com/\~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/history.page.html
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20200107162931/http://www.rdrop.com/\~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/index.pages.html
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230314204244/http://www.rdrop.com/\~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/gift.to.the.community.html
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20211102185515/http://www.rdrop.com/\~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/downloadable.weblet.html
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220120050151/http://www.rdrop.com/\~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/site.map.html

• Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?

  • https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/23/sally-rooney-when-are-we-going-to-have-the-courage-to-stop-the-climate-crisis/

• The Beautiful Mess: Can Do vs. Should Do

  • https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-1652-can-do-vs-should-do

• Manifesto for a Humane Web

  • https://humanewebmanifesto.com/

• SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way (it’s more nuanced than that, I promise -G)

  • https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/selinux-unmanageable.html

• programming is terrible: Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

  • https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to

• The home as a place of production (not sure I totally agree w/ it, but an excellent read)

  • https://cityquitters.substack.com/p/the-home-as-a-place-of-production

• Habitat Chronicles - You Can’t Tell People Anything (2024-01-08)

  • http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/

Favorite XKCDs

• 356 - Nerd Sniping

  • https://xkcd.com/356/

• 927 - Standards

  • https://xkcd.com/927/

• 1172 - Workflow

  • https://xkcd.com/1172/

• 1425 - Tasks

  • https://xkcd.com/1425/

3D-Printing - Things

• Universal Phone Stand - simple and classic, I use this at work

  • https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1464340

• xkcd characters

  • https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1172630

Recipes

• Apple Pie by Grandma Ople (made it)

  • https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/12682/apple-pie-by-grandma-ople/

• Homemade Blueberry Pie (made it)

  • https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/12196/blueberry-pie/

Games

• We Need To Talk - interesting split trick-taker (2025-01-30)

  • https://spacebiff.com/2025/01/29/we-need-to-talk/

Tech Projects

Tech projects that I found interesting, funny, or wanted to experiment with later.

• LadyBird Browser

  • https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird

• ScratchDB - Open-Source Snowflake on ClickHouse

  • https://www.scratchdb.com/
  • https://github.com/scratchdata/ScratchDB

• COBOL for GCC Development #lang

  • https://cobolworx.com/pages/cobforgcc.html

• Bruno API Client

  • https://www.usebruno.com/

• Solar Protocol

  • https://solarprotocol.net/

• Trivy - open-source vulnerability scanner

  • https://trivy.dev/latest/

• Prowler - open-source cloud security scanner (2025-01-22)

  • https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler
  • https://docs.prowler.com/projects/prowler-open-source/en/latest/tutorials/mutelist/

• SonarQube - automated code scanner w/ community edition (2025-01-22)

  • https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube
  • https://github.com/cnescatlab/sonar-cnes-report

• Linux Mint: webapp-manager - run websites as if they were apps

  • https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager

• Zed: Structured data queries for the CLI

  • https://zed.brimdata.io/

• Spacedrive: “A file explorer from the future”

  • https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive

• Wasmer - WebAssembly-based run-anywhere containers

  • https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer

• Kirby CMS (2025-01-13)

  • https://getkirby.com/

• Eleventy SSG (2025-01-27)

  • https://www.11ty.dev/

• DeepSeek R1 LLM - open weights (2025-01-26)

  • https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

• iRedMail Mail Server - Releases (2025-01-29)

  • https://docs.iredmail.org/iredmail.releases.html

• KubeVirt - first-class virtualization on Kubernetes (2025-01-29)

  • https://kubevirt.io/user-guide/

Self-Hosting TODOs

• Kiwix — offline knowledge bases like Wikipedia (2025-01-29)

  • https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
  • https://flathub.org/apps/org.kiwix.desktop
  • https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng

• Pinchflat — YouTube media manager (2025-01-29)

  • https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

Issue Tracking

• Jellyfin - multi-backend DB support (e.g. to run against Postgres instead of SQLite)

  • https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/12798

Technical Guides

• EV Code Certificates + Automated Builds for Windows

  • https://medium.com/@joshualipson/ev-code-certificates-automated-builds-for-windows-6100fb8e8be6

• ARM Gen 6 on the Thinkpad T14s

  • https://github.com/jhovold/linux/wiki/t14s
  • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Thinkpad_t14s
  • https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-concept-snapdragon-x-elite/48800

• AWS - Programmatic Access to EKS Versions #aws

  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-eks-access-kubernetes-version-availability/

• From Zero to main(): Bare metal C

  • https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/zero-to-main-1

• The Derivative of a Regular Type is its Type of One-Hole Contexts - Conor McBride

  • http://strictlypositive.org/diff.pdf

• Let’s build a distributed Postgres proof of concept

  • https://notes.eatonphil.com/distributed-postgres.html

• Comby: structural refactoring tool

  • https://comby.dev/

• Production Ready EKS CoreDNS Configuration (because the default config is stupid -G) #aws

  • https://serkancapkan.medium.com/production-ready-eks-coredns-configuration-6fea830606f8

• COMMON-LISP “The Tutorial” Series (Learn CLOG)

  • https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog/blob/main/LEARN.md

• DKIM - RFCs and notes on how to verify signatures in code (2024-01-08)

  • https://github.com/kmille/dkim-verify/blob/master/verify-dkim.py
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6376#section-3.4
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6376#section-3.6.1
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6376#section-3.6.2.2
  • https://code.garrettmills.dev/garrettmills/chorus/src/branch/main/src/dkim.ts

• Dynamic Dependency Injection in Angular (2025-01-27)

  • https://www.damirscorner.com/blog/posts/20170526-DynamicDependencyInjectionInAngular.html

• Running DeepSeek R1 locally (2025-01-28)

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/PlczKBukhy

Quotes

• Richard II - “You wretches detestable on land and sea…”

  • https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_II_of_England#Quotes

Soft Skills That Aren't BS

• The Art of Calling Out Room Dynamics (2025-02-03)

  • https://leadership.garden/calling-out-room-dynamics/

All About MarkMark

Links, resources, and tools related to MarkMark itself. (What's MarkMark?)

• Standard MarkMark (v1.1)

  • https://garrettmills.dev/markmark
  • https://garrettmills.dev/markmark/standard

• mark-mark: a WIP TypeScript MarkMark parser/renderer collection

  • https://code.garrettmills.dev/garrettmills/www/src/branch/master/src/markmark