Here is a condensed, markdown-formatted link dump blog post covering the most interesting, novel, or representative entries from your September 2025 collection.

Some of the best reads I’ve come across recently, organized by theme. Enjoy!

Coping, Culture & Community

• How to Weather the Storm – Jason Kottke collects practical wisdom on surviving authoritarian times, mutual aid, critical ignoring, and building community.
• Cooking to Survive – A personal take on food, resilience, and how eating connects us during turbulent times.
• The Kindly Brontosaurus – On quiet persistence, awkward waiting, and making your presence felt in the gentlest way.
• Midlife Rage – Reflections on hitting a boiling point in middle age, and channeling it toward something purposeful.
• The World Is Improvised – A hopeful essay about navigating uncertainty by embracing improvisation.
• The Same Damned Thing Over and Over – Parisians, rituals, patterns, and the strange comfort of repetition.

AI, Tech & Digital Life

• Checking In on AI and the Big Five – Ben Thompson’s deep dive on where Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon stand in the AI arms race.
• Snapshots of an Evolving AI Landscape – Follow-up thoughts on AI trends and strategic shifts.
• Inside AI Addiction Support Groups – Support circles for those who can’t stop chatting with bots.
• AI Turbocharging Global Inequality – How this new wave of automation could widen divides.
• Software Is Changing Again – Michael Tsai on another turning point for software dev.
• AI vs Humans: A Question of Humanity – A philosophical examination of what remains uniquely human.
• Artificial Intelligence Illiteracy – Why daily life increasingly demands AI literacy.

Tools, Code & Open Source

• Docker Desktop 4.43 – New updates for container developers.
• Docker MCP Catalog – A secure way to explore MCP servers.
• AWS in Terraform – Practical breakdowns for infrastructure coders.
• GitHub Copilot + MCP – New AI-assisted dev workflows.
• pgactive – Active-active database setup for Postgres from AWS.
• FastAPI Typer – Build intuitive Python CLIs.
• AdGuard Home comparisons – Block ads, trackers, and take back your network.
• wttr.in – Minimalist weather forecasts in your terminal.

Indie Web & Digital Minimalism

• I Deleted My Second Brain – On letting go of obsessive notetaking systems.
• Curate Your Own Website – A call for more personal web gardens.
• The Internet You Make – Why the web we have is the one we cultivate.
• Stop the Scroll – Strategies to avoid infinite feeds.
• You Don’t Always Have to Publish – On rest, restraint, and resisting output pressure.

Politics, Labor & Media

• The Budget Bill Opens the Floodgates – Worker struggles in the wake of new policy.
• Hundreds of Workers Mobilize to Stop – Collective resistance comes into focus.
• The Luddite Renaissance – On modern echoes of machine-breaking resistance.
• Peter Thiel, Antichrist? Provocative op-ed exploring ideology.
• Let Democracy Go – Hard questions about system fragility.
• Itching for Just Violence – A grim reflection on reactionary force.

Odds & Ends

• Servers and Thin Clients in Every Home – A retro-futurist computing dream that never arrived.
• What Gear Does DPReview Staff Use for Travel? – Behind-the-scenes kit picks.
• Emulate Wes Anderson – A photo book on capturing symmetry and color.
• Historical Tech Tree – A playful chart mapping humanity’s inventions like a strategy game.
• WeatherStar Emulator – Bring back retro Weather Channel vibes.
• BeeLink Mini N150 – A budget tiny PC with surprising power.

Another month, more links … neat!

I’m still struggling to find time to get through my RSS feeds, so hopefully this will be the last blog dump for a month or so, but either way, I just want to make sure these don’t get lost into the ether. 💝

🖥️ Tech & Programming

• OpenTelemetry Tracing on the JVM
• An explorer and visualizer for Go concurrency patterns
• A practical guide on how to use the GitHub MCP server
• GitOps continuous delivery with ArgoCD and EKS using natural language
• Developing a terminal UI in Go with Bubble Tea
• From Async/Await to Virtual Threads
• Application development without programmers
• Modern linux: a containerized, batteries-included collection of tools
• uv cache prune

🤖 AI & Machine Learning

• Junior developers aren’t obsolete: Here’s how to thrive in the age of AI
• The evolution of code review practices in the world of AI
• Google Says A.I. Search Is Just Great
• ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex
• Working with AI
• Inside the escalating struggle over AI in journalism
• Trump’s AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia
• Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI
• Psychiatric Researchers Warn of Grim Psychological Risks for AI Users
• The Vagueness and Vagaries of ‘Personal Superintelligence’

🌐 Web & Internet Culture

• YouTube and the end of “internet culture”
• From Small Web July to Blaugust
• Classic Web, a Mastodon page that explores the web of old
• Personal websites are the place for comments, not social media channels
• Rowboats: There’s a life after social media
• Link Post: Own what’s yours
• Rediscovering Joy in Blogging
• Minimalism is a Cult
• If It Works, It Works
• Popcap Games are Still Fun, Actually
• Getting Things Done (Without Keeling Over)
• Week Notes, 2025-07-06

🛡️ Security & Privacy

• MCP Horror Stories: The Supply Chain Attack
• Why the Old Ways Are Still the Best for Most Cybercriminals
• The Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery: Building Resilience for Your Enterprise
• Secure file sharing solutions in AWS: A security and cost analysis guide: Part 2
• Malicious Open Source Packages Spike 188% YoY
• What the Coinbase Breach Says About Insider Risk
• Can Security Culture Be Taught? AWS Says Yes
• ‘Fire Ant’ Cyber Spies Compromise Siloed VMware Systems

🐧 Linux & Open Source

• Should I switch over to a Linux-Based software for College?
• Why do most Linux users prefer ThinkPad laptops? share your opinion.
• Linux is healing me mentally.
• 5 Open Source Apps You Can use for Seamless File Transfer Between Linux and Android
• Packet is the Linux App You Didn’t Know You Needed for Fast Android File Transfers
• FlatSync: Sync flatpaks between devices.
• ‘systemctl’ vs ‘busctl’ as D-Bus clients (Visual Guide)
• Flameshot Screenshot App Gets First Major Update in 3 Years
• Firefox Add-Ons Website Revamps Listing Pages

🛠️ Hardware & Devices

• Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025
• Distribution Release: Proxmox 9.0 “Virtual Environment”
• MagInk is a power bank with a color E Ink display (crowdfunding)
• Keyphone is a feature phone with swappable keyboard and camera modules (crowdfunding)
• Un-interchangeable: Fixed-lens cameras are no substitute for mirrorless
• Reborn Commodore Is Taking Pre-Orders for New Commodore 64 Models
• The State of Silicon and Devices – Q2 2025 roundup

🎨 Design & Creativity

• Classical Statues Dressed Up As Hipsters
• Artist Hebru Brantley on reframing past stories with a fresh perspective
• Writer, publisher, and podcaster Elly Blue on following a nontraditional path
• Cosmetics and Cosmos Blend in Circe Irasema’s Wooden Sculptures
• In ‘Slow Light,’ Past and Present Merge in the Uncanny, Animated Life of a Unique Protagonist

🧘 Personal, Slow Living & Miscellaneous

• The true cost of always needing to win an argument
• Trauma, healing, and your nervous system explained
• How I take notes in 2025
• Projects, joy, etc
• On agency
• Silence
• It’s Time for Something New
• Cornish pasty
• Birdwatching From Home
• Blog Hosting Recomendations

More links, more problems

While I really need to find more time to read through, I know I’m not going to have the time to read through all of them. Maybe eventually I’ll get through the whole list, but for now, I just want to at least leave this here incase anyone else finds it interesting. Pardon the LLM for the descriptions, but I don’t have the time to write them all out myself.

Intro

So, I recently decided to migrate from Diaro to Two Obsidian for my diary. Not that I have a problem with their website. For the low price of $20, I believe it was, I think it’s a good deal. They gave me a lifetime subscription to their site, which utilizes Dropbox to sync its data backend. They’ve never lost a single entry, and they’ve helped me chronicle my life over the last three or four years. One of the great features they had was that you could upload a photo, and it would tag the location and set the time and date based on the photo. This was a great feature, and something I hope I can find similar to in Obsidian.

Here’s a curated link dump of standout articles, tools, and odd corners of the web that caught my attention this month. Expect a mix of tech, design, culture, and a dash of whimsy. Enjoy exploring!

🤯 Information Overload

I’ve been rethinking my bookmarking and sharing habits. I consume a massive amount of content via RSS using Inoreader, often skimming 100-250 posts daily. This leads to an overwhelming reading list.