JUnited is all about supporting other bloggers (and their work) that I've come to appreciate. Some may know that I exist, while others... probably don't. My goal is to showcase 30 different bloggers1 throughout the month of June in this page.
Lately, I have been particularly struck by the writings of those who are autistic. They may have great difficulty being understood in the every-day world among their family, acquaintances, and fellow students or coworkers, but many seem to have little difficulty recording their emotions in text. In this medium, they share brilliantly the pain of their isolation among fellow beings that do not and likely never will understand them. They reveal their suffering in words that cannot be ignored. These are intelligent people whose very human writings often shine with emotion and understanding.
The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to "Take Off" — Susam Pal
There's a corner of the Internet where people have been reclaiming their digital independence by hosting their own websites and promoting the idea of owning your own content—it's called the IndieWeb. This community has its own website, IRC channels, social media presence, and more, all dedicated to the idea that individuals should control their own digital presence through personal websites.
The fewer requirements we have, the less of a burden these requirements become. The more often we have the same thing every day, the more likely they are to become a requirement.
This isn’t a prescription for how to live your life, but just something to consider.
Personal website of Gwern Branwen (writer, self-experimenter, and programmer): topics: psychology, statistics, technology, deep learning, anime. This index page is a categorized list of Gwern.net pages.
Bionic Reading® — You are unique. Bionic Reading® is unique. And that’s a good thing. Because there is only one company and reading method called Bionic Reading®. And we are from Switzerland.
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of blogs I enjoy reading.
Anton Zhiyanov
Brandon Rhodes
Brandur
Charity Majors
Dan Luu
Drew DeVault’s Blog
Fabien Sanglard’s Website
Harmful Stuff
Hynek Schlawack
Joel on Software
John Gruber
Julia Evans
Preslav Rachev
Simon Willison’s Weblog
What would you write to ten thousand people?
Kleroteria is an email lottery. Periodically, a subscriber - who may remain anonymous - is randomly chosen to write to all the other subscribers.
Kleroteria is an email lottery. Periodically, a subscriber - who may remain anonymous - is randomly chosen to write to all the other subscribers.
Their emails can be about anything. On The Listserve, Kleroteria’s spiritual predecessor, posts included personal stories, poems, and requests for advice. One winner used their post to organize an impromptu picnic.
Personal website manifestos. I’ve been meaning to write some kind of Important Thinkpiece™ on the glory days of the early internet, but every time I sit down to do it, I find another, better piece that someone else has already written. So for now, here’s a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun.”
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