Bookmarks

This page is generated with a script that fetches bookmarks from Raindrop using the API. I also have a Gemini version (for smolnet links) linked at the footer.

Only the most recent 50 bookmarks are listed. Check out the full list here.


  • Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks

    maggieappleton.com

    Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it

  • 50 things I learned in 2024

    thu-le.com

    In 2024, I set a goal to document one interesting thing I learn each week, drawing insights from books, conversations, and everyday life.

  • Life without Google (Fonts)

    subtraction.com

    Privacy and technology journalist Kashimir Hill is in the middle of publishing a fascinating series of articles called “Goodbye to the Big Five,” in which she reports on her experiences trying to f…

  • A friend used AI to wish me Happy Birthday.

    sightlessscribbles.bearblog.dev

    Recently, I had a birthday! The birthday was quiet, filled with all kinds of introverted heaven such as good podcasts to listen to, quiet phone calls of love...

  • The Pika Pulse - Pika

    pika.page

    All the Pika that’s fit to print. Read on to see what Pika peeps are thinking about. Real people writing real words with nary an algorithm or bot in sight? Yes, please!

  • Comments

    labs.tomasino.org

    I’ve been kicking around an idea that comments–public feedback systems in general–are not helpful to the development of social systems. The scope of my thinking is fairly limited to online media like blogs, social networks, and media sharing, but it…

  • Humour is powerful

    todepond.com

    People sometimes tell me I joke around too much and this harms my work and other people.

  • Hacking on Mastodon Emacs Package to Narrow Viewing

    takeonrules.com

    I’ve been using the Mastodon package. Its great but I find the timeline visually overwhelming. So I did a bit of hacking so that I could leverage the Logos package to narrow the timeline to one toot at a time. And here’s the Emacs code: (add-to-list…

  • Introducing o(m)g:image

    blog.jim-nielsen.com

    Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

  • C++ Is An Absolute Blast

    learncodethehardway.com

    Where I try to explain why I feel like C\+\+ is so much fun, and to correct some misinformation.

    I think programmers have lost the story of why they got into programming in the first place. I know I didn’t learn to code just so I can make a bunch of billionaires more billions. I didn’t get into programming so that I can fight an immutable rendering engine into finally showing a cornflower blue button. I definitely didn’t get into programming just to make a few authoritarians at the top of a random open source project happy.

    I got into programming because it was fun. I remember staying up late until 4am desperately trying to get my shitty gwBASIC code to render a character to an MS-DOS console. I remember working on weird GUI ideas and network servers for weeks on end just because I had an idea. I remember fighting one bug for a month only to find out it was a stupid spelling mistake. I remember that all of this–even the frustration–was a hell of a lot of fun. Easily more entertaining than anything else I’ve learned.

  • Everything Is Always Getting Worse (Until It Isn't)

    joanwestenberg.com

    A few months ago, I found myself doomscrolling through X (first mistake) when I found a thread about how “everything is getting worse.” The author had assembled an impressive collection of graphs showing declining trust in institutions, rising…

  • blogs.hn

    blogs.hn

    Personal blogs sourced from Hacker News.

  • A bare-minimum ActivityPub server from scratch

    grishka.me

    This is a translation of the article I originally wrote in Russian a year ago. Lately, after Elon Musk bought Twitter, people have started looking for its alternatives – and many found one in Mastodon. Mastodon is a decentralized social media…

  • The Art of Not Sharing

    joanwestenberg.com

    It’s a typical Monday morning. You wake up, reach for your phone, and within seconds, you’re scrolling through an endless stream of updates. Your college roommate has a new puppy. Your aunt’s dog just died. Your coworker made homemade sourdough…

  • If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted

    infrequently.org

    Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.

  • Embrace Slowness

    martinrue.com

    Can slow be a good thing? In my own life, I've been trying to slow down with some things lately, so I've been thinking about this question.

    Related to another post of mine Typing vs Writing.

  • The Forest

    theforest.link

    Rediscover the joy of getting lost on the web

  • The IDEs we had 30 years ago... and we lost

    blogsystem5.substack.com

    A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's

    A case for modern IDEs adding some nice features that we didn’t have back when everything was TUIs, but also several hundred megabytes of who-knows-what. A perspective on the popular TUI editors and IDEs today, such as Neovim and Emacs, powerful but not as easy to use as some from the DOS land, latter of which could handle some powerful IDE features just as well.

  • Willow

    wiki.secluded.site

    I've been frustrated by the scattered state of software updates for a very long time. I manage NixNet. One piece of software can be found on GitHub, another piece on GitLab, one on Bitbucket, a fourth on SourceHut, and a fifth on the person's…

  • slcl

    gitea.privatedns.org

    A simple and lightweight cloud written in C99 plus POSIX.1-2008 extensions.

  • LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

    solar.lowtechmagazine.com

    This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

  • How to converse online – Manu

    manuelmoreale.com

    The web is, at its core, a conversation tool. At least for the most part. You can have a conversation synchronously via chats and DMs, you can have a …