Before FB, Google & co. dominated there was a vast smishsmash of internet people spinning up their wild ideas on a LAMP stack and slapping a TLD on it for the world to see.
You could open up RockMelt with your StumbleUpon plugin to navigate effortlessly into the mind of the indy web.
This old phenomenon lives on as the “small web” and I’m all for it.
Below are a few artisnal web operators I draw insperation from:
Hackers/Makers:
bikerglen setup their own community ISP to go against the big dogs, and reverse engineers a bunch of consumer tech (particularly controllable LEDS): https://bikerglen.com/blog/ (Glen Akins)
Tinker is a self described Tinkerer, Solarpunker, and Hacker. They were my introduction to the Solarpunk movement: tinker.sh
Tek is an activist, hacker and security researcher working for the Human Rights Watch: https://randhome.io/
matduggan is a well opiononated and written DevOps engineer living in Denmark: https://matduggan.com/
Web design:
- Di is an autor and Data Viz Engineer in Australia https://didoesdigital.com
Infosec:
- cR0w is a cybersecurity analyst? and infosec commentator possibly based in NA: https://cascadiacrow.com
- Taggart is a US based cybersecurity analyst, creator, and activist: https://taggart-tech.com
- GossiTheDog is a UK based infosec activist and administrator of cyberplace.social: https://doublepulsar.com
Friends:
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