Heterodox Technology

Heterodox computing technology: alternatives to Windows, MacOS, Android, Linux, Intel, ARM, HTTPS, Facebook, etc.

Link log

Heterdox Technolog link log
Heterodox Technology Atom feed
Heterodox Technology subreddit (maintained by the author of this capsule)

Every weekend, 5 links from the /r/HeterodoxTechnology subreddit are randomly selected and auto-posted as the "link log" here in Gemini space.

Manifestos, desiderata

Many people have put together lists of multiple different desirable qualities in computing and communications systems. Some are linked below:

Desiderata hosted on this capsule

Desiderata of the broader movements around alternative computing
Lean Web Desiderata
Cambridge Criteria (how computing should be)
Resonant Computing
Three Laws of personal devices (Aral Balkan)
What is FUTO? (contains 5 desiderate)

Short Essays elsewhere in Gemini space

Digital Peasantry
Nobody Told Us Tripod and Angelfire Would Be the Last Bastions of the Old Web
Low-budget P2P content distribution with git
The Internet is Fragile
A Book of Proverbs
Offmini, My Dream of Making Gemini Offline and Distributed
Offmini (part 2): Designing a Simple Offline and Decentralised Mail and Web

Recommended

If you're interested in working on developing something different, I'd recommend contributing to any of these three efforts:

Gemini
NNCP links and notes
Pest

Specific qualities

Articles and essays about individual desirable qualities in computing systems:

Computing durability

Final software
Finished software
Ways to keep software working
durable computing @ploum
The computer built to last 50 years (also ploum)

Lean / minimalist computing

Small Internet Manifesto
Slow Software (contains links to other movements)
chötrin's wiki: smol internet
Jon Goerzen on Old and Small Technology
Some thoughts about the small web
I still believe in the bicycle for the mind

High-agency computing

IndieWeb movement
Tech Independence (seting up own server)
IPv6, NAT and the Cloud
LandChad.net
Towards aristocratic computing
Never Forgive Them (Ed Zitron)

Local-first computing

Unhosted manifesto
Local first discord
Automerge (CRDT tooling)
Redecentralize (strictly, about an adjacent phenomenon)

Pubnixes

My pubnix landing page
The SRCF
Silas Brown's account of the SRCF
the Zen of pubnix
Five years a sundog - Happy birthday, circumlunar space!
Happy Birfday, Zaibatsu-kun! Or, Wages of the Smolnet

Miscellaneous

Digital Gardening (links)
Libreserver (was FreedomBone)
YURLs / HTTPSY
Discarded idea re Gemini and DNS
We're bringing finger back
Smolnet evolutionary constraints
Robust-first computation