Links to other places around the web

Here are some pages that are important to me, have a cool design, or simply bring something special to the internet.

Some of these are sites I visit often, some are people I interacted with once or twice on social media. If you notice a link is dead or the author has started posting hate speech or something, please be a good egg and let me know.

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Comics

• MonkeyUser - Comics about the joy of working in tech.
• xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Mostly personal

I love a personal blog, although they can be tough to define. These blogs may include technical content, but they also include the whole person. At least the parts they let us see.

• Anil Dash - Anil Dash blogs about technology and culture. If you don’t know his blog, you may know him as ex-CEO of https://glitch.com.
• anhvn - Blog and sketches.
• Craig Mod - Writer and prolific walker. Author of delightful books and newsletters.
• flower.codes - Personal site of Zach. I enjoy his perspectives on technology and how we interact with it.
• The Frugal Blog - Personal site of The Frugal Gamer and showcase for their interests. They had me at the incredible Milk OS logo.
• housingsklave.at - A good egg.
• Manuel’s blog - Interesting thoughts on internet culture and human connectedness.
• Melon’s Thoughts - MelonLand Forum founder and digital arts type person.
• Terence Eden - Terence blogs about all sorts of stuff. Technology, policy, and general geekery.
• V.H. Belvadi - Writer and photographer engaged in the history of science.
• xandra.cc - The museum of Alexandra.

Mostly programming

• Accessabilly - Martin Mengele’s blog about accessibility and user experience.
• Addy Osmani - Software Engineer and leader currently working on the Google Chrome web browser.
• A List Apart - Interesting blog posts on design.
• Accidentally in Code - Cate is an Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo and an advisor at Glowforge.
• Alvaro Montoro - “CSS Wizard.”
• Avdi Grimm - A great teacher of Ruby programming and more.
• Billy Ruffian - Blogs mostly about Ruby and Rails.
• Brad Frost - Design system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, and musician. Author of Atomic Design.
• Cassidy James Blaede - “Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy.”
• Cheapskates Guide - “You need not spend large amounts of cash for decent computers and reasonable Internet services. If you know how, you can get them cheaply. This site is dedicated to showing you how.”
• Code with Jason - Blogs, mostly about programming, Ruby, and Rails.
• Collin Donnell
• CSS-Tricks
• David Peach - Laravel & neovim.
• dnsmichi.at
• esparta.co
• Erica Sadun
• Faraaz’s Blog
• furbo.org
• Go Make Things - Advocate for simple, resilient JavaScript programming that works for everybody.
• House of van Schneider
• inessential
• interblah.net
• Julia Evans - Maker of excellent and informative zines and blog posts.
• jvt.me - Jamie Tanna is a software developer, IndieWeb proponent, and blogger.
• Keenan Payne
• Kev Quirk
• Kevin Murphy
• Kevin Newton
• Know Your Team
• Laura Kalbag
• Marc Jenkins
• Michiel Sikkes
• Mike Perham - The creator of sidekiq, a background task processor for Ruby.
• naildrivin5.com
• Nishiki Liu
• Oh Hello Ana
• Paul Mucur
• ppinera.es
• Qubyte Codes
• ReverentGeek
• samwho.dev
• Saturn Flyer
• Seaside Testing
• Schneems
• sfcgeorge
• Simpler Machines - About writing software, mostly.
• Smashing Magazine
• swyx.io
• surma.dev - Personal site of Surma, DX at Shopify.
• Tatiana Mac
• Tim Riley
• The Code Gardener
• Tyler Cipriani
• wasabigeek

Company engineering blogs

These get their own section because while they each produce some very interesting stuff, you might not care about the specific technical challenges these companies face.

• Cookpad
• Etsy
• Deliveroo
• GitLab
• Gusto
• Honeycomb
• Medium
• Netflix
• Talis
• thoughtbot
• The Guardian
• tumblr

Other interesting things & people

• Boatmurdered - A Dwarf Fortress Let’s Play that’s well worth reading.
• brr.fyi - An incredibly interesting blog by someone at an antarctic research site.
• Cal Newport - Author of books including Deep Work and A World Without E-mail.
• Daring Fireball - Consistently thoughtful opinions about technology by the person who brought us Markdown.
• Death Generator - Generate dialogue/death screens from classic videogames.
• heronebag.com - One-bag travel and digital nomadding.
• kottke.org - Home of fine hypertext products. One of the best blogs around in terms of how consistently varied and interesting it is.
• Low Tech Directory
• Marc Littlemore
• Minutes to Midnight
• Mythic Computer Co. - Mythic Computer Co. is a one-man atelier. He makes beautiful, serene computers by hand.
• Osric University
• Protean Magazine
• sadgrl.online
• sondering heights
• starbreaker.org
• Suricrasia Online - Suricrasia Online is a Toronto-based ISP staffed entirely by anthropomorphic sharks in maid outfits.
• RavensBlight - All things spooky (why is there no web-safe version of the Chiller font?).
• Ted’s Caving Page - An oldie but a goodie. A creepy story from before “creepypasta” was a word.
• textfiles.com - Jason Scott is a committed internet archivist.
• The Neglected Books Page
• Uses This - If you’re nosy like me, this is a delightful peek into people’s tools and workflows.

Work beats

• lofi air traffic control
• Watering a flower Haruomi Hosono 1984 cassette (花に水)
• Nightwave Plaza - A 24/7 vaporwave radio station.

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