Greetings weary hyperspacelink traveler, welcome to shellsharks dot com, a world of whimsy, infosec, technology, life, and of course, sharks! Now that you’re here, have a byte and refuel, maybe partake in some interstellarweb idea trade (e.g. email me about somethin’!), and when you’re ready to depart, I offer many <a> portal outward and onward, into the expanse of space the web!

I love links. They brought you here afterall! They will inevitably carry you elsewhere… They are portals to worlds immeasurable.

So yeah, let me tell ya, I’m a straight-up, certified, link fiend! Every single day I scroll through my feeds, finding, skimming & bookmarking tons of links. To places I want to share, to places I want to explore, to places I want to save and to places I will link to from this site, for your scrolling pleasure.

If you’ve been around here long you know how much I like to link to things too. Shellsharks is unlike most places on the web in that way in my humble opinion. My system for writing compels me to enrich what I write with copious links, finding every opportunity to add context and connect elsewhere, both here on this site, and to the web beyond. Contrast that with a “normal” web site. One that has at best, a sprinkling of links on any given page, and in too many cases, has a hard time even linking to source material, much less bonus or extra material.

Since the beginning, I’ve always said “what I publish here is a reference for myself…”. For me, that’s always meant adding as much as I could to my writing to help me best understand the topic at hand, both at that time, and more importantly, into the future. As I do a lot of research, this naturally means linking, and giving credit to, the vast array of sites that have contributed to my own words and understanding. This site is literally a second-brain for me in that way. For as much time as I spend elsewhere on the web, I easily spend even more time here, reading stuff I’ve already written about, trying to remember something, or looking for something I’ve said in the past to share with others.

Links mean a lot to me in how I use this site as a resource, and how I navigate its halls. But it also serves as a nice way to send traffic to other awesome places on the web. Places I’ve traveled and got something from, places I hope others travel to and enjoy. I know I personally like to see my site linked to from elsewhere. It’s a great li’l endorphine boost!

For finding stuff and generally traveling across the Internet, web search has long ruled supreme. But as the hegemonic search providers collapse into AI summary blackholes, voids that let no light links escape, we must learn to navigate without them. (Literally, search providers have suggested removing links in search results and replacing them with only AI summaries).

So yeah, start a blog, write cool stuff, browse the IndieWeb and link to the cool articles and sites you find. Find a site or an author you really like? Link to it in a blogroll! Find a ton of stuff and just wanna share a bunch of links regularly? Try something like this!

Here’s a li’l list of things you can do with links…

Because this is post all about how great links are, here’s some great links…

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