Things worth keeping.

Mostly reading lists, each one also a public Bindle list you can follow. Every link in them is archived, which is the point.

• 2026-08-25

  Tools for thought: an eighty-year reading list

  From Vannevar Bush's memex in 1945 to Andy Matuschak's evergreen notes: the conversation about using computers to think better, in reading order.

• 2026-08-25

  Nine essays on programming that hold up

  Most writing about software is stale in three years. These nine pieces, from Brooks in 1986 to the Grug Brained Developer, are still the best statement of the thing they are about.

• 2026-08-25

  Link rot, by the numbers

  What the studies actually found: 38% of 2013's web pages are gone, half the links in Supreme Court opinions are dead, a quarter of the New York Times' deep links have rotted. The measurements, with sources.