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Art & Artists

50 Watts - A growing archive of weird and wonderful visual ephemera from around the world.
Austin Kleon - Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. He’s the bestselling author of Steal Like An Artist and other books.
Gwenn Seemel - Humanist artist who makes art where you want to know the people who love it and buy it. Uncopyright advocate.
David Revoy - Artist, Instructor, using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009
Lost Art Press - The lost art of woodworking
John P. Weiss Fine Art - Police Captain turned Artist who paints, draws cartoons, and shoots photography
The School of the Transfer of Energy - A farmer who also happens to be a talented woodworker, painter, musician, and puppeteer
Full Moon Fiber Art — My Art, My Life - Stories and photos from an artist working out of a 150 year old school house on a farm
Lucy Bellwood - The online home of Adventure Cartoonist Lucy Bellwood
David Fisher, Carving Explorations - With traditional edge tools, I carve green logs and branches into bowls, spoons, and containers.
Steve Best - Art directed blog posts still going strong

Blogrolls & Search

The Big List of Personal Websites - Not so big but cool hand-compiled list of personal blogs
Indieweb.xyz - A blog syndication service organized by topic
How to surf the web - Retro-guide on how to surf the web the original way
Gossip’s Web - Directory of hand built websites
Blog Surf - List of personal blogs, mostly tech/developer type
Link Lane - Small list of blogs since 2004
Search My Site - Open source search engine for personal and independent websites
i.webthings hub - Massive curated link "hub" and blog. Hard to categorize but intriguing.
Nightfall City - Nightfall is a virtual city that lets you meet and interact with others through your Gemini or web feed.
Wiby - Old school search engine in the vein of the web of old
IndieWeb Search - Search web sites published by members of the IndieWeb community and related sites

Digital Gardens

Derek’s Digital Garden - A lighthearted, "rough around the edges" blog/digital garden by an Ukrainian blogger
Tracy Durnell – Learning and Thinking in Public - Eclectic "mind-garden" in blog format sharing her stream of thoughts

Economics & Finance

Bits about Money - I write on tech, finance, and the wonky geekery that underlies the modern world.
Moneyness - Thinking about money is more interesting than making money
Marginal REVOLUTION - Small steps toward a much better world

Film & Entertainment

Ben Oliver - A series of personal thoughts that has devolved into mostly movie reviews.
Stephen Follows - I do a number of different things, most of which are related to the film industry and/or storytelling.

Food & Drink

James’ Coffee Blog - I share my thoughts on all things coffee and I interview people who work in coffee, with a particular emphasis on the Scottish coffee industry.
The Widow Badass Blog - This blog is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
a whisk and a spoon - Professional sweet tooth - connoisseur of fine cake
Appellation Beer - Considering beer from and of a place

Graphics & Design

Silvia Maggi Design - An expert in HTML, CSS and designing using web standards since 2004, I make websites using Jekyll and WordPress. Curator of the inspiration series Design, Digested.
Peter Rukavina’s Weblog - I write here about topics including technology, design, printing, travel and Prince Edward Island.
Interconnected - I blog to speculate about the future of technology, design, and society.
Simon Collison - Well-meaning waffle since 2003.

History

Going Medieval – Medieval History, Pop Culture, Swearing - I specialise in late medieval sexuality, apocalyptic thought, propaganda, and the urban experience in general
Sphinx - Exploring Antiquity and Modernity with Neville Morley
Good Optics - A blog about history, philosophy, and effective altruism
Samuel Pepys: Diary, Letters, Family Tree, Maps, Encyclopedia, Discussion and more

Homesteading

Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness - Practical advice for off-gridders, homesteaders, preppers. 40 years off-grid homesteading experience.
Bedlam Farm Journal - Bedlam Farm in New England is where I live, write and tend to my animals
The Re-Farmer – Sometimes, you need to go back, to go forward. - Tales from a Canadian who grew up on a farm, moved to the city and ended up back on the farm decades later.
The Summer Hillstead - Our home and haven in the Laurel Ridge valley
Dream Valley Farmstead - Journal of a coupla' fair-weather farmsteaders
Granola Shotgun - Stories about urbanism, adaptation and resilience
Hearthwilde – At Home With Nature - I live on a small farm in NE Utah where I explore the intersections of nature and health, through gardening, food, and daily life.

Music & Audio

Less Than 1,000 Followers - Supporting unknown bands since 2017
Disquiet - Listening to art. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code. Rewinding the soundscape.
hip hop isn’t dead - Music commentary from a fan who refuses to let the genre die already. Also, some other stuff.
The Red Hand Files - You can ask me anything. There will be no moderator. This will be between you and me. Let's see what happens.

Personal

Chris Aldrich - A digital commonplace book on IndieWeb, mathematics, engineering, biology, research, education, & more
Minutes to Midnight - Music production, bass playing and using web standard to code for the web.
simply. - it’s personal. and micro. — simply.
Winnie Lim - A hauntingly beautifully written blog documenting a life struggling with health & existence w/forays into philosophy.
kottke.org - Home of one of the oldest blogs on the internet since 1998
Mario Villalobos - Operates under the philosophy that to truly understand life, one must attack it from many different angles.
Jonathan Wrote This - Every day adventures, thoughts, hopes, dreams, frustrations and annoyances of a software developer
Piper Haywood — If lost, please return - I’m an independent web developer with a lot of interests.
Rubenerd - I adore vintage computer hardware, writing in coffee shops in the mid-morning, and non-fiction books.
beetleypete - The musings of a Londoner, now living in Norfolk
CJ Chilvers - A writer and photographer from the Chicago area who writes about creativity, publishing and time management
Manu – I write - Italian freelance developer and blogger since 2017
Kicks Condor - Leeching and linking in the hypertext kingdom
This day’s portion - A blog about the web, books, politics and other bits and pieces.
Kelake - Clark MacLeod's banal weblog, journal and personal reference tool since 1999
Om Malik – On my Om - Meditations on technology, science, future, life, and photography
Charlie Bleecker - Welcome to my online nook, where honest reflections cut through insecurities and bullshit.
Colin Devroe - I think a lot about photography, blogging, early stage start-ups, and outdoor activities.
Craig Mod - Craig Mod is writing, photographing, making books, and walking
Exile Lifestyle - I spend most of my time learning, making things I hope will be of value, and striving to grow as a person
Daniel Sisson - Thoughts on the future, life, business, and random things
Musings from a Tangled Mind - Relating with you through the communication of experiences and emotions
Brain Baking - A polymath who loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning.
Chris Coyier - Personal blog of the dude behind the long running CSS Tricks site.
Gingerly - An old GenX'er doing her best. Classy, sassy and a bit bad assy. Likely very tired.
Finding Cooper’s Voice - Welcome to the secret world of nonverbal Autism. It is sad, funny, hopeful and heartbreaking. And incredibly real.
CIMPLE - A curious introvert's musings & photos about life and enjoyment
Jamie’s Notes - I like tea, terminals and the internet. This is my weblog and digital garden.
inhab.it – lived in places - About places, their growth from vague names, dots on maps, stars, homes of mysterious figures, and locations in books
The Written Addiction - Where I go to leave pieces of me.
bottledaux - About EVERYTHING.
Heed Not The Rolling Wave - Adam writes about the intersection of politics, culture and technology, with a soft spot for fringe ideas.
Mahima Vashisht – Womaning in India - What everyday life is like as a woman in India
lucasdidthis - A very subjective and infrequent publication about technology, design, music, art and life.
Lazybear - Random thoughts on privacy, life
Ali Reza Hayati’s thoughts and comments - Thoughts and comments on technology, privacy, society, and other stuff
Teacher Tom - Sharing beautiful wisdom learned from teaching preschoolers
Cam Pegg - The mostly random thoughts of an Aussie expat in NYC
Oatmeal — digital pillow fort - Personal blog exploring a variety of topics
Oceanic Wilderness - A journal of nature, hiking, the garden, and life!
Ham ‘N Eggs - If you are looking for listicles and couponing tips you are in the wrong place.
Velveteen Rabbi - Now running and playing with the real rabbis!
The Bounding Box - Bounding Box is the quasi-regular blog of journeyman bureaucrat and loosely-informed opinionator Tobias Revell
Robert N. Winter - Muse & Reason loosely divided into the themes of history, philosophy, politics, social comment and technology.
gilest dot org - I’m a writer and communication consultant. I think a lot about clarity, and about how and why organisations should think out loud.
K-Squared Ramblings - Sci-fi, comics, humor, photos...it's all fair game.
Darice de Cuba - Subjects that piques my interests mostly about accessibility and websites

Photography

35hunter - Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
The Online Photographer - Daily news website for photo enthusiasts, in blog format from a variety of photographers
Graham’s Island - Life on the Big Island of Hawaii in the form of a daily photojournal
Atlas Minor • James A. Reeves - Snapshots of melancholy gas stations. Dispatches from the archives. Reverberated soundtracks. Searching for faith in the digital age.
Shutter Open - I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking...
Astro Anarchy - Finnish visual artist and astrophotographer - "Revealing the hidden beauty of our universe is my passion."
sean bonner dot com - Author, artist and activist (also writes about NFTs from artist perspective)
Somewhere in Japan - Somewhere in Japan is a long-term personal project in learning how to tell the stories I want to tell in the ways I want to tell them.
Denise Bush’s Photo Blog - My passion for photography has rewarded me with the opportunity to examine the world carefully, to really look, and to see.
charlene winfred – looking and hopefully seeing - Born in Singapore, spent more than two decades living, working and traveling extensively elsewhere in the world.
David duChemin - Photographer, author, and adventurer.
Island in the Net - casual photography | cyber security | life
aows - black and white photography
Nick Tauro Jr. - I am a visual artist and self-publisher. Image making is my life; it's my passion.

Poets & Writers & Books

Discombobulated - Mum, geek, writer. Software discombobulator. Insect rescuer. Cat box /child den constructor. Experimental desserts a specialty.
The Marginalian – Marginalia on our search for meaning. - A one-woman labor of love, exploring what it means to live a decent, inspired, substantive life of purpose and gladness since 2006.
Random Notes - An occasionally-updated collection of thoughts and notes that come from the mind and keyboard of writer and essayist Scott Nesbitt
Whatever - Raw thoughts from a writer (and his daughter now and then) since 1998. Also an award winning sci-fi author.
Allison Marie Conway - I write about Desire. Sex. Longing. Pain. Darkness. All of it.
A Cornered Gurl - I am more than breath & bones . . . I am nectar in waiting.
A Working Library - A working library is a blog about reading & technology by Mandy Brown
HOOT - A {mini} literary magazine on a postcard - flash fiction, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, book reviews
Wendy Pratt Writing – I will tell you how it was - Biomedical scientist who turned into an award winning full-time poet
karl’s book blog - Weekly book reviews of mostly horror, mystery, thriller, and queer literature.
The Casual Optimist - Books, design, and culture. Not necessarily in that order.
The Morning Porch - Daily short takes from an Appalachian hollow
Ren Powell | Poet, Essayist - A writer and teaching artist settled on the west coast of Norway.
Myth & Moor - Notes from a Dartmoor studio on folklore, fairy tales, fantasy, mythic arts & mythic living
The Maven Game - Writer and editor David Moldawer on building books that matter.
Kristin Berkey-Abbott - A poet, a scholar, an administrator, a wanna-be mystic
Transactions with Beauty - You are required to make something beautiful
That Gut Wrenching Poetry - Hi I'm Sia. A dabbler of anything emotionally, dramatically written
Jamie Todd Rubin - I write code, fiction, nonfiction, and have been writing this blog since 2005.
Fritinancy - Fritinancy: a chirping or creaking, as of a cricket; formerly known as Away With Words.
book of jobe - strong coffee please
A Soft Place to Rest - - where poetry and writing dwell
Riddle Me This - Exploring the stories we tell ourselves and the stories we tell one another
Bonnywood Manor - Peace. Tranquility. Insanity.
Appalachian Ground – A Love Story - Beautiful photos, writing & poetry about life in the Appalachian mountains
Seven Miles of Steel Thistles - Folklore and tales of fairy brides, Japanese fox-spirits, selkies and more

Research & Science

Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction - I tell you what you really need to know about science, as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Centauri Dreams — Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration - A deep dive on space exploration with an eye toward interstellar possibilities and life.
ribbonfarm - Constructions in magical thinking
Overcoming Bias - This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise and how we might do better
Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog - A blog about nuclear secrecy, past and present by a PhD historian of science
Nintil - To estimate, compare, distinguish, discuss, and trace to its principal sources everything.
feministkilljoys - I am a feminist killjoy. It is what I do. It is how I think. It is my philosophy and my politics.
West Coast Stat Views - Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology.
Language Log - Language Log is a group blog on language and linguistics started in the summer of 2003 by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum.

Technology

Ben Werdmüller - Engineer, startup founder, investor, and writer
The Cheapskate’s Guide - Saving $ on computers w/noteworthy coverage of blogging, indieweb, and more
Kev Quirk - A blog about web design/development, the web & tech in general, and some Linux & open source for good measure.
The New Oil - Information Security for normal people.
Daring Fireball - A (mostly) Mac column in the form of a blog with occasional snark and dallops of common sense
Chris Hannah - An app developer with diverse interests, including photography
Jim Nielsen’s Blog - Where I write at least something rather than nothing
Benedict Evans - Stepping back from the noise in tech, I try to work out what's really happening, what matters, and what it might mean.
Darknet Diaries - True stories from the dark side of the Internet.
Baldur Bjarnason - I write about web dev, interactive media, digital publishing, and product development from Hveragerði, Iceland
Krebs on Security - In-depth security news and investigation
Greg Morris - Blogger and podcaster with several years experience in technology circles
Adactio: Journal - A web developer and author living and working in Brighton, England.
Numeric Citizen Blog - Writing about Apple, Photography, Privacy and Climate Change.
Flameeyes’s Weblog - Open Source Developer, Systems Mechanic, Conference Wannabe.
Ali Reza Hayati’s thoughts and comments - Thoughts and comments on technology, privacy, society, and other stuff
Garbage Collector - It's all in the title! Tech, photos, and other personal stuff.
bbblog by bbbhltz - Personal blog about Technology, Education, other Sundries
Ru Singh - Where's my tea? I'm grumpy. Are you still using Discord and not forums?
Luke’s Wild Website - I'm a web designer specializing in WordPress, Webflow, and static site generators.
Duck Rowing – by Fred McCann - I'm kind of a nerd.
The Crow - A man pretending to be a bird - squawks about privacy, self-hosting, technology, cooking, and creative DIY approaches to problems.
The Newsprint - CPA. I like to type things on my computer.
rachelbythebay - Software, technology, sysadmin war stories, and more.
Bradley Taunt’s Blog - Writing about macOS, design, CSS, web development, digital privacy, Linux and whatever else tickles my fancy.
Interdependent Thoughts - I write about how our digital and networked world changes how we work, learn, decide and organize.
A Scripter’s Notes - Notes and posts around Emacs, Org mode, scripting, Nim language and anything CLI or text oriented

Tools & Apps(various software tools for reading blogs ‘n such)

Fraidycat - Follow friends, blogs, Twitter, Youtube, etc. all from one app
Blogroll Block – WordPress plugin - Show off your blogroll with the WordPress Block editing experience
Uses This / Interviews - Uses This is a collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done.

Travels

Along the Ray - A wandering alien from a different plane roaming the universe in a tiny camper
Road to the Sea - Full time nomad couple who transitioned from the road to the sea on their journey
Halfie - ....mostly about living on a boat in England
Luxagraf - Thoughts on ecology, culture, travel, photography, walking and other ephemera
Sinclair Trails - Travels around the country from living full time in a new RV
Andrew Skurka - I run, hike, write, and guide.
One Hundred Rabbits - Exploring the planned failability of modern technology at the bounds of the hyper-connected world.
Walking Arizona - Arizona and Utah are big states and there is a lot of room to walk. As I walk I like to think and share insights.
ADVENTURETACO - Escape the ordinary
Rolling Steel Tent - A regular Joe nomading full time in his van w/wry sense of humor and zany ancedotes
Notes from the Road - By road, by kayak, by seaplane and most of all on foot, I tackle the themes of city and country in the modern world.
garyvarner.com – Writing blog - Hi, I’m Gary Varner: a writer, traveler, and curious observer of life.
Brewed Journey - Travel, Hiking, Beer and Coffee
Geographical Journeys - Travel; history; memoir; place-based creative non-fiction
Exploring Nature in New Hampshire - I hope by visiting that you will see what amazing beauty nature holds and that you will become more interested in exploring your own area.

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