Links

Sites I actually read and return to. A blogroll is an editorial act — these are vouched for, not algorithmic.

People

• Adam Savage's Tested — making things, workshop builds, curiosity as a practice
• Alistair Mavin — EARS requirements syntax

Tools and tech

• JotBird — paste Markdown, get a shareable URL, no account
• Oh No Type Company — the type foundry behind Swear Display
• Cloudflare Radar — internet traffic and trends, live
• ZeroFS — 9P server for S3, mount your bucket as a filesystem
• Nu HTML Checker — W3C HTML validator, runs locally or as a service
• axe-scan — accessibility scanner, automated a11y testing

Interesting things

• The Hardware Architecture of the CRISP Microprocessor — AT&T Bell Labs CRISP chip architecture paper
• Wayback Machine — the internet's memory
• If AI is so good at coding, where are the open source contributions? — the question that answers itself
• Ken Thompson on Plan 9 — "the best operating system out there" but will "never make it, ever, ever."
• The Agentic Last Mile Identity Problem — Grant Miller on why AI agents fail at legacy systems, and how identity, context, and delegation protect enterprise deployments

RSS

• harper.blog — indie web, RSS advocacy, owning your content