url: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz
title: Escaping Flatland
author: Henrik Karlsson
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-09
description: Extremely deep and thought provoking writing. On thinking, life, learning and many things.
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url: https://ploum.net
title: Ploum
author: Lionel Dricot
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-09
description: Mostly French, originally found through his article on the forever computer. Computing, culture, and writing.
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url: https://sive.rs
title: Derek Sivers
author: Derek Sivers
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-09
description: One of my favourite authors, thinkers, and one of the original inspirations for my self hosted journey.
---
url: https://herman.bearblog.dev
title: Herman
author: Herman Martinus
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-09
description: Developer of a wonderful minimalist blogging platform based in South Africa.
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url: https://ludic.mataroa.blog
title: Ludicity
author: Nikhil Suresh
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-10
description: Software developer and rager against the stupidities of working in the industry. As a software engineer myself I can relate.
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url: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com
title: Baldur Bjarnason's Notes on the Web
author: Baldur Bjarnason
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-10
description: Web developer from Iceland. Great thoughts on development and the web, and sharer of many interesting links.
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url: https://gregegan.net
title: Greg Egan
author: Greg Egan
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-10
description: My favourite author. He writes the hardest science fiction that I have ever found and his blog explains the concepts to help with understanding his books.
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url: https://www.themarginalian.org
title: The Marginalian
author: Maria Popova
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-10
description: One of the first blogs that I followed. Philosophy, history, art. A celebration of the beauty of humanity.
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url: https://manuelmoreale.com
title: Manuel Moreale
author: Manual Moreale
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-10
description: Developer who writes about anything but. I like the breadth of his interests and he has pointed me to many other wonderful personal websites as well.
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url: https://stephango.com
title: Steph Ango
author: Steph Ango
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-13
description: CEO of Obsidian. Writes about a wide variety of thoughts.
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url: https://fasterthanli.me 
title: Faster Than Lime
author: Amos
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-13
description: Very in depth articles on programming and how computers work. Have learned a lot from his work. Also has a youtube channel of the same name.
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url: https://pluralistic.net 
title: Pluralistic
author: Cory Doctorow
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-13
description: Science fiction writer and activist. Mainly in the tech space but his concerns about monopoly power and his self coined enshittification stretch across any one sector.
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url: https://berjon.com 
title: Robin Berjon
author: Robin Berjon
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-13
description: Web developer and works on creating web standards. Very thoughtful work on the future of the web. Envisions a kinder, more people first web where our technologies serve us as opposed to exploiting.
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url: https://www.wheresyoured.at
title: Where's Your Ed At?
author: Ed Zintron
type: blog
date_added: 2024-08-13
description: Tech journalist and critic. I find that his writing starkly points out things that I have felt "wrong" in tech over the past decade and dives into why.
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url: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/unfolding 
title: Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process 
author: Henrik Karlsson
type: article
date_added: 2024-08-13
description: A wonderful and thoughtful perspective on developing a deep understanding of things in life to guide ourselves to something that fits us personally.
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url: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/writing-to-think 
title: How to think in writing 
author: Henrik Karlsson
type: article
date_added: 2024-08-13
description: Using writing as a tool for thinking deeply.
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url: https://berjon.com/public-interest-internet/ 
title: The Public Interest Internet
author: Robin Berjon
type: article
date_added: 2024-08-13
description: What if the internet were designed and maintained for the people that used it?
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url: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-end-the-week-with-nothing 
title: Don't End the Week with Nothing
author: Patrick McKenzie
type: article
date_added: 2024-08-13
description: Good perspective on how to choose what to work on. Preferentially work on what you can take with you regardless of where you go.
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url: https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/index.html 
title: The Computer Built to Last 50 Years
author: Lionel Dricot
type: article
date_added: 2024-08-13
description: Pondering on how we use computers and how we could design them to be tools that last.
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url: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/just-your-handyman 
title: Just Your Handyman
author: Kurt Armstrong
type: article
date_added: 2024-08-13
description: On work, and the satisfaction in personal small work and problem solving. Not everything needs to be big.
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url: https://grugbrain.dev
title: Grug Brain Dev
author: Carson Gross
type: article
date_added: 2024-09-10
description: Hilarious commentary on software design and development.
