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10/27 links

**nostr ** - Using Germ DM — Germ Network - Download - About – Nos: The Human Network - Nostr Apps - Create your Nostr account - njump - Jump on Board on Nostr, Start Now! - njump - Jump on Board on Nostr, Start Now! - fiatjaf/narr: self-hosted Nostr and RSS reader - 0xchat - Secure chat built on Nostr - Zapstore - Nsec.app - Nostr Key Storage and Remote Signer - Narr - nostrapps.com - Oracolo.me - nostrapps.com - 0xchat - nostrapps.com - Nstart.me - nostrapps.com - Openvibe - nostrapps.com - Openvibe — Town Square for Open Social Media - app for multiple nostr accounts - Google Search - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of project and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - app for multiple xmpp and matrix - Google Search - beeper xmpp how to add - Google Search - Best app for multiple matrix and xmpp - Google Search - Matrix.org - Clients - beeper xmpp - Google Search

email - email services  - Google Search - Proton Mail: Sign-up - Tuta: Turn ON privacy for free with secure emails, calendars & contacts | Tuta - etamr@tuta.io - Tuta Mail: Login & Sign up for free - Setting Up Outlook (IMAP) - widgets 1 - 7 Best JavaScript Widgets Libraries For Enterprise Web Apps

**apple ** - iCloud - Manage your Apple Account - Data & Privacy - Manage your Apple Account - export apple id info - Google Search - Data & Privacy - Contacts - Apple iCloud - Archive or make copies of the information you store in iCloud - Apple Support - transer apple id to new - Google Search - Transfer data from one Apple ID to anothe… - Apple Community - new apple id 2nd account - Google Search - Manage your Apple Account - How to create a new Apple Account - Apple Support

self host - discord third party apps tools - Google Search - Discord-Client-Encyclopedia-Management/Discord3rdparties: A non-exhaustive collection of third-party clients and mods for Discord. - Discord Integrations | Connect Your Apps with Zapier - Discord Bots and Discord Apps | The #1 Discord Bot and Discord App List - Legcord

People-First Web Stuff

tozka Elsewhere

tozka's Set-up

  • OS: Windows 11 (against my will)

  • Browser: Waterfox

  • Text Editor: Notepad++ (I figured out how to make it pastel pink!)

  • Notes: Joplin

  • RSS Reader: Feedbro

  • Music Player: foobar2000

  • Chat: Discord (not very often tbh; it stresses me out most days)

  • VPN: ExpressVPN (at least until the subscription expires in November…)

Website Design

Check out these pages for links to layouts, backgrounds, pixels, etc. 

Cool Websites

With interesting or unique designs.

Site-Building/Personal Web Development

Help docs and other things for setting up your own personal website.

DIYFuturism – “Self Hosting: Setting up a Personal Wiki with DokuWiki” – helped me decide to use DocuWiki for this site! Plus useful info on some plugins to use and other stuff.

Slash Pages (not the fanfic kind unfortunately) – “Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /now, /about, or /uses. They tend to describe the individual behind the site and are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb.”

The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development – “The Fujoshi Guide aims to fill the gap between beginner tutorials and professional web development resources. Beginner tutorials ignore many of the techniques crucial to modern web development, while professional resources are so dense they are unapproachable to the average fan. As a result, many capable potential developers abandon their programming dreams.”

32-Bit Cafe – community for website hobbyists with excellent tutorials and resources for not only personal websites but also forums and other community spaces. Here's a page on webweaving with lots of resources.

Filtering items with just CSS and HTML – a great idea for things like fanlisting pages or graphics pages

Lissa Explains It All  – HTML help and tutorials

Indie Web/Small Web/Website Design Links

Be sure to also check out these pages for more links: How to Make a Personal Site (WIP) and Finding the Old Web. There's some overlap between those pages and this page (maybe too much overlap).

What is the Indie Web?

The definitive guide for escaping social media (and joining the indie web.)

What is the Web Revival? – an overview of the different aspects of rebuilding the personal web.

IndieWeb.org

Exploring the Small Web/Old Web

Site Directories

How to find RSS feeds

All blogs/websites have an RSS feed somewhere, even if it's not visible-- try adding /rss or /atom to the end of the blog URL. But there's actually a surprising amount of other things you can get an RSS feed for!

Here's what I've transferred to my feedreader:

1. Tumblr
Absolutely fantastic because the endless scroll is gone, there's no ads, and I see EVERY UPDATE chronologically. Feeds can be found by adding /rss to the end of the URL: [user].tumblr.com/rss

2. Reddit
Another banger because I can see EVERY new post now; and I don't even have to join a subreddit to see them which is great. Add /.rss to the end of the URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/[subreddit]/.rss

3. Youtube channels
Yet another great idea because I see every new video from every channel now, instead of YT pushing up only 3 or 4 of them on my homescreen. I cheated and used Feedbro to automatically find the RSS feed but it looks something like this: [https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=ID]

4. Podcasts
I actually use Overcast to subscribe to podcasts BUT you can definitely do it in a feedreader. Most podcast websites have an RSS feed somewhere; even Spotify podcasts have them, because they've enabled an RSS feed so, like, Apple Podcasts can scrape it or whatever. Paste the Spotify URL into GetRSSFeed.com to find it. 

5. Substack
I hate Substack but they've been pushing for more people to make newsletters over there lately, so a lot of people have opened new accounts. Ugh. But still, there's some good writers over there, and I want to read their stuff. Add /feed at the end of the URL: https://[user].substack.com/feed

6. Newsletters
I get overwhelmed if there's too many emails in my inbox (especially from strangers selling me stuff), so I'm converting whatever I can to an RSS feed using Kill the Newsletter, which basically gives you an email to use to sign up to newsletters and then it converts it to a feed for you! It's open source, so you can host it yourself if you'd like.

Caveat: I haven't tried to subscribe to a private feed, but most feedreaders have an option to add in a username/password to access those. However, I don't know how it'd work for sites that are more like memberships, like Youtube's community thing.

Not possible to RSS because the company that made them sucks: Facebook, Instagram, Threads (so any Meta app), TikTok

Possible to RSS but I haven't done it: Bluesky, Flickr, Mastodon, Medium, AO3, Dreamwidth

aussies.space

aussies.space is a tilde located in australia focused around australian tilde users. 

sysadmin: fosslinux

os: ubuntu lts

channel: #aussie

created: Tue Feb 19th, 2019

cosmic.voyage

cosmic.voyage is a tilde community based around a collaborative science-fiction universe. 

sysadmins: tomasino fosslinux

os: ubuntu lts

channel: #cosmic

created: Tue Nov 20th, 2018

ctrl-c.club

Ctrl-C Club is a Linux server offering free SSH and web accounts to users who want to build webpages, chat online, learn Linux, play text console games, or fiddle around writing software. 

sysadmin: calamitous

os: ubuntu lts

channel: #ctrl-c

created: Sat Dec 6th, 2014

rw.rs

An experimental software community with a 199X aesthetic. 

sysadmin: adsr

os: debian

channel: #rw.rs

created: Sat Apr 13th, 2019

texto-plano.xyz

Un tilde pero en castellano -- a small spanish-speaking tilde 

sysadmin: ffuentes

os: openbsd

channel: #texto-plano

created: Fri Oct 30th, 2020

thunix

thunix offers Shell (SSH) accounts, Web Hosting, Email Accounts, and many other things to people free of charge. 

sysadmins: deepend naglfar

os: debian stable

channel: #thunix

created: Sun Feb 10th, 2019

tilde.club

tilde.club is not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages 

sysadmins: deepend ben

os: fedora

channel: #club

created: Tue Sep 30th, 2014

tilde.guru

A public-access UNIX -like system running FreeBSD 

sysadmin: sarmonsiill

os: freebsd

channel: #guru

created: Sat Jul 24th, 2021

tilde.institute

A public-access UNIX system running OpenBSD 

sysadmins: gbmor kneezle

os: openbsd

channel: #institute

created: Thu Nov 22nd, 2018

tilde.pink

tilde.pink is a gopher-only tilde running on NetBSD open to everyone 

sysadmin: tiwesdaeg

os: netbsd

channel: #pink

created: Sun Apr 14th, 2019

tilde.team

non-commercial space for teaching, learning, and enjoying the social medium of unix 

sysadmins: ben cmccabe khuxkm

os: ubuntu lts and freebsd

channel: #team

created: Tue May 30th, 2017

tilde.town

intentional digital community for making art, socializing, and learning 

sysadmins: vilmibm dzwdz archangelic

os: ubuntu lts

channel: #town

created: Sat Oct 11th, 2014

tilde.green

An open community that thrives of creativity and wildness 

sysadmins: computertech jmjl worm

os: ubuntu lts

channel: #tilde.green

created: Thu Mar 3rd, 2022

Computers:

https://ctrl-c.club/~pgadey/notes/math/index.html#String-Figures

Recreational math:

https://ctrl-c.club/~pgadey/notes/nature/index.html#Reflected-Spot-Sundial

https://pgadey.com/bookmarks/

Feeds

This website generates a number of RSS feeds. If you’ve never heard of RSS feeds before, I recommend reading aboutfeeds.com. It explains what RSS feeds are and how to use them. Some other recommend reads about RSS appear below.

This site produces the following feeds:

  • Everything is just that. It’s the main feed and contains everything from the site. It might be a bit noisy for some people.
  • Notes is a collection of notes. This is formal writing. It is infrequently updated, often revised, and has a higher signal to noise ratio than the everything feed.
  • Blog is an old-fashioned blog. It is for informal writing. Quick thoughts. Pictures of sunflowers.
  • Week Notes is weekly update on what I’m doing. It is like an RSS-powered newsletter.
  • Office Camera is a collection of annotated photo of the whiteboard in my office. This might be helpful for student who just want to see stuff from office hours.

The feeds that I’m currently subscribed to can be viewed here or in a mini version. If you want to follow the same things as me, you can also download the OPML file of all the feeds that I’m currently following. There is also a similar page for the literary feeds that my wife follows. There is an OPML file for that page too.

Reading RSS with newsboat and sfeed

RSS is a wonderful technology. It allows one to follow a bunch of media creators without getting ensnared in an endless algorithmic dopamine chase. For more information on RSS, check out: aboutfeeds.com and my related reading on feeds. In this note, I’m going to write up how up how my RSS feed reader works.

I use two tools for reading RSS feeds: newsboat and a home-brewed static blogroll based off sfeed. The latter is a very stripped down RSS reader suitable for hacking around with. You can see my setup here:

Attention Conservation Warning: I’m about to describe a really convoluted way to read RSS. If you’re a reasonable person, you should sign up for a simple RSS reader service like mire. It was fun for me to hack this thing together, but reading RSS doesn’t need to be so complicated. I just like to live in a steaming heap of bash script.

Overview #

The high-level view of how things work is this: I add/remove/manage feeds in newsboat. Then, I use a bash alias newsboat-send-feeds to update a list of feeds on my personal server. Lists of feeds are stored in OPML1 files. The personal server periodically runs a bash script rss-update.sh which uses sfeed to create the full and mini version of my feeds. The bash script also sends a copy of my feeds to ctrl-c.club.

rss-update.sh #

And so, let’s get in to the details. The shell script that I use to generated the full feed list and the mini list is here. It comes with no warranty, and needs a lot of tweaking to work with other setups. It takes an input feeds.opml and creates the two static HTML pages listed above.

The code of rss-update.sh

newsboat #

I use newsboat to read RSS locally on my laptop, and to generate the OPML1 file feeds.opml. It’s great except for the non-obvious default behaviour that it doesn’t automatically refresh all the feeds when you open it. This feels weird to me, and so I added the following to ~/.newsboat/config.

 # load all feeds on startup
 refresh-on-startup yes

The following bash alias sends the feeds to my server and runs rss-update.sh.

 alias newsboat-send-feeds='cd ~/.newsboat; newsboat --export-to-opml > feeds.opml; scp feeds.opml cloudbox:/home/pgadey/public_html/pgadey/feeds/; ssh cloudbox "/home/pgadey/bin/rss-update.sh"'

Once the feeds.opml file is in place, sfeed (and rss-update.sh) will do all the work. rss-update.sh is run via a cron job on my personal server2 daily.

How Does This Actually Work in Practice? #

If I finding a creator that I want to follow, then I open up newsboat, add their feed, and run newsboat-send-feeds. It takes about thirty seconds. Their feed is then added to the OPML file sitting on my server. The feeds pages will get updated once per day, which is just enough to keep things interesting.

Acknowledgments #

My ctrl-c.club friend ~gome wanted to know how my RSS reader worked. Thanks, ~gome for asking about it.

  1. Before writing this, I had no idea what OPML stood for. Turns out that it’s “outline processor markup language”. This is the standard format for exchanging lists of RSS feeds. ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. You might wonder: Why not do all this on ctrl-c.club? That seems like a better place for hacking around with this stuff. I decided to do it on my home server to save our administrator the task of installing sfeed. ↩︎

Colophon

This website is made with Hugo and themed by accessible minimalism.

  • static
    • images
      • office-camera
    • seminar
  • content
    • notes
    • teaching

The favicons for this site were generated from this icon over at icon-icons.com using Real FavIcon Generator. A local copy of the SVG is here:

An open compass

I used LunaPic’s in-browswer circle-crop tool to make the circle-cropped headshot photo.

Generally, I like to shrink photos to 800x800 using: convert -quality 80 -geometry 800x800 image.jpg image-small.jpg

To get KaTeX to do both inline and display equations, I modified./layout/partials/katex.md according to Kevin Cazelle’s suggestions here: https://kevcaz.github.io/notes/hugo/katex_and_goldmark/.

And now math looks like this: Inline: ππ Display style: ∫x dx=12x2+C∫x dx=21​x2+C

The website is compiled by Hugo locally, and I use rsync to put it on the server.

rsync -avz /home/pgadey/Hugo/pgadey/ cloudbox:/home/pgadey/public_html

Shortcodes #

Hugo supports the ability to add shortcodes, or macros, to do all sorts of things. I’ve added a couple shortcodes, but I always seem to forget how they work. And so, I’m putting some reminders to myself here.

The shortcode static makes accessing static resources easier.

  {{< static "share/some-document.pdf" >}}

  ![foo]({{< static "img/foo.png" >}})

The shortcode private allows me to put material here which is shown locally via hugo server but doesn’t get published.

 {{< private >}}

    This material is private.

 {{< /private >}}

The shortcode gobble just consumes whatever it is given. It is occassionally helpful for keeping post-level to-do lists which are only visible while editing the original source of a post.

{{< gobble >}}

    This vanishes!

{{< /gobble >}}

The bookmarks page is populated with material wrapped in

{{< links >}}

    Links to things!

{{< /links >}}

Change log #

  • [2025-05-14] I haven’t been maintaining this changelog at all!

  • [2024-07-08] Thinking about adding a bit of audio content. Information about the audio tag from w3schools.

  • [2025-08-30] Added a “view this page on the Wayback Machine” link to Recently Modified section. Inspired by Dave Winer.

  • [2024-07-03] Added a Statistics section to the homepage. The content and layout were inspired by Winnie Lim.

  • [2024-07-03] Added a Recently Modified section to the homepage. The layout was inspired by Cosma Shalizi’s notebooks.

  • [2024-04-01] Added a static shortcode following the suggestion here.

  • [2024-03-15] Hid the tags and backlinks under <details> folds following the example of Oatmeal.

  • [2024-03-15] Added Backlink support following Wouter Groeneveld of https://brainbaking.com. For details, see True Backlink Support in Hugo.

  • [2024-01-30] Added a gobble shortcode.

  • [2023-11-15] Started to customize the summaries of notes to make them more helpful.

  • [2023-11-15] Added some tags to distinguish sketchy and polished notes.

  • [2023-10-19] Modified the list.html default layout template to pass the .Content of _index.md. This means that pages now have a bit of built in content.

  • [2023-10-13] Added a darkmode support following this bit from MDN. Amber on black for the win!

  • [2023-10-12] Updated things so that the RSS Feed is no longer “Welcome! on Parker Glynn-Adey” but just “Parker Glynn-Adey”.

  • [2023 ??] Switched the theme to accessible minimalism.

  • [2023-01-04] Updated the now page and streamlined the directory layout by munging everything in to notes.

  • [2022-11-18] Added office camera about.

  • [2021-07-04] Add CC license to footer.

Links to useful Ctrl-C.club pages

random links

https://bechnokid.neocities.org/goodies/graphics/ https://bechnokid.neocities.org/goodies/webgarden/

Here is a categorized list of your links for easier reference:

Personal/Creative Blogs & Projects

  • fromthesuperhighway.com/webring – Webring directory

  • bearblog.dev/discover – Platform site discovery

  • lilyblossom.neocities.org/links

  • blot.im

  • write.as

hi

  • codepen.io/sadness97/pen/BaQbJQb – Coding example

  • skykristal.art/Blog/posts/2025-04-14-Statuscafe-Tricks

  • miso.town/posts – Posts/social/technical

  • piclog.blue/index.php – Image/project log

Open Source, APIs, Social Protocols

  • inoreader.com/all_articles – Newsreader/aggregator service

  • notbyai.fyi – Advocacy/campaign project

  • unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-test.txt – Unicode emoji reference

  • npmjs.com/package/emoji.json – Node.js emoji package

Design & CSS Utilities

  • html-css-js.com/css/generator/gradient – CSS generator

  • cssgradient.io – Visual CSS gradients

  • mdbootstrap.com/snippets/standard/mdbootstrap/2885126?view=side# – CSS footer examples

Community, Manuals, Miscellaneous

  • midnight.pub/manual – Platform manual/help

  • nightfall.city/shore/m15o/ – Digital social/art

  • Ichi – Community/social homepage

If you’d like, these categories can be further refined or split by purpose, technology, creative vs. technical, or platform focus—let me know if you need a particular organization!

  1. https://herman.bearblog.dev/projects/
  2. https://herman.bearblog.dev/big-fat-websites/
  3. https://xenforo.com/community/threads/anyone-else-miss-2000s-web-design.192543/
  4. https://forum.status.cafe/boards/2
  5. https://unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com/guide/3/
  6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30934529
  7. https://www.nexusmods.com/digimonstorytimestranger/news/13846
  8. https://decodreams.neocities.org
  9. https://herman.bearblog.dev
  10. https://blog.avas.space
  11. https://blog.avas.space/what-is-this/
  12. https://thoughts.melonking.net/guides/introduction-to-the-web-revival-2-learn-about-websites
  13. https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/inspiration/personal-websites
  14. https://ajazzstore.com
  15. https://moneywithkatie.com/the_mwk_show/wealth-ladder/
  16. https://fromthesuperhighway.com/issues/issue08/
  17. https://neocities.org/browse?tag=nostalgia
  18. https://folkmoss.bearblog.dev/an-i-love-personal-websites/
  19. https://www.pixietails.club/links:indie_web?s%5B%5D=spaces%2A
  20. https://justsketch.me/jya-yan-interview/
  21. https://www.facebook.com/groups/stgeorgeutahwom/posts/964911728740867/
  22. https://linktr.ee/goblinmarketfl
  23. https://www.instagram.com/moka_coffeecompany/
  24. https://kayserifserif.place/posts/2025/what-should-i-use-to-make-a-website
  25. https://www.annavatuone.com/blog/how-to-write-good-copy-for-your-personal-website
  26. https://julianpaul.me/blog/my-personal-website-choice
  27. https://pagecord.com
  28. https://antonio.is/2023/06/10/smol-web/
  29. https://yourcreativeblog.com/credits
  30. https://unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com/database/
  31. https://pika.page
  32. https://sadgrl.online/resources/webdev-links/
  33. https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resources-list-for-the-personal-web/49
  34. https://qresear.ch/?q=Stephen+Harper
  35. https://forum.status.cafe/topics/11
  36. https://bechnokid.neocities.org/resources/tut_statuscafefeed/
  37. https://www.misoenergy.org/meet-miso/legal-and-privacy/
  38. https://www.inoreader.com
  39. https://notbyai.fyi
  40. https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
  41. https://www.npmjs.com/package/unicode-emoji-json
  42. https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt
  43. https://yarn.social
  44. https://html-css-js.com/css/generator/gradient/
  45. https://cssgradient.io/gradient-backgrounds/
  46. https://www.omniapartners.com/suppliers-files/T-Z/Teknion/Contract_Documents/R191816/Please_DocuSign_Teknion_Mod_Package_-_Region.pdf
  47. https://ichi.city/homepages
  48. https://a-website-is-a-room.net

Forums & message boards

  • Basement Community - A general discussion forum with a few niche topics.

  • Comfybox - Another general discussion forum focusing more on leaks, hoarding and archival. Very Furry-friendly.

  • The Midnight Pub - “The Midnight is a virtual pub that lets you write posts and create pages.”

  • Pixel Lounge - “A laid-back pixel art forum with a bit of a focus on dolling and nerd-culture.”

  • The Web Raft - A forum where users can connect and share communities, projects, websites, etc.

  • Reject Convenience - A small indie-web forum that was recently established at the time of writing. May be a work in progress!

  • Penpalworld - A minimalist and retro social media.

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Oldweb revival sites

  • Sheezy.Art - Art website that tries to recreate the highs of pre-2010 deviantart.com and sheezyart.com.

  • SpaceHey - “A retro social network focused on privacy and customizability.” - recreation of MySpace

  • Bitview - A video sharing site that takes inspiration from classic youtube.

  • Sudomemo - A revival of flipnote hatena, it includes a comment section and a community-led forum in the form of discord and a chat. There is a tab for old games to play!

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Webrings and community-like experiences

What's a webring?

  • The *nix ring - A webring focused on linux distros and foss. Admission to the ring requires some amount of focus on linux in the website.

  • FurRing - A webring centered on furries. Many versions of the webring exists due to the original webring being defunct.

  • Transing the Internet - A trans webring that runs a small discord community.

  • Fandom webring - A webring for those in fandom.

Resource Lists

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General Advice

Finding Gifs and Graphics

If you plan to use a lot of gifs or other images on your site, sometimes an image search for “duck gif transparent” or “seamless grass” is the best way to find what you need. There are also a bunch of cool resources out there and I will list some here!

You’ll also find that many peoples sites host graphics sections where they offer unique graphics they have made or collected! Many sites also like to collect badges.

Blinkies, Buttons & Stamps

Not exactly pixels, but usually people also want to collect them, so here they are:

Also:

https://27thletterbooks.com https://www.abebooks.com https://www.acappellabooks.com https://www.barnesandnoble.com https://www.biblio.com https://booksirelandmagazine.com https://www.christianbook.com https://bookdp.com.au https://www.dymocks.com.au https://www.ebay.com https://fable.co https://gluckspilze.com https://www.goodreads.com https://www.jmichaelsbooks.com https://www.kennys.ie https://wgpl.kohacatalog.com https://www.lapartcommune.fr https://search.library.wisc.edu https://www.littlebrown.com https://www.lovingmebooks.com https://www.nyrb.com https://parnassusbooks.net https://www.penguin.co.uk https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com https://pffamerica.org https://portlandbuttonworks.com https://www.rainbowresource.com https://www.rarebookcellar.com https://www.rizzoliusa.com https://ppl-ai-file-upload.s3.amazonaws.com https://www.scribd.com https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com https://www.simonandschuster.com.au https://sive.rs https://www.thriftbooks.com https://unabridgedbookstore.com https://en.wikipedia.org https://www.implications.com https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/scott-belskys-elephant-list https://www.implications.com/p/the-next-frontier-of-data-moats-verticals https://fortune.com/author/scott-belsky/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottbelsky_implications-by-scott-belsky-substack-activity-7264414491444965376-VzZp https://www.implications.com/about https://www.nfx.com/post/the-founder-list-creativity-is-the-new-productivity-scott-belsky https://www.scottbelsky.com/new-page-2 https://www.alleywatch.com/2025/09/the-weekly-notable-startup-funding-report-9-22-25/ https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/consumer-business-find-first-users

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