# # Links to blogs I consider interesting # # This file is intentionally maintained in a machine-readable form, but # data format is not guaranteed to remain stable over time # - section: Linux blogs: - title: Wandering Thoughts by: Chris Siebenmann at University of Toronto url: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/ feed: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/?atom description: |- Fifteen years of almost daily articles on Unix/Linux and Python. Very interesting findings on Unix history from a person who had experienced most of it firsthand. Some less important news, scripts and philosophical musings on the role of software in our lives. The author hosts his blog at employer's hosting and domain name, so I wouldn't be surprised if the blog would go offline one day. Let's hope the Web Archive runs its spiders regularly. - title: Drew DeVault's Blog url: https://drewdevault.com/ feed: https://drewdevault.com/blog/index.xml description: |- Personal tech blog from the creator of Sourcehut, a more transparent alternative to GitHub. Drew writes about being an entrepreneur in the FOSS world, about sustainability of Open Source projects and about tricky problems he uses Unix and Python knowledge to solve. - title: unixsheikh.com url: http://unixsheikh.com/ feed: https://unixsheikh.com/feed.rss description: |- Personal blog of old school Unix sysadmin. Pretty opinionated and anti-establishment. Many good articles on OpenBSD, networking/firewalling, ZFS vs other storage solutions, etc. - title: Kushal Das' Blog url: https://kushaldas.in/ feed: https://kushaldas.in/rss.xml description: |- Tech blog from a Red Hat employee, Python contributor and Fedora developer. Good articles on India FOSS scene, managing a LUG, privacy and security. - title: Xe Iaso (Christine Dodrill) url: https://xeiaso.net/blog feed: https://xeiaso.net/blog.rss description: |- NixOS and k8s in a homelab. Some deployment walkthroughs, some high-level overviews of tech concepts - all in a monospace font with anime characters in sidebars. - title: Michael Stapelberg url: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/ feed: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/feed.xml description: |- Former Debian developer, homelab enthusiast fearless of diving at the deep end of the pool. Started i3 window manager, gokrazy, router7 and even a research Linux distibution (distri). Lots of posts on overkill home networking, DIY electronics and some Go projects. - section: Homelab blogs: - title: blog.kroy.io url: https://blog.kroy.io/ feed: https://blog.kroy.io/feed/ description: |- Homelab enthusiast with a lot of informative writeups on hypervisors, automation and routing. Lots of routing! BGP, VyOS, router benchmarks - the fun stuff! - title: OXcrag.net url: https://oxcrag.net/ feed: https://oxcrag.net/feed/ description: |- A homelabber with views similar to mine: prefers plain Ubuntu/KVM to Proxmox, uses Backblaze B2, builds routers from scratch with nftables... - title: Blogging to Nowhere by: Rob Connoly url: https://webworxshop.com/ feed: https://webworxshop.com/feed/ description: |- First-person view of selfhosted obsession. Ansible, GitLab CI, Docker... All the good stuff. - title: Defend the planet url: https://defendtheplanet.net feed: https://defendtheplanet.net/feed/ description: |- Tinkering with ARM single-board computers, learning to solder, designing robots, building Docker swarms and repairing Volkswagen T4. Cool blog. - title: JankScale Datasystems url: https://blog.jankscale.com/ feed: https://blog.jankscale.com/rss/ description: |- Personal datacenter in a metal container in a backyard. There will probably be some interesting posts on IaC (implied by author's reddit flair) - title: Just another Linux geek url: https://blog.christophersmart.com feed: https://blog.christophersmart.com/feed/ description: |- Maintaining automatable homelab with Ansible, libvirt/KVM and Fedora. Some OpenWRT sprinkled here and there. - title: YetiOps url: https://yetiops.net/posts/ feed: https://yetiops.net/posts/index.xml description: |- Homelab, Ansible, KVM, Terraform, Pulumi - title: Adventurist Blog by: Tom Jones url: https://adventurist.me/page/1 feed: https://adventurist.me/feed.xml description: |- FreeBSD, electronics engineering, hacker camps and fests. Using serial console for out-of-band server management (whitebox builds) - section: OpenBSD blogs: - title: Solène Rapenne url: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/ feed: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/rss-html.xml description: |- OpenBSD developer solene@. Also some posts on NixOS, reproducible builds, game engines... - title: Doing stupid things (with packets and OpenBSD) by: Tobias Fiebig url: https://doing-stupid-things.as59645.net/ feed: https://doing-stupid-things.as59645.net/feed.xml description: |- Sometimes, it is fun to do stupid things. This blog documents things done on AS59645 to run a (mostly) OpenBSD only, self-hosted AS "the old way". Most certainly NSFP (Not Safe for Production) and never reasonable. - section: Other IT related topics blogs: - title: Julia Evans url: https://jvns.ca/ feed: https://jvns.ca/atom.xml description: |- A frequently updated personal tech blog. It covers so many subjects that it's hard to assign a specific category. I've enjoyed posts explaining low level Linux fundamentals to beginners but there are also many good articles on blogging, idea of small web, Python and even Kubernetes. And don't forget the awesome hand crafted zines! - title: Data, tech, and sometimes Nutella by: Vicky Boykis url: https://vickiboykis.com feed: https://vickiboykis.com/index.xml description: |- Some social insights into IT industry, articles about privacy in modern world. Lots of links to Hacker News, Reddit trends, some posts about Facebook, some posts about Python. - title: /dev/lawyer by: Kyle E. Mitchell url: https://writing.kemitchell.com/ feed: https://writing.kemitchell.com/atom.xml description: |- A blog by a lawyer very knowledgeable of open source licenses. Kyle has written several niche licenses that try to be better than the existing FOSS ones. The blog is frequently updated with articles on open source sustainability, free work and profiteering by industry from FOSS contributors. There are also links to other blogs in the same field. - title: Technoglot by: Charles K. Summers url: https://technoglot.blogspot.com/ feed: https://technoglot.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default description: |- Long form articles from a retired computer scientist (who also writes fiction books sometimes). Topics are usually unaffected by latest trends and news which provides a welcome change from the tiresome social networks bubble. The posts are typically very meditative and reflective - they are meant to be conversation starters, not calls to action. No prior technology background is required or assumed. - title: The Webb Blog by: Paul Anthony Webb url: https://blog.webb.page/ feed: https://blog.webb.page/feed/atom description: |- This author has an opinion on how the currently broken Internet can be fixed. Let's see what happens... - title: Bryan Cantrill and other blogs at DTrace.org url: http://dtrace.org/blogs/ feed: http://dtrace.org/blogs/feed/ description: |- A brilliant technologist and a good conference speaker who worked at Sun and Joyent (SmartOS), and now has founded a new startup (Oxide). Other blogs at DTrace.org are updated less frequently but usually are also interesting. - title: Monomythical Newsletter by: Nadia Asparouhova (Nadia Eghbal) url: https://nayafia.substack.com/archive feed: https://nayafia.substack.com/feed description: |- I've been following Nadia Eghbal's newsletter ever since I've read her [Roads and Bridges] essay. She provides a fresh view on the culture and communities I'm accustomed to. A lot of things she sees I was so used to seeing that I didn't ever acknowledge having seen them. [Roads and Bridges]: https://potyarkin.com/posts/2018/roads-and-bridges-sustaining-modern-digital-infrastructure/ - title: Nadia Eghbal's Blog by: Nadia Asparouhova (Nadia Eghbal) url: https://nadia.xyz/posts/ feed: https://nadia.xyz/feed.xml description: |- Another venue where Nadia Eghbal publishes her writings _(see Monomythical Newsletter above)_ - section: Politics blogs: - title: Scholar's Stage by: Tanner Greer url: https://scholars-stage.org/ feed: https://scholars-stage.org/feed/ description: |- Essays of a westerner living in China. Unexpected sides of Chinese and generally non-Western politics and economics. A lot of book reviews (non-fiction). - section: Uncategorized new blogs blogs: - title: maya.land url: https://maya.land/posts/ feed: https://maya.land/feed.xml description: |- Carefully curated personal web space. 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