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My name is Ryan. I've been wanting to start a blog for a long time and now I have. I don't know what this is going to look like, but here are some topics you might expect:

• Security/Privacy
• Automation
• Development
• Self-hosted applications
• Free and open-source software
• Interoperability

There's no way to tell, but maybe I'll recommend books that I've read recently, such as:

• Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff
• Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
• Babel by R.F. Kuang
• The Little Brother series and The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• 12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson
• Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
• She Who Became the Sun & He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

I will almost definitely get carried away.

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