The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

Bobby Hiltz

An ESL instructor's blog covering technology, education, games, and personal reflections.

Bobby Hiltz

An English teacher in France writing about technology, education, gaming, and guides with an indie web ethos.

BEEW

Banish Expectations Expand Wonder

  • Because He Was He, and I Was I

    I quote others only in order the better to express myself. —Michel de Montaigne In 1571, a French nobleman bought a c...

  • Dancing on the Head of a Needle

    For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent l...

  • On prayer

    Years ago, an AA sponsor said something to me that bypassed every defense I had against the idea of God. I was in ear...

Adventures in Open Source Software

Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software

  • Is MySQL Due for a Renaissance?

    Back at the turn of the century, open source was experiencing widespread adoption along with the growth of the Intern...

  • New Laptop

    It is hard to believe that I’ve been at AWS almost four years, but it turns out that is about the amount of time one ...

  • Happy Anniversary: Revisiting the AGPL and CLAs

    The first post I made on this blog was on this date in 2003. Rather than engaging in my usual anniversary navel-gazin...

The Jaxson

Urbanism and Culture on Florida's First Coast.

Fatbobman's Blog

English Home | Fatbobman's Blog |肘子的 Swift 记事本 – Sharing content related to Swift, SwiftUI, Core Data, and Swift Data, as well as covering development tools, AI, and other topics. All articles are original creations; for reproduction, please contact the author.

Journal on n3s0 || journal

A technical journal focused on infrastructure, networking, and IT operations, featuring configuration guides and home network design.

The Public Domain Review

An online journal exploring curious and obscure works that have entered the public domain, featuring essays, collections, and cultural commentary on historical art, literature, and media.

Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Books, films, TV, videogames, comics, music, all that bread and circuses stuff.

BIX dot BLOG

The unsupported use case of a disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon.

  • The Actual End

    In a newsletter edition about “stakes” in storytelling, Charlie Jane makes an observation about another storytelling ...

  • We Do The Walk

    As I’d observed, more or less, in my adult function report for Disability Determination Services, whatever else might...

  • ‘This Is Very Common’

    The world being what it is, I never did come back to give an update on my adult function report which was requested b...

LifeDev.net

Empowering creative people

The Fly Blog

News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly

  • Unfortunately, Sprites Now Speak MCP

    Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practical...

  • Litestream Writable VFS

    I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s...

  • The Design & Implementation of Sprites

    We’re Fly.io, and this is the place in the post where we’d normally tell you that our job is to take your containers ...

Heitor's log

Practical Linux tutorials and command-line tips covering system administration, scripting, and performance benchmarking.

Julia Evans

Hey! I'm Julia. Welcome to my blog. Here's every post I've ever written, organized by category. Enjoy!

Jordi Villar

I build distributed data systems that operate at scale. What draws me to this work is understanding how things actually work, whether that's performance challenges at scale or diving deep into system internals.

  • 2026W10

    Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity — The Engineer A vs Engineer B comparison is painfully recognizable. A ships a 50...

  • 2026W07

    Hedonism and Entrepreneurship in Barcelona — A potential acquisition dies because a vegan exec unknowingly eats mayo ...

  • Four Years at Tinybird

    I worked at Tinybird for 4 years, 2 months, and 21 days. It’s been an incredible experience that taught me a lot abou...

The Universe of Discourse

Mark Dominus's long-running blog exploring mathematics, programming, language, and history through long-form essays with technical depth.