People and places that inspire me
Human curated, human crafted, humans on the web.
One thing I have recently been enjoying are the newsletters that some of these fine people send out. They are personal, informative, and just human. It’s a way to connect without a corporation acting as an arbiter. I have marked the newsletters I subscribe to with a 📩.
People
- Adel Faure - FLOSS text mode, pixel art, games, tools and music - Adel Faure. Prepare to have your mind blown.
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Aksui - Benjamin’s place on the Internet is like no other - a calm and thoughtful place
RSS New
- Just once around the sun
- Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (1989)
- Far in a western brookland
- Alfred Edward Housman
- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
- The winds out of the west land blow
- Into my heart an air that kills
- With rue my heart is laden
- Westward on the high-hilled plains
- A Shropshire Lad, by A.E Housman (1896)
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Cassidy Williams - Memein’, dreamin’ keyboard schemein'
RSS New
- Remaking the Linux "touch" command in PowerShell
- A fun trick for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools
- Code Wave Build Log
- Appreciating Mary Cassatt now that I am a mom
- Do not give up your brain
- A career chat with students in the age of AI
- Toodles, 2025
- Wrapping up Blogvent 2025
- Making the "End of Year Developer" nature documentary
- CSS for markdown blockquote attribution
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Clemens Scott - A great example of a personal knowledge database
RSS
- Dave Jacoby - When you need a dose of Perl
- Devine Lu Linvega - the other half of 100 Rabbits
- Elliott Cost - An amazing computer artist, designer, and programmer
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Everest Pipkin - I can spend a lot of time here. But please, Everest, the dates in your rss feed are killing me!
RSS
- 6/3/25 - In an era of slop / make aalittle thing out of clay
- 6/3/24 update - it has been a long year
- 6/4/23 update - wool, ducklings, many projects
- 2/16/23 update - lambs, work, the start of spring
- 12/31/22 update - a year end
- 11/28/22 update - barnacle goose experiment, real geese, books, winter
- 9/12/2022 update - world ending game, amaranth, sheep, lightning
- 7/10/2022 update - ravel, dogs, figs, bugs
- 6/20/2022 update - summer, wildfires, monsoon season, apricots, world ending game
- 5/3/2022 update - testing if RSS works edition
- Ian Fieggen - AKA Professor Shoelace. I first discovered Ian a couple of decades ago when I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong when tying my shoes.
- James Stanley - Well written and interesting stories (tag line from his website: The writing is bad and the stories are not very interesting.). Check out James’ projects 😮👏
- Nathan Hewitt - public musings.
- Rek Bell - half of 100 Rabbits. Sailing and creating.
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Sightless Scribbles - Robert Kingett is a fantastic author. I was first introduced with his article The Colonization of Confidence which is a must read.
RSS New
- How Fanfiction is Literary Resistance
- Why "Happy Ever After" is Radical Restorative Justice
- A Humble Welcome Note Without Cookies
- The Acoustic Signature of Weather
- A Field Guide to the Personal Space Violations of Public Transit
- The Cartography of an Open Palm
- A Map of My Scars, Read by Your Fingertips
- Third Grade Letter to Santa
- The Colonization of Confidence.
- The Home of a New Name
- Vasilis van Gemert - he does love clocks, and I love his design and books.
- マリウス.com - A personal site with so many interesting things: from travel to photography to keyboards to code (and yes, the domain name is real and legit – learn about Punycode on the same site).
Projects or other sites
- 17776 Football - still working my way through this speculative fiction
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Branch Magazine - A Just and Sustainable Internet for All
RSS
- Compost Engineers and Sus Saberes Lentos: A Manifest for Regenerative Technologies
- Reimagining the Browser for a Green Web
- Designing Regenerative Technologies
- Designing a Grid-Aware Branch
- Letter from the editors
- The Cloud Is Not Above Us
- Sounds of the Grid
- AI, Climate, and the Global Majority: A Just Transition Toward COP30 and the People’s Summit
- Cosmology of Internet Infrastructure: Three Visions to Bridging the Digital Divide
- The Gardening Electricity Handbook
- diagram.website - I am caught up in this right now. A project by Elliott Cost
Articles
- Things you should never do Part I - when i need to remind myself not to throw away a project and start over