This sort of thing used to be called a “blogroll”. Nowadays it’s more like a laundry list of the sites, blogs, feeds and other stuff I’ve found interesting on the web at some point or another.
Blogs
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Diary of Samuel Pepys
https://www.pepysdiary.com/
A fascinating look back on day-to-day life in the 1600s. It’s the blog I’m most excited to read in my RSS Reader ready, and it even inspired by John Evelyn project.
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Side Of Burritos
https://sideofburritos.com/
The privacy and security guru I love to keep up to date with. He’s a great Youtuber and super friendly over email too.
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Minutes to Midnight
https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/
Simone writes about tech, the RSS world and other interesting subjects. He also inspired this blogroll.
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Manuel Moreale's Blog
https://manuelmoreale.com/
A beautiful blog. I especially enjoy his “People and Blogs” series where he interviews other bloggers.
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Floris Van den Abeele's Blog
https://vdna.be/site/
I love the simple design and technical content to Floris’s blog. Especially the post and approach to Borg backup.
Internet Tools
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Proton
https://proton.me/
The suite of Proton tools are great, especially Mail. Secure and private IMO. OSS and usually a good UX also. The only caveat is that some features are lacking, and I would not recommend having all your important services under one account or provider, especially secret/password management.
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Feedbin
https://feedbin.com/
An open-source, but paid, RSS reader service that works on all OS’s. It’s relatively pirvate and secure IMO based on the source and it’s in-house hosting.
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1Password
https://1password.com
Secret/password management. It does one thing and does it well. It’s secure and private in my review of the white-papers and an excellent product. The extra software development features like SSH key agent etc are great also.
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Duck Duck Go
https://duckduckgo.com/
A mostly private search engine with an independent index. Startpage is also useful if you need more Google-like results without the Google part.
Philosophy
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Orion Philosophy
https://www.orionphilosophy.com/
Tobias writes extremely well and has a solid and engaging grasp on modern living though Greco-Roman Stoic philosophy, among others. See his writing about ataraxia.
Software
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Sublime Text
https://www.sublimetext.com/
I’ve used a bunch of IDEs including VS Code for two years and vim for five years. I simply keep coming back to ST3. It simply cannot be beaten for a beautiful environment for software development.
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Obsidian
https://obsidian.md/
A super nice writing and PKB/personal wiki app. Available on all OS’s, it can be a super clean and minimal or super maximal and complicated you decide.
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Linux Mint
https://linuxmint.com/
My daily driver for 15+ years (excl. a few distro hops). It’s rock solid and power-user focused Linux and Desktop Environment. It may have been branded a “noob distro” by the community but in my experience you can’t beat it for stability and functionality as a technical person. Although, I am keeping an eye on >= Debian Bookwork and Vanilla OS 2 too.
A link to a site does not necessarily suggest a personal endorsement of the content provided on that site. I may have just found some content of note at some point and sometimes I’m just interested in reading an alternative opinion to my own.