Articles and websites

Written content I recommend.

HN stands for a discussion on Hacker News.

Blogs/Magazines

• Drew DeVault’s blog
• Tonsky’s blog
• PostmarketOS blog
• IEEE Spectrum
• 404 Media

Organizations

• EFF
• Public money, public code
• The Repair Association

Websites

• ifixit
• wiby.me —– HN
• 500mile.email
• Blaze File Transfer
• Every Noise —– HN
• Music Map —– HN
• kvak.io
• We are Wayland now!
• Are We Sixel Yet?
• Hot Examples
• suckless.org
• Public Domain Recipes
• Marginalia Search
• Linux From Scratch —– HN
• GOG

Articles

• Don’t ask to ask, just ask —– HN
• Software disenchantment —– HN
• West Berlin - sorry, Berlin —– HN
• If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing —– HN
• Anime: A Slave Industry —– HN
• The Worst Programmer I Know —– HN
• Unix as IDE —– HN
• Best of Craigslist
• You Are What You Read —– HN
• Write more “useless” software —– HN
• Programming Is Mostly Thinking —– HN
• “We ran out of columns” —– HN
• Car allergic to vanilla ice cream —– HN
• Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution —– HN
• The Tyranny of the Marginal User —– HN
• This is a teenager —– HN
• Reverse Engineering TicketMaster’s Rotating Barcodes —– HN
• In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox —– HN
• The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis is the Loss of Community —– HN
• Linux Productivity Tools —– HN
• Move Fast and Abandon Things —– HN
• Why I still blog after 15 years —– HN
• Don’t build your castle in other people’s kingdoms —– HN
• Hacking 700 Million Electronic Arts Accounts —– HN
• What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?
• IMG_0416 —– HN
• Fraud, So Much Fraud —– HN
• Too much efficiency makes everything worse —– HN
• Being Raised by the Internet —– HN
• The best $4 ever spent —– HN
• Amusing Ourselves to Death —– HN
• Linux Productivity Tools —– HN
• Character Amnesia in China —– HN
• The Influence of Japanese Archaeology on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild —– HN
• School is Not Enough: Learning is a consequence of doing —– HN
• Writes and Write-Nots —– HN
• Learning to Learn —– HN
• I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind —– HN
• Solarpunk —– HN
• A Decade Later, A Decade Lost —– HN
• Marshmallow Test and Parenting —– HN
• The History of S.u.S.E. —– HN
• We are destroying software —– HN
• Ask for no, don’t ask for yes —– HN
• My Life in Weeks —– HN
• Boring tech is mature, not old —– HN
• Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution —– HN
• Casual Viewing —– HN
• Cognitive load is what matters —– HN
• How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click —– HN
• Ghost artists on Spotify —– HN
• A Victorian Two-Penny Hangover —– HN
• Always Go To The Funeral —– HN
• Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job —– HN
• Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History —– HN
• Don’t Fuck With Scroll —– HN
• Ling’s Cars —– HN
• Send someone you appreciate an official ‘Continue and Persist’ Letter —– HN
• Visualizing World War II —– HN
• Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan —– HN
• Stoop Coffee: How a Simple Idea Transformed My Neighborhood —– HN
• Go European: Discover European products and services —– HN
• Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety —– HN
• How to post when no one is reading —– HN
• Root for your friends —– HN
• How anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof —– HN
• What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything Alexa had heard —– HN