Blogroll

Sites I read. Not an endorsement of everything on them. A few of these people and I would disagree sharply if we got into it, and that’s rather the point. They’re here because they write well and think for themselves.

brennan.day
Brennan Kenneth Brown writes personal essays, tech criticism, and pieces on Indigenous identity and the craft of writing, at a pace that puts the rest of us to shame. He and I would not agree on much, and I read him nearly every day anyway. His site is also the best argument I know for building your own.

James Zhan in real life
A Torontonian writing about tech, design, coffee, and whatever’s caught his attention that week. Sharp on typography and interface design, and his weeknotes are a good model for how to keep a blog going without every post being an essay.

Happily Imperfect
Gordon McLean has been blogging from Scotland for the better part of twenty years, covering family, work, Apple kit, films, and the occasional long piece about trying to stop striving quite so hard. Proof that a personal site can run for decades and still sound like a person.

Westenberg
Field notes on the machine age. Essays on technology and culture that don’t take the usual line, which is most of why I read them. Hosted on Substack, so it needs JavaScript and it will try to sign you up.

Sava.Rocks
A capsule of experiments, notes, and tutorials, published simultaneously over HTTPS, Gemini, Gopher, and finger, which tells you most of what you need to know. Good tinkering, and a reminder that there’s more than one internet.