Below is a random collection of links to other sites that I found interesting.
I think publishing personal bookmark lists is a great way to better connect and explore the smaller side of the Internet.
This list is also available in the following formats:
Read-it-Later
Obscure Self-Hosted Services - XDA Developers (2024-01-07)
Interesting Things About the Lua Interpreter (2024-01-07)
Why and how I got my own ASN! - Daniel Jakots (2024-01-07)
“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking (2024-01-07)
Sanding off friction from indie web connection - Tracy Durnell (2025-01-10)
I Have That On Vinyl (2025-01-11)
A working library by Mandy Brown (2025-01-15)
Stories - Robin Rendle (2025-01-15)
JetBrains Remote Development with X2Go (2025-01-21)
Blogs Without RSS
Dan Luu
The Grug Brained Developer
Sarah Ting
Reuben Son’s absolutely stunning personal site
Mike Hoye
Untapped Journal
Milk Kommunikations Ko-Op - an all-time classic
Martin Fowler
Mikroverlag - New blog about European tech stories (2025-11-12)
Other Blogging
Webrings
Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers
George Hotelling - RSS Tricks (2025-01-09)
Your Favorite Newsletter’s Favorite Newsletters (2025-01-20)
Games
Riddl.ing (2025-01-11)
Cycling
Spencer McCullough’s bike trip to 48 national parks (+ an excellent bike camping map)
Helmet Wind Straps
A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair
Art
Scott Boms’ “Ignore All Previous Instructions” print set
Public Domain Image Archive (2025-01-11)
Places
Evergreen Posts
Command Line Interface Guidelines
Code Rant - The Configuration Complexity Clock
Terence Eden - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple HTML
Mark L Irons - Patterns for Personal Websites
Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
The Beautiful Mess: Can Do vs. Should Do
Manifesto for a Humane Web
SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way (it’s more nuanced than that, I promise -G)
programming is terrible: Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend
The home as a place of production (not sure I totally agree w/ it, but an excellent read)
Habitat Chronicles - You Can’t Tell People Anything (2024-01-08)
Favorite XKCDs
356 - Nerd Sniping
927 - Standards
1425 - Tasks
3D-Printing - Things
Universal Phone Stand - simple and classic, I use this at work
xkcd characters
Recipes
Apple Pie by Grandma Ople (made it)
Homemade Blueberry Pie (made it)
Tech Projects
Tech projects that I found interesting, funny, or wanted to experiment with later.
LadyBird Browser
ScratchDB - Open-Source Snowflake on ClickHouse
COBOL for GCC Development
Bruno API Client
Solar Protocol
Trivy - open-source vulnerability scanner
Linux Mint: webapp-manager
- run websites as if they were apps
Zed: Structured data queries for the CLI
Spacedrive: “A file explorer from the future”
Wasmer - WebAssembly-based run-anywhere containers
Kirby CMS (2025-11-13)
Issue Tracking
Jellyfin - multi-backend DB support (e.g. to run against Postgres instead of SQLite)
Technical Guides
EV Code Certificates + Automated Builds for Windows
ARM Gen 6 on the Thinkpad T14s
AWS - Programmatic Access to EKS Versions
From Zero to main(): Bare metal C
The Derivative of a Regular Type is its Type of One-Hole Contexts - Conor McBride
Let’s build a distributed Postgres proof of concept
Comby: structural refactoring tool
Production Ready EKS CoreDNS Configuration (because the default config is stupid -G)
COMMON-LISP “The Tutorial” Series (Learn CLOG)
DKIM - RFCs and notes on how to verify signatures in code (2024-01-08)
All About MarkMark
Links, resources, and tools related to MarkMark itself. (What's MarkMark?)
Standard MarkMark (v1.1)
mark-mark
: a WIP TypeScript MarkMark parser/renderer collection