This is my reading list. You can read about how it works and how I made it. It consists of pages I want to read and, afterwards, my notes on them. To see my collection of generally useful websites, see my bookmarks page. There is an RSS feed containing the latest update.
The List:
- OMINOUS NETWORKS -- The Right to Be Unknown (02/02/26|notes)
- That which is unique, breaks (19/01/26|notes)
- Ravenglass by Carolyn Kirby (04/01/26|notes)
- DNF: Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain (15/11/25|notes)
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (24/10/25|notes)
- What do we know about the genetics of “born this way?” — and how does it help us to know it? | The Molecular Ecologist (23/10/25|notes)
- How Do We Look by Mary Beard (10/10/25|notes)
- Kraken by China Miéville (04/10/25|notes)
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman (14/09/25|notes)
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey (29/08/25|notes)
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (22/08/25|notes)
- Entering Text to the Terminal is Complicated (11/08/25|notes)
- PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights | Robert Heaton (11/08/25|notes)
- Patrick Weaver (11/08/25|notes)
- That Time Trump Got Shot (11/08/25|notes)
- J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows | WIRED (11/08/25|notes)
- U+237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW Jonathan Chan (10/08/25|notes)
- Teaching Magnetism with Bivectors (09/08/25|notes)
- Guardian on RadFolk (09/08/25|notes)
- Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville (09/08/25|notes)
- Home Screen Advantage - How Apple Fucks Over PWAs (03/08/25|notes)
- The Wrong Ideas about the Wrong Things (03/08/25|notes)
- moosh: the Moo Shell (03/08/25|notes)
- Sonnet: Against Entropy - Reactor (03/08/25|notes)
- We need visual programming. No, not like that. (02/08/25|notes)
- The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus (02/08/25|notes)
- handedness toggle (02/08/25|notes)
- Don’t use Vim for the wrong reasons · GitHub (02/08/25|notes)
- The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine (20/07/25|notes)
- Eradicating Hepatitis C with Bio-Terrorism- DEFCON 32 (10/07/25|notes)
- Reuse of research results is rampant (05/07/25|notes)
- unix_surrealism (05/07/25|notes)
- The Chatham House Should Not Rule | Kendra Albert (05/07/25|notes)
- Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 - Uncanny Magazine (04/07/25|notes)
- The Nottingham Accessibility Practices (NAPs): Overview - Learning Technology (04/07/25|notes)
- 8 Pillars of Gay Culture (03/07/25|notes)
- Oil and Vinegar - Vim and the Project Drawer (03/07/25|notes)
- Video: GIFs Are Forever, Let’s Make Them Better! – Cloud Four (02/07/25|notes)
- Demimonde: The Live Drawing of Suzanne Forbes | A luxe book of documentary drawings by Suzanne Forbes. 20 years of intimate portraits made live in San Francisco & Berlin fetish clubs and drag shows. (02/07/25|notes)
- Mayan Encoding Project (02/07/25|notes)
- Reliquaires de la Biodiversité- Biodiversity Shrines – Schreine der Artenvielfalt – Petra van Cronenburg (01/07/25|notes)
- ScienceDirect (30/06/25|notes)
- Talks by TomRocksMaths and also Veritasium (27/06/25|notes)
- Daring Greatly by Brené Brown (31/05/25|notes)
- Playing the Whore by Melissa Gira Grant (31/05/25|notes)
- Clive Thompson - Tales of Technology (19/05/25|notes)
- Poetry By Heart (19/05/25|notes)
- Donald Triplett, autism’s ‘Case 1,’ dies at 89 | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives (19/05/25|notes)
- ‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on (19/05/25|notes)
- Famous Actor Almost Hired Hitman (29/04/25|notes)
- Gentleman Jack Costumes to go on Display (28/04/25|notes)
- Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong | WIRED (24/04/25|notes)
- The Prophet with Eyes (11/04/25|notes)
- blakewatson.com - MagnoliaJS 2023: The joys of home-cooked apps (30/03/25|notes)
- The dark side of Christmas: Inside the factories where children are forced to make gifts and toys (30/03/25|notes)
- Maia Crimew - Stop Getting into Cyber because of me (11/03/25|notes)
- Optimistic Computing • Steven Deobald (18/02/25|notes)
- Julian Brasington - Sometimes Simple is the Hardest Thing (15/02/25|notes)
- Carpentopod: A walking table project (15/02/25|notes)
- Three Ways to Find Wildness Wherever You Are – Garden & Gun (11/02/25|notes)
- What’s Old Is New | CSS-Tricks (11/02/25|notes)
- The article element: HeydonWorks (09/02/25|notes)
- Cryptographic Right Answers | Latacora (22/01/25|notes)
- Syntax errors for to-do lists — Xavier Lambein's website (22/01/25|notes)
- the wandering ghost | Lia Pas (21/01/25|notes)
- The Women behind 18th century condom making – All Things Georgian (18/01/25|notes)
- Lorna Finlayson, The Sycophant — Sidecar (17/01/25|notes)
- The Third Sex (14/01/25|notes)
- In my eye line (13/01/25|notes)
- You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid | WIRED (08/01/25|notes)
- Non-violence as a societal value (08/01/25|notes)
- Alan Moore on Superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump (08/01/25|notes)
- Ten years against division of labor in software (06/01/25|notes)
- 10 ways to be prepared and grounded it Trump wins | Waging Nonviolence (05/01/25|notes)
- Pity the Nation – Create Protest (04/01/25|notes)
- Trainline accused of ripping off customers and deliberately misleading them - rmt (04/01/25|notes)
- FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS | Hackaday (03/01/25|notes)
- HAPPy Days | Life and Physics (03/01/25|notes)
- Todepond - Cardboard Cutouts (02/01/25|notes)
- Todepond - Two Beat Style (02/01/25|notes)
- Maia Crimew - Anarchism in the Now (02/01/25|notes)
- A gleam of hope: meet the Luddite Club (02/01/25|notes)
- Read Hot Trans - An Album by Sade and Sam Smit (31/12/24|notes)
- Teaching Rotational Physics with Bivectors (31/12/24|notes)
- UK HE shrinking (30/12/24|notes)
- wrttn:04af1a (30/12/24|notes)
- Low Spanish Costs are not About Decentralization | Pedestrian Observations (30/12/24|notes)
- matttproud.com (blog) (30/12/24|notes)
- Falsifiable, by Beatrice Morgan (29/12/24|notes)
- A Graphical Catalogue of Threats to Validity (29/12/24|notes)
- Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ | Culture | EL PAÍS English (29/12/24|notes)
- Factory flowers - beauty and survival in India’s garment factories (28/12/24|notes)
- DocSeuss - I was a Teenage Exocolonist and So Can You (28/12/24|notes)
- The “Princess, Do Your Homework!” Letter – Iris Kamil (28/12/24|notes)
- The History of Beech Caves, Staffordshire: A Story of War, Work, and Wild Nights (27/12/24|notes)
- A practical, biomimetic, one-pot synthesis of firefly luciferin | Scientific Reports (27/12/24|notes)
- blakewatson.com - Building our own private Discord knockoff (27/12/24|notes)
- The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (27/12/24|notes)
- Spacecraft attempts closest-ever approach to Sun (27/12/24|notes)
- blakewatson.com - Where I’m at with notetaking apps (25/12/24|notes)
- blakewatson.com - Alpine.js for home-cooked apps (25/12/24|notes)
- blakewatson.com - The making of HTML for People (24/12/24|notes)
- What I think ideas are for (24/12/24|notes)
- Tadi lab (24/12/24|notes)