I Want You to Understand Chicago
A picture of Chicago from someone who loves it. Read this and be ready. oglink: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago
A curated collection of links worth visiting - interesting reads mostly from the indieweb. Click through to read some of my thoughts (I promise to be short) and get the link!
A picture of Chicago from someone who loves it. Read this and be ready. oglink: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago
Robert shared about his music setup this weekend as well. It uses a combo of Roon and Qobuz and I appreciate his thoughts on not being a musical packrat! oglink: https://www.canneddragons.net/cleaning-out-my-closet/
I feel this. It's worse and or more complicated when friend equals family. Regardless this is an accurate summation of America right now. oglink: https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/life-as-an-average-american-right-now/
Appreciate a lot what Cory has done here. This is an unprecedented time that demands to be documented. Things like this help that that process immensely. oglink: https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/analyzing-the-domains-and-sites-of-an-authoritarian-regime
I love reading about peoples systems they develop for themselves. Ben's plaintext management system is great! Go give it a read! oglink: https://bentsai.org/posts/text-is-best
All of these privacy and security tips are useful! You might know some or all but try to incorporate any you don't know! oglink: https://blog.phunky.tech/2025/08/privacy-and-security-tips-for-the-average-person
Love reading detailed setups like this. John's detailing of what it takes to host a delta chat relay is great reading and is inspiring me to consider trying as well... oglink: https://runtimeterror.dev/self-hosted-chatmail-relay-for-delta-chat/#fn:2
I love this reflection on blogging. It's beautifully written and captures some of what it feels like to blog and maintain a "fortress". oglink: https://meadow.cafe/blog/a-fortress-called-blog/
Love this missive from Nick about how he uses omg.lol! Check his out while I consider writing my own! oglink: https://www.nicksimson.com/posts/2025-how-i-omglol.html
Last week's reflections about Bob Sutton's bookย The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't reminded m... oglink: https://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2025/07/it-should-not-be-so-among-you.html
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