Sites
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A beautifully curated community of blogs, my main inspiration for blogging again. If my strong desire to build my own site wasn't there, this is where I would be.
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Search how it used to be and a company with a mission statement they seem to be sticking to. Kagi has an incentive to stay the good guys because if I have to pay for search and it starts to suck, I'll just go to something like ecosia
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Self-hosted google photos clone, and I mean it when I say clone. I moved off Google photos even during the beta days and never looked back.
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My wife started her own architecture company with her friend and I'm so excited to see it blossom. I need to help her with the site a bit...
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Still my favorite place to discover music, still runs on PHP and still delivers value on the weight of it's content and community
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An RSS discovery site that posts content daily of those who add themselves. I love this sort of thing and am thinking about building my own aggregator.
Tools
- Opencode - My favorite way to code with AI
- syncthing - peer-to-peer sync tool that behaves like Dropbox
- Kitty - Hardware accelerated terminal with just enough modern features like tabs and panes
- lazygit - Huge fan of the TUI trend, git gui in your terminal
- LazyVim - Batteries included neovim setup, I generally like everything it comes with
- Obsidian - It's primarily a note-taking app but I use it as a CMS for this blog, it's awesome
- Send - Send API and passwords securely without the raw secret being sent to the server
Books
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If you normally scoff at a self-help book then this book is for you. It offers no such advice on how to manage your time but a perspective on how limited our time is. Oliver has a writing style that makes the pages turn. Use this perspective to determine how you use it. It's significantly shaped my world view in multiple areas. I can't recommend it enough.
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SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming
If you work with databases I recommend this book but not for reasons you might think. This is the type of book that lays out common patterns, describes their pros and cons and allows you to make a pragmatic decision. I come back to this book often and it reminds me to keep things simple whenever I'm considering how to design relational schemas. I've bought 3 copies of it because I somehow keep losing them...
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I can't remember the last time I binge-read a book. It's fun, it's smart and cheesy. I had no idea it was the author behind one of my favorite movies The Martian. If you love that movie, there is a very good chance this book is for you.