What are your favorite blogs not about AI?

I write a blog that’s not about AI, though is very technical.[1] For non-self promotion I’m a big fan of Jenn’s, who I got introduced by the first Inkhaven cohort.[2]

[1]. https://blog.alexbeals.com/ [2]. https://jenn.site/

Raymond Chen often makes it to the front page here, but in case you haven't seen it: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

This is my favorite from him: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220426-00/?p=10...

For a while, I stopped writing. But, I have recently started writing again.[1] My old blog can be found on the wayback machine[2]. These days I am writing about using invariants as a means by which to predict the future[3], before I was doing summaries/notes of books.

[1] https://www.chestergrant.com

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/chestergrant.pos...

[3] https://www.chestergrant.com/where-is-ai-taking-us

My favorites are:

http://wingolog.org/

https://www.journal.stuffwithstuff.com/

> I miss the 2009 era of blogging about personal projects

I've been doing that. Not sure if I've made it into anyone's favorites yet.

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/

Inigo Quilez's (of demoscene fame, highly talented graphics engineer) blog is one of my favorites: https://iquilezles.org/blog/

It's a time capsule from that era.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog

My favorite blog for a long time was Shamus Young over at https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale

He passed away a couple of years ago unfortunately but there's a lot of stuff there that is pretty interesting. He has some awesome stuff about procedural generation

It's really more of an entertainment blog than an information one but there's still some really interesting stuff there.

Rest in Peace Shamus. You made a huge impact on a younger me

https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/

technically a podcast, occasionally about Ai, learning a lot about economics and history

acoup.blog is the only blog I check individually.

Not a blog, but a podcast, but I love "The AI Daily Brief," and I listen to it daily because it keeps me up to date on almost everything happening in the AI universe.

https://aidailybrief.ai/

This is probably a bit niche, but this guy writes about developing and using Darktable and I wish I had a fifth of his knowledge.

https://avidandrew.com/

Marginal Revolution is nominally about economics, and it's not entirely not about AI, but AI is a fairly small part of what they cover:

https://marginalrevolution.com/

I follow a fair number of people who would, back in the day, have been classic bloggers, but are now doing Substack, and rarely even mention AI. Here's one I like enough that I actually pay for it:

https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/

Thanks for all the links, I love feeding my RSS reader.

I really like this: http://blog.beforemario.com updates are rare these days, but they cover Nintendo corporate history and products before the company got into video games.

https://ciechanow.ski/ - The coolest blog on how things work but hasn’t seen any activity in a while.

If this is too much feel free to downvote.

My clean comedy newsletter: https://substack.com/@yelluwcomedy Funny essays about nothing and everything. No AI produced writing.

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