Some of mine, for example: Jeff Atwood, Steve Yegge, Cindy Sridharan, Julia Evans, Kelsey Hightower, James Govenor, Charity Majors, Martin Fowler's blog...
Who else? Who's on the rise? Who should we follow?
I am a noob through and through in the field, work as a devOps engineer in my day job, but I'm wondering if there would be any ways of generating a side income as a technical writer