Thursday, 11 September 2025

Labours of Love

Sometime back I saw a tweet by @pervocracy (the account has since been locked):

types of websites that exist anymore:
- algorithmic feed of whatever makes the rat keep pushing the lever
- we hope you enjoyed your 3 free articles
- ENABLE NOTIFICATIONS? SHARE LOCATION?? GET NEWSLETTER???
- labor of love by an actual person, last updated 2009

Fortunately, some websites from the last category still exist. And some – praise be! – are even updated.

Here's an off-the-top-of-my-head list of labours of love by an actual person:

I focused on websites made solely (or primarily) by just one person, as opposed to, say, Wikipedia, which is a collective effort. I also didn't include resources which are not websites per se, like this Google Sheet about mini PCs. And finally, the list reflects my own interests, but I'm sure there are many such labours of love which are still out there. If there are any that you know of – whether existing, or late lamented – let me know in the comments!

Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Singapore, 7:20 pm


The two photos were taken just a few minutes apart on Punggol beach, looking out across the Johor Strait (the lights on the right are from Malaysia). I used a 10 sec exposure for the first photo, and 1/250 sec for the second.

These are the first photos on this blog which were taken with my new Fuji X-E5 camera.