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Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

819 points by zffr 5y ago

What are your favorite blogs run by individual people? For example, some of the ones I like are: - https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ - https://ciechanow.ski/ https://ciechanow.ski/

fsloth 5y ago
Bruce Dawson's https://randomascii.wordpress.com/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/ is excellent resource for obscure and complex details of native code and modern platforms.
- flakiness 5y ago
  +1! Do you have any other recommendations from Windows land who still stay active and relevant?
  - fsloth 5y ago
    Sorry, nothing else in this genre comes to mind. There is always Agner Fog's optimization resources which are mind blowingly awesome if you worry about the performance of your C or C++ code like I do - his site is in https://www.agner.org/ https://www.agner.org/ and the optimization manuals are in https://www.agner.org/optimize/#manuals https://www.agner.org/optimize/#manuals (I suggest starting from optimizing_cpp.pdf)
  - fomine3 5y ago
    Everyone would already know: The Old New Thing
yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
- https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ - http://hintjens.com/ http://hintjens.com/ - https://idlewords.com/ https://idlewords.com/ - https://stevelosh.com/blog/ https://stevelosh.com/blog/ - https://magnus.therning.org/archive.html https://magnus.therning.org/archive.html
calpaterson 5y ago
I really enjoy https://rootsofprogress.org/posts https://rootsofprogress.org/posts (Jason Crawford)
317070 5y ago
Matt Levine on Bloomberg for everything finance: While I am only medium interested in finance, Matt Levine makes it all sound farcical. It is usually a fun read, and I learn something about how the world runs (or usually in which creative ways people abused the way the world runs) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe... Derek Lowe on medicine. He is an absolute expert on the topic, but doesn't mind to speak his opinion and to explain it on a sufficient level for me. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ Scott Aaronson on algorithms and quantum physics. Scott is a great communicator, and of course an absolute expert on these topics. He does sometimes go a bit off topic though. https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ Sabine Hossenfelder on experimental physics. Expert on these topics, and has a (very) critical opinion, which is refreshing in this field and can give a feel about what is going on. Lately, she did shift to more pedagogical explanations which are a bit too low level for me, but the blogposts still contain gems from time to time. https://backreaction.blogspot.com/ https://backreaction.blogspot.com/ Glenn Greenwald on journalism and politics. While he is very sharp and opinionated, he digs up new stories and has an out-of-the-box but well-informed opinion I largely agree with (I'm an anarchist). https://greenwald.substack.com/ https://greenwald.substack.com/
- cuspycode 5y ago
  Scott Aaronson is IMHO worth reading even when he writes about non-technical topics. And he tags his posts with categories such as "Quantum", "Complexity", "Rage Againts Doofosity", etc, so it's easy to skip topics that you aren't interested in.
vishnu_ks 5y ago
A couple of my favorite blogs - http://antirez.com/ http://antirez.com/ - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing - https://ma.tt/ https://ma.tt/ - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ - https://www.johndcook.com/blog https://www.johndcook.com/blog - http://feross.org/ http://feross.org/ - https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ - https://blog.andrewcantino.com/ https://blog.andrewcantino.com/ - https://nickcraver.com/blog/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/ - https://blog.acolyer.org https://blog.acolyer.org - https://blog.codinghorror.com https://blog.codinghorror.com I have been also building a developer blog aggregator called https://diff.blog https://diff.blog to make it super easy to disover and follow dev blogs. Would love if you folks can give it a try :)
- lalo2302 5y ago
  Hey, I really like diff.blog. I just made an account. A little feedback would be to add an "About page" so I can understand what is it without having to login. And a pat on the back for not abusing Github access permissions. Felt really good to see "email (read-only)" access. Keep the good work!
  - vishnu_ks 5y ago
    Thanks! There is an FAQ at https://diff.blog/FAQ/ https://diff.blog/FAQ/. It used to be linked form the left sidebar. But I made a major website redesign a couple of months back, which removed that sidebar. Will add it back soon :)
- cacois 5y ago
  This is a great idea - signed up :)
  - vishnu_ks 5y ago
    Thank you :)
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ajot 5y ago
https://commoncog.com/blog/ https://commoncog.com/blog/ (by Cedric Chin)
blakesterz 5y ago
Here's a thread from where this was asked a few years ago in case anyone wants to see who was recommended in the past. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520891
luke2m 5y ago
Every one on this list is pretty good. - https://kevq.uk/blogroll/ https://kevq.uk/blogroll/
fsflover 5y ago
I wish people wrote some description and not just ten links.
lars 5y ago
Daniel Lemire's blog is brilliant: https://lemire.me/blog/ https://lemire.me/blog/
holistio 5y ago
Wait But Why is what comes to mind without thinking.
- rmesters 5y ago
  Link: https://waitbutwhy.com/ https://waitbutwhy.com/
robmay 5y ago
Not sure if you mean "individuals" compared to companies or organizations, or actually just solo bloggers, so I'll include a few that have more than one individual author but are "personal". https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/ - on economics but so much else https://avc.com/ https://avc.com/ - Fred has some of the best startup insights https://abovethecrowd.com/ https://abovethecrowd.com/ - Gurley doesn't blog much but when he does it's great
klaudius 5y ago
- https://greyenlightenment.com https://greyenlightenment.com - https://www.joelonsoftware.com https://www.joelonsoftware.com - https://meltingasphalt.com https://meltingasphalt.com - https://lukesmith.xyz/blog https://lukesmith.xyz/blog
- beaconstudios 5y ago
  Luke Smith's article on the 4 causes is great and captures an important idea about what modernism lacks. if you like melting asphalt (probably the best blog I've ever read) you'll probably also like: - Venkatesh Rao's https://ribbonfarm.com https://ribbonfarm.com (it's very much a diamonds-in-the-rough type blog imo) - the farnam street blog https://fs.blog/ https://fs.blog/ consistently puts out good content - /sometimes/ lesswrong puts out good ideas when they're not busy modelling spherical cows in a vacuum - https://www.lesswrong.com/ https://www.lesswrong.com/ - if you're really into systems theory and don't mind reading strongly management-consultant oriented prose (can't abide it myself but the content is good), https://thesystemsthinker.com/ https://thesystemsthinker.com/
- gaws 5y ago
  > https://lukesmith.xyz/blog https://lukesmith.xyz/blog Luke Smith has some interesting ideas about free software and his Linux/Vim tutorials are very good. However, he's someone who harbors a lot of racist and hateful views. Don't believe me? Watch his livestreams. His recent crusade to get many people on Monero likely stems from him getting busted[1] for accepting a $30,000 donation in Bitcoin from a French white nationalist who donated[2] $500,000 in Bitcoin earl to far-right groups last year, some of whom were directly involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/12/far-right-open-source-technology-censorship https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/12/far-right-open... [2]: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/capitol-riot-bitcoin-donation-alt-right-domestic-extremism https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/capitol-riot-bitcoin-do...
Tepix 5y ago
Please add a one line description of the blog's URL/name and hopefully another line why you like it so much.
- Kye 5y ago
  Agreed. A naked list of links isn't much use. There already seem to be hundreds of them here and no way to evaluate most on a glance without clicking every single one.
ijames55 5y ago
Surprised I haven't seen https://www.swyx.io/ https://www.swyx.io/ mentioned for articles in the JS world and general dev stuff https://kentcdodds.com/ https://kentcdodds.com/ Is also great for JS, React especially testing opinions
- swyx 5y ago
  ah just got notified of this shoutout via f5bot.. very kind of you! i am def still figuring out what im doing with the blog, all i know is its a long term game haha
zamalek 5y ago
I've gotten out of the habit of checking blogs on the regular (which is a bad thing), but I do catch up on these when it crosses my mind: - http://rachelbythebay.com/ http://rachelbythebay.com/ - https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ https://www.hanselman.com/blog/
- swilliamsio 5y ago
  Have you thought of getting a RSS feed reader so you don't have to check? I use Feedbro which is also a browser extension so its very easy to see when theres a new post.
MereInterest 5y ago
Bret Devereaux's https://acoup.blog/ https://acoup.blog/ is a fantastic weekly read. I was drawn in by some of the comparisons between Lord of the Rings and historical battle practices [0][1]. Right now, he's in the middle of a series on how Paradox Interactive games portray history, what things are accurate/inaccurate, and how to best connect with students whose interest in history was sparked by Paradox games [2]. [0] https://acoup.blog/category/collections/siege-of-gondor/ https://acoup.blog/category/collections/siege-of-gondor/ [1] https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-battle-of-helms-deep/ https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-battle-of-helms-... [2] https://acoup.blog/category/collections/teaching-paradox/ https://acoup.blog/category/collections/teaching-paradox/
- D13Fd 5y ago
  No joke, I loved his recent series about the history of textile production. Really excellent, like most of the stuff he has written. The Paradox ones are OK but I haven't played the games so I kind of trailed off on those.
  - libraryofbabel 5y ago
    The series on iron-working is also superb: https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-mining/ https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-they-...
- littlestymaar 5y ago
  I clicked on this thread wondering how high in the comment section would his blog appear. I'm not disappointed.
  - alexpetralia 5y ago
    I have wondered why a historian's blog ends up being a regular favorite on Hacker News. I would imagine because it is nearly surgical in its descriptions of technical and mechanical processes. He goes into granular step-by-step detail about how things work, both at a low-level and at a high-level. Not unlike the work of a programmer!
flakiness 5y ago
Dan Luu! https://danluu.com/ https://danluu.com/ He talks about systems performance and it's super deep and detailed. Highly respectable and inspiring.
rmesters 5y ago
- https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/ https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/ - for Fintech News - https://stratechery.com/ https://stratechery.com/ - for tech related discussions
psim1 5y ago
daedtech.com - Erik Dietrich - software, consulting, entrepreneurship, slow travel while doing the aforementioned
mattl 5y ago
https://www.jwz.org/blog/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/
- uwagar 5y ago
  ooh
- sateesh 5y ago
  Warning, better copy paste the link than clicking on it. When redirected from HN site, the displayed page is an NSFW page, probably shows jwz's aversion to hordes coming via HN.
jlelse 5y ago
Check out my blogroll: https://jlelse.blog/blogroll https://jlelse.blog/blogroll Do you have blogrolls as well?
- atatatat 5y ago
  This is the coolest shit I've seen today. Great take on a webring. Thanks! — let's adopt this, wow.
- hopesthoughts 5y ago
  Blogrolls are good things, but unfortunately they aren't universal these days.
jeremy_wiebe 5y ago
Raymond Chen’s blog is a very interesting blog if you do Windows development. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing
TonyTrapp 5y ago
Hasn't been updated in a while, but if you haven't read it yet and like old(-ish) tales from the games industry, check out Patrick Wyatt's Code Of Honor: https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/ https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/
scanny 5y ago
Australia Politics, an independant and thoughtful analysis but an journalist: https://johnmenadue.com/ https://johnmenadue.com/ South East Asian Affairs, a collation of a scholars own writings and compliaiton of others that they find interesting: https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/ https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/ and of course WaitbutWhy for the joy of reading about the universe as it relates to ourselves, all through great doodles: https://waitbutwhy.com/ https://waitbutwhy.com/
Siira 5y ago
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
yakubin 5y ago
- https://matklad.github.io/ https://matklad.github.io/ - https://danluu.com/ https://danluu.com/ - https://raphlinus.github.io/ https://raphlinus.github.io/ - https://rosenzweig.io/ https://rosenzweig.io/ - https://flak.tedunangst.com/ https://flak.tedunangst.com/ - https://ciechanow.ski/ https://ciechanow.ski/
dijit 5y ago
One of my favourites, from a friend of mine: https://dustri.org/b/ https://dustri.org/b/ Content ranges from security, to programming, to observations about life. I like it because there's usually some good point that is made and I consider it to be well written.
nojito 5y ago
Statmodeling https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/ Daring fireball https://daringfireball.net/ https://daringfireball.net/ Tyler coven on marginal revolution https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/
fullstop 5y ago
Ken Shirriff's blog: http://www.righto.com/ http://www.righto.com/ He does amazing teardowns, reconstructions, and analysis. 10/10 would definitely read again.
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internet2000 5y ago
https://daringfireball.net https://daringfireball.net by John Gruber
- D13Fd 5y ago
  I like Daring Fireball and read it mainly because it is one of the default NetNewsWire feeds and I never removed it. That said, some of his political posts are offputting - not because I disagree with them on a liberal/conservative spectrum, but because they sometimes have an "I drank the kool aid" tone.
strogonoff 5y ago
Some of the blogs I like, but don’t read enough (I almost ceased reading blogs at all lately): - https://jacobian.org/posts/ https://jacobian.org/posts/ - https://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/ (classic) - https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/ https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/
dancemethis 5y ago
Well, by definition blogs are about individual people. It's the only way they are interesting. The rest are news sites with a dynamic feed.
- pjmorris 5y ago
  To quote an original blogger, Dave Winer, blogs, at best, are 'The unedited voice of a person.' http://scripting.com/2015/02/07/theUneditedVoiceOfAPerson.html http://scripting.com/2015/02/07/theUneditedVoiceOfAPerson.ht... I don't read scripting.com much anymore, but it was the first blog I stumbled onto.
keegancsmith 5y ago
- Mark Brooker :: https://brooker.co.za/blog https://brooker.co.za/blog long time lead engineer @ AWS blogging technical info on distributed systems - Chris Wellons :: https://nullprogram.com/ https://nullprogram.com/ lots of interesting explorations in code
pjmorris 5y ago
I acquired a finance/economics blogroll during the financial crisis. The ones I still read are: 'Naked Capitalism", "Yves Smith", https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ "The Big Picture", Barry Ritholtz, https://ritholtz.com/ https://ritholtz.com/ "Calculated Risk", Bill McBride, https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/ https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/
- pjmorris 5y ago
  Out of curiosity, why the downvotes?
aicswe 5y ago
One of my favorite blogs. To start, here's the most clever breakdown of rap and finance, I've ever read. https://extraguacblog.com/2016/04/17/financialwisdomofrapmusic/ https://extraguacblog.com/2016/04/17/financialwisdomofrapmus...
prajwalshetty 5y ago
I personally keep on eye on new things here - https://tonsky.me https://tonsky.me
jakub_g 5y ago
- https://textslashplain.com/ https://textslashplain.com/ by Eric Lawrence of Fiddler fame, who's worked for last two decades on IE, then Chrome, then Fiddler, then Chromium-Edge. A mine of knowledge on browser internals, networking, web compat. - https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/ https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/ by Gergely Orosz, on mobile dev & big tech from European point of view
allenleein 5y ago
Favorite blogs about aging, biotech: - https://www.ldeming.com/longevityfaq https://www.ldeming.com/longevityfaq - https://nintil.com/ https://nintil.com/ - https://srconstantin.github.io/tag/aging.html https://srconstantin.github.io/tag/aging.html - https://www.celinehh.com/ https://www.celinehh.com/
mfp11 5y ago
- https://diff.substack.com/ https://diff.substack.com/ thoughtful analysis of finance and tech - https://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/ a couple things on here I would say you actually need to read if you want to write code for a living - https://lethain.com/ https://lethain.com/ great insights on engineering management patterns and antipatterns
avinassh 5y ago
I love blog posts by Amos - https://fasterthanli.me https://fasterthanli.me They write long, informative, and fun articles. I usually spend hours to on each post. Some recommendations if you want to get started: 1. What's in the box? - https://fasterthanli.me/articles/whats-in-the-box https://fasterthanli.me/articles/whats-in-the-box 2. Making our own ping - https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-ping https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-ping 3. What's in a Rainbow table? - https://fasterthanli.me/articles/whats-in-a-rainbow-table https://fasterthanli.me/articles/whats-in-a-rainbow-table 4. Working with strings in Rust - https://fasterthanli.me/articles/working-with-strings-in-rust https://fasterthanli.me/articles/working-with-strings-in-rus... 5. I am a Java, C#, C or C++ developer, time to do some Rust - https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-am-a-java-csharp-c-or-cplusplus-dev-time-to-do-some-rust https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-am-a-java-csharp-c-or-cpl... OR A half-hour to learn Rust - https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust
- mbStavola 5y ago
  Amos is by far one of the best technical writers that I've come across. Not only are all their articles super in-depth, but they have a real talent for making the content both accessible and (most importantly) interesting. Each post is a real treat!
  - miguelmurca 5y ago
    amos is also super super nice on twitter, if you say hi to him there!
- maddyboo 5y ago
  I highly recommend “A half-hour to learn Rust” if you’re interested in Rust but haven’t tried it yet. The article is very engaging with many small snippets that make sense to a person with a good programming background but no specific Rust knowledge. It partially inspired me to start keeping a list of similar learning content over at https://github.com/b0o/awesome-by-example https://github.com/b0o/awesome-by-example
anonleb4 5y ago
This list is pretty good: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/list-of-blogs https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/list-of-blogs
iNic 5y ago
Astral Star Codex [0], Noahpinion [1] and Taipology [2]: [0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ [1] http://noahpinion.substack.com/ http://noahpinion.substack.com/ [2] https://taipology.substack.com/ https://taipology.substack.com/
mooreds 5y ago
Checking my rss reader ... https://feld.com/ https://feld.com/ (VC, but wide ranging) https://mapbrief.com/ https://mapbrief.com/ Snarky GIS content https://randsinrepose.com/ https://randsinrepose.com/ Management advice for a level I'll never get to :) http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/ http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/ Right of center economics https://ultrasaurus.com/ https://ultrasaurus.com/ Tech https://www.eugenewei.com/ https://www.eugenewei.com/ Big pic tech and society
davidkunz 5y ago
https://blog.fefe.de/ https://blog.fefe.de/ (in German, about software security, politics etc.) I like the design a lot.
- dividuum 5y ago
  Can confirm. It's basically what https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ suggest and actually provides entertaining content/rants.
  - davidkunz 5y ago
    Exactly. People usually try to optimize for "first impressions". However, if you visit a site regularly, you're _only_ interested in the content, everything else is unnecessary, bloated noise.
randymonday 5y ago
https://blog.openstartuplist.com/ https://blog.openstartuplist.com/ Open Startup List blog https://tinyprojects.dev/blog https://tinyprojects.dev/blog tiny projects blog http://hummusrezept.de/ http://hummusrezept.de/ food recipes blog https://nav.al/ https://nav.al/ Tech investments blog
Tangokat 5y ago
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/archive/ https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/archive/ - not just one individual but a few. Entrepreneurship, finance, tech. "Every investor is making bets on the future. It’s only called speculation when you disagree with someone else’s bet. In hindsight there was as much speculation in the 1990s that Kodak and Sears would keep their market share as there was that eToys and Pets.com would gain market share. Both were bets on the future. Both were wrong. It happens. Of course there’s a speculation spectrum. But let’s not pretend that others speculate while you only deal with certainties." https://cryptohayes.medium.com/ https://cryptohayes.medium.com/ - Arthur Hayes blog. Crypto trading mostly. "I am an arbitrage trader at heart. In May 2013 brimming with my experience as a delta one trader, I entered the crypto capital markets. The first trade I ever put on was buying Bitcoin from Mt. Gox, depositing them on ICBIT, then selling BTC/USD June 2013 inverse futures contracts at a premium. My first trade captured a premium of 200% per annum (PA). When the futures expired, and my PNL matched my spreadsheet calculations exactly, I thought to myself, holy shit, “Bitcoin is LIT!”"
- cko 5y ago
  I second collaborative fund blog, really great stories and reflections
boringg 5y ago
Anyone have any good cleantech blogs?
torh 5y ago
Fabien https://fabiensanglard.net/ https://fabiensanglard.net/ is a must on this list, IMO. I really enjoy his code reviews. I can also recommend the books he have made so far on Wolfenstien 3D and Doom.
- dgellow 5y ago
  Fabien is one of my favorite writer ever. I love everything about his work!
- skywal_l 5y ago
  I also like the minimalist style of his site.
villasv 5y ago
Zeynep Tufecki's (https://zeynep.me/ https://zeynep.me/) newsletter is pretty good, and sometimes she publishes elsewhere like The Atlantic but links back to it, which I like too.
montenegrohugo 5y ago
https://waitbutwhy.com/ https://waitbutwhy.com/ - so good https://dcgross.com/ https://dcgross.com/ - good design, smart guy http://www.paulgraham.com/ http://www.paulgraham.com/ - classic https://mtlynch.io https://mtlynch.io - love the openness https://www.gwern.net/ https://www.gwern.net/ - love the design. very well organized https://coderscat.com/ https://coderscat.com/ - some fun projects https://shauninman.com/ https://shauninman.com/ - simple but good And shameless plug of my own: https://www.hugomontenegro.com/ https://www.hugomontenegro.com/
- wepple 5y ago
  > https://coderscat.com/ https://coderscat.com/ - some fun projects I wonder if they wished they’d hyphenated that domain
  - tomcooks 5y ago
    After having opened the link and checking the <title> tag I wonder the same
yboris 5y ago
Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/ https://slatestarcodex.com/
tofukid 5y ago
Seth Godin has written a short, thoughtful post every day for 13 years: https://seths.blog https://seths.blog Also worth reading is Seth’s top 100: https://seths.blog/top-100/ https://seths.blog/top-100/
red2awn 5y ago
Awesome technical and programming related blogs: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/ http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
_fs 5y ago
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/ https://www.dcrainmaker.com/ - DCRainmaker is THE run/bike/swim tech reviewer. Extremely in depth reviews with lots of pictures of any and every major tech device that hits the fitness world. https://weatherwest.com/ https://weatherwest.com/ - In depth explanations of mostly California weather phenomena and medium term predictions.
jumarm 5y ago
I'm probably echoing a lot of people here but: - Dan Luu [1] and for design and insights in that discipline: - Arun Venkatesan [2] I first saw Dan Luu's list of programming books (https://danluu.com/programming-books/ https://danluu.com/programming-books/) when researching CLRS during my sophomore year of high school. This list and his insights on pure CS are really enjoyable to read and pique my interest. Also, his post on latency [4] secured the idea that minuscule UX improvements is as important as UI and that we should optimize for both. jvns introduced me to the Recurse Center and dluu confirmed that I could, in fact, participate and do something cool. (I also took his Hugo template for my own blog which has served me well though this week I'll be designing my own with cues from the latter.) Arun is a physical/digital design nerd and someone I read religiously. From photography to the design minutiae of the Apple Card [5] /Mac Pro [6] /iPod HiFi [7] his in-depth posts really allowed me to appreciate even the smallest of design choices and how they play into the larger, big picture, design system as a whole. [1] https://danluu.com/ https://danluu.com/ [2] https://www.arun.is/ https://www.arun.is/ [3] https://danluu.com/programming-books/ https://danluu.com/programming-books/ [4] https://danluu.com/input-lag/ https://danluu.com/input-lag/ [5] https://www.arun.is/blog/apple-card/ https://www.arun.is/blog/apple-card/ [6] https://www.arun.is/blog/mac-pro/ https://www.arun.is/blog/mac-pro/ [7] https://www.arun.is/blog/smart-speaker/ https://www.arun.is/blog/smart-speaker/
elviejo 5y ago
https://www.cringely.com https://www.cringely.com over 3 decades of IT industry commentary and insight. he doesn't post as frequently anymore but I still enjoy it.
kevstev 5y ago
The Morning paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/ https://blog.acolyer.org/ Shocked this has not been mentioned yet. It's on hiatus "for now" but I hope this comes back, this was by far my favorite.
sronors 5y ago
- https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/ https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/ - detailed posts about procedural generation of fantasy maps - https://thealexandrian.net/ https://thealexandrian.net/ - for tabletop rpg content
shetyeshail 5y ago
Good blog I sometimes read about public transit/urbanism/etc. https://pedestrianobservations.com/ https://pedestrianobservations.com/
Jorengarenar 5y ago
I have some on my list of online resources [1] (use filter with type 'blog') [1]: https://resources.joren.ga https://resources.joren.ga
genghizkhan 5y ago
The best one, of course, is Bret Devereaux's acoup (https://acoup.blog https://acoup.blog). It's the only one I follow with any regularity. It's a weekly blog focussing on history and sometimes on its interaction with popular media, like GoT or EU4. Scott Galloway is also a great read. He writes about the digital economy and tech. (https://www.profgalloway.com/ https://www.profgalloway.com/) I also enjoy reading Martin Tournoij's blog whenever he updates it (https://www.arp242.net/ https://www.arp242.net/). He's the author of goatcounter and writes about tech and sometimes certain social issues in tech. Vedica Kant and Anmol Maini write about the Indian startup ecosystem at https://www.kuwi.news/ https://www.kuwi.news/ (it's a substack newsletter). I don't read it all the time but certain pieces are pretty good. And, finally, to plug my own self, I write about health economics, health policy, and systems thinking at Hawk Radius (https://hawkradius.com https://hawkradius.com)
scythe 5y ago
No longer updated, but still full of valuable insights: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
geocrasher 5y ago
https://madned.substack.com/ https://madned.substack.com/ What hooked me: https://madned.substack.com/p/a-teenagers-guide-to-avoiding-actual https://madned.substack.com/p/a-teenagers-guide-to-avoiding-... which was on HN a week or two ago.
JFKKFJ 5y ago
https://arachnoid.com https://arachnoid.com (Paul Lutus)
azhenley 5y ago
Cover topics around software development, math, programming languages, and academia: http://stuffwithstuff.com/ http://stuffwithstuff.com/ https://ericlippert.com/ https://ericlippert.com/ http://thume.ca/archive.html http://thume.ca/archive.html https://medium.com/@mdwdotla https://medium.com/@mdwdotla https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/posts https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/posts https://computinged.wordpress.com/ https://computinged.wordpress.com/ https://blog.acolyer.org/ https://blog.acolyer.org/ https://blog.sigplan.org/blog/ https://blog.sigplan.org/blog/ https://blog.paranoidcoding.com/ https://blog.paranoidcoding.com/ https://blog.regehr.org/ https://blog.regehr.org/ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ https://benhoyt.com/writings/ https://benhoyt.com/writings/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog.html https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog.html https://www.johndcook.com/blog/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/ https://blog.stephenmarz.com/ https://blog.stephenmarz.com/
- henrik_w 5y ago
  +1 for https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ - very good!
aklemm 5y ago
An heroic historical effort, imo: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/ https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/
domy 5y ago
I love Matt Pharr's blog [0]. He's one of the authors of the Physically Based Rendering book [1] and his blog is mostly centered around that topic, with really well written and interesting articles. [0] https://pharr.org/matt/blog/ https://pharr.org/matt/blog/ [1] https://www.pbrt.org/ https://www.pbrt.org/
hahahasure 5y ago
Not sure if https://efficiencyiseverything.com/ https://efficiencyiseverything.com/ Counts because he hires data collectors, but it's one of the most life changing websites I've ever visited.
modernerd 5y ago
Maciej Cegłowski's writing is wonderful. (He's the developer behind https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/.) This post is my favourite and had me hooked from the first sentence: https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm
Torwald 5y ago
I still read some of the classics (surprised nobody mentioned them so far) and also a few newer ones: https://kottke.org/ https://kottke.org/ https://daringfireball.net https://daringfireball.net https://seths.blog https://seths.blog https://www.freedomain.com/blog/ https://www.freedomain.com/blog/ https://www.cringely.com https://www.cringely.com https://www.zeldman.com https://www.zeldman.com https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com http://quirksmode.org/blog/ http://quirksmode.org/blog/ http://hypercritical.co http://hypercritical.co
pvsukale3 5y ago
Ava's substack is really good. It is the only newsletter I read regularly. It is about life and writing in general. https://ava.substack.com/ https://ava.substack.com/
kingkongjaffa 5y ago
Whenever I go searching for how to take better notes I always end up on: https://notes.busterbenson.com/ https://notes.busterbenson.com/ https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes And https://www.kalzumeus.com/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/
tootie 5y ago
https://www.sixteen-nine.net/ https://www.sixteen-nine.net/ It's run as though it's a professional news site, but it's really just one guy posting 99% of the content about the digital signage industry.
ajdude 5y ago
christine.website is a fun one
jonnycomputer 5y ago
Dead Voles - https://deadvoles.wordpress.com/ https://deadvoles.wordpress.com/ Interfluidity - https://www.interfluidity.com/ https://www.interfluidity.com/ The Debate Link - http://dsadevil.blogspot.com/ http://dsadevil.blogspot.com/ Econbrowser - http://econbrowser.com/ http://econbrowser.com/ Empassive - https://mandelcabrera.com/ https://mandelcabrera.com/ Dead Voles and Econbrowser may have more than one contributor, but its not part of some institute or organization or anything like that.
ordiman85 5y ago
My job is about operations research and optimization. One of my favourite blogs is "Yet Another Math Programming Consultant", that contains great articles about this topic. https://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/ https://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/
rodiger 5y ago
Vitalik! https://vitalik.ca/ https://vitalik.ca/ obviously eth/crypto-focused but some great dives.
vavooom 5y ago
https://www.otherhand.org/ https://www.otherhand.org/ - An interesting blog by a Southern Californian native who recount's search and rescue missions as well as other historical and scientific research. The best read it the The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans - https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/ https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
avinassh 5y ago
I love reading about articles on Databases, especially about their internal workings. Some of the blogs I follow: 1. Oren Eini - Creator and CTO of Raven DB - https://ayende.com/blog https://ayende.com/blog 2. Tyler Neely - Creator of Sled DB - https://medium.com/@tylerneely https://medium.com/@tylerneely 3. Philip O'Toole - Creator of rqlite - https://www.philipotoole.com/ https://www.philipotoole.com/ 4. Martin Kleppmann - Author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html 5. Glauber Costa - worked on glommio, scylla DB - https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/ https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/ Do recommend me if you know more!
jedimastert 5y ago
My favorite one relevant to HN is probably http://www.nullprogram.com http://www.nullprogram.com A programming blog for the most part, but I always find whatever they're writing about to be fascinating
s_T_e_v_o 5y ago
Might not technically be blogs, but definitely by individuals: https://mediamonarchy.com/ https://mediamonarchy.com/ https://www.corbettreport.com/ https://www.corbettreport.com/ And for the musicians: https://guitardashboard.com/ https://guitardashboard.com/
sarimabbas 5y ago
For me: - https://twopagesdoublespaced.substack.com/ https://twopagesdoublespaced.substack.com/ - short form non-fiction - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ - technical snippets - http://paulgraham.com/ http://paulgraham.com/ - entrepreneurship - https://audacity.substack.com/ https://audacity.substack.com/ - a variety of talented writers
phkahler 5y ago
Motor controllers, flying things, looks like now high framerate video capture: http://scolton.blogspot.com/ http://scolton.blogspot.com/
danso 5y ago
Great thread, found lots of people to add to my feedly. Surprised to see no one has yet mentioned https://filfre.net https://filfre.net — The Digital Antiquarian — a frequently upvoted domain: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=filfre.net https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=filfre.net
- throwanem 5y ago
  Strong second, and I'll recommend his Analog Antiquarian blog as well, covering general history in a pleasantly lyrical style. Jimmy can tell a story like nobody's business! Definitely worth your while. https://analog-antiquarian.net/ https://analog-antiquarian.net/
- torh 5y ago
  This blog is a gold mine, or a deep well. A deep well of gold. I would love to just download them onto my Kindle and enjoy them out in the sun with a [insert beverage].
corobo 5y ago
I really wish people had given a brief little snippet for each one rather than just dump their OPML files haha
throwaway77112 5y ago
[1] Tanya Khovanova, Soviet-American mathematician who became the second female gold medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiads. https://www.tanyakhovanova.com/ https://www.tanyakhovanova.com/ [2] Filippo Valsorda (cryptography) https://filippo.io/ https://filippo.io/ [3] David Wong (cryptography) https://www.cryptologie.net/ https://www.cryptologie.net/ [4] OpenBSD everything https://www.undeadly.org/ https://www.undeadly.org/ [5] blog with some funny articles https://idlewords.com/ https://idlewords.com/ [6] Might need a proxy/VPN to access this site https://www.otherhand.org/ https://www.otherhand.org/ [7] Not a blog but something nice https://thenicestplace.net/ https://thenicestplace.net/ Edit: [8] weekly useful/curious datasets https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/ [9] documenting startups getting swallowed by the big fish https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
JCharante 5y ago
My favorite is Aaron Swart'z weblog. Unfortunately it is no longer active but the webserver is still running thanks to friends of his http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/archive http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/archive
monoideism 5y ago
A few of mine: - https://www.windytan.com/ https://www.windytan.com/ (windytan: signal processing) - https://www.righto.com/ https://www.righto.com/ (Ken Sheriff: IC reverse engineering, vintage computing, misc) - https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ (Julie Evans: software development, particularly networking) And even though it's not a written blog, a special mention goes to Ben Eater's website, which links to his fantastic YouTube series on building an 8-bit CPU from logic chips, and on building a 6502 computer. - https://eater.net/ https://eater.net/
atatatat 5y ago
Very related: What's everyone using for RSS, webdev + client side?? What's everyone's feeling on ActivityPub?
- jlelse 5y ago
  Miniflux is my RSS reader of choice. ActivityPub is a complicated protocol, but I still implemented ActivityPub support into my blog.
  - hopesthoughts 5y ago
    Me too!! The only thing I wish Miniflux did is newsletters.
- tofukid 5y ago
  I use https://sumi.news https://sumi.news - it has both a chronological feed of all posts, and a list of only the recent post for each feed. Also it gives you an email to follow newsletters with.
- hopesthoughts 5y ago
  I'm using a Miniflux instance.
tristor 5y ago
Several of the blogs I enjoy are already linked within this thread, but I recently started reading a coworker's blog after finding out he'd spent more than 20 years consistently writing articles online, mostly about tech and philosophy. The archive has some very interesting articles: https://stpeter.im/journal/ https://stpeter.im/journal/ Of those posted, I will +1 daringfireball, jwz, idlewords, filippo, and danluu as people worth reading.
quaintdev 5y ago
- https://www.zenpencils.com/ https://www.zenpencils.com/ - https://waitbutwhy.com/ https://waitbutwhy.com/
dlkf 5y ago
Some data science blogs I enjoy: - https://erikbern.com/ https://erikbern.com/ - https://davefernig.com/ https://davefernig.com/ - https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/
ark__n 5y ago
Aside: how do you go about writing these blogs? As a new grad in CompSci, looking at all of the great details these blogs touch upon, is overwhelming
- justinlilly 5y ago
  It's a mix of personal interest and seeking to develop an expertise. It's also a lot of discipline. I wrote more publicly in the early part of my career, but my writing is more company-internal these days.
- alpaca128 5y ago
  I guess people mainly write what they're passionate about, and for the same reason they know a lot about those topics because they already spent a lot of time thinking about it.
m3at 5y ago
For personal finance: "Of dollars and data". Mainly short articles, approximately weekly, and, rare enough to be noted, the code for all analysis is shared. https://ofdollarsanddata.com/ https://ofdollarsanddata.com/
paulorlando 5y ago
This one looks at unintended consequences of tech and tries to understand systems. Looks at examples in history as well as recent news: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/ https://unintendedconsequenc.es/
bordercases 5y ago
Economic doom and gloom, but with a forward-looking twist: - heisenbergreport.com - https://oftwominds.com/blog.html https://oftwominds.com/blog.html
linuxbo 5y ago
I've been enjoying: - https://myannoyingopinions.com/ https://myannoyingopinions.com/ - https://yomadic.com/ https://yomadic.com/
akeck 5y ago
Lately, I've been reading through the "100 Rabbits" folks stuff: https://100r.co/site/home.html https://100r.co/site/home.html https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/index.html https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/index.html It's fascinating to see how dependent modern tech is on a constant, or at least semi-regular, internet connection for tokens, etc., and how that "model" fails completely on the open ocean.
dgellow 5y ago
Bennet Tomlin's blog where he writes about cryptocurrency scams and frauds: https://bennettftomlin.com https://bennettftomlin.com
dcchambers 5y ago
Miscellaneous technical stuff: - https://danluu.com/ https://danluu.com/ - https://blog.jessfraz.com/ https://blog.jessfraz.com/ - https://adamwathan.me/ https://adamwathan.me/ - https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ - https://dankim.org/ https://dankim.org/ - https://mtlynch.io/ https://mtlynch.io/ - https://rgz.ee/ https://rgz.ee/ - https://markdotto.com/ https://markdotto.com/ - https://thorstenball.com/ https://thorstenball.com/ - https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/writing/ https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/writing/ - https://lukesmith.xyz/ https://lukesmith.xyz/ - Quirky minimalist linux & free software stuff. I don't agree with many of his opinions but his rants are entertaining + offer a refreshing view on certain things. Non-technical: - https://bernoid.com/ https://bernoid.com/
agency 5y ago
https://www.futilitycloset.com/ https://www.futilitycloset.com/ “Futility Closet is a collection of entertaining curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics, designed to help you waste time as enjoyably as possible.” The podcast is good too!
bluishgreen 5y ago
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/
juramento 5y ago
https://www.evanmiller.org https://www.evanmiller.org Discusses: - Programming - Applied Math And some random stuff like: Evaluating splatoon's ranking system: https://www.evanmiller.org/evaluating-splatoons-ranking-system.html https://www.evanmiller.org/evaluating-splatoons-ranking-syst... Really recommend it ;)
langitbiru 5y ago
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/ https://steve-yegge.medium.com/ His old blog is also amusing: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
jraby3 5y ago
Jamesclear.com
ivanech 5y ago
https://macwright.com/ https://macwright.com/ - my favorite blog about software-related topics https://vebaccount.substack.com/ https://vebaccount.substack.com/ - great stuff on economics through a heterodox lens
cavalcade119 5y ago
Self-promotion: I run Thinking About Things [0], a simple newsletter that is a single link every other day to something interesting. Many subscribers have told me they've learned about a diversity of new blogs through the newsletter. You can see some sample articles at [1]. [0] thinking-about-things.com [1] mix.com/thinkingaboutthings
- Slitted 5y ago
  Is there an RSS feed somewhere, or possible down the line? My whole day is drenched with emails so I try to stay away from them whenever else possible.
  - tofukid 5y ago
    You can use an RSS reader that supports newsletters, like <https://sumi.news https://sumi.news>. You get an email you use to subscribe and they show up in your feed.
  - hopesthoughts 5y ago
    Lol you and I both.
- hopesthoughts 5y ago
  Could this have an RSS feed? I'd like to put it in my reader.
frakkingcylons 5y ago
https://brandur.org https://brandur.org has lots of interesting posts about databases, especially Postgres. Also posts about interesting technical problems and their solutions. One of my favorites is this one about implementing an idempotent API: https://brandur.org/http-transactions https://brandur.org/http-transactions
- izend 5y ago
  Brandur's deep dives into tough topics are always great!
schemescape 5y ago
If you're interested in the Commodore era: https://techtinkering.com/ https://techtinkering.com/
johannesha 5y ago
My favourite ones (mainly tech or bio related): - https://www.gwern.net/index https://www.gwern.net/index - https://guzey.com/ https://guzey.com/ - https://nintil.com/ https://nintil.com/ - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ - https://waitbutwhy.com/ https://waitbutwhy.com/
ketanmaheshwari 5y ago
Such a great collection! I like https://begriffs.com https://begriffs.com Does anyone know any tool that will mass bookmark links on a page?
breck 5y ago
Some good ones: http://avc.com/ http://avc.com/ http://paulgraham.com/ http://paulgraham.com/ http://www.moserware.com/ http://www.moserware.com/ https://believermag.com/ https://believermag.com/ https://blogmaverick.com/ https://blogmaverick.com/ https://fs.blog/ https://fs.blog/ https://juliagalef.com/ https://juliagalef.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://nav.al/ https://nav.al/ https://sive.rs/ https://sive.rs/ https://torrentfreak.com/author/ernesto/ https://torrentfreak.com/author/ernesto/ https://vitalik.ca/ https://vitalik.ca/ https://waitbutwhy.com/ https://waitbutwhy.com/ https://www.lrb.co.uk/ https://www.lrb.co.uk/ https://www.metafilter.com/ https://www.metafilter.com/ https://xkcd.com/ https://xkcd.com/
x14km2d 5y ago
Dave Winer - http://scripting.com/ http://scripting.com/
CA0DA 5y ago
Tangent: Use an RSS reader to subscribe to these to support RSS! I have been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader... recently and enjoying it
- FabHK 5y ago
  Seconded. I use NetNewsWire on macOS/iOS.
- listic 5y ago
  I like Fraidycat: https://fraidyc.at/ https://fraidyc.at/ (browser plugin, mostly)
- clircle 5y ago
  I've tried Feedly, Inoreader, Old reader, Newsblur, and Elfeed. Newsblur is my average favorite since 2013.
- tofukid 5y ago
  Give https://sumi.news https://sumi.news a try. It has both a chronological feed of all posts, and a list of only the recent post from each feed.
- hopesthoughts 5y ago
  Not only that it makes less work for you, and takes up less space in the browser. As in you don't have to visit each site on a regular basis, and you don't have a whole bunch of bookmarks sitting around.
ruairidhwm 5y ago
- https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ - https://www.kalzumeus.com/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/ - https://pomb.us/ https://pomb.us/ - https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ - https://monicalent.com/ https://monicalent.com/ - https://www.taniarascia.com/ https://www.taniarascia.com/ - https://seanbarry.dev/ https://seanbarry.dev/ Shameless plug, I quite like my own: https://ruairidh.dev https://ruairidh.dev
- throwboomboom 5y ago
  I like Kalzumeus' and your blog a lot. And Julia. Tania started out OK, but everything she's produced in the past 2 years is insipid. She seems pretty unlikable.
jeffreyrogers 5y ago
A lot of the tech ones I follow have already been listed so I will try to list some that others may not be aware of. 1. Applied Divinity Studies. Rationalist adjacent. Obviously influenced by Scott Alexander, but less optimistic, a bit more cynical. - https://applieddivinitystudies.com/ https://applieddivinitystudies.com/ 2. Scott Locklin's blog. He used to post on HN. Mostly covers tech related things (but physical tech, not web stuff). Many HN readers will find him too abrasive and will miss the point. - https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/ https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/ 3. Granola Shotgun. Hard to pin down what this blog is about exactly, but generally focused on tradeoffs between different configurations of the built environment. The author will baffle the ideologically prejudiced. He's a gay guy in SF who has nice things to say about Mormons and rednecks. - https://www.granolashotgun.com/ https://www.granolashotgun.com/
ajnin 5y ago
Sprites Mods, great hacker, an inspiration for me : https://spritesmods.com/ https://spritesmods.com/ Fabrice Bellard, creator of FFMPEG, QEMU, and lots of other amazing stuff : https://bellard.org/ https://bellard.org/
jgwil2 5y ago
Some good programming/mathematical logic content here: https://stopa.io/ https://stopa.io/ Russ Cox of Go: https://research.swtch.com/ https://research.swtch.com/
- stopachka 5y ago
  Brought a smile see the blog mentioned, thanks! :)
harr_ison 5y ago
Anything from Craig Mod - https://craigmod.com https://craigmod.com
nceqs3 5y ago
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ - In The Pipeline by Derek Lowe is fantastic
- dtgriscom 5y ago
  Oh, yeah. He's great at anthropomorphizing molecules and atoms. Check out his "Things I Won't Work With" series for a great sample: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/things-i-wont-work-with https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thin...
willvarfar 5y ago
For something different: https://www.hisutton.com https://www.hisutton.com is worth it for the original illustrations alone
ttul 5y ago
Tim Bray’s aeons-old blog is always good reading: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
Sleepytime 5y ago
https://christine.website/blog https://christine.website/blog The NixOS infrastructure is awesome, and of course the whole blog is open sourced and served from the nix store.
philsnow 5y ago
https://www.redblobgames.com/ https://www.redblobgames.com/ Amit Patel's blog, there's lots of game dev articles there and many of them have interactive demos
vuciv1 5y ago
https://tinyprojects.dev/ https://tinyprojects.dev/ convinced me to begin marketing the little projects I make :) very fun, informative, and inspiring
ravenstine 5y ago
https://livingstingy.blogspot.com https://livingstingy.blogspot.com (Robert Platt Bell, former patent attorney) ^^ His blog has changed quite a bit since I started reading it in 2013. Used to be more about ways to save money, but he's long since moved on to just writing about various current issues. I don't always agree with what he has to say, but I find his experiences and opinions very interesting. Here's a sample: https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2009/04/parent-trap.html https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2009/04/parent-trap.html https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2018/05/are-all-psychiatrists-crazy.html https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2018/05/are-all-psychiatri... https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/02/culture-of-belligerence.html https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/02/culture-of-bellige... https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/09/cheap-kayaks.html https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/09/cheap-kayaks.html https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2009/11/understanding-check-engine-light.html https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2009/11/understanding-chec... https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-i-hate-young-people.html https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-i-hate-young-p...
MaxwellM 5y ago
https://www.climaticthoughts.com/ https://www.climaticthoughts.com/ Nitin discuss from a fresh perspective what it will take to prevent climate change. He distills and synthesizes books and articles into short essays that push my thinking forward.
snow_mac 5y ago
http://mrmoneymustache.com http://mrmoneymustache.com
- snow_mac 5y ago
  Why 0 points? I'm not Mr Money Mustache but down voting seems unfair.
UncleOxidant 5y ago
Ryan Moulton's Articles kind of a unique combination of tech and nature: https://moultano.wordpress.com/ https://moultano.wordpress.com/
smcameron 5y ago
Brian Hayes's bitplayer: http://bit-player.org/ http://bit-player.org/ Brian Hayes was once an editor of Scientific American. The blog covers a variety of topics, some related to computer science or math, some not. It reminds me a bit of the old Computer Recreations column that used to run in Scientific American.
marttt 5y ago
https://cheapskatesguide.org https://cheapskatesguide.org -- Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and Internet. Low-end and frugal computing in the 21st century. Long, opinionated posts on a pink(!) background. http://ranprieur.com/ http://ranprieur.com/ -- Ran Prieur. Frugality, societal collapse, "dropping out", and beyond. Has been constantly blogging for ages; it's really interesting to see how his views have changed in time. http://joeyh.name/ http://joeyh.name/ -- Joey Hess, former long-time Debian developer, author of git-annex. Frugal living and computing in the wilderness (he used to do everything on a 9-inch Dell Mini 9). https://datagubbe.se/ https://datagubbe.se/ -- Carl Svensson. Great long-form essays on frugal computing and, uh, what has gone wrong after 1994 or so. http://len.falken.ink/ http://len.falken.ink/ -- I just really like the "layout", even if it feels a little pretentious to some. IIRC, his essay "Writing for the Internet across a Human Lifetime" also had some feedback on HN. http://viznut.fi/en/ http://viznut.fi/en/ -- Viznut. Demoscene, "low-end technical extremism", permacomputing. Updates are rare, but the older pieces are well worth a read.
- anthk 5y ago
  Add gopher://magical.fish and gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/bongusta Can´t be more frugal than that. Add irc on top, and maybe some usenet client.
  - marttt 5y ago
    I haven't really taken the time to explore the gopherspace, nor install a client. Did this now; thanks for the links!
- accraze 5y ago
  +1 for both Cheapskates Guide and Ran Prieur, both very influential to me in different ways!
cratermoon 5y ago
Maria Popova https://www.brainpickings.org/ https://www.brainpickings.org/ Tom Murphy https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/ https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/ Cathy O'Neil https://mathbabe.org/ https://mathbabe.org/ Peter Woit (Not Even Wrong) https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ Autumn Gearhart Rain https://rainintheforecast.wordpress.com/ https://rainintheforecast.wordpress.com/
- ugh123 5y ago
  +1 on Brain Pickings. Recently discovered this and have been using the Surprise Me button to find random goods to read https://www.brainpickings.org/surprise/ https://www.brainpickings.org/surprise/
8note 5y ago
I really enjoyed https://prog21.dadgum.com/ https://prog21.dadgum.com/
- zem 5y ago
  one of my favourites too. i'm sad it's no longer updated, but i go back and read through the archives every now and then.
bear8642 5y ago
http://www.commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?page=home http://www.commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?page=... is good deep dive into various topics. Enjoy the gzip explaination Matt might's 'blog' https://matt.might.net/articles/ https://matt.might.net/articles/ is good read about various functional ideas and others https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview funny post about how complicated balancing a binary tree could be https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/archive.html https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/archive.html some intersting posts about various aspects of programming language tools
throwkeep 5y ago
Lots of great blogs here. One I haven't seen mentioned yet is Robin Hanson's - https://www.overcomingbias.com https://www.overcomingbias.com
quux 5y ago
https://daringfireball.net https://daringfireball.net https://kottke.org https://kottke.org
dickiedyce 5y ago
https://eclecticlight.co/ https://eclecticlight.co/ - Howard Oakley is always worth a read, on art or Macs.
jdofaz 5y ago
https://electoral-vote.com https://electoral-vote.com
andredz 5y ago
This is such a great thread, I'm excited to begin reading quite a few of the linked blogs (such as this one: https://acoup.blog/ https://acoup.blog/). These ones are some of my favorites: - www.wall.org/~aron/blog/ (physics, theology, history, philosophy) - http://xahlee.info/ http://xahlee.info/ (math, emacs, keyboards, etc.) - https://matt.might.net/articles/ https://matt.might.net/articles/ (academy, compsci, etc.) - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ (programming, companies, etc.) - https://danluu.com/ https://danluu.com/ (technical topics) - Mailing list in https://practicaltypography.com/ https://practicaltypography.com/ - http://paulgraham.com/ http://paulgraham.com/ - https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ (math, physics) - https://www.gwern.net/index https://www.gwern.net/index (interesting articles) - https://slatestarcodex.com/ https://slatestarcodex.com/ and https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ (science, psychiatry, philosophy, rationality, etc.) - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ (programming) - https://creativegood.com/blog/ https://creativegood.com/blog/ (UX, and more) - https://daringfireball.net/ https://daringfireball.net/ (Apple) - https://backreaction.blogspot.com/ https://backreaction.blogspot.com/ (physics) - https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ - https://historyforatheists.com/ https://historyforatheists.com/ (historical myths) - http://funcall.blogspot.com/ http://funcall.blogspot.com/ (programming, compsci) - https://blog.fawny.org/ https://blog.fawny.org/ (accessibility, design) - https://blog.jessfraz.com/ https://blog.jessfraz.com/ (technology) - https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog (databases) - https://weekendfisher.blogspot.com/ https://weekendfisher.blogspot.com/ (God, love) I can list some of my favorite articles from one of these blogs if anyone is interested.
- snicker7 5y ago
  +1 for John Baez, one of my favorite math writer. Especially the Azimuth blog: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/ https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/
l00sed 5y ago
Big fan of https://n-o-d-e.net https://n-o-d-e.net Lots of unique content to the DIY, maker, hacker community. I also have a much much longer list that is always growing on my own blog, under "Blogs (Independent)": https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/bookmarks https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/bookmarks Obviously I was influenced by NODE's hyphenated domain. It's been a fun SEO challenge haha
shime 5y ago
A couple of my favorites: - https://meltingasphalt.com/ https://meltingasphalt.com/ - https://simonsarris.substack.com/ https://simonsarris.substack.com/ - https://ava.substack.com/ https://ava.substack.com/
rackjack 5y ago
Anybody remember the URL of that one psychiatrist blog? Paraphrasing a quote from there: "No, I can't be narcissistic, I hate myself too much! In fact, I spend all day looking in the mirror and thinking about how much I hate myself."
- jaybaxter 5y ago
  Sounds like it might be The Last Psychiatrist? https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
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  - rackjack 5y ago
    I think that's the one I was looking for, thank you.
- e1g 5y ago
  Considering the subject matter, could be Alone/The Last Psychiatrist @ https://thelastpsychiatrist.com https://thelastpsychiatrist.com
  - rackjack 5y ago
    I think that's the one, thanks.
alfl 5y ago
Cory Doctorow's https://pluralistic.net/ https://pluralistic.net/ He's a pro-tech (anti-industry) left-wing futurist and science fiction author. I read him to get out of my filter bubble.
archontes 5y ago
http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/ http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/
alphabet9000 5y ago
https://tommoody.us https://tommoody.us particularly nice category: https://www.tommoody.us/archives/category/computers-r-stupid/ https://www.tommoody.us/archives/category/computers-r-stupid...
gengstrand 5y ago
If you are a manager / founder in a startup with a visionary interest in corporate culture, then you might find https://bradhenrickson.substack.com/ https://bradhenrickson.substack.com/ to be worthy of exploration. Brad has held leadership positions in a wide variety of startups and early stage companies so he is walking the talk with these personal blog posts.
kilodeca 5y ago
Drew Devault's blog - https://drewdevault.com https://drewdevault.com
charliecurran 5y ago
My absolute favorite discovery this past year has been Monica Belevan's Covidian Aesthetics blog. Some of the best writing about being alive right now to be found if you're interested in anthropology, art history, and philosophy. Can't recommend it enough. https://covidianaesthetics.substack.com/ https://covidianaesthetics.substack.com/
pmohun 5y ago
I agree! The best websites are those maintained by individuals without a profit motive. Here's a short list that I've started collecting: - Kevin Kelly: kk.org - Patrick Collison: patrickcollison.com - Patrick McKenzie: kalzumeus.com - David Perell: perell.com - Berthub.eu - Alexey Guzey: https://guzey.com/ https://guzey.com/ - https://www.gwern.net/index https://www.gwern.net/index - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ - https://dcgross.com/ https://dcgross.com/ - Paul Graham: paulgraham.com - https://nintil.com/ https://nintil.com/ - Laura Deming: https://www.ldeming.com/ https://www.ldeming.com/ - Sam Altman: https://blog.samaltman.com/ https://blog.samaltman.com/ - Casey Handmer: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/ https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/
- ollran 5y ago
  Paul Graham is great and his blog is one of the most quotable and inspiring blogs I have ever read. I even bought Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. It is a must read for anyone attempting to found a new start up company.
borroka 5y ago
https://bamfstyle.com/ https://bamfstyle.com/ Engaging, surprising, highly readable writing that connects cinema and style.
MorganGallant 5y ago
Surprised no one mentioned https://apenwarr.ca/log/ https://apenwarr.ca/log/ yet - such a great read!
parthsareen 5y ago
The first few of these are my fav: https://dive.sh/thread/81vD2RhjxF https://dive.sh/thread/81vD2RhjxF
thallavajhula 5y ago
Surprised to see nobody has yet mentioned Zach Holman's blog: https://zachholman.com/ https://zachholman.com/
lelanthran 5y ago
Unfortunately, the best I read was the last psychiatrist, which does not seem to be online anymore.
Minor49er 5y ago
I'm subscribed to Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram which is a newsletter of blog posts from "Schneier on Security". I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in security practices, surveillance, data breaches, or cryptography: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/ https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/
scriptnull 5y ago
Time to pull up my RSS reader! https://drewdevault.com/ https://drewdevault.com/ http://jvns.ca/ http://jvns.ca/ https://www.benkuhn.net/ https://www.benkuhn.net/ https://danluu.com/ https://danluu.com/ https://scattered-thoughts.net/ https://scattered-thoughts.net/ http://antirez.com/ http://antirez.com/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/ https://neilkakkar.com/ https://neilkakkar.com/ https://zachholman.com/ https://zachholman.com/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/ https://endler.dev/ https://endler.dev/ https://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/ https://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/ https://www.the-paper-trail.org/ https://www.the-paper-trail.org/ https://tonsky.me/ https://tonsky.me/ https://dave.cheney.net/ https://dave.cheney.net/ https://blog.wesleyac.com/ https://blog.wesleyac.com/ https://blog.samaltman.com/ https://blog.samaltman.com/
twis 5y ago
Highly entertaining stories https://moxie.org/stories.html https://moxie.org/stories.html (Moxie Marlinspike)
baby 5y ago
If you’re looking for cryptography, I maintain my favorite active blogs here: https://github.com/mimoo/crypto_blogs https://github.com/mimoo/crypto_blogs I was even interviewed about that list :P https://netzpolitik.org/2017/interview-how-to-pique-your-curiosity-in-cryptography/ https://netzpolitik.org/2017/interview-how-to-pique-your-cur...
spikepuppet 5y ago
Bryan Cantrill's blog: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/ I tune in every time I see a new entry pop up, it's so engaging.
gogo61 5y ago
There are few posts but I like all those. https://rgwrite.com/blog/ https://rgwrite.com/blog/
karaterobot 5y ago
Just realized that the "blogs" category in my Feedly has 347 entries in it, and about half of them haven't published in more than 3 months. Here are some that are prolific and good: https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/ Marginal Revolution: wide-ranging and prolific blog about economics and culture. https://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com https://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com Anecdotal Evidence: well-written personal blog, mostly observations on books. https://krebsonsecurity.com/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/ Krebs on Security: about information security. It's written for a popular audience, which is about the level at which I understand the subject. https://mjtsai.com/blog/ https://mjtsai.com/blog/ Michael Tsai: collects quotes from other people about ongoing software-related news. https://acquisitiontalk.com https://acquisitiontalk.com Acquisition Talk: about weapons system acquisition, government procurement, etc. Something I wanted to follow because it's a huge sector that doesn't get a lot of attention. https://www.futilitycloset.com/ https://www.futilitycloset.com/ Futility Closet: wunderkammer-style blog with historical miscellany, quotes, puzzles, etc. Also a great podcast. https://www.tor.com/tag/jo-walton-reads/ https://www.tor.com/tag/jo-walton-reads/ Jo Walton's Reading List: Not strictly a blog, but it's in my RSS feeds. I like to see what she's reading lately, and sometimes I get good recommendations from her (e.g. KJ Parker). https://www.bldgblog.com/ https://www.bldgblog.com/ BLDGBLOG: about design, architecture, etc. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/ https://www.thisiscolossal.com/ Colossal: about art and design. https://www.subtraction.com/ https://www.subtraction.com/ Subtraction: about design
awaxman11 5y ago
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ https://www.joshwcomeau.com/
snth 5y ago
https://danluu.com/ https://danluu.com/
kaderno 5y ago
Ian Miell's blog https://zwischenzugs.com https://zwischenzugs.com
cmurphycode 5y ago
I've often come to a post from https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/ in the middle of trying to understand some ZFS problem.
benrapscallion 5y ago
can someone combine these all into an OPML please?
cm2012 5y ago
Matt Yglesias' slowboring.com is amazing.
cloudwalking 5y ago
https://kottke.org/ https://kottke.org/
clircle 5y ago
Where are the statistics blogs? Christian Robert https://xianblog.wordpress.com/ Andrew Gelman https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/ Deborah Mayo https://errorstatistics.com/ Frank Harrell https://www.fharrell.com/ Radford Neal https://radfordneal.wordpress.com/ Variance Explained http://varianceexplained.org/ Larry Wasserman (inactive) https://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/ 20% Statistician https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/ Jim Albert https://baseballwithr.wordpress.com/author/bayesball/ The R blog https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/ Graphic Detail, by The Economist https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/rss.xml The Royal Society Data Science Section https://rssdss.design.blog/blog-feed/ Many good “blogs” can be created by following good users on Cross Validated. StackExchange provides RSS feeds of user activity. Many statistics journals also offer RSS feeds. These feeds are sometimes hidden, but an RSS reader like NewsBlur can discover them for you. This post[1] is a good starter collection of statistics journal RSS feeds. [1] https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/rss-feeds/ https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/rss-feeds/
nikisweeting 5y ago
I've got a list of 100+ individual's blogs I like here: https://docs.monadical.com/s/favorite-blogs#Favorite-Personal-Blogs https://docs.monadical.com/s/favorite-blogs#Favorite-Persona... Above and below are other categories too.
bengtan 5y ago
Hi, I come across a lot of blogs when I curate for my newsletter Interesting Things [1]. Just looking through the links that have been curated in the past month or so, I would suggest: Tech - https://wasteofserver.com/ https://wasteofserver.com/ - https://tonsky.me/ https://tonsky.me/ - https://brianschrader.com/ https://brianschrader.com/ - https://blog.thea.codes/ https://blog.thea.codes/ - https://fasterthanli.me/ https://fasterthanli.me/ - https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ - https://blog.royalsloth.eu/ https://blog.royalsloth.eu/ Non-tech - https://www.drorpoleg.com/ https://www.drorpoleg.com/ - About work and society - https://staysaasy.com/ https://staysaasy.com/ - About tech work - https://www.nateliason.com/ https://www.nateliason.com/ - About life in general - https://andymatuschak.org/ https://andymatuschak.org/ - https://craigmod.com/ https://craigmod.com/ - https://perell.com/ https://perell.com/ And, of course, shameless plug: https://bengtan.com https://bengtan.com ---- [1] https://bengtan.com/interesting-things https://bengtan.com/interesting-things
legends2k 5y ago
Here's a page from my blog [1] with my favourites. Cheers! [1]: https://legends2k.github.io/note/hacker_culture/ https://legends2k.github.io/note/hacker_culture/
svalee 5y ago
https://lukesmith.xyz/ https://lukesmith.xyz/ -- very opinionated, but interesting person https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html - reading about distributed systems and db are extremely interesting https://danluu.com/ https://danluu.com/ - his metrics articles is how I found him out, but other articles really good too. https://paulefou.com/ https://paulefou.com/ -- This is my blog. I write about self-development for software engineers and my experience with different strategies on the path
neppo 5y ago
I like this one a lot: https://blog.fefe.de/ https://blog.fefe.de/ It's in german, but has a nice mix of political and technical topics
fomine3 5y ago
Greg KH http://www.kroah.com/log/ http://www.kroah.com/log/
natmaka 5y ago
https://elaineou.com/ https://elaineou.com/
polira 5y ago
https://grahamcluley.com/ https://grahamcluley.com/
kevq 5y ago
Some of my favourite blogs are listed on my blogroll - https://kevq.uk/blogroll https://kevq.uk/blogroll
silexia 5y ago
Http://joelx.com :)
lucss 5y ago
https://grumpygamer.com https://grumpygamer.com
galambo 5y ago
Gwern: https://www.gwern.net/ https://www.gwern.net/ Slate Star Codex: https://slatestarcodex.com/ https://slatestarcodex.com/ | Astral Codex Ten: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html Bryan Caplan on Econlog: https://www.econlib.org/author/bcaplan/ https://www.econlib.org/author/bcaplan/ --Economist Fake Nous: https://fakenous.net/ https://fakenous.net/ --Philosopher Debarghya Das: http://debarghyadas.com/writes http://debarghyadas.com/writes Nicky Case: https://ncase.me/ https://ncase.me/ Quanticle: https://wiki.quanticle.net/ https://wiki.quanticle.net/ Grognor (RIP): http://grognor.stacky.net/index.php?title=Main_Page http://grognor.stacky.net/index.php?title=Main_Page This is my personal blog: https://galambo.wordpress.com/ https://galambo.wordpress.com/
nicktorba 5y ago
Great writing about an optimistic future: https://www.rhyslindmark.com/ https://www.rhyslindmark.com/
stereoradonc 5y ago
Personal plug www.radoncnotes.com
bobbydreamer 5y ago
My Favs are listed here https://bobbydreamer.com/irevere https://bobbydreamer.com/irevere