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Here is unordered list of blogs, articles and pages in general that I found worth reading. It does not mean that I approve or agree everything posted by these authors, just that I found it interesting.
Blog of Ali Grudi, author of fbpdf.
Blog of Chris Wellons, author of enchive, with interesting musing on emacs and gpg.
Diary of man, looking to change his habits to improve his productivity. Interesting articles, terrible web-design. Open in lynx(1).
https://alifeofproductivity.com
Bash programming wiki. Not that you should program in bash, but sometimes you are forced (e.g. Nix, Gentoo).
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BASH
Blog of Natasha Layla Marchant, with convincing critics of FSF work and good article on why javascript should die.
https://onpon4.github.io/articles/actions.html
https://onpon4.github.io/articles/kill-js.html
Github-book about internals of linux kernel
https://0xax.gitbook.io/linux-insides/
Exceptionally detailed and in-depth discussion of various computer security topics.
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/
https://www.imperialviolet.org
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/linux/
https://www.japh.se/2011/07/17/dotshare.html
https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
gopher://thelambdalab.xyz/1/phlog/
https://tildeverse.org/members/
https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
https://ldpreload.com/blog/names-to-reserve
http://habitatchronicles.com/2016/10/
https://github.com/skeeto/growable-buf/
https://ldpreload.com/blog/per-computer-colored-prompts-in-bash
https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweet
http://libdill.org/tutorial.html
Unicode in any control data -- urls, usernames, domain names -- is severe and dangerous mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIebelIpdYk
Series of articles, evaluating different, free and proprietary, software to what degree it is spyware.
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/index.html
Nice article about behaviour of different file systems on crashes
https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files
Brilliant article "Web Obesity"[^7]
https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
Your Big data is not big, by Adam Drake
https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html
Ingenious observation that "chmod 555 ~" can prevent poorly-written software from polluting home directory.
https://zdsfa.com/insert/blog/a-guide-to-home-protection
Nothing is new, and everything I feel most likely was already put into words by somebody else.
https://datagubbe.se/stubborn/
Nice article that covers decline of UX quality. Not that woes of floating window managers actually impact me.
Usually I strongly prefer text, with pictures as necessary, but sometimes message is so good and well-researched, yet not available in any other format that I have no choice to recommend it.
What went wrong with gaming by Josh Strife Hayes
Weather forecast with curl. It is awesome.
https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. It has much better signal/noise rate than random web search.
https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell
https://github.com/tweag/gomod2nix