Things which aside finds amusing, interesting, profound, baffling, absurd, or otherwise remarkable.
aggregators
- News Minimalist - Site which uses AI to rank news of significance and provide summaries.
- Tildes - An experiment by Deimos (Deimorz) to create a link aggregator/community with lessons taken from Reddit, particularly r/rheoryofreddit.
- QotNews - Read-only frontend Aggregator for a variety of websites including TIldes, Reddit, Hacker News, and Lobsters. Allows you to read the comments from those sites as well.
- TECHURLS and other URLS new aggregators by Browserling. Some of the feeds are broken, but it gives an overview of the news from lots of sources. The entire network of sites is a good place to find sources to seed the news categories of a RSS reader.
- TinyGem - Social bookmarking website, from the creators of the Kagi search engine. Unfortunately the user base is very small and there’s a resultant lack of the “social” aspect. It also means the submissions are very skewed.
- ooh.directory blogroll - a place to get started on finding weblogs on lots of different topics.
- Notado - Content-first bookmarking service. It’s free to see & follow public user bookmark feeds (via rss and web) without an account, but requires a paid subscription to create an account for bookmarking after a one month trial.
- see the developer’s feed for an idea of what usage looks like
- also see the developer’s blog posts about the service, particularly the one explaining the philosophy behind Notado and how it differs from other bookmarking/archiver services as it’s actually a knowledge management tool.
longform
- Wired Magazine
- The long tail - A remarkably prescient article from 2004 regarding media creation, consumption, and algorithmic recommendations.
- North Korea Stole Your Job - Details an ongoing fraud scheme run by the North Korean government where young IT workers get themselves into fully remote IT positions to siphon salaries, data, and upload malware.
- Carmakers are Embracing Physical Buttons Again - Most car drivers hate using touchscreens in their cars. Some manufacturers are going back to physical buttons, knobs. and switches.
- The Dream of the Metaverse is Dying, Manufacturing is Keeping it Alive - The consumer Metaverse is a flop, but the manufacturing industry finds digital representations of factories powered by Nvidia’s technology (spatial computing) invaluable due to the ability to coordinate and troubleshoot designs without needing to first put up the facilities in reality.
- A history of Visa and An overview of Visa - Two blogposts exploring the origins of the Visa payment network and how it was operating up to 2019.
- Bits about Money - Unique and professional longform articles by Patrick McKenzie regarding aspects of tech and finance in America and sometimes Japan.
- Piero Scaruffi’s knowledge base - one of the earliest websites, definitely qualifies as a digital garden
- The Ripe Stuff - Article from Distillations Magazine telling the history of the fruit industry and modern challenges producing, transporting, and selling fruit.
- Construction Physics - Longform writing by Brian Potter exploring construction, history, and data.
- Deep dive into a 20 year old GTA San Andreas bug popping up in Windows 11
shortform
- Movie Credit Boredom in Japan - Craig Mod writes about boredom during the Japanese cultural phenomenon of staying put and dead silent during the movie ending credit reels.
- UploadVR Editorial about Valve’s Frame VR headset which has some insight into Valve’s philosophy wrt their users and work on Linux.
news
- Google AI search shift leaves website makers feeling “betrayed” - Bloomberg article covering Google’s latest step towards becoming an oracle and its effect on sites focused on ad-supported authoritative content.
- The American physicians are healing themselves with Ozempic - NYT article examining the trend of doctors using weight-loss drugs in large numbers.