Sunday Funday - Sept 2025
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.
