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I would like to see more people writing about their passions and thoughts in a
permanent and public medium. You should make a blog!
**This is an open offer to pay anyone $20 for starting a tech blog and writing
their first article.** If you write another 3 articles within 6 months, I'll
give you another $20. You can also choose to have me donate your reward to one
of the following charitable organizations:
- [Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://www.eff.org/)
- [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/)
- [Software Freedom Conservancy](https://sfconservancy.org/)
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**This offer is closed**, as the budget has been expended. Keep an eye out, it
will likely reopen later.
**Details**
- This offer is only available to people who do not already have a blog.
- You must publish on an open-source platform. Medium is not allowed. If you
  want a hosted platform, I recommend [write.as](https://write.as). If you're
  technical, you could build your own blog with [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/)
  or [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/). GitHub offers [free
  hosting](https://pages.github.com/) for Jekyll-based blogs.
- There's no minimum word count, but put the effort in. Use exactly as many
  words are as necessary to make a substantive point, no fewer and no more.
Join the [Free Writers Club](https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/free-writers-club)
mailing list for updates, reminders to keep writing, and a forum for supporting
each other's work.
## Read these blogs
Here's a list of blogs which have taken me up on this offer, roughly sorted from
most to least active:
- [gokigen](https://write.as/gokigen/)
- [Neil Panchal](https://neil.computer/)
- [Juraj Oravec](https://sgorava.github.io/)
- [Alexander Pluhar](https://www.alexander-pluhar.de/)
- [L. McNulty's blog](https://lmcnulty.gitlab.io/blog/index.html)
- [Lauro Silva](https://laurosilva.com/)
- [Nils Schulte's blog](https://nilsschulte.de/posts/)
- [Nix Adventures](https://nixing.mx/index.html)
- [Stefan Schick's personal Blog](https://stefanschick.eu/)
- [Limero](https://limero.se/)
- [Hallau World](https://hallau.world)
- [brett.icu](https://brett.icu/)
- [DS log](https://sidhion.com/blog/)
- [Colton's Blog](https://wi.zard.work/)
- [(pixel)desu.blog](https://desu.blog/)
- [Todd Davies' blog](https://todddavies.co.uk/blog/)
- [Daniel Playfair Cal’s Blog](https://www.danielplayfaircal.com/)
- [xy2_](https://xy2.dev/)
- [buffer = NULL;](https://nullbuffer.com/)
- [Thomas Dagenais' Blog \| i64.dev](https://i64.dev/)
- [papatutuwawa@home:~$](https://blog.polynom.me/)
- [kindly](https://pensinspace.net/kindly/)
- [\[esotericnonsense %\] ~/blog](https://esotericnonsense.com/blog/)
- [Un morceau de toile](https://www.libellules.eu/)
- [Rocket Nine Labs](https://rocketnine.space/post/tview-and-you/)
- [Chris Vittal's blog](https://chris.vittal.dev/)
- [Mochiro.moe](https://mochiro.moe/)
- [Tretinha's Lair](http://www.tretinha.com/)
- [Notopygos](https://tilde.town/~notopygos/archive/)
- [Naz's Notes](https://notes.askaoru.com/)
- [WritingGale's Blog](https://lorem.club/~/WritingGalesBlog)
- [Sean Behan — converting coffee into code](https://www.seanbehan.dev/)
- [Christophe Slim](https://slim.page/interests.html)
- [Saura's Blog](https://blog.sasach.work/)
- [Daniel Benjamin Miller](https://dbmiller.org/)
- [Anon's Blog](https://anons.writeas.com/)
- [Thrill Seeker](https://thrillseek-r.net/posts/)
- [zdsfa](https://zdsfa.com/insert/blog/)
- [Axel Svensson](https://axelsvensson.com)
- [Cole on fediverse.blog](https://fediverse.blog/~/Cole)
- [Ohryan on fediverse.blog](https://fediverse.blog/~/Ohyran)
Now-defunct blogs:
- ~~depsterr~~
- ~~Jebikoh~~
- ~~Tech Monk~~
- ~~Joel's Blog~~
- ~~Zack Lofgren~~
- ~~berfr blog~~