Drew, thank you for for setting up this list. I've always wanted a
community to share my drafts with, and I'm excited about finding other
technical blogs to follow.
So far, the only posting I can see here is Drew's "Welcome to the Free
Writer's Club" from nearly a month ago. Let's get some conversations
rolling by introducing ourselves. What's your name? What topics do you
enjoy writing about? Where can we find your technical blog?
I'll humor myself. My name's Jakob, and I like to write about
capture-the-flag and programming languages. The former manifests itself
as event writeups and posts about binary reverse engineering. I'm a big
fan of Lisps, and I'm spending this summer working on GNU Guix for GSoC.
You can find my writing at <http://jakob.space>.
Regards,
Jakob
Hi!
My name is Philipp and I'm currently re-doing my blog after years without blogging. So, nothing to show here for now, sorry.
Hopefully I manage to stick to it this time. Topics will range from embedded and low-level GNU/Linux programming to building containers/distributions/images. I'll let you know ;D
Am 23. Juli 2019 00:28:51 MESZ schrieb zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org:
>Drew, thank you for for setting up this list. I've always wanted a>community to share my drafts with, and I'm excited about finding other>technical blogs to follow.
Yes, thanks Drew, for this list, for sway, for sourcehut, for openring, you name it... I'm especially excited about finding new tech blogs, as well, finally a new source of inspiration besides HN. :D
>>I'll humor myself. My name's Jakob, and I like to write about>capture-the-flag and programming languages. The former manifests itself>as event writeups and posts about binary reverse engineering. I'm a big>fan of Lisps, and I'm spending this summer working on GNU Guix for>GSoC.>You can find my writing at <http://jakob.space>.
That's a nice one. Admittedly, Lisp and RE are not exactly my topics but I've read the article about Gentoo and it was well written and entertaining. Who didn't try it out at least once? Thanks for sharing!
That's all for now
Philipp
P.S.: Please excuse the missing line breaks (are they really missing?). If anybody knows how to enable them in K9, please let me know!
Yo!
Glad to greet and read everyone here - I'm АНТОН.
Can't say for sure what I'm going to write about, but somehow I'm sure
that hardware-and-software experiences will be a common topic here -
and they are bound to be covered!
I'm a ru/en/ja language student interested in the way technological
culture (amongst others) is different around the globe - and things
like standards, licenses, local laws and the attitudes towards them -
and of course how languages split and unite communities and projects.
And also curious: how does everyone see the computers in our life -
from the personal and community's standpoints?
Regards!
P.S. I hope I'm not the only one unfamiliar with mailing lists and
feeling embarrassed about it!
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:28:51 -0400
zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) wrote:
> So far, the only posting I can see here is Drew's "Welcome to the Free> Writer's Club" from nearly a month ago. Let's get some conversations> rolling by introducing ourselves. What's your name? What topics do you> enjoy writing about? Where can we find your technical blog?
Hello,
I am Notopygos and I write about stuff that I find interesting.
Currently I am trying to make a fast word unjumbler in rust.
<https://notopygos.tilde.team>
~Notopygos
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Hi,
My name is Ananth. I haven't published a blog yet, but I have a lot of
ideas (and drafts) on the back burner. I'm very interested in language
design, compilers, linguistics, politics, and communities.
I also owe a deep debt to open-source. Thanks, Drew for putting together
so many things like sway, and sr.ht, and now this community that I
really want to contribute to.
Hi everyone and thanks Jakob for opening this conversation!
I'm a computer science / informatics student and on my blog I document my experiences and thoughts. I spent a lot of time exploring new technologies, new programming languages and sometimes also start my own projects. Currently I'm also exploring the IndieWeb.
Feel free to take a look at my blog at https://jlelse.blog.
I'm also excited to discover other blogs, there's still a lot of room on my feed list :D
Regards,
Jan-Lukas
Hey, thanks for posting this thread!
I'm the maintainer of this list. I suppose that I can get away without
an introduction as such, but for the sake of completeness my blog is
here:
https://drewdevault.com
I hope that you all find this list helpful in the course of your work. I
think blogs are an excellent way to foster a communicative community and
get your ideas out onto the web, and I hope we can help each other build
a productive writing community.
Hi,
On 22-07-2019 18:28:51, Jakob L. Kreuze wrote:
> Drew, thank you for for setting up this list.
Thank for writing this introductory message and also thanks to you, Drew, for
creating this community as well as sourcehut, aerc and of course sway.
I'm Matthias from Germany, am writing mostly about rust and nixos, but also
other stuff that comes across my mind. Also I wrote a few articles on my journey
through north america last year.
You can find my blog at https://beyermatthias.de
I'm highly interested in federation (activitypub) and distributed services (IPFS
mostly, but also ssb/scuttlebutt).
I'm currently using hugo but am thinking about switching to a federated software
such as writefreely or plume. I'm not sure yet, though.
I'd love to get a discussion going on blogging software, but probably in another
mail thread, if that's okay with you all.
--
Best,
Matthias
Hey!
> Drew, thank you for for setting up this list. I've always wanted a> community to share my drafts with, and I'm excited about finding other> technical blogs to follow.
Yeah, thank you, Drew! I noticed this list while lurking a bit :P
> I'll humor myself. My name's Jakob
Nice to meet you, Jacob :)
> and I like to write about> capture-the-flag and programming languages. The former manifests itself> as event writeups and posts about binary reverse engineering. I'm a big> fan of Lisps, and I'm spending this summer working on GNU Guix for GSoC.> You can find my writing at <http://jakob.space>.
Cool! Nice topics! I'll check your blog later!
-
For me, I'm Adolfo, a BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Right now
I'm looking for a topic to write about in my blog. I noticed that
there's a lot of people right now and a lot of blogs with really good
information about almost any topic, so I feel a bit overwhelmed about that.
And, also, I'm changing paths in my career. I always liked to work on
operating systems (kernel, services, tools...), and programing in
low-level (or system languages) like C or Go (I never touched Rust, so I
cannot have an opinion). I must confess I'm not near my goal right now,
so I'm working on get started again and, hopefully, finding a job where
I can work as a C developer (or Go, or Rust :P).
So, maybe, I'll have something to write about soon, who knows :)
Nice to meet you all, too. I'm going to check your blogs right now that
I'm at home!
Cheers!
- - - -
adolfo santiago
adol.pw
GPG Public Key:
gpg.adol.pw/dolfism_gpg.txt
It's nice meeting you all
This is my first time replying to a mailing list. I hope I am doing this right :)
I'm Frederik or just Fred for short. A few weeks ago Drew inspired me to create a blog[1], and so I wrote my own static site generator.
I'm a 21 y/o software engineering student hailing from Denmark. Additionally, I'm also self-employed in a small open source SaaS business[2] I have been working on for a few years.
Being a victim of my own success, I mostly deal with scalable backend systems and system administration. Recently I have distracted myself by learning C and working on a wlroots-based Wayland compositor.
So far I have written a couple of tech articles for my blog. I hope to add more soon.
Cheers,
Frederik
[1] https://ramblings.fred.moe/
[2] https://github.com/Frederikam/FredBoat
Hi!
>Drew, thank you for for setting up this list. I've always wanted a>community to share my drafts with, and I'm excited about finding other>technical blogs to follow.
Indeed, thanks Drew! I find your efforts to motivate and support other
people writings awesome!
By the way, the contributions to opensource software are amazing just as
well.
>Let's get some conversations>rolling by introducing ourselves. What's your name? What topics do you>enjoy writing about? Where can we find your technical blog?
My name is Pedro Ramos and to be honest I haven't write a thing yet. But
I'm seriously considering to start after reading Drew's blog about.
I am 28 years hold and got a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering.
Currently I'm working in a big company, I'm still figuring out
on what to write about but I'm sure I can find something interesting
to share while working at my job.
I'm really interested in go, C and Rust but in my position I mostly
work with scripting so I most likely will post about those.
I'm glad to meet you all and will have a great time reading your blogs
:)
Best regards
Pedro L. Ramos
Hello, everyone!
I've been meaning to start a blog for years now, but so far, I've only managed to set up a homepage at <https://cosmo.red <https://cosmo.red>>. On the bright side, Drew's blog and this list have motivated me to finally start work on setting things up! As always, I find that I'm getting lost in the details, struggling to get the cosmetics *just* right, and I'm too stubborn to use a static site generator.
I'm clearly procrastinating. Setup is easy, but *actually writing something* feels like an overwhelmingly monumental task. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy writing. The thing is, I find responding to content much easier than generating it. The majority of the writing I do online is in chat rooms and comments sections (and now, mailing lists). The idea of regularly writing high-effort, long-form content that will be read and criticized by God-knows-who (or worse, no one) terrifies me.
Writing all of this out, I'm now realizing that I should probably just stop dicking around, spin up Jekyll or Hugo, and write. But even if I do that, where do I start? What do I write? I guess that's why I joined this mailing list.
Oh, I almost forgot to introduce myself! My name's Cosmo, and I spend most of my time doing computational neuroscience. As such, I do a lot of programming in Julia, Python, C++, and MATLAB (begrudgingly). I enjoy contributing to open source projects in my free time, and I do my best to open source all of my academic and professional work (open science or die). I can't wait to learn more about all of you as I follow your blogs and this mailing list!
Before I shut up: Drew, thank you so much for all of the work that you do, and many thanks to everyone else for linking your blogs and introducing yourselves! I'm feeling more motivated than ever to stop procrastinating and start blogging!
Have a wonderful morning/afternoon/evening/night!
Best,
Cosmo
P.S. This is my first time responding to a proper mailing list so I hope I'm doing this right! I'm currently in the process of transitioning from Tutanota to Migadu upon Drew's recommendation. I suspect that working with mailing lists and git.sr.ht will become considerably easier once I start using aerc in earnest.
Jul 22, 2019, 6:28 PM by zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org:
> Drew, thank you for for setting up this list. I've always wanted a> community to share my drafts with, and I'm excited about finding other> technical blogs to follow.>> So far, the only posting I can see here is Drew's "Welcome to the Free> Writer's Club" from nearly a month ago. Let's get some conversations> rolling by introducing ourselves. What's your name? What topics do you> enjoy writing about? Where can we find your technical blog?>> I'll humor myself. My name's Jakob, and I like to write about> capture-the-flag and programming languages. The former manifests itself> as event writeups and posts about binary reverse engineering. I'm a big> fan of Lisps, and I'm spending this summer working on GNU Guix for GSoC.> You can find my writing at <http://jakob.space>.>> Regards,> Jakob>
On Wed Jul 24, 2019 at 2:27 AM Cosmo wrote:
> Writing all of this out, I'm now realizing that I should probably just> stop dicking around, spin up Jekyll or Hugo, and write. But even if I> do that, where do I start? What do I write? I guess that's why I> joined this mailing list.
Personally I keep a list of blog posts I want to write at some point,
and then when I feel motivated to write but don't know what to write
about, I pick one of those. My list is >100 items long now! Here are a
few that you're welcome to steal:
- Practicing what you preach when blogging about privacy and trackers,
wrt the prevalance of google analytics, like buttons, etc, on all of
the sites I see arguing against these things
- Easy things to get wrong when programming, such as coding style issues
or commenting out code instead of deleting it and tracking with git
- poll-driven C application programming
- The slow creep of censorship, and how driving the fringe groups out of
communities like reddit has a suffocating effect on alternative
platforms as they become known as havens for fringe groups
- git refspecs in depth
> Before I shut up: Drew, thank you so much for all of the work that you> do, and many thanks to everyone else for linking your blogs and> introducing yourselves! I'm feeling more motivated than ever to stop> procrastinating and start blogging!
:)
Hello,
On 19/07/22 06:28PM, zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> Drew, thank you for for setting up this list. I've always wanted a> community to share my drafts with, and I'm excited about finding other> technical blogs to follow.
It's already been said many times now in this thread but I also want to thank
Drew for the tremendous amount of work he has put into free software!
> So far, the only posting I can see here is Drew's "Welcome to the Free> Writer's Club" from nearly a month ago. Let's get some conversations> rolling by introducing ourselves. What's your name? What topics do you> enjoy writing about? Where can we find your technical blog?
Thanks for breaking the ice for us! My name is Jake and I am a student of
Computer Science. I am interested in and enjoy writing about free software (the
whys and the hows and whatnot), computer and network security, and privacy. As
far as programming languages, I really enjoy working in C and using JavaScript
for quick-and-dirty projects. I'm also just now getting into Haskell and I am
enjoying that so far.
My blog is located at https://www.paritybit.ca. Bits of the website are still
under construction and lacking content but there are a couple of small projects
and a couple of posts there already. Now that this list has cropped up, I plan
to make a page where I can link to everyone's blogs.
> I'll humor myself. My name's Jakob, and I like to write about> capture-the-flag and programming languages. The former manifests itself> as event writeups and posts about binary reverse engineering. I'm a big> fan of Lisps, and I'm spending this summer working on GNU Guix for GSoC.> You can find my writing at <http://jakob.space>.
Lisps have always seemed interesting to me but I have never tried them out.
Maybe I'll give it a go after Haskell.
> Regards,> Jakob
Cheers!
--
Jake Bauer <jbauer@paritybit.ca>
Hello,
I currently am wrapping up a CS bachelor in Lausanne (Switzerland) but never
published anything although I have a blogging infrastructure on my website [1].
I write from time to time but nothing went beyond the personal draft stage.
As for my interests, I am active in the Fedora project [2] and in various
free-software and 'ecology'-related communities in Lausanne and its
surrounding. I will complete my bachelor next fall with a project on Matrix [3]
(mesh routing between homeservers, leveraging Yggdrasil [4]), of which I plan
to write about. I might also spend a semester or two studying geography next
year.
Thanks for this list!
[1] https://fnux.ch/
[2] https://getfedora.org/
[3] https://matrix.org/
[4] https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
--
Timothée
Hi!
Jakob L. Kreuze <zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
<snip>
> So far, the only posting I can see here is Drew's "Welcome to the Free> Writer's Club" from nearly a month ago. Let's get some conversations> rolling by introducing ourselves. What's your name? What topics do you> enjoy writing about? Where can we find your technical blog?
Thanks for starting this :)
My name is Niels and I am a system administrator for a small web hosting
provider in Germany. My blog is not technical per se and most of it is
micro blogging. You can find it at https://niels.kobschaetzki.net
I try to think about useful topics regarding technical blogging but I
always have the feeling that I do not have to share that much new; many
topics are already heavily covered. Let's see what I will come up with
in the near future :)
Cheers,
Niels
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, at 22:31, Jakob L. Kreuze wrote:
> So far, the only posting I can see here is Drew's "Welcome to the Free> Writer's Club" from nearly a month ago. Let's get some conversations> rolling by introducing ourselves. What's your name? What topics do you> enjoy writing about? Where can we find your technical blog?
Hi all,
My name is Sam and while I don't maintain an exclusively technical blog
(in fact, I prefer not to write about technical topics, although that
happens a lot too) my writing can be found mostly at:
https://blog.samwhited.com/
When I'm not between jobs, I normally work on backend web systems,
message buses, and communications protocols. Mostly in Go and (to a
lesser extent) Rust. Unfortunately, I don't get to focus on open source
as much as I'd like, but I also maintain a number of my own open source
projects and contribute to some like the Android instant messaging
application "Conversations", various specs with the XMPP standards
foundation, and the Go programming language.
I'm looking forward to discovering lots of interesting new blogs from
this list, thanks for joining the discussion!
—Sam
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Sam Whited
Hey everyone,
My name is Chinmaya, I'm mostly interested in things related to systems and theory. More specifically, some things which interest me a lot right now are parallel and distributed systems, go, plan9, smartphone hacking, and competitive programming, and I've recently gotten into some functional programing as well. I'm also a huge fan of software simplicity and minimalism, and avoid complicated bloatware as much as possible. My blog <https://chinmayamahesh.me> is kind of barren right now, with only a couple of (cringey) posts, but I hope to write more soon! I'm excited to see all your blog posts on this mailing list!
Regards,
Chinmaya Mahesh
Hi all,
While the mailing list doesn't look too active, I find the idea of a writing club for technical people really fun. I'm looking forward to more discussions when the next monthly email hits.
I mainly write about programming related topics, mostly in Python or Rust. I occasionally write about reverse engineering too. You can find my stuff at https://www.gkbrk.com/
Hi Leo!
Enjoyed the post about the hotel wifi. I didn't realize that all they
check is the MAC.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 5:50 PM Leo <free-writers-club@gkbrk.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,>> While the mailing list doesn't look too active, I find the idea of a writing club for technical people really fun. I'm looking forward to more discussions when the next monthly email hits.>> I mainly write about programming related topics, mostly in Python or Rust. I occasionally write about reverse engineering too. You can find my stuff at https://www.gkbrk.com/
On 19/07/22 06:28, Jakob L. Kreuze wrote:
> Drew, thank you for for setting up this list. I've always wanted a> community to share my drafts with, and I'm excited about finding other> technical blogs to follow.>> ...
Hi y'all,
I am humbug and I want to write about different things. But most of them
will be about Linux, Open Source and Selfhosting. I am actually from
Germany so English is probably not the best. But I will try and keep my
blog international :)
Right now there is only 1 post but hopefully some more will follow. For
example one or two off-topic posts about my long vacation trip to BC,
Canada.
Cheers!
humbug
P.S.: Thanks Drew for all the Stuff you're doing! Keep up the great
work!
Hi Leo,
you are completly right. Maybe I was too excited to post here :D
<https://humbug.pw>
Cheers,
humbug
On 19/08/29 02:22, Leo wrote:
> Hey humbug,> You didn't link your blog I think. I'd be interested to follow it.>> Leo
Hi everyone.
I'm John Nduli, and I work as a software developer. I mostly blog
about things I feel I need to remember and use it as a reference later
on. You can find my blog here: https://jnduli.co.ke/
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:22 PM Leo <free-writers-club@gkbrk.com> wrote:
>> Hey humbug,> You didn't link your blog I think. I'd be interested to follow it.>> Leo
--
Regards,
Mr. Nduli
+254 733 433 543
+254 726 551 800
Hey there!
It's time for me to jump in as well. I am Stefan and I work at an IT
Security Research Institute in Munich and a love to mess around with
Linux and Networking.
You find me with my handle "rumpelsepp" or here:
* Blog : https://rumpelsepp.org
* sr.ht: https://git.sr.ht/~rumpelsepp/
My blog lacks content, since I was not too motivated to write recently.
Maybe I can fix this… :)
Stefan