# read watched (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover read watched. Page: Feed: --- ## [When geopolitics enters the tech stack](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/when-geopolitics-enters-the-tech) _2026-08-18 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ How standards bodies can help companies navigate a world of competing technical and regulatory regimes. ## [21 Questions and Answers about Classics](https://theclassicslist.substack.com/p/21-questions-and-answers-about-classics) _2026-08-12 · Esther · The Classics List_ A personal list about classic books. ## [Europe’s standards paradox](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/europes-standards-paradox) _2026-08-05 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ National ambition is weakening the coordination that made Europe a global standards power. ## [a postcard.](https://theclassicslist.substack.com/p/a-postcard) _2026-08-05 · Esther · The Classics List_ a little hello from the Swedish countryside. ## [The Radical Honesty of Annie Ernaux](https://theclassicslist.substack.com/p/the-radical-honesty-of-annie-ernaux) _2026-07-29 · Esther · The Classics List_ The weight of one summer in A Girl's Story ## [The Cyprus Commitment, a direction without a destination](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/the-cyprus-commitment-a-direction) _2026-07-21 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ How Europe’s standardization agreement talks about transformation, not about how Europe should use standards to shape markets. ## [10 Ways to Make Reading Fun](https://theclassicslist.substack.com/p/10-ways-to-make-reading-fun) _2026-07-15 · Esther · The Classics List_ Simple ideas to add more whimsy and joy to your reading life. ## [When standards go parallel](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/when-standards-go-parallel) _2026-07-09 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ Strategic architectures beyond WTO TBT and the Geneva‑based institutions. ## [A Postcard from June](https://theclassicslist.substack.com/p/a-postcard-from-june) _2026-07-01 · Esther · The Classics List_ Everything I read, watched, and loved during June. ## [SMART to 2029, urgency to 2024](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/smart-to-2029-urgency-to-2024) _2026-06-24 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ How a SMART roadmap to 2029 collides with immediate pressures on access, IP and the economics of standards. ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QeqArHSZcOeq) _2026-06-24 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [How To Read Classics](https://theclassicslist.substack.com/p/how-to-read-classics) _2026-06-17 · Esther · The Classics List_ A practical guide for readers who want to start exploring classic books ## [The Unstandardized Digest #8](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/the-unstandardized-digest-8) _2026-06-15 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ A selection of what I read, watched or listened to recently. ## [Your Summer Reading List of Classic & Modern Classics](https://theclassicslist.substack.com/p/your-summer-reading-list-of-classic) _2026-06-10 · Esther · The Classics List_ From sunlit escapes to late-night pages, a curated stack of stories for long summer days ## [The Books Waiting on My Shelves](https://theclassicslist.substack.com/p/the-books-waiting-on-my-shelves) _2026-06-03 · Esther · The Classics List_ My 2026 reading pile, decades in the making ## [May in the Garden](https://theclassicslist.substack.com/p/may-in-the-garden) _2026-05-27 · Esther · The Classics List_ Quiet days, creative beginnings, and the books and shows that shaped my month ## [Why You Should Read Classics](https://theclassicslist.substack.com/p/why-you-should-read-classics) _2026-05-20 · Esther · The Classics List_ Part 1 of a new series exploring how to read, enjoy, and understand classics in the modern age ## [The Unstandardized Digest #7](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/the-unstandardized-digest-7) _2026-04-30 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ A selection of what I read, watched or listened to recently. ## [Reflections on business model innovation in standardization](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/reflections-on-business-model-innovation) _2026-04-06 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ Why decades of "transformation" left standards bodies financially more fragile than ever, and what they can do about it. ## [European standardization and the illusion of invisible power](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/european-standardization-and-the) _2026-03-27 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ When the world is competing to own the rules, invisibility is not a strategy. ## [Shuttle](https://ewintr.nl/flash-fiction/2026/shuttle/) _2026-03-16 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Oven of stone. Street after street, not a single tree or shrub in sight. Stone and asphalt everywhere, dead weeds between the paving. Rows and rows of bricks that, swept up by the fierce sun, assault you from all sides with a radiating heat. My head is about to explode. Susan is flushed red. Sweat streams down her neck, but she walks with more ease than I do. Calmer. More determined, too. The last… ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QHAuhsO6CwRE) _2026-03-15 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## [Why a fragmented world rewrites the rules of standardization](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/why-a-fragmented-world-rewrites-the) _2026-03-01 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ Possible scenarios and strategies for the sustainability of standards bodies. ## [Good AI Prompting](https://jasonneilsoto.com/good-ai-prompting/) _2026-02-17 · jasonneilsoto · Jason Soto | Operations & Systems_ Notes from the Google IT Security course on Coursera, which included a module titled, "Streamline Workflows with AI." Prompting is the input you provide the AI model to generate a desired response. A strong AI prompt follows the T-C-R-E-I framework, which is: Task Context References Evaluate Iterate You can remember these AI prompting steps through the mnemonic phrase: Thoughtfully Create Really… ## [Weekly Notes 2/8–14/2026](https://jasonneilsoto.com/weekly-notes-28142026/) _2026-02-12 · jasonneilsoto · Jason Soto | Operations & Systems_ The following are a list of things I've read or watched this week that stood out. The summaries are AI generated through Perplexity. Reading List Something Big is Happening by Matt Shumer Matt Shumer argues that we are at the early, “this seems overblown” stage of an AI transformation that will soon feel larger and faster than the Covid shock of 2020. He describes how recent AI models (like… ## [Case Study: From "Zero Infrastructure" to Full Corporate Compliance](https://jasonneilsoto.com/case-study-from-zero-infrastructure-to-full-corporate-compliance/) _2026-02-06 · jasonneilsoto · Jason Soto | Operations & Systems_ The Challenge In early 2022, I took over as CEO of a non-profit organization that was separating from a larger parent entity. The organization had the external façade of independence but lacked all internal operational infrastructure. The Situation: Zero Financial Autonomy: The organization had no independent bank account, accounting system, or payroll structure. Funding Crisis: The parent… ## [Weekly Notes 2/1–7/2026](https://jasonneilsoto.com/weekly-notes-2172026/) _2026-02-05 · jasonneilsoto · Jason Soto | Operations & Systems_ The following are a list of things I've read or watched this week that stood out. The summaries are AI generated through Perplexity. Reading List The Adolescence of Technology by Dario Amodei This essay argues that humanity is entering a perilous “technological adolescence” with AI: a period where we gain near‑unimaginable power through “powerful AI” systems—akin to a “country of geniuses in a… ## [Link #2025-42 - My First Kernel Patch](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/my-first-kernel-patch-vkovskiv-com/) _2025-10-10 · ewintr · (untitled)_ My First Kernel Patch - vkovskiv.com An inspiring write-up of the quest to get the multimedia keys on a 20 year-old laptop working under Linux. I don't really know C and I definitely don't know anything about kernel development, but I could follow this and I immediately felt encouraged to undertake something similar. Knowing myself this feeling will wear off in a day or two. Fortunately.… ## [Links #2025-41 - Seven links and some contemplation](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-41/) _2025-10-06 · ewintr · (untitled)_ You wouldn't know it from the amount of links I can present to you this week, but life, or more specifically work, has been very busy lately. As a result I have not given nearly enough attention to these weekly posts for some time now. One would think nothing is more simple than to put a couple of links in a list and hit publish. And one would be right. After I removed the short introductions… ## [Links #2025-39 - Spy, watch, and explore](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-39/) _2025-09-22 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link - kennedn.com My Watchy OS - robey.lag.net Exploring Concurrency Issues with Philosophers and Go - clustersandcoffee.substack.com ## [Links #2025-38 - Early return, brilliant UTF-8 and Strudel](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-38/) _2025-09-15 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Early return and goroutine leak - rednafi.com UTF-8 is a Brilliant Design - iamvishnu.com 2 Minute Deep Acid in Strudel (from scratch) - www.youtube.com ## [Links #2025-37 - IRC and a Secret Web](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-37/) _2025-09-08 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Internet Relay Chat. - www.youtube.com A Secret Web - blog.clew.se ## [AI QA That Opens Fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/NFZ7IsU3cUuZ) _2025-09-07 · **Sponsored**_ Runs browser QA, files issues with repro evidence, and opens fix PRs. ## [Links #2025-36 - Hard loads, the Enter key, and doubts](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-36/) _2025-09-01 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Who's Afraid of a Hard Page Load? - unplannedobsolescence.com The day Return became Enter - aresluna.org Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine - マリウス.com ## [Links #2025-35 - IBM i, NAPTR, and Anubis](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-35/) _2025-08-25 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. From Clouds to Classics: Revisiting IBM i - www.tara.sh Preventing NAPTR Spam - shkspr.mobi This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad - vim.gabornyeki.com Anubis. - lock.cmpxchg8b.com Code Review Can Be Better - tigerbeetle.com ## [Links #2025-34 - Art, adventures, and neural embeddings](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-34/) _2025-08-18 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Nerdkunst: Gentle and interactive introduction to generative art (WHY2025) - media.ccc.de Evaluating LLMs Playing Text Adventures - entropicthoughts.com Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings - blog.wilsonl.in what is the go proxy even doing? - flak.tedunangst.com… ## [Links #2025-33 - Burning and scrabbling](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-33/) _2025-08-11 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises - julsimon.medium.com Writing a Text Editor - Computerphile - www.youtube.com ## [Links #2025-32 - Chatting, racing and multiplexing](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-32/) _2025-08-04 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. A dive into open chat protocols - wiki.alopex.li Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot - doublefree.dev you might not need tmux - bower.sh The Hype is the Product - rys.io ## [Unix is my private cloud IDE - part 1: introduction](https://ewintr.nl/posts/2025/unix-is-my-private-cloud-ide-part-1-introduction/) _2025-08-02 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Saying that your development environment should be simple and productive is like saying you like good food and that you enjoy nice holidays. That is, it isn't saying anything at all. Of course you enjoy a nice holiday. You wouldn't call it nice if you didn't enjoy it, right? Explaining what exactly the words 'simple' and 'productive' mean to you may take some… ## [Links #2025-30 - Bedrock, magazines, and OOPs](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-30/) _2025-07-21 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Bedrock - benbridle.com How I Make Personalised Mini Magazines At Home - blog.decryption.net.au What if your laptop had a FOSS firmware? - thelibre.news Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025 - www.youtube.com Yes, it is a video of two-and-a-half hours. Go watch it anyway.… ## [Links #2025-29 - FOKS, Shazam, and Epsilon wrangling](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-29/) _2025-07-14 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Trying To Find Meaning In Owning An Old Mac - blog.decryption.net.au systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success - blog.tjll.net Announcing FOKS, the Federated Open Key Service - blog.foks.pub You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log - words.filippo.io I Recreated Shazam's Algorithm from… ## [Links #2025-28 - Analog computer synthesizer, voice acting, and tee](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-28/) _2025-07-07 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. How to turn your favourite Analog Computer into a Synthesizer - media.ccc.de You MUST listen to RFC 2119 - ericwbailey.website Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection - ericdaigle.ca Prefer tee -a, not \>\>, in CI - huonw.github.io ## [Links #2025-27 - Shaders, reverbs, and bash](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-27/) _2025-06-30 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Future-proofing my blog for an AI audience - george.mand.is Modeling the World in 280 Characters - tympanus.net Sound Chip, whisper me your secrets! - media.ccc.de A CRDT-based Messenger in 12 Lines of Bash Using a Synced Folder - holdtherobot.com My Lights Run on Bash - kramkow.ski MCP: An (Accidentally)… ## [Links #2025-26 - malloc, trackers, and a punch](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-26/) _2025-06-23 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Note: I am dropping my introductions to the links and return to just putting them in a list. I am not convinced that my blabbing added that much value. The posts should speak for themselves. If they don't, I'll take that as a signal that they don't actually belong here. phkmalloc - phk.freebsd.dk… ## [Links #2025-25 - Atari games, ripped CDs, and toys](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-25/) _2025-06-17 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. A meta comment: I ran out of time this week and planned on skipping this installment of the weekly links. But I did come across some interesting content, so I figured I'd send it anyway, only without comments. Finding Atari Games in Randomly Generated Data - bbenchoff.github.io Why Does My Ripped CD Have… ## [Links #2025-24 - Errors, fatigue, and haunting tech debt](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-24/) _2025-06-09 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. \[ On | No \] syntactic support for error handling - go.dev The Go team announced that they will no longer try to improve the error handling syntax. I think this is a good thing. If after so many attempts, they talk about hundreds of proposals, nothing better has come up, it is time to stop. But then again, I never… ## [Links #2025-23 - A font, a date, and a loop](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-23/) _2025-06-02 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. I made a font - blog.chay.dev I appreciate a good font, even though it's not something you usually notice. Some fonts just work, and other... well they don’t. Creating a new one is not easy, that much I knew. But I had no idea that you even had to think about optical illusions too. This blog post details how… ## [Links #2025-22 - Glasses, puzzles, and brains](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-22/) _2025-05-26 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Coding Without a Laptop - Two Weeks with AR Glasses and Linux on Android - holdtherobot.com This post is light on details of the actual experience, but it sounds intriguing. Instead of using an ordinary laptop, take your phone, a pair of AR glasses and a keyboard and go outside. Sit on a bench in the sun and start… ## [Links #2025-21 - Agents, characters, and onions](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-21/) _2025-05-19 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. How to Build an Agent or: The Emperor Has No Clothes - ampcode.com OpenAI paid 3 billion dollars for Windsurf, an AI coding tool. While creating and running a cloud service used by 400 million users is slightly more involved than running a simple Go app, this post shows how such an agent works under the hood, by… ## [Links #2025-20 - Prompts, a curse, and time](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-20/) _2025-05-12 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. I'd rather read the prompt - claytonwramsey.com Amazed as I am by the technology, I find myself using LLMs for all kinds of purposes, but the actual writing of code and prose is something I tend to keep to myself. After all, who knows my thoughts and ideas better than me? In this post, an instructor lists and… ## [Links #2025-19 - Alphabet soup, Kafka, and ed](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-19/) _2025-05-05 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. What the heck is AEAD again? - ochagavia.nl Cryptography is basically pure alphabet soup. But this one is worth knowing more about. Knowledge-based society, my ass - mihaiolteanu.me This must have been written by a distant cousin of Kafka. Go read Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and then come… ## [Links #2025-18 - Wii hosting, a boiler, and horseless carriages](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-18/) _2025-04-28 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii - blog.infected.systems Another exercise in minimalism. Hosting a web server on NetBSD on a Wii. From afar the Wii looks a bit like a toaster, so of course NetBSD runs on it. Attacking My Landlord's Boiler - blog.videah.net Hacking with SDRs always sounds interesting, but… ## [Links #2025-17 - TLS Checks, retro computing, and Forgejo PRs](https://ewintr.nl/linklog/2025/links-2025-17/) _2025-04-21 · ewintr · (untitled)_ Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end. Checking TLS Certificates with OpenSSL from Terminal - entropicthoughts.com Not earth-shattering news, but useful to know. You can use openssl to inspect online certificates from the commandline. openssl is one of those programs that has a ton of useful functions and options that mostly remain undiscovered by me,…