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Ask HN: Which developers/programmers do you closely follow?

• brudgers 12y ago
  Do you have some examples of people you follow and rationales as to why?
• arsalanb 12y ago
  Zac Holman — @holman on twitter (I think). Pretty awesome guy.
• walshie4 12y ago
  defunkt (https://github.com/defunkt https://github.com/defunkt), feross (https://github.com/feross https://github.com/feross), holman (https://github.com/holman https://github.com/holman), samaaron (https://github.com/samaaron https://github.com/samaaron), & indirect (https://github.com/indirect https://github.com/indirect) among others all doing cool stuff (and are cool people).
• nailer 12y ago
  In JS, @paulirish, @addyosmani, @rmurphey, @pornelski, @pgte, @izs, @leaverou, @brendeneich, @jakearchibald.
• daveloyall 12y ago
  windytan.com theorangeduck.com nullprogram.com esr.ibiblio.org (wtf?) joeyh.name ebb.org/bkuhn shift-reset.com joearms.github.io
• teacup50 12y ago
  None. People who have time to cultivate a following are very rarely the people who deserve one.
  • joe563323 12y ago
    Thats not true in progamming community
  • kwhitefoot 12y ago
    I agree with the "None", but for a slightly different reason. When someone follows a person it is intended to be because the ideas that that person presents are worth knowing about. But, even the best do not produce an unbroken stream of perfect articles and ideas; so I don't follow anyone, instead I keep some websites in mind as resources to consult. In the long run it is the content that matters, not the content creator. If I did follow anyone it would be a set of obscure computer scientists like Tony Hoare (mostly retired), Christopher Strachey (deceased), Leslie Lamport (still working for Microsoft), Joe Armstrong (very much still working on Erlang); but even so it is the content of the papers they write and the code that they have given us that matters.
    • mlitchard 12y ago
      In the case of "the things you don't know you don't know", I find following certain developers to be priceless. Can't go looking for a reference for something you don't know exists, after all.
  • jiaaro 12y ago
    Some people are better than others at identifying useful ideas and communicating why they are useful. Those people often grow a following organically.
• simonswords82 12y ago
  https://twitter.com/spolsky https://twitter.com/spolsky http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ Joel doesn't write as frequently these days but the content he does put out always stands the test of time. I've modelled a lot of my business processes and systems on his approach at FogCreek Software. We also use his software, we were avid users of FogBugz back in the day at my software company, and we now use Trello to manage most things.
• chambo622 12y ago
  On Android, Jake Wharton and Koushik Dutta, always looking for more. Chris Banes and Roman Nurik are great from the design side.
  • sycren 12y ago
    know anyone on iOS?
    • rrrrrraul 12y ago
      @rwenderlich @mattt
• mlitchard 12y ago
  In no particular order Dan Piponi http://blog.sigfpe.com/ http://blog.sigfpe.com/ The ever awesome oleg http://okmij.org/ftp/ http://okmij.org/ftp/ Chris Done http://chrisdone.com/ http://chrisdone.com/ Gabriel Gonzalez http://www.haskellforall.com/ http://www.haskellforall.com/ There are many more. The haskell community has awesome developers in abundance.
• Avalaxy 12y ago
  Udi Dahan https://twitter.com/UdiDahan https://twitter.com/UdiDahan very knowledgeable about distributed architecture David Fowler https://twitter.com/davidfowl https://twitter.com/davidfowl important guy behind ASP.NET, SignalR, etc. Troy Hunt https://twitter.com/troyhunt https://twitter.com/troyhunt security expert and very knowledgeable about Azure Edit: I see some people just writing some names, but I think that is completely useless without any context on WHY you follow them.
• MalcolmDiggs 12y ago
  I tend to follow the folks whose NPM contributions I use regularly, or who are just badasses in general... So, in no particular order: * TJ Holowaychuk * Sindre Sorhus * Addy Osmani * Izs * Passy * Contra * Fat * Substack * Peteris Krumins * Mark Otto * Mark Dalgeish * Dan Shaw ...I'm sure I'm forgetting hella people...
• davyjones 12y ago
  Tom Lane on the postgresql lists. His breadth and depth of knowledge on the postgres code is mind boggling. And he takes equal effort in helping out on all lists...ranging from novice to hackers.