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Ask YC: Favorite blogs?
I checked searchyc - doesn't look like there's ever been a discussion about this! What blogs do you love? Not even what blogs do you think are best, what ones do you love reading?
My favorites: The Big Contrarian (http://www.bigcontrarian.com/), which has incredible essays (one of the best is on something like the third-to-last page), All of Andy Baio's blog posts and links (http://waxy.org/), Daring Fireball (http://daringfireball.net) - which I started reading before I was a Mac user, and which got me into both Apple stuff and typography, so perhaps there's a bias - and Shawn Blanc writes excellent reviews of software he loves (http://shawnblanc.net/).
What about you? Which blogs really get you going?
- dmm 18y agoThe Last Psychiatrist - http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ Yegge - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
- brlewis 18y agohttp://friendfeed.com/brlewis/likes?service=blog http://friendfeed.com/brlewis/likes?service=blog
- JeffJenkins 18y agoHarder the me just listing them, but you can take a look through my Google Reader shared items: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/10530692481246922106 http://www.google.com/reader/shared/10530692481246922106 The most frequent ones are: * Schneier on Security ( http://www.schneier.com/blog/ http://www.schneier.com/blog/ ) * Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science ( http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/blog/ http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/blog/ ) I also follow a bunch of significant python people and the artima weblogs.
- amjith 18y agoLinus Torvald's Blog: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/ http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/ Paul Graham Essays: http://www.paulgraham.com/ http://www.paulgraham.com/ Coding Horror: http://www.codinghorror.com http://www.codinghorror.com JoelOnSoftware: http://www.joelonsoftware.com http://www.joelonsoftware.com Bryan Cantrill's Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/ http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/ Rich Burridge's Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/richb/ http://blogs.sun.com/richb/
- maximumwage 18y agoI put together a list of hundreds of blogs written by successful entrepreneurs, executives, investors, venture capitalists and other top people: http://www.bigwinner.org/successful-people/ http://www.bigwinner.org/successful-people/ I don't read them all regularly, but I love getting advice and information from successful people.
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- davi 18y agoCarl Zimmer, biology: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/
- hotshothenry 18y agohttp://www.barstoolsports.com http://www.barstoolsports.com, besides the usual techcrunch, gigaom, readwriteweb, go2web20, etc.
- anthonyrubin 18y agoHere are a few that I don't think have been mentioned yet: The Cooper Journal http://www.cooper.com/journal/ http://www.cooper.com/journal/ Google Testing Blog http://googletesting.blogspot.com/ http://googletesting.blogspot.com/ Knowing and Doing http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/ http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/
- sidsavara 18y agoSeth Godin's Blog - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ Mark Cuban - http://BlogMaverick.com http://BlogMaverick.com Paul Graham - http://PaulGraham.com http://PaulGraham.com Gary Vee - http://garyvaynerchuk.com/ http://garyvaynerchuk.com/ 538 - http://FiveThirtyEight.com http://FiveThirtyEight.com fascinating Freakonomics - http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/ http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/ as above ZenHabits - http://zenhabits.net http://zenhabits.net I met him in person and Leo is as genuine as they come My Life In A Cube - http://www.mylifeinacube.com/ http://www.mylifeinacube.com/ Great comic And like, hundreds more ;) Also the best place to find stuff I like is my StumbleUpon RSS feed at http://tr.im/sidsu http://tr.im/sidsu I think it is all pretty spiffy stuff myself. And of course, my blog is at http://sidsavara.com http://sidsavara.com
- bdr 18y agoI use a slinkset as my RSS reader. It's at http://andrew.slinkset.com/ http://andrew.slinkset.com/
- jrockway 18y agoI enjoy random blogs (yay for link agregation sites), but MJD and Steve Yegge continually write content worth reading: MJD: http://blog.plover.com/ http://blog.plover.com/ Yegge: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
- chris_l 18y agogapingvoid.com, especially "How to be creative" bill clementson's lispy blog
- yan 18y agoI like the following: Hack a day - hackaday.com Overcomig Bias - overcomingbias.com 3quarksdaily - 3quarksdaily.com make magazine - makezine.com developing intelligence - http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/ http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/ schneier on security - schneier.com/blog/ ... and a few other ones that are slipping my mind. Will update if I remember.
- botbooty 18y agohey, thanks for the plug of DI...
- poppinphresh 18y agomakezine.com codinghorror.com iwillteachyoutoberich.com joestump.net freelanceswitch.com zenhabits.net
- latortuga 18y agoI'll second iwillteachyoutoberich, I've been reading that blog for a few years now and Ramit has a style that is very accessible to a lot of people. Great blog.
- david_a 18y agoI agree - great tips on iwillteachyoutoberich.com. For more in depth and targeted tips check out his other project scroogestrategy.com too.
- pchristensen 18y agoHere are a few previous discussions: Who would you pay to read? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=166607 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=166607 The Best Blogs You're Not Reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128762 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128762
- tstegart 18y agoLa Tartine Gourmande http://www.latartinegourmande.com http://www.latartinegourmande.com One of the best food blogs ever with awesome photography. It helps to have non-tech stuff sometimes :)
- dominik 18y agoBeautiful, beautiful blog. The photography, the writing. The author's humanity -- her soul, if you will -- comes across and that makes it entirely win.
- unalone 18y agoWhat an absolutely lovely blog! Thanks so much for pointing this one out.
- tstegart 18y agoThe photography is just amazing, its like food porn. Apparently she's making a cookbook, which should be pretty sweet. I can't wait to make some of the more involved stuff when I get out of my tiny NYC apartment.
- truebosko 18y agoThank you for this, what a great find.
- paulgb 18y agoThe only blog I really read: http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/ http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/ (interesting discussion of game theory that is accessible to non-game-theorests) I also check http://startupnorth.ca/ http://startupnorth.ca/ from time to time to keep up on what's happening in Canada.
- mk 18y agoThe French Laundry at home http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.com/ http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.com/ She finished up in October, but it is still one of my favorite blogs.
- carterschonwald 18y agowww.terrytao.wordpress.com is a blog I like to follow, really nice research level expositional writing on a wide variety of fascinating and nontrivial math. Whats especial impressive (aside from the field's medal) is that the first two years of his blog are being converted into expositional texts to be published by the American Mathematical Society.
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- thomanil 18y agoI have these guys's blogs posted under "Software Development A-list" in my RSS reader: Steve Yegge, Joel Spolsky,Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), Martin Fowler, Ted Neward, Andy Hunt, Steve McConnell (10x Software Development), Michael Feathers,Paul Graham
- vivekkhurana 18y agojoelonsoftware http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
- Jem 18y agoI was sat on the bus this morning thinking of asking this exact question. I have a big list of blogs I read but they're mostly personal, and I need to expand my geeky reading list. Anyway, as I am looking for geek/code/software blogs I have none of those to share, but think there's quite a few of you here would enjoy Chairman Bill's blog ( http://ttocb.blogspot.com/ http://ttocb.blogspot.com/ ) - strong British humour throughout.
- daveambrose 18y agoNo FlowingData love?
- voidfiles 18y agoMerlin Mann - http://43folders.com http://43folders.com - creativity, productivity A List Apart - http://www.alistapart.com/ http://www.alistapart.com/ - html, css, webdesign Kottke - http://kottke.org http://kottke.org - cool links Subtraction - http://www.substraction.com http://www.substraction.com - print design, web design Some things that aren't blog but I Think provide great things and have rss feeds http://delicious.com/network/tikva http://delicious.com/network/tikva http://delicious.com/cshirky http://delicious.com/cshirky http://ffffound.com/ http://ffffound.com/ I read over 100 blogs, not all are in the super duper cool level, but I share what I think is the best stuff using my google reader @ http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06434253323852871046 http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06434253323852871046
- jacoblyles 18y agoUnqualified Reservations. There are plenty of political crackpots on the internet, but how many condemn the American Revolution and support the Jacobite cause? How many go back to actually read Tory papers from the 18th century and Confederate papers from the 19th? Have you ever read the Tories' side? Chances are you haven't. Chances are you've been taught that America is wholesome and awesome and good and apple pie. That's why UR is awesome. I love writing that changes my perspective on the world. Edit: Here's a nice fisking of the Declaration of Independence from 1776: http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1130&Itemid=264 http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&... Some quotes with Moldbug's commentary: " The last time I had the honour of being in your Lordship's company, you observed that you were utterly at a loss as to what facts many parts of the Declaration of Independence published by the Philadelphia Congress referred..." Moldbug: In other words: these Congress people are so whack-a-doodle-doo, half the time your Lordship can't even tell what they're talking about. Presumably "your Lordship" is Lord Germain. Dear reader, how does your own knowledge of the Declaration compare to Lord Germain's? Weren't you amused, for instance, to learn that " I know of no new offices erected in America in the present reign, except those of the Commissioners of the Customs and their dependents. Five Commissioners were appointed, and four Surveyors General dismissed; perhaps fifteen to twenty clerks and under officers were necessary for this board more than the Surveyors had occasion for before: Land and tide waiters, weighers, &c. were known officers before; the Surveyors used to encrease or lessen the number as the King’s service required, and the Commissioners have done no more. Thirty or forty additional officers in the whole Continent, are the Swarms which eat out the substance of the boasted number of three millions of people." Moldbug: or, most intriguingly, that " The first in order, He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good; is of so general a nature, that it is not possible to conjecture to what laws or to what Colonies it refers. I remember no laws which any Colony has been restrained from passing, so as to cause any complaint of grievance, except those for issuing a fraudulent paper currency, and making it a legal tender; but this is a restraint which for many years past has been laid on Assemblies by an act of Parliament, since which such laws cannot have been offered to the King for his allowance. I therefore believe this to be a general charge, without any particulars to support it; fit enough to be placed at the head of a list of imaginary grievances."
- nathanburke 18y agoMost of my favorites are startup related or at least in the tech industry. http://mashable.com http://mashable.com http://centernetworks.com http://centernetworks.com http://scalableintimacy.com/ http://scalableintimacy.com/ http://chrisbrogan.com http://chrisbrogan.com http://xconomy.com http://xconomy.com http://dondodge.typepad.com/ http://dondodge.typepad.com/
- Flemlord 18y agoMy first stop of the day is non-tech: Glen Greenwald, a constitutional lawyer turned political pundit. http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/ http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
- omarish 18y agogood coding music: http://www.dancefloormayhem.com/ http://www.dancefloormayhem.com/; http://noiseporn.com http://noiseporn.com
- gtani 18y agohttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/195689/what-developer-blogs-would-you-recommend-reading http://stackoverflow.com/questions/195689/what-developer-blo... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78955/what-are-the-best-programming-and-development-related-blogs http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78955/what-are-the-best-p... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188991/which-programming-blog-entry-opened-your-eyes-and-made-you-do-something-differe http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188991/which-programming-... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151974/c-blogs-that-you-regularly-follow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151974/c-blogs-that-you-r... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/249044/best-non-microsoftnet-development-blogs http://stackoverflow.com/questions/249044/best-non-microsoft... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=380236 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=380236
- chris11 18y agoI'm in college so I really like Cal Newport's blog. He writes about time management, and to succeed at college without stressing yourself out. For instance, he mentions that you should ignore your g.p.a. . He talks about finding a bunch of citations from his professors his senior year, because he never looked at the letter with his g.p.a. Link: http://calnewport.com/blog http://calnewport.com/blog
- tu 18y agohttp://www.makezine.com http://www.makezine.com http://www.deutsche-startups.de http://www.deutsche-startups.de - German Techcrunch http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/ http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/ - for creative inspiration http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/ http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/ - watch a new startup in the making http://www.codinghorror.com http://www.codinghorror.com http://www.hackaday.com http://www.hackaday.com http://www.lifehacker.com http://www.lifehacker.com http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/ http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/ http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com and http://www.getrichslowly.com http://www.getrichslowly.com - for personal finance Other than that I pretty much rely on HN to filter interesting stuff ;)