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
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- The Ape that Understood the Universe, by Steve Stewart-Williams (2018)
- Leo Tolstoy
- Family Happiness, by Leo Tolstoy (1859)
- Oliver Goldsmith's letter to his brother, Henry (1759)
- A journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings, by Stephen Phelan (2026)
- Billions and Billions, by Carl Sagan (1997)
- The Big OOPs, by Casey Muratori (2025)
- Taking Care, by David Smail (1987)
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, by Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan (1992)
- The Inner Ring, by C.S. Lewis (1944)
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Cassidy Williams - Memein’, dreamin’ keyboard schemein'
RSS
- Customizing my Xteink firmware and wallpaper
- Whitespace in Astro 7.0
- An animated radial gradient mask over text in CSS
- On the edge of burnout
- KeyCon 2026 recap
- Microsoft Build 2026 recap
- A simple clustering algorithm for lists
- La Pedra Go Club in Barcelona
- Shipping todometer, version 3!
- Codemotion Madrid 2026 recap
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Clemens Scott - A great example of a personal knowledge database
RSS
- Published ocular, a tiny static image gallery generator with rss support.
- Updated Happy Not Happy.
- Started a series of abstract paintings.
- Set up a workshop space in the basement.
- Made two oak wood swords for my son.
- Stavrochori, Crete.
- 7 Days of Naikan
- Made figurines with the kid from self-made clay.
- Les Magnans, Southern France.
- Hollenstein an der Ybbs.
- 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.
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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 😮👏
RSS New
- Foiling a Protohackers email spam bot
- Trailer
- Should you wash your solar panels?
- Optimistic epsilon-greedy
- ProofToken16: My Proposal for Private Decentralised Age Verification
- Telepresence Burglary
- How to make a hyperlink
- How to publish your secrets on Docker Hub
- Stealth Browser Survey: April 2026
- Bot Forensics
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Mattie - A long time friend, with always inspiring and insightful thoughts about life, software, and games.
RSS
- Security advisory: dye template injection
- Link Dump: Origins
- Dumping e-Reader cards
- I made a font, and a new version of 4-e
- 4-e 3.0: support for multiple GBFS "stacks", reworked user interface
- Friction is good, actually
- Weekend project: prepping for a 4-e demo
- Does that software really need to be built?
- Fix Fastmail sending on macOS Mail
- This is now an 11ty blog
- 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
- A Thermodynamic Failure of the Soul
- I stopped syndicating Sightless Scribbles to YouTube
- Audible Exclusives limit disabled audiobook fans like me
- The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you.
- Reject a Hit. A Series of Unfortunate Events
- On the Attack Helicopter story by Isabel Fall
- One Letter at a Time
- How Keyboard Shortcuts are my Superpower
- Hexodius [Xbox 360 Review]
- Nihilumbra Review (PC)
- Vasilis van Gemert - he does love clocks, and I love his design and books.
- zkrbo - Great example of a personal website and detailed week notes. Inspiration for my own Garden of Life
- 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