Introduction to a Self Managed Life - a comprehensive guide containing one approach to switching away from the Big Platforms and onto your own online tools and hosting. Note that this is not a One True Way guide, but just one example of how this can be achieved.

Related videos:

• Introduction to the guide (13 minutes)
• This guide as a video: part 1 and part 2 (13 hours total)

The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable.

Use skill trees to track your growth and inspire you to try new things. Print the open source templates and color in the boxes as you level up your skills.

• Printables and templates available on the Github repository.
• Buy online from the author's Etsy store
• Watch the video presentation

Make it Yourself is a digital book that showcases this incredible talent, bringing together over 1000 useful DIY projects to demonstrate just what is possible when you make things yourself.

Each featured item links directly to their original project websites, where you’ll find everything needed to make them.

The Pinouts Book is a free digital book created for designers and engineers as a quick reference for remembering the different pinout functions in your electronics projects.

The book covers 130 commonly used components (view list), such as connectors, single board computers, dev boards, memory cards, microcontroller chips, and more.

If you need more technical information, each page has a link at the top (e.g. pinouts.org/XXX), and these redirect to official datasheets / specifications.