How the heck does he have time to post all that amazing stuff, AND be coding open-source, AND have some kind of day job?
My god, I wish I were that productive.
Julia Evans - https://jvns.ca/
Fabien Sanglard - https://fabiensanglard.net/
Rachel - http://rachelbythebay.com/w/
Bruce Eckel - https://bruceeckel.substack.com/ (old blog @ https://www.bruceeckel.com/)
Blobs in Games - https://simblob.blogspot.com/
Astrid dot tech - https://astrid.tech/
Brendan Gregg - https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/
Stargirl Flowers - https://blog.thea.codes/
* Noah Smith: fhttps://www.noahpinion.blog
* Since he's retired from his NYT column after 25 years, Krugman: https://paulkrugman.substack.com
For personal finance / business:
I publish one post a week with all the recently uploaded talks from nearly all software engineering conferences to save my readers time from endlessly scrolling through messy YT subscriptions and to reduce FOMO.
On top of that, each week, I pick a few talks that I think are a must-watch and write a short narrative to give some context.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss (https://jacobian.org/) [Engineering leadership, OSS]
- Anton Zhiyanov (https://antonz.org/) [SQL, Go, Python]
- Julia Evans (https://jvns.ca/) [SQL, Linux, Python, Go, Web]
- Brandur Leach (https://brandur.org/) [Postgres, Go, Ruby, Web]
- Brandon Rhodes (https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/) [Python, Astronomy, Linux]
- Nathanial J Smith (https://vorpus.org/blog/) [Python, Async, Linguistics]
I also write occasionally at https://rednafi.com.
New posts are rare - just once or twice a year - but every single article is a gem.
https://stephango.com Steph Ango, CEO of Obsidian, writes about the simplicity and usefulness of plain-test, plain but powerful ideas. @kepano at HN.
https://marksblogg.com Mark Litwintschik on GeoSpatial, Satellites, Machine Learning. @marklit at HN.
https://simonwillison.net and of course, Simon Willison’s daily blog with high-quality content. @simonw at HN.
Takes all kinds of lifestyle and tech topics and nerds out about them thoroughly. If you've ever wanted to see mundane things overanalyzed and backed with solid facts, I recommend.
I don't necessarily agree with all their views, but I've always enjoyed an article and it's rarely if ever confidently wrong.
And I always learn from the very deep signal processing fun on Absorptions: https://www.windytan.com
It helped me get up to speed with gen AI as a graduate school professor and now his posts are the most useful ones I sent to others to help them get oriented.
0. https://www.simplermachines.com/why-doesnt-everyone-do-xp/
I found Adam Mastroianni's blog through a HN post titled "How to debog Yourself". Unlike another pop-sci articles, this one had actual depth and enjoyed reading it.
Since then, I've read and digested most of his posts and comments. He usually writes about human behavior, not really offering the solutions, but the reasons.
He is the one author I've screenshot-ed most in 2024. I'd recommend starting with this post:
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/you-cant-reach-the-br...
In that case it's not really a blog but I will go with WEB CURIOS by Matt Muir
There are alot of fresh suggestions in this thread, I will be checking them all out.
Thanks guys.
Sometimes, someone’s writings hit just right. This is one of them. A man building is home, investing in the people around him and telling tales. Yet it’s so good!
Arnoud Engelfriet's blog about Dutch IT law (in Dutch).
Another oldie-but-greaty is Metafilter: https://www.metafilter.com/
Finally, I'll recommended a blog/webcomic that often seems to be written for HN fans, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/
It's not focused on tech, but occasionally touches on policy issues that are tech-adjacent. It's a refreshing, often insightful, and usually very funny take on current events. The author is a former writer for the HBO show "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver".
streetofwalls
But here is my list:
Https://daringfireball.net
among a few