websites / projects
curated sites / home pages of people worth following. don't necessarily agree with everything. sometimes it's just good design or philosophy that catches attention.
below that: actual projects / tools i run or depend on.
smart people
- jvscholz blog – jvscholz.com/blog
- essays on tech, gear, productivity, minimalism, e-ink devices, Gen-Z digital life/nihilism. gear guides (BOOX, e-readers), countdown widgets, eduroam / keitai / focus essays. tech, blog, gear, minimalism, philosophy, productivity
- Steven M. Bellovin – cs.columbia.edu/~smb
- security researcher / cryptography historian. blog (SMBlog), papers, talks, books (Firewalls and Internet Security, Thinking Security). research on public key crypto prehistory / permissive action links. security, cryptography, firewall, blog, research
- Scott Robbins - srobb.net
- linux, bsd, tutorials, shell scripting, window managers, email clients, networking, virtualization, humor, FreeBSD, RedHat, minimalism, outdated info, archive-like, simple site
- patchysicp.xyz
- self-hosting, rants, anti-corp, tor, i2p, yggdrasil, edgy, blog, simple site
- duion.com
- open-source gaming, self-hosting, privacy, game development, uebergame, blog, articles, rants, tutorials, commentary, tech, minimalism
- Linus's Blog
- linux, blog, nixos, simplesite
- Luke Smith - lukesmith.xyz
- orthodox linux guru
- digdeeper.love
- anonymity, privacy, conspiracies, fringe topics, education, XMPP, PGP, tutorials, nutrition
- Russ Allbery (Eagle)
- technical notes, usenet, book reviews, journal, photographs
- wbsurfer - ukkbar.net
- blog, XMPP, wallpapers, essays, science, logic, philosophy, links, simple site
- OpinionPlatform.org - another review and commentary website
- reviews, degoogled Android, GrapheneOS, DivestOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS, F-Droid, privacy, opinions, simple site
- compnytimepress.com
- editorial, audio, modeling, free library, photos, simple site, retro, no CSS
- kamnuandej.neocities.org
- blog, simple site, no css, tech opinions
- utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks
- unix, blog, simple page
- François-Xavier Carton - pedantic.software/fxc
- blog, C programming, 3dmr, GUI API, rants, minimalism, no CSS, privacy, simple site
- codemadness.org
- Hiltjo personal blog / projects. sfeed (RSS/Atom parser + curses UI), stagit (static git page generator), saait (HTML generator), hurl (HTTP/Gopher grabber), idiotbox (YouTube), susmb (SMB/CIFS FUSE), webdump (HTML to plaintext), tscrape (Twitter scraper), json2tsv, userscripts. OpenBSD / Unix minimalism. gopher access, git hosting guides. suckless philosophy. blog, tools, OpenBSD, minimalism, unix
other
- UZANTO-RETO – uzantoreto.com
- usenet analytics / usenet groups search engine. map which servers have what newsgroups, track activity frequencies
- upvote-rss – upvote-rss.com
- RSS generator for Reddit, Lemmy, Hacker News, Lobsters, PieFed, Mbin, GitHub. parse social aggregators / code platforms into proper feeds.
- Thunderbird User.JS – github.com
- privacy / security hardening template for Thunderbird via user.js config. anti-fingerprinting, reduce tracking, keep it email-only (no web browsing cruft)
- FontCrafter – arcade.pirillo.com
- convert your handwriting into installable fonts. print template, write characters, scan, download. runs fully client-side. auto-generates ligatures, contextual alternates, 500+ glyphs (accents, quotes, fractions, currency)
- circumflex
- Hacker News in terminal (clx). read comments / articles in Reader Mode via less pager. syntax highlighting, categories (top/best/ask/show/new), history, favorites, nerd fonts support. keymaps for navigation, plain comments/headlines toggles.
- Akita-Zmodem-MeshCore – github.com/AkitaEngineering
- zmodem file transfer in python for MeshCore networks. built-in Zmodem protocol, asyncio, zip dirs on-the-fly, CRC32 framing, per-chunk port headers for mesh reassembly
- csiph.com
- full-featured usenet web interface. 21k+ newsgroups (alt.*, comp.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc., talk.*, regional / university / fidonet hierarchies). search (by content, Message-ID, fuzzy matching), group browser with filters, keyboard shortcuts (vim-like navigation)
- Anne Frank (n2n) – n2n.oc2mx.net
- anonymous newsgroup poster. post to usenet groups anonymously via nym mixnet
- Kindle dashboard e-ink display – terminalbytes.com
- tutorial: custom dashboard on jailbroken Kindle