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A personal blog by a recreational marathon runner in Hong Kong covering race reports and candid gear reviews from his own experience. Readers get first-person accounts of training, racing conditions and shoe performance without sponsorship or influencer framing.
A personal engineering newsletter by a New Zealand developer mixing home automation build notes, opinions on AI and the future of software engineering, and workplace tooling experiences with Claude, Amp and Linear. Readers get first-hand, practical detail on Home Assistant and Shelly hardware plus candid takes on how AI tools are changing day-to-day engineering.
A personal blog by a retired Chinese-speaking tech enthusiast covering network setup, including Clash proxy configuration and DNS behaviour, and detailed teardowns and measured tests of TP-LINK routers. It also touches on road trips and US stock investing.
A UK service design and product practitioner writes about product thinking, what product management actually means, and the gap between design rhetoric and practice. The weekly notes mix personal updates on health, running and hobbies with brief work reflections.
A Tampa engineer's personal blog mixing everyday life stories with observations on technology. Recent issues cover a homemade orange creamsicle cocktail, subscription and price inflation, and secure-by-default software design.
A personal blog from Butte, Montana, where the author writes about his camera gear choices, including considering a compact Sony RX100 VII, and provides updates on his knee and orthopedic care. The posts are chatty, first-person accounts of everyday life and health updates rather than broad reporting.
A personal blog-style newsletter by an infrastructure engineer covering music reviews, book reflections and practical command-line tips. Readers get opinionated, first-person commentary on Beatles reissues, classic literature and shell usage.
Greg Baugues, who lives in Piermont, New York, writes short personal posts mixing local history, such as the Tappan Zee Bridge and its naming disputes, with photography notes on his Fuji GFX100RF camera and his photos from around the village. The newsletter is a casual, low-frequency personal blog digest rather than a structured publication.
A personal blog-style newsletter from a middle-aged UK IT enthusiast covering homelab builds, Home Assistant and smart home troubleshooting, plus life and travel musings. Readers get irreverent, self-deprecating accounts of projects with some practical technical detail.
A personal blog by a software builder covering AI-assisted coding workflows, such as using one model to review another's code, plus a candid trading-bot project write-up and reflections on writing in public. Posts mix practical process notes with personal reflection, and the sample shows a clear point of view on verification and planning.
A personal blog with short posts on side projects, interesting things the author has watched or listened to, and practical takeaways. Recent issues cover reviving a 9/11 memorial website, building an AI companion for an audiobook, and mountain running training advice.
A personal newsletter mixing life updates, small how-to guides and thoughts on media and technology. Issues in the sample cover a minimalist e-ink phone setup, yearly dog sports recaps and daily dog recall training logs.
A personal blog with first-person posts on community building, digital privacy, homelab tinkering and life updates, including a hospital job and a Ghost/ActivityPub setup. Readers get one person's reflections and commentary, sometimes with sourced context.
A personal blog by David Blumenau about building an AI side project called PanelForge, with frequent posts on multi-agent setups and comparisons to features Anthropic later ships. It mixes playful anecdotes about his AI "office" with technical notes on memory ingest and orchestration.
A personal blog and newsletter from a novelist and media critic who writes diary-style accounts of attending Edinburgh and Glasgow film festivals, including mini-reviews of films and shorts. Readers also get anecdotes about festival culture, cinema quirks, and commentary on encounters with audiences.
A personal developer blog mixing technical project write-ups with reflective essays on building software. Readers get architecture breakdowns and candid stories about failed experiments and working with an ADHD brain.
A personal blog with short posts on hobby projects such as a home PC and server build, geospatial mapping of Macau bus stop walkability, and a tracker of Ontario 400-series highways driven. Readers get first-hand project notes with parts lists, tools used and links to results.
Personal blog by Taylor Jadin, a Reclaim developer, covering small-web culture, unusual browser user-agent strings seen in server logs, Linux desktop use, ActivityPub integration with Ghost, and personal projects. The excerpts mix short personal notes with longer, witty technical writing.
A personal blog covering book reviews, travel, data analysis, French learning, and practical recommendations. Issues include a product-recommendation list, an essay correcting common misreadings of Fukuyama's End of History, and a guide to LLM custom instructions.
Martyn B writes a mix of personal newsletter posts covering his experience moving ecommerce sites from WooCommerce to Shopify, choosing Ghost over WordPress for his blog, and maintaining a Land Rover Defender. The writing is first-person and practical, drawing on years of professional web work and hands-on vehicle repairs.
A personal engineering log by a senior engineer with ADHD, covering projects he finishes and abandons, plus the rabbit holes he falls into. Recent issues cover redesigning his blog's visual identity, a condensed take on Apple's September keynote, and the ten-year history of the S42 student tool.
A personal blog by a security engineer mixing life reflections with tech writing, including a debugging write-up for Doom Emacs and notes on building an AI job-hunting tool. Posts are informal, personal and occasionally self-deprecating.
A personal blog by a German developer covering travel, hardware and software projects, and everyday life. Recent posts describe a website and blog rebuild, a summer research stay at Stanford, and solving Advent of Code 2025 in C.
A personal blog by a fullstack developer who documents his technical side projects, such as automating Apple Music playlist archiving and building a showtimes site for Ohio independent theaters. Posts also include personal year-end media lists, mixing practical build write-ups with casual music commentary.
A personal blog-style newsletter from a linguist and language teacher covering his projects, hobbies and ideas. Issues range from a web app for mapping vowel formants to a hypothesis about language learning and a guide to affordable hi-res audio listening.
A personal Chinese-language blog that mixes essays on critical thinking and persuasion, such as its 逆思維 (reverse thinking) series on debate and admitting mistakes, with practical notes on running a website. Readers get reflective, example-driven discussion of rationality plus candid accounts of technical problems and their fixes.
Simon's personal site collects longer posts that don't suit Mastodon, covering Linux desktop tinkering, creative productivity and self-hosting. The writing is conversational and reflective, sharing practical fixes and personal reasoning about tools and habits.
A student developer's personal blog covering software engineering lessons, learning mindsets, and yearly life retrospectives. Readers get reflective, first-person essays drawn from internships, side projects and school.
A personal blog of short, irregular posts covering tabletop wargaming (Warhammer Age of Sigmar) product reviews and probability analysis, alongside occasional observational musings. Readers get opinionated hands-on reviews and simple statistical comparisons of game rules.
A personal blog by a Canadian maker who writes about knitting, sewing, and past travels, with finished-object roundups, stash-busting plans, and candid posts about the blog's history and hosting costs. Readers get a relaxed, detailed look at a crafter's projects and reflections.
A personal blog with irregular posts, including a proposal for pooled binary-encoded Covid-19 testing and weekly diary updates on founding a robotics startup in Denmark. Readers get first-person accounts of relocating, navigating Danish startup grants and incubators, and technical problems with an underwater inspection robot.
A personal blog by Sathyajith Bhat covering weekly notes on fitness training, work, and daily life in Western Sydney, alongside travel write-ups such as a road trip to Orange with an electric car. Readers get a candid, diary-style account of routines, gadget tinkering and weekend adventures.
Desiree Dahl's personal blog shares her illustration projects, printmaking work and reflections on independent web publishing, art and nature. Issues mix portfolio showcases with practical guides for creative non-developers and studio updates.
A personal blog newsletter with monthly progress updates on the author's 'impossible list' of goals, covering ultra running, fitness, travel and side projects. It also includes occasional technical stories, such as building a training-tracking app from Suunto watch data.
A personal weblog covering live indie wrestling show reports, concerts, and day-to-day life in the New York and New Jersey area. Readers get first-person event recaps with venue details, match highlights, and personal anecdotes.
A personal blog-style newsletter mixing a serialized fantasy story, gaming and device musings, and practical foraging guides. Readers get a loose mix of creative fiction, first-person opinion on gaming setups, and beginner-friendly wild food identification advice.
A personal newsletter from a self-described Star Wars and Zelda fan who writes monthly wrap-ups of music, games, films and books alongside game reviews and musings. Readers get casual, opinionated takes on albums like Brian Fallon's and games like the Link's Awakening remake.
A personal blog-style newsletter from a UK developer covering his musings on procrastination, building software tools instead of doing the work, a detailed search for a contacts and calendar setup that syncs custom dates, and a fragmentary post about Christmas in Cyprus. Readers get candid, informal reflections on software and everyday life rather than structured guidance.
A personal newsletter by a long-time computing user covering tmux tips with downloadable cheatsheets, an app launch for tracking vaginal dilator sessions, and occasional updates about home office projects. It mixes practical sysadmin-style tips with personal anecdotes and short notes on travel and other interests.
A personal blog mixing reviews and reflections on cars, tech, music, shooting, food and adventures. Excerpts include a warm, anecdotal Mazda 3 review and a practical generic car maintenance schedule, plus a drummer's thoughtful piece on what makes songs sonically interesting.
A personal blog by an accountancy student sharing internship experiences, book reviews and university module study guides. Readers get first-person reflections and some practical study material, such as formula references and practice questions for a finance course.
A personal blog by a writer who shares travel diaries from Italy and hardware reviews, such as a long-term look at a Dell XPS 13. The posts are conversational and anecdotal, mixing family travel stories with practical notes on gear and restaurants.
A personal blog by a freelance digital and service design consultant working with public sector clients in Wales and the UK, mixing weeknotes with personal lists such as favourite books. Readers get candid reflections on consulting work, running a small business and life outside work.
A ham radio operator's personal blog covering his amateur radio station setup, his switch to the W5QU callsign after his KN6Q vanity call lapsed, and a diary of importing and repairing a Subaru Sambar Kei truck from Japan. Expect practical, first-person accounts of equipment, licensing and vehicle restoration.
A personal blog-style newsletter mixing rural Texas homesteading stories (brush clearing, food storage, pest encounters) with recommendations for videos, websites and creative projects such as ancient pottery. Posts are informal, unedited and often digressive, with occasional link roundups and remarks about other sites.
Alex Cutrone writes a personal life-update feed and blog, sharing everyday happenings, photos, and reflections on leaving social media. Readers get casual glimpses into family, hobbies, and the process of building a simple personal website.
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