I asked you for links! And maybe five
people said, Hey, sure. (Who doesn’t want a link to them??)
I also hit up Hacker News. And
that went better. I don’t really see any of these links as being outside of my
filter bubble—might need to crawl Neocities next!
But hey. It’s great! I wanted to play with a directory format for these links. And here is my
result. I’m starting with a simple three-column format, cribbed from the reviews
in the back of Zine World.
Thankyou for letting me link to you!

Home Pages

It’s Krish A nice, colorful little home page with
some longish essays on culture, the Internet and the future. I was wondering
if this sort of encapsulated personal home page existed—and it does! I
personally REALLY like that Krish has organized the articles on the site into
a little directory. Often a blog is simply the most recent things and that
may not be a good starting point for discovering someone. #creativity #personal

Blogs

Alexander Ellis Nicely spare and
minimal. One year old. A good number of useful, detailed tutorials on Arduino,
JavaScript and other programming projects. Many posts are titled “Investigating X”
and have the feel of a Jupyter notebook REPL. #curiosity #javascript

The Daily Flywheel Manga, office work dynamics,
goals and such. The author apologizes for a default WordPress design and also notes
that it’s “a personal blog not targeted towards public consumption.” However, I
found myself engrossed by reading someone’s detailed personal thoughts. I say
“someone” because the author does not reveal a name. I very much approve!
#manga #personal

Island in the Net Going back at least a decade,
this is a rather enormous blog of photography, beer reviews and a myriad of posts
on tech and culture. The beer and photography sections (and the “beertography”, of
course) are very impressive in their layout. While browsing the photos, I thought
that it’s been a long time since I’ve had a window into someone’s life like this.
On Instagram, I’ve become used to seeing a groomed pictosummary of someone’s life.
To see hundreds of their pictures is to really feel like you’re looking through
their eyes. #beer #photography #indieweb

Mann Brand-new blog of esoteric software knowledge.
While posts like Lessons Learned Writing Unit Tests fit into my head, Continuous
Delivery With AWS Beanstalk, CodePipeline and Terraform
certainly didn’t—there’s
a specific sort of programmer that must be drawn to this information. I hope you
find Mann! The layout of the blog posts with the table of contents on the side is very
clean and useful. #cloud #code

Olgica Djuric Welcome Olgica! There is but a single post on this
new blog (along with a few book recommendations). I love lengthy blogposts (“tl;dr”
should simply not be an expression), so I’m looking forward to further posts on
chess, building things and life in Serbia. #new #software

P83 Peter’s stream of updates on a variety of Indieweb
(and specifically Ekster) development. I was certainly disappointed that the
article “Micropub for a Static Neocities Website” didn’t have more! A wealth of
bookmarks (and some are in the likes area as well.) #code #indieweb

Rambling Git This blog is a great example of why
I’m doing these hrefhunts (there will be more.) While the blog is very spare on
design, Brad’s thoughts on the structure of the web are fantastic. Reading these
posts really made me realize that there is much to do beyond Google and Reddit.
In fact, it motivated me to go hrefhunting as an experiment: perhaps small,
personal directories are part of the antidote. Brad’s posts on webrings, DuckDuckGo
and web directories are top notch. #indieweb #discovery

Read Write Collect A tremendously
active hub of bookmarks, comments and presentations—primarily on education,
the Internet and the state of the World. I really appreciate the quotes cited in
each link. I’m a teacher and I’m always looking for a good community out there.
#education #links #indieweb

Sen’s Dev (and Non-Dev) Diary A Github
repo as a blog. I particularly like that drafts and scraps of articles are posted
as-is. Having metadata posted at the beginning of each blog entry without a blog
software to process it is amusing. #personal #software

Taylor D. Edmiston A Python community blogger,
focused on startups and a software called Apache Airflow. Interesting to see the
Pokémon GO strategy article! I had no idea such information was being trafficked.
#startups #tech

Zach Oglesby It looks like this is a blog using
Known, a blog software I’ve been curious about. Mostly status updates and photos,
this is a good look at what an independent presence looks like these days. The
bookmarks section is heavily used and contains a lot of great material. #microblog
#profile

Podcasts

Car Bomb Podcast A cast of ten or twelve
people rotate in to discuss pop culture and gaming, beer and basically anything that
they think is worth mocking or praising. The episode on “The Odds” stirred
nostalgia—I used to play that all the time. #beer #culture