These are blogs that I follow, read, or appreciate the content they are putting out.
Kev Quirk
Plainspoken thoughts on technology, privacy, independent blogging, and everyday life, with books and smallholding updates mixed in. Kev has opinions and isn’t shy about explaining them.
Happily Imperfect
Gordon McLean writes about life, music, fatherhood, technology, and getting older without pretending to have everything figured out. Reflective, often funny, and grounded in the ordinary things that make a life.
Unattributed
Detailed commentary on technology, AI, blogging, and the independent web, with occasional detours into music and personal life. Expect arguments that dig into how things work and whether they actually serve the people using them.
James Zhan in real life
James writes about technology, design, society, coffee, and the business of being a person. Practical app discussions sit alongside candid reflections on work, culture, and creative life.
Brennan Kenneth Brown
Personal essays on writing, Indigenous issues, technology, and building a more human web. Brennan brings strong convictions and a willingness to connect personal experience with bigger questions about how we live online.
Hamish Campbell
An activist’s perspective on the open web, grassroots media, and the politics behind our technology. His Open Media Network project runs through much of the writing, along with pointed criticism of corporate platforms and the habits we carry into their alternatives.
Nikhil’s Blog
Reflections on relationships, ambition, solitude, and the contradictions of human behavior. Nikhil takes familiar advice and uncomfortable feelings and gives you something to argue with or recognize in yourself.
candyether.space
An informal personal journal about online communities, creativity, technology, and finding a place on the small web. The writing is candid and deliberately unpolished, with plenty of conversation back and forth with other bloggers.
Sava.Rocks
Linux, self-hosting, old hardware, and small-web experiments from someone who clearly enjoys tinkering. Practical tutorials and personal updates share space with Gemini, Gopher, and finding new uses for equipment other people might throw away.
HackerBlog
The personal corner of a programmer with interests in Raspberry Pis, gaming, hobby game development, and camping. Casual, handwritten, and happy to leave the typos in.
Dead Parrot BBS
Essays on computing history, the independent web, and older technologies that still have something useful to offer. From BBS culture and software ownership to plain text and the command line, it asks what we gained, what we lost, and what was never really broken.
Online Goddess
Online Goddess is Becky's cosy corner of the indie web. From a 16th-century cottage in the British countryside, she writes candidly about family life with two autistic boys, coffee, gardening, and pets, alongside thoughtful takes on blogging, web design, and tech.
ByteHaven
A software engineer’s take on technology, privacy, gaming, and the ways big tech makes life harder for its users. Opinionated commentary sits alongside practical accounts of self-hosting and building a home server.