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A blog on Roman civilisation that I only found recently, if it’s for you I know you’ll work it out.

A fourteen year catalogue of thoughts in technology.

I wish I could have more time to solve real problems at the scale and complexity as described by Werner Vogels. I love the philosophical basis of the nature of constant work (I’ve never recognised it in problems I was asked to solve but seems very appropriate to some AWS scale problems).

Hopefully there is still utility in coming back to this blog in the future.

I’ve found the comments and thoughts Avery Pennarun to be considered and well thought out. Much of the blog is technical in nature but if you want to start somewhere broader I would check out his thoughts regarding management, opinions and learning

I’ve enjoyed persuing Arne’s content and enjoyed his advocacy for bringing back webrings. I can’t say how well webrings are suited to the problems at hand (I haven’t joined one yet), however I’d like to dream that a more humane web is possible.

A software archive of where to start when starting a self-hosted journey :)

It looks like Berjon has a 14 year archive of thoughts addressable here; I have a fondness for his ideas about the web being a platform for user agency.

I have enjoyed Jim’s humour and most-recent dedication to Web Components. Check out his archive to find a greater diversity of posts you might be interested in.

This post gave me a real kick to turn on auto-updates (even if its just tag based) for my home podman setup. Nothing I run at home is too critical currently to avoid updates (maybe this changes) so I appreciated the encouragement.

Another fantastic archive of personal thoughts, looking at his most recent lists of self-hosted apps its probable I unconsciously copied him mine are barely set-up but I have faith I’d get there with enough time.

I am still in the process of discovering parts of Brian Koberlein. Directed mostly towards the posts that for lack of a better phrase tickle my brain its lovely to see his posts about directing ones’ attention (away from the needed distractions of modernity).

I appreciated this post and others advocating for a humane view towards software configuration and usage, the thrust of the advocacy in my opinion is towards user empowerment (documentation, shortcuts, customisation). I still struggle personally to decide how its best to update software (perfect software would never need updating) but if anything here is an approach to think about when considering user control/empowerment and choices

(Currently) a short albeit technical blog on the programming language rust. Talks about it’s dependable runtime characteristics.

I appreciated this well told story about moving on from the prestigious bullshit of large technology. It won’t change your life, probably, and could crush you. I encourage you all to find the meaning that is right for you.

Another insightful (to me) technology blog, the perspectives are broader than technology but it’s definitely the frame I use. Here’s an interesting post on nothing working which in my opinion asks for a high bar but interesting nonetheless.

Fascinating insights into the social science of software engineer, engineering and the companies that pay them. Start with On Craft.

Extensive and comprehensive list of thoughts on free software and FOSS.

A clever and inspiring collection of ideas from Gwern Branwen. I hope to find time to revisit new content in the future!

Technology centric blog, sometimes a little SEO-y sometimes interesting information.

Another beautiful catalogue of thoughts from a technology worker. I know my appreciation is also due to my profession but these links are a demonstration of what I currently appreciate. If you wish for a perspective try reading Taming the Tech Giants.

Justin O’Beirne was recommended to me possibly back in the days when I interned for Google Australia (I was lucky I was there only 3 months). Back then Google cared about its cartography and had its own vision for what cartography could be in a digital age. These days I presume that Google’s product development team is staffed by sleep-deprived humans who see product evolution as shifting the colourscheme closer to Apple Maps.

Justin O’Beirne was a great cataloguer when he was active, but now cartography done the commercial companies has gone quiet it is no wonder he has gone quiet too. Hopefully OSM keeps the long-now dream of cartography alive

I enjoy Lauren’s posts at the intersection of technology, policy and the power of big business.

I think my brain will always associate this blog with the concept of Dunbar’s Number. The truth underlying limits (soft or hard) when it comes processing social networks will always be complex but I was happy to stumble across the ideas and how they replicaated/were observed in games so many years ago.

I hate the ability of technology to reduce sovereignty (as opposed to empowering humanity) so poke around and see what you like :)

Another 20 year archive of thoughts about working in technology. I thoroughly enjoyed the personal reocunt of one person working from early Google days, it appears that the sentiment of only working for money (if you’re comfortable enough) is terrible is luckily wider spread.

Lucid Manager is less straight technology and more business practice and technology adjacency. The feed looks dated but feel free to poke around for content.

A lovely intersection of technology and empathy, if I get more time I will really enjoy the proposed series of seizing the means of production.

Another supereffective example of publishing and sharing your thoughts online. I enjoyed the People & Blogs series to discover blogs and thoughts that are less discoverable on the commercial web.

Prior to the advanced diagnosis I was investigating a combination of Radicale and InfCloud as a self-hosted calendar and contacts app. Ideally I wanted something that was multi-user, low resource, and unfortunately for infcloud I do like my dark mode :). It wasn’t glamourous but I thought it could be fun to try and extend these projects to suit what I wanted. Anyway I hope I get to do more with microformats, specifically I liked reading about vcard4/hcard and XFN as a way to extend the metadata of these microformats. If I don’t get back to it then enjoy,

Microformats can be a joy to work with, it didn’t take me long to get a rough idea of webmentions together after understanding the specification… Unfortunately there is much less systemic logic in vCard4 with far more effort placed on backward compatibility.

I enjoy the ultimate simplicity of this approach.

I’ve included this site not because I agree with everything sad (I don’t) but to showcase its effectiveness to continue discussion rightly, wrongly, controversially or any other judgement you feel appropriate. In terms of what I think it suggests on gender, I’m just glad that a dialogue continues. I can’t tell you what’s fair, or who should bear what responsibilities, or how they should be compensated or respected but the discussion will continue and life will continue and hopefully all of us can participate in the discussion as we change the discussion between us all.

I’ve subscribed to the feed to consume the rotating list of links mainly, content can also be good and the consistency is absolutely stunning.

A loving collection of articles about either humanising the web, or probably more realistically keeping the human side of the web going (no matter what proportion of machine driven activity that represents). I have a great fondness for the intent to link to appreciable words and not just focus on the neurons that fire within (or maybe that’s also my bias/imposter syndrome).

Take a look :)

Another 20 year archive of thoughts in technology.

Only found this blog today, a link from the orange site. The blog reads as amazingly pragmatic and I feel a little shame for being a shill of the old (free?) terraform product. The rug pull and pricing change mentioned by the blog is disappointing but similarrly I’m not here to decide how the pie is sliced (technology will move on), just tryinf to figure out if we’re cutting the right pie.

I haven’t done any analysis on terraform pricing or the alternatives but if its generating this kind of frustration it’s probably the wrong default tool.

I don’t agree with my interpretation of every word on this site but there is a lot of thoughtful content here. I hope others find it useful

I can’t speak to the purpose of these guides but I do offer it as an example of a community of practice sharing practical advice and tips on how others may follow a road less travelled for self hosting technical services and presumably sharing self-published content :)

Another technical blog. Personally I’m not a fan of PHP but it doesn’t invalidate the thoughts here. I did enjoy the article on web development

First time I’ve stumbled into over 18 years of index thoughts. I found this blog whilst at the hospital and it was deeply humanising. It helps me accept both the hardware faults I have at home and the fact that I haven’t resolved them (I will, I probably just need a new motherboard? maybe?) but I was quietly seething at myself prior that I wasn’t able to figure out the problem more cleanly given my pedigree. Another very clean and very considered archive of human endeavour :)

A manifesto for technology sovereignty; I wish I could offer you all a solution to our technical and emotional woes but I don’t have it. I just know that ceding our choices to our absolute disadvantage is incredibly harmful.

I like the idea of websites or URLs being empowered to offer extensions or link to additional services at well-known addresses but I don’t think I currently share the use-cases listed at wikipedia.

This is another wiki or community of practice around content sharing. Whatever the ultimate consequences of these practices I have appreciated watching the community spirit and camaraderie that communities like this can build (independent of the specific content) in order to share solutions to common problems and facilitate mutual collaboration between people.

I guess there is an underlying theme for myself that I appreciate knowledge sharing, without wholly understanding its full and complete consequences because it represents the empowerment of efforts and the desire to put structures in around the chaos of life.

I can’t remember exactly how/why this site made the list of my unorganised and uncommentd blogs. Looking back at it it is beautiful and a strong argument that for personal blogs you dont need a paginated archive, a list of thoughts is more than sufficient and enables the user to peruse the thoughts they are ready to hear. Quiet a few well laid out thoughts here.

Not updated for a while but definitely does have some considered views, worth checking out IMO.

Just a beautiful write-up of a career and scientific life (from Richard Hamming). Hopefully you receive more from the article then the time it takes to read.

I was partway through setting up a private zettelkasten for myself with the intent to expand it upon returning to work. Along with this blog I have always underwhelmed myself with both knowledge management and self-expression and these were going to be my attempts to rectify that.

I invite you to check out the Zettelkasten method of knowledge management and see if it appeals :)

I love the the honesty commitment to self-understanding and hopeful mastery, a lot of the writing is well intentioned and hopefully just as well executed. enjoy :)