A now-concluded newsletter by Chris Krycho—with some extended commentary on something illuminating I’d read or thought about recently. Ran January 2019–June 2020. The subject matter ranged from explicitly theological to the politics of open source and everything in between.

A few of the best issues:

• 2019 #2: Have We Already Lost? (2020/02/02)
• 2019 #10: “The Slow Web” and the limits of “solutions” (2019/04/07
• 2019 #17: Finishing Things on the Internet (2019/05/27)
• 2019 #32: Shall We All Keep Publishing? (2019/12/31)
• 2020 #05: How do we get to Good Software? (2020/02/01)
• 2020 #06: Structural Exploitability (2020/02/08)
• 2020 #12: Retcons (2020/03/21)
• 2020 #20: Home-ier Economies (2020/05/17)

The newsletter’s title was a reference to Tolkien, of course—a gesture at the ways we are broken creatures living in a world shorn of what it could be—but not without hope.

The obligatory note: the views expressed here are mine and mine alone.