8 ms·
Ask HN: Favourite blogs?
Whose blogs should I read? Can be technical or personal or essays. Basically anything interesting!
- elongatedMusku 6y agoRead Steve Yegge's Blog.
- langitbiru 6y agoI concur. His writing is funny. https://medium.com/@steve.yegge https://medium.com/@steve.yegge
- fuball63 6y agoHere are some I like: http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/ http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/ https://idlewords.com/ https://idlewords.com/ https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ https://slatestarcodex.com https://slatestarcodex.com <-- Currently unavailable https://erasmatazz.com https://erasmatazz.com https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
- mholm 6y agoSlatestarcodex is half back, in that the archives are available again, but he has not made any recent posts. A very good blog to go through the archives of, to anyone curious.
- fuball63 6y agoI actually got into SSC from his book, Unsong, which I really enjoyed (and will probably have to read again now!). http://unsongbook.com/ http://unsongbook.com/
- wlonkly 6y agoOh wow, der Mouse! That's a name I haven't heard in decades. I remember giving him a bunch of old Sun hardware I'd "collected" (hoarded), when I left Montreal in the early 2000s. It was cool to see what he's been up to, thanks!
- fowkswe 6y agohttps://granolashotgun.com/ https://granolashotgun.com/ if you are into failed American urban design / doomsday prepping
- Shared404 6y ago> if you are into failed American urban design / doomsday prepping I don't think I was, until now. I think I'll be adding this to my reading list
- rhezab 6y agoI like it. I just read The Acropalypse, what an interesting case study of what seems to be the "new" suburbanism.
- jyriand 6y agoThank you for the link. Enjoyed this in particular: https://granolashotgun.com/2020/07/23/not-for-camera-view/ https://granolashotgun.com/2020/07/23/not-for-camera-view/
- henil2911 6y agoHere is the list of blogs on my rss feed. I have found most of them from front page on HN. https://stopa.io/feed.rss https://stopa.io/feed.rss https://kliu.io/index.xml https://kliu.io/index.xml https://waitbutwhy.com/feed https://waitbutwhy.com/feed https://rsshub.app/blogs/paulgraham https://rsshub.app/blogs/paulgraham https://danluu.com/atom.xml https://danluu.com/atom.xml https://lethain.com/feeds/ https://lethain.com/feeds/ https://programmingisterrible.com/rss https://programmingisterrible.com/rss http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/index.xml http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/index.xml http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/atom.xml http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/atom.xml https://www.benkuhn.net/index.xml https://www.benkuhn.net/index.xml https://www.netmeister.org/blog/rss.xml https://www.netmeister.org/blog/rss.xml http://www.sheshbabu.com/atom.xml http://www.sheshbabu.com/atom.xml https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/rss.xml https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/rss.xml https://fasterthanli.me/index.xml https://fasterthanli.me/index.xml https://feeds.feedburner.com/sirupsen https://feeds.feedburner.com/sirupsen https://drewdevault.com/blog/index.xml https://drewdevault.com/blog/index.xml https://www.stephendiehl.com/feed.rss https://www.stephendiehl.com/feed.rss https://blog.acolyer.org/feed https://blog.acolyer.org/feed EDIT: Added some more links which i found interesting from other comments.
- stanislavb 6y agoThanks for sharing, mate. Which RSS reader do you use? I'm "using" Fraidycat, but it kind of stop working since the last update :/
- medicinecal 6y agoHi, I work on Fraidycat - can you tell me what you mean? A new release is going out tomorrow - but it’s troubling to hear of a problem like yours.
- walterbell 6y agoNetNewsWire (iOS/macOS).
- fidel100 6y agoTry out NewsBlur. I've been using it for years
- Shared404 6y agoI check the following fairly frequently. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ -- An assortment of low/high tech cool things, with a bent towards environmental preservation. https://100r.co/site/home.html https://100r.co/site/home.html -- A blog by indie software developers who live on a boat. https://hackaday.com/ https://hackaday.com/ -- Self describes as "Fresh hacks every day". It's an accurate description. https://drewdevault.com/ https://drewdevault.com/ -- A blog about FL/OSS software and technology. Edit: See 4ad's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24539935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24539935 > In the interest of discussion and discoverability, I urge the commenters in this blog to write a synopsis to each blog instead of just dumping a list of blogs. Or worse, a list of XML feeds (!).
- rocketpastsix 6y agoI think https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ is getting hugged to death right now.
- Shared404 6y agoIt's quite possible it has been recently. I saw it linked a couple places in this thread. It appears to be up now though.
- Minor49er 6y agohttp://rachelbythebay.com/w/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/
- funfunfunction 6y agohttps://mattstoller.substack.com/ https://mattstoller.substack.com/
- Austin_Conlon 6y agoAnalysis of cartography in Apple Maps and Google Maps: https://www.justinobeirne.com/ https://www.justinobeirne.com/.
- wespiser_2018 6y agohttps://www.stephendiehl.com/ https://www.stephendiehl.com/
- slmjkdbtl 6y agoGraphics / general software discussion: https://www.iquilezles.org/ https://www.iquilezles.org/ https://fabiensanglard.net/ https://fabiensanglard.net/ https://rxi.github.io/ https://rxi.github.io/ https://drewdevault.com/ https://drewdevault.com/ https://raphlinus.github.io/ https://raphlinus.github.io/ https://gafferongames.com/ https://gafferongames.com/ https://www.gwern.net/ https://www.gwern.net/ https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/
- speps 6y agoStealing comment as it relates to graphics / games: https://prog21.dadgum.com/ https://prog21.dadgum.com/ James' posts were very inspirational to me at the start of my career in games, I was very sad when he decided to stop but at the same time it seems like he covered a lot. I read them all again from time to time.
- Antoninus 6y agohands down https://blog.acolyer.org/ https://blog.acolyer.org/
- theimperor 6y agohttps://marginalrevolution.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/
- sq_ 6y agohttps://righto.com https://righto.com Don't understand anywhere near as much of what Ken writes as I would like to, but seeing the die shots he gets and his analysis of awesome old devices is super fun.
- jeremynixon 6y agoGrowth Mr. Money Moustache [http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/] Study Hacks, Cal Newport [http://calnewport.com/blog/ http://calnewport.com/blog/] Tim Ferriss [https://tim.blog/ https://tim.blog/] Oliver Emberton [oliveremberton.com] Intellectual Farnam Street, Shane Parrish [farnamstreetblog.com/blog] Less Wrong [http://lesswrong.com/ http://lesswrong.com/] [lesserwrong.com] Raw Thought, Aaron Swartz [aaronsw.com/weblog] Slate Star Codex [slatestarcodex.com] Edge [http://edge.org/ http://edge.org/] Melting Asphalt, Kevin Simler [http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ http://www.meltingasphalt.com/] Essays, Paul Graham [paulgraham.com/articles.html] Minding Our Way, Nate Soares [http://mindingourway.com/ http://mindingourway.com/] Ribbonfarm, Venkatesh Rao [ribbonfarm.com] Overcoming Bias, Robin Hanson [overcomingbias.com] Shtetl-Optimized, Scott Aaronson [http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/] Raikoth, Scott Alexander [http://web.archive.org/web/20140220082152/http://raikoth.net:80/ http://web.archive.org/web/20140220082152/http://raikoth.net...] Heterodox Academy [https://heterodoxacademy.org/ https://heterodoxacademy.org/] Technology Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/] Worrydream, Bret Victor [http://worrydream.com/ http://worrydream.com/] Naval Ravikant [https://startupboy.com/ https://startupboy.com/] Unenumerated, Nick Szabo [http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/ http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/] Stratchery [http://stratchery.com/ http://stratchery.com/] Statistics DataTau [http://www.datatau.com/ http://www.datatau.com/] FiveThirtyEight [fivethirtyeight.com] Simply Statistics [https://simplystatistics.org/ https://simplystatistics.org/] Chris Olah [colah.github.io] Economics Marginal Revolution [marginalrevolution.com] Project Syndicate [project-syndicate.org]
- klenwell 6y agoAre you a manager? Do you have a manager? https://www.askamanager.org/ https://www.askamanager.org/
- gandutraveler 6y agoThanks for sharing this. As someone who is transitioning from an IC to manager, I found several helpful posts. This transition is the most stressful thing I have experienced in my career. Do you have any other recommendations blogs/books ?
- klenwell 6y agoTwo classics that helped me a lot: - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27140043-high-output-management https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27140043-high-output-man... - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67825.Peopleware https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67825.Peopleware They don't go so much into the soft skills that are required and often the toughest part of the transition. That's where Alison Green's column (Ask A Manager) is great. (She's also written some books but I have not read them. I imagine they're great too.) I'd recommend signing up for the newsletter and then simply reading it daily as a sort of game or quiz. Imagine you're confronting the situation described. How you would deal with it? Then compare your response with hers. You'll soon identify some common fairly obvious techniques that will resolve 90% of problems. Probably the two most common ones: - Did you clearly state your expectations? - Did you communicate your concerns calmly and directly to this person? Finally, this Hacker News thread from years ago addresses exactly your situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407643 See in particular jbob24's comment. Congratulations and good luck!
- gandutraveler 6y agoThank you so much fot this! I had already started high output management. So far a great read.
- ochronus 6y agoShameless plug, my own engineering management blog: https://ochronus.online/ https://ochronus.online/
- 4ad 6y agoIn the interest of discussion and discoverability, I urge the commenters in this blog to write a synopsis to each blog instead of just dumping a list of blogs. Or worse, a list of XML feeds (!).
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- stargirl831 6y agohttp://www.womenwritecode.com http://www.womenwritecode.com
- janvdberg 6y agoI follow a lot of tech blogs, but two non-tech blogs I end up starring/bookmarking posts from most often are: https://kottke.org/ https://kottke.org/ https://seths.blog/ https://seths.blog/
- mcqueenjordan 6y agoMore of an interdisciplinary, meta-cognition/thinking patterns blog: http://gordonbrander.com/pattern/ http://gordonbrander.com/pattern/
- hashamali 6y agoLot of great mentions so far. Another one I'd throw in is https://brandur.org/ https://brandur.org/ Beautiful design and excellent deep dives on technical topics that interest me personally (Postgres, web architecture, etc).
- ms123 6y agohttps://midnight.pub https://midnight.pub if you are looking for regular people introspecting about their days.
- rhezab 6y agoWait, this is actually so cool.
- vzhou842 6y agohttps://victorzhou.com https://victorzhou.com for a mix of ML / web dev / other
- jseliger 6y agoI'll plug my own: http://jakeseliger.com http://jakeseliger.com. Http://marginalrevolution.com is great and has been mentioned at least once already.
- CGamesPlay 6y agoLots of the ones already mentioned here are great. One I don't see mentioned here is Eric Lippert's blog. He is just now concluding a 35-part series on Conway's Game of Life and in particular the Hashlife algorithm, which includes one of the most mind-blowing programming concepts I have had in years. https://ericlippert.com https://ericlippert.com
- jyriand 6y agohttps://groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot.com/ https://groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot.com/ And of my favourite posts: https://groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot.com/2015/08/meereschal-macmuhun-moon-child-me-1.html https://groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot.com/2015/08/meeresch...
- einr 6y agoThe Obscuritory -- https://obscuritory.com/ https://obscuritory.com/ -- if you have any interest in the culture surrounding computer games or retrocomputing or even just obscure, weird things in general I can not recommend this enough OS/2 Museum -- https://www.os2museum.com/ https://www.os2museum.com/ Fun With Virtualization -- https://virtuallyfun.com/ https://virtuallyfun.com/ The Old New Thing -- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing The Byte Cellar -- https://bytecellar.com/ https://bytecellar.com/ McMansion Hell -- https://mcmansionhell.com/ https://mcmansionhell.com/
- Hokusai 6y agoFor videogame's industry and technology: https://www.gamasutra.com/ https://www.gamasutra.com/
- CDicksonEng 6y agohttps://sorry.about.computer/ https://sorry.about.computer/ As a Software Engineer I check this one occasionally and read through the backlog
- shantara 6y agohttps://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/ https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/ - No Shortage of Dreams: the story of spaceflight told through missions & programs that didn't happen
- lurrr 6y agoPlenty of good ones already, I'll just leave my favorite. https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
- polote 6y agoFor people who read blog articles, please submit the ones you like on HN, it may not reach the front-page, but every day I go through the post blog posts submitted and send them in a newsletter
- AQXt 6y agoHistory, Ancient Technology A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry - https://acoup.blog/ https://acoup.blog/
- anon9001 6y agoObligatory security blogs: * https://www.schneier.com/ https://www.schneier.com/ * https://www.troyhunt.com/ https://www.troyhunt.com/ * https://krebsonsecurity.com/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/ * https://threatpost.com/ https://threatpost.com/
- mattbgates 6y agohttps://confessionsoftheprofessions.com/ https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com/ - focuses on different aspects and perspectives of jobs, careers, and the workplace. free to share your own stories!
- vishnu_ks 6y agoI am building https://diff.blog https://diff.blog, an aggregator of developer and engineering blogs. My mission is to solve the disoverability problem of self hosted blogs. It's hard for bloggers with self hosted blogs to get discovered and reach a big audience. So a lot of them end up moving to a platform like Medium which gives them the audience. But they in turn give up their identity and content. diff.blog aims to fix that by solving the discoverabilty problem of self hosted blogs. diff.blog is not anywhere near in terms of the audience size of Medium at the moment. But it has been growing steadily since I launched it an year before. Hopefully it will come close one day :)
- dector 6y agoThat's a very good idea! Are you going to monetize your project or (maybe) open-source code and/or data?
- vishnu_ks 6y agoYes. I do want to monetize the project so that there is incentive for me to keep working on it for a long time. My current plan is to allow companies to post job openings on the site and charge them for that. I think it's a win win for both the readers and the companies. I want to open source the project at some point. My full time job is working for an open source project. Open source projects require a lot of time and attention from the maintainers to make it sucessfull. I am not ready for that yet. But hopefully oneday.
- sbmthakur 6y agoThat's a nice service. Do you plan to launch an Android app for the same? I have been using FinBloggers, which serves as a one stop solution for me for finance related blogs. I am searching a similar app for development blogs.
- vishnu_ks 6y agoThanks! Don't have plan for an app soon. But I would be working on making the website work relly well on mobile.
- rcarmo 6y agoPlugging my own: https://taoofmac.com https://taoofmac.com (lots of Pi and occasional hardware hacks)
- squeakynick 6y agoI'll plug my own -- http://datagenetics.com/blog.html http://datagenetics.com/blog.html and one I enjoy -- https://www.redblobgames.com/ https://www.redblobgames.com/
- sweetdreamerit 6y agothe links would be much more useful if you provide a short description of the topics covered
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- andreasmiller98 6y agoAlleAktien.de for high quality stock research and insights — its in German, however
- wernsey 6y agoThe Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ https://www.filfre.net/ Even though it is mostly about gaming history, his writings on the history of Atari, Commodore, Apple, IBM and Microsoft, and the people behind them are absolutely fascinating.
- totaldude87 6y agook, here are a couple! 1) daringfireball.net - mainly Apple related 2) http://highscalability.com/ http://highscalability.com/ - All things tech
- cicciogamer89 6y agoYou can read www.riccardo.im Technology, books and running!
- ahstilde 6y agoNot a blog, but All Schemes Considered ( allschemesconsidered.com ) is really, really informative for me as an engineer working at early-stage startups. I'm trying to get the hosts to create transcripts.
- maverickJ 6y agoI am plugging in my newsletter https://leveragethoughts.substack.com https://leveragethoughts.substack.com which has made the front page a couple of times recently. Why should you read it? You should read it if you're interested in learning about ideas from finance, business,science and technology that can be applied. I also write about ideas and concept that I originated. Who am I? I am a software engineer who loves learning about all things business, psychology and science. I also built a small startup in Europe with my close friend while I was in university. Some of the themes I have touched on are: 1. The price you pay for your first major project https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/paying-a-premium-on-your-first-deal https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/paying-a-premium-on-... 2. Why it sometimes pays to leverage ideas that have worked https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/originality-is-not-the-only-way-it https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/originality-is-not-t... 3. The importance of showing your work to the right audience https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/cracking-the-who-you-show-your-work https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/cracking-the-who-you...
- cloverich 6y agohttps://andrewchen.co https://andrewchen.co - I read a bunch of these when I was learning about growth / analytics at my last job.
- miguendes 6y agohttps://miguendes.me https://miguendes.me https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ https://blog.acolyer.org/ https://blog.acolyer.org/
- shifto 6y agoHaven't seen this one get recommended. http://www.cpushack.com/ http://www.cpushack.com/
- BinaryBuddha 6y agohttps://www.AccessCyber.org https://www.AccessCyber.org for all things cybersecurity and infosec