[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
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Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
What are your favorite blogs run by individual people? For
example, some of the ones I like are: - https://jvns.ca/ -
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ - https://ciechanow.ski/
Author : zffr
Score : 611 points
Date : 2021-05-27 12:29 UTC (10 hours ago)
| mattl wrote:
| https://www.jwz.org/blog/
| uwagar wrote:
| ooh
| JFKKFJ wrote:
| https://arachnoid.com (Paul Lutus)
| snow_mac wrote:
| http://mrmoneymustache.com
| snow_mac wrote:
| Why 0 points? I'm not Mr Money Mustache but down voting seems
| unfair.
| dickiedyce wrote:
| https://eclecticlight.co/ - Howard Oakley is _always_ worth a
| read, on art or Macs.
| _fs wrote:
| 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/ - In depth explanations of mostly
| California weather phenomena and medium term predictions.
| jdofaz wrote:
| https://electoral-vote.com
| jumarm wrote:
| 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/) 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/
|
| [2] https://www.arun.is/
|
| [3] https://danluu.com/programming-books/
|
| [4] https://danluu.com/input-lag/
|
| [5] https://www.arun.is/blog/apple-card/
|
| [6] https://www.arun.is/blog/mac-pro/
|
| [7] https://www.arun.is/blog/smart-speaker/
| charliecurran wrote:
| 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/
| ordiman85 wrote:
| 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/
| rodiger wrote:
| Vitalik! https://vitalik.ca/ obviously eth/crypto-focused but
| some great dives.
| fsloth wrote:
| Bruce Dawson's https://randomascii.wordpress.com/ is excellent
| resource for obscure and complex details of native code and
| modern platforms.
| flakiness wrote:
| +1! Do you have any other recommendations from Windows land who
| still stay active and relevant?
| fsloth wrote:
| 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/ and the optimization manuals are in
| https://www.agner.org/optimize/#manuals (I suggest starting
| from optimizing_cpp.pdf)
| jlelse wrote:
| Check out my blogroll: https://jlelse.blog/blogroll
|
| Do you have blogrolls as well?
| atatatat wrote:
| This is the coolest shit I've seen today.
|
| Great take on a webring.
|
| Thanks! -- let's adopt this, wow.
| jeremy_wiebe wrote:
| Raymond Chen's blog is a very interesting blog if you do Windows
| development.
|
| https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing
| monoideism wrote:
| A few of mine:
|
| - https://www.windytan.com/ (windytan: signal processing)
|
| - https://www.righto.com/ (Ken Sheriff: IC reverse engineering,
| vintage computing, misc)
|
| - 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/
| alfl wrote:
| Cory Doctorow's
|
| 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.
| twis wrote:
| Highly entertaining stories https://moxie.org/stories.html (Moxie
| Marlinspike)
| TonyTrapp wrote:
| 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/
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| Ryan Moulton's Articles kind of a unique combination of tech and
| nature: https://moultano.wordpress.com/
| scanny wrote:
| Australia Politics, an independant and thoughtful analysis but an
| journalist: 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/
|
| and of course WaitbutWhy for the joy of reading about the
| universe as it relates to ourselves, all through great doodles:
| https://waitbutwhy.com/
| elviejo wrote:
| 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.
| azhenley wrote:
| Cover topics around software development, math, programming
| languages, and academia:
|
| http://stuffwithstuff.com/
|
| https://ericlippert.com/
|
| http://thume.ca/archive.html
|
| https://medium.com/@mdwdotla
|
| https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/posts
|
| https://computinged.wordpress.com/
|
| https://blog.acolyer.org/
|
| https://blog.sigplan.org/blog/
|
| https://blog.paranoidcoding.com/
|
| https://blog.regehr.org/
|
| https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
|
| https://benhoyt.com/writings/
|
| https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/
|
| https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog.html
|
| https://www.johndcook.com/blog/
|
| https://blog.stephenmarz.com/
| nceqs3 wrote:
| https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ - In The Pipeline by Derek
| Lowe is fantastic
| spikepuppet wrote:
| Bryan Cantrill's blog: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/
|
| I tune in every time I see a new entry pop up, it's so engaging.
| Siira wrote:
| https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
| willvarfar wrote:
| For something different: https://www.hisutton.com is worth it for
| the original illustrations alone
| langitbiru wrote:
| https://steve-yegge.medium.com/
|
| His old blog is also amusing: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
| archontes wrote:
| http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/
| aklemm wrote:
| An heroic historical effort, imo:
| https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/
| jraby3 wrote:
| Jamesclear.com
| yakubin wrote:
| - https://matklad.github.io/
|
| - https://danluu.com/
|
| - https://raphlinus.github.io/
|
| - https://rosenzweig.io/
|
| - https://flak.tedunangst.com/
|
| - https://ciechanow.ski/
| cratermoon wrote:
| Maria Popova https://www.brainpickings.org/
|
| Tom Murphy https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/
|
| Cathy O'Neil https://mathbabe.org/
|
| Peter Woit (Not Even Wrong)
| https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
|
| Autumn Gearhart Rain https://rainintheforecast.wordpress.com/
| ugh123 wrote:
| +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/
| domy wrote:
| 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/
|
| [1] https://www.pbrt.org/
| m3at wrote:
| 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/
| parthsareen wrote:
| The first few of these are my fav:
| https://dive.sh/thread/81vD2RhjxF
| dijit wrote:
| One of my favourites, from a friend of mine:
| 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 wrote:
| Statmodeling
|
| https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/
|
| Daring fireball
|
| https://daringfireball.net/
|
| Tyler coven on marginal revolution
|
| https://marginalrevolution.com/
| fullstop wrote:
| Ken Shirriff's blog: http://www.righto.com/ He does amazing
| teardowns, reconstructions, and analysis. 10/10 would definitely
| read again.
| paulorlando wrote:
| 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/
| ttul wrote:
| Tim Bray's aeons-old blog is always good reading:
| https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
| [deleted]
| borroka wrote:
| https://bamfstyle.com/
|
| Engaging, surprising, highly readable writing that connects
| cinema and style.
| gogo61 wrote:
| There are few posts but I like all those.
| https://rgwrite.com/blog/
| internet2000 wrote:
| https://daringfireball.net by John Gruber
| D13Fd wrote:
| 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.
| vavooom wrote:
| 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-hu...
| strogonoff wrote:
| Some of the blogs I like, but don't read enough (I almost ceased
| reading blogs at all lately):
|
| - https://jacobian.org/posts/
|
| - https://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/ (classic)
|
| - https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/
| bordercases wrote:
| Economic doom and gloom, but with a forward-looking twist:
|
| - heisenbergreport.com
|
| - https://oftwominds.com/blog.html
| atatatat wrote:
| Very related:
|
| What's everyone using for RSS, webdev + client side??
|
| What's everyone's feeling on ActivityPub?
| jlelse wrote:
| Miniflux is my RSS reader of choice.
|
| ActivityPub is a complicated protocol, but I still implemented
| ActivityPub support into my blog.
| lelanthran wrote:
| Unfortunately, the best I read was the last psychiatrist, which
| does not seem to be online anymore.
| linuxbo wrote:
| I've been enjoying: - https://myannoyingopinions.com/ -
| https://yomadic.com/
| dancemethis wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| To quote an original blogger, Dave Winer, blogs, at best, are
| 'The unedited voice of a person.'
| 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.
| hahahasure wrote:
| Not sure if https://efficiencyiseverything.com/
|
| Counts because he hires data collectors, but it's one of the most
| life changing websites I've ever visited.
| keegancsmith wrote:
| - Mark Brooker :: https://brooker.co.za/blog long time lead
| engineer @ AWS blogging technical info on distributed systems -
| Chris Wellons :: https://nullprogram.com/ lots of interesting
| explorations in code
| modernerd wrote:
| Maciej Ceglowski's writing is wonderful. (He's the developer
| behind 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
| yakshaving_jgt wrote:
| - https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/
|
| - http://hintjens.com/
|
| - https://idlewords.com/
|
| - https://stevelosh.com/blog/
|
| - https://magnus.therning.org/archive.html
| pjmorris wrote:
| I acquired a finance/economics blogroll during the financial
| crisis. The ones I still read are:
|
| 'Naked Capitalism", "Yves Smith",
| https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
|
| "The Big Picture", Barry Ritholtz, https://ritholtz.com/
|
| "Calculated Risk", Bill McBride,
| https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/
| pjmorris wrote:
| Out of curiosity, why the downvotes?
| akeck wrote:
| Lately, I've been reading through the "100 Rabbits" folks stuff:
|
| https://100r.co/site/home.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.
| kevstev wrote:
| The Morning paper: 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.
| aicswe wrote:
| 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/financialwisdomofrapmus...
| calpaterson wrote:
| I really enjoy https://rootsofprogress.org/posts (Jason Crawford)
| andredz wrote:
| 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/).
|
| These ones are some of my favorites: - www.wall.org/~aron/blog/
| (physics, theology, history, philosophy)
|
| - http://xahlee.info/ (math, emacs, keyboards, etc.)
|
| - https://matt.might.net/articles/ (academy, compsci, etc.)
|
| - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ (programming, companies, etc.)
|
| - https://danluu.com/ (technical topics)
|
| - Mailing list in https://practicaltypography.com/
|
| - http://paulgraham.com/
|
| - https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ (math, physics)
|
| - https://www.gwern.net/index (interesting articles)
|
| - https://slatestarcodex.com/ and
| https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ (science, psychiatry,
| philosophy, rationality, etc.)
|
| - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ (programming)
|
| - https://creativegood.com/blog/ (UX, and more)
|
| - https://daringfireball.net/ (Apple)
|
| - https://backreaction.blogspot.com/ (physics)
|
| - https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
|
| - https://historyforatheists.com/ (historical myths)
|
| - http://funcall.blogspot.com/ (programming, compsci)
|
| - https://blog.fawny.org/ (accessibility, design)
|
| - https://blog.jessfraz.com/ (technology)
|
| - https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog (databases)
|
| - https://weekendfisher.blogspot.com/ (God, love)
|
| I can list some of my favorite articles from one of these blogs
| if anyone is interested.
| ivanech wrote:
| https://macwright.com/ - my favorite blog about software-related
| topics
|
| https://vebaccount.substack.com/ - great stuff on economics
| through a heterodox lens
| dgellow wrote:
| Bennet Tomlin's blog where he writes about cryptocurrency scams
| and frauds: https://bennettftomlin.com
| prajwalshetty wrote:
| I personally keep on eye on new things here - https://tonsky.me
| avinassh wrote:
| 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
|
| 2. Tyler Neely - Creator of Sled DB -
| https://medium.com/@tylerneely
|
| 3. Philip O'Toole - Creator of rqlite -
| https://www.philipotoole.com/
|
| 4. Martin Kleppmann - Author of Designing Data-Intensive
| Applications - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html
|
| 5. Glauber Costa - worked on glommio, scylla DB -
| https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/
|
| Do recommend me if you know more!
| cavalcade119 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| jakub_g wrote:
| - 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/
|
| by Gergely Orosz, on mobile dev & big tech from European point of
| view
| 317070 wrote:
| 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/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/
|
| 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/
|
| 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/
|
| 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/
| cuspycode wrote:
| 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.
| thallavajhula wrote:
| Surprised to see nobody has yet mentioned Zach Holman's blog:
| https://zachholman.com/
| vishnu_ks wrote:
| A couple of my favorite blogs
|
| - http://antirez.com/
|
| - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html
|
| - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing
|
| - https://ma.tt/
|
| - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
|
| - https://jvns.ca/
|
| - https://www.johndcook.com/blog
|
| - http://feross.org/
|
| - https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/
|
| - https://blog.andrewcantino.com/
|
| - https://nickcraver.com/blog/
|
| - https://blog.acolyer.org
|
| - https://blog.codinghorror.com
|
| I have been also building a developer blog aggregator called
| https://diff.blog to make it super easy to disover and follow dev
| blogs. Would love if you folks can give it a try :)
| jrochkind1 wrote:
| I maintain a feed aggregator focused only on ruby at
| http://rubyland.news -- doesn't have the
| interactive/personalization features of yours, you have gone
| quite a bit furhter!
|
| But anyway, is there a way I can suggest blogs to diff.blog?
| (including my own). Or, if you'd like to just scrape the ones
| I've already "curated", feel free.
| http://rubyland.news/sources.opml
| vishnu_ks wrote:
| Hey, rubyland was one of the inspirations for diff.blog.
| Thanks for building it :)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23914685
|
| > But anyway, is there a way I can suggest blogs to
| diff.blog? (including my own).
|
| Yes. You can suggest new blogs at https://diff.blog/suggest.
| The recommended way to add your own blog is by going to
| profile settings since that allow you to change the URL as
| well as refresh the feed. But both are fine :)
|
| > Or, if you'd like to just scrape the ones I've already
| "curated", feel free. http://rubyland.news/sources.opml
|
| Yeah. I will give it a go one of these days. Hard part is I
| need to get the GitHub handle of each of these blogs since
| all the blog in diff.blog should have an associated GitHub
| account.
| jrochkind1 wrote:
| Aw, nice! Rubyland.news has been a low-feedback endeavor,
| I'm never sure anyone has even noticed it, so that's nice
| to hear!
|
| You have definitely taken it a bunch of steps further with
| diff.blog! I thought about that but definitely didn't have
| the free-side-project time for it.
|
| I love all efforts to keep blogging and RSS feeds alive, in
| the world of gated social media!
| abdusco wrote:
| https://ma.tt I wonder how much that domain costs. 2-letter
| domains are always sold at a premium regardless of TLD.
| sneak wrote:
| Google's featured snippet answer suggests that the owner of
| that domain has a net worth of $400mm USD. It's indeed a nice
| flex.
|
| I had a cheap five-byte domain once, but the registrar
| decided one day to up my renewal fee to five figures, so I
| don't any longer.
| vishnu_ks wrote:
| Matt Mullenweg actually registered the domain for $500 per
| year for the first 2 years :)
|
| .tt domains are quite expensive in general so I think he got
| a pretty good deal for ma.tt
|
| https://ma.tt/2008/01/on-matt/
|
| Interesting conincidence, the .blog TLD used by diff.blog, is
| owned by Automattic, the company started by Matt Mullenweg :)
| vishnu_ks wrote:
| Ahh. Another coincidence. It's 18 years today since the
| first wordpres release was made by Matt Mullenweg and Mike
| Little.
| lalo2302 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Thanks! There is an FAQ at 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 wrote:
| This is a great idea - signed up :)
| vishnu_ks wrote:
| Thank you :)
| pluppen wrote:
| I've always had a hard time finding new interesting dev blogs
| but with diff.blog I can stop having that problem! Thanks for
| it, will be using it from now on!
| polote wrote:
| You may check https://hnblogs.substack.com/ if you want to add
| new blogs. These are usually 'less professional' blogs than the
| ones you just quoted though
| vishnu_ks wrote:
| Cool. I will go through them and ones that looks interesting
| :)
| sneak wrote:
| Tried out diff.blog but it doesn't render anything but the
| header with javascript off.
| vishnu_ks wrote:
| Yeah. Sorry. I haven't done any work to make load it without
| JS :(
| allenleein wrote:
| Favorite blogs about aging, biotech:
|
| - https://www.ldeming.com/longevityfaq
|
| - https://nintil.com/
|
| - https://srconstantin.github.io/tag/aging.html
|
| - https://www.celinehh.com/
| jedimastert wrote:
| My favorite one relevant to HN is probably
| http://www.nullprogram.com
|
| A programming blog for the most part, but I always find whatever
| they're writing about to be fascinating
| ketanmaheshwari wrote:
| Such a great collection!
|
| I like https://begriffs.com
|
| Does anyone know any tool that will mass bookmark links on a
| page?
| tristor wrote:
| 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/
|
| Of those posted, I will +1 daringfireball, jwz, idlewords,
| filippo, and danluu as people worth reading.
| mfp11 wrote:
| - https://diff.substack.com/ thoughtful analysis of finance and
| tech
|
| - 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/ great insights on engineering management
| patterns and antipatterns
| Sleepytime wrote:
| https://christine.website/blog
|
| The NixOS infrastructure is awesome, and of course the whole blog
| is open sourced and served from the nix store.
| breck wrote:
| Some good ones:
|
| http://avc.com/
|
| http://paulgraham.com/
|
| http://www.moserware.com/
|
| https://believermag.com/
|
| https://blogmaverick.com/
|
| https://fs.blog/
|
| https://juliagalef.com/
|
| https://marginalrevolution.com/
|
| https://nav.al/
|
| https://sive.rs/
|
| https://torrentfreak.com/author/ernesto/
|
| https://vitalik.ca/
|
| https://waitbutwhy.com/
|
| https://www.lrb.co.uk/
|
| https://www.metafilter.com/
|
| https://xkcd.com/
| avinassh wrote:
| I love blog posts by Amos - 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
|
| 2. 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
|
| 4. 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-cpl...
| OR A half-hour to learn Rust -
| https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust
| mbStavola wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| amos is also super super nice on twitter, if you say hi to
| him there!
| maddyboo wrote:
| 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
| x14km2d wrote:
| Dave Winer - http://scripting.com/
| genghizkhan wrote:
| The best one, of course, is Bret Devereaux's acoup
| (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/)
|
| I also enjoy reading Martin Tournoij's blog whenever he updates
| it (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/ (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)
| ajot wrote:
| https://commoncog.com/blog/ (by Cedric Chin)
| anonleb4 wrote:
| This list is pretty good: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/list-of-
| blogs
| Minor49er wrote:
| 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/
| sronors wrote:
| - https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/ - detailed posts about
| procedural generation of fantasy maps
|
| - https://thealexandrian.net/ - for tabletop rpg content
| CA0DA wrote:
| 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... recently and enjoying it
| FabHK wrote:
| Seconded. I use NetNewsWire on macOS/iOS.
| listic wrote:
| I like Fraidycat: https://fraidyc.at/ (browser plugin, mostly)
| blakesterz wrote:
| 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
| iNic wrote:
| Astral Star Codex [0], Noahpinion [1] and Taipology [2]:
|
| [0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ [1]
| http://noahpinion.substack.com/ [2]
| https://taipology.substack.com/
| shetyeshail wrote:
| Good blog I sometimes read about public transit/urbanism/etc.
|
| https://pedestrianobservations.com/
| quaintdev wrote:
| - https://www.zenpencils.com/
|
| - https://waitbutwhy.com/
| mooreds wrote:
| Checking my rss reader ...
|
| https://feld.com/ (VC, but wide ranging)
|
| https://mapbrief.com/ Snarky GIS content
|
| https://randsinrepose.com/ Management advice for a level I'll
| never get to :)
|
| http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/ Right of center economics
|
| https://ultrasaurus.com/ Tech
|
| https://www.eugenewei.com/ Big pic tech and society
| Jorengarenar wrote:
| I have some on my list of online resources [1] (use filter with
| _type 'blog'_)
|
| [1]: https://resources.joren.ga
| frakkingcylons wrote:
| 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
| izend wrote:
| Brandur's deep dives into tough topics are always great!
| l00sed wrote:
| Big fan of 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 Obviously I was influenced by
| NODE's hyphenated domain. It's been a fun SEO challenge haha
| scriptnull wrote:
| Time to pull up my RSS reader!
|
| https://drewdevault.com/
|
| http://jvns.ca/
|
| https://www.benkuhn.net/
|
| https://danluu.com/
|
| https://scattered-thoughts.net/
|
| http://antirez.com/
|
| https://www.kalzumeus.com/
|
| https://neilkakkar.com/
|
| https://zachholman.com/
|
| http://rachelbythebay.com/w/
|
| https://endler.dev/
|
| https://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/
|
| https://www.the-paper-trail.org/
|
| https://tonsky.me/
|
| https://dave.cheney.net/
|
| https://blog.wesleyac.com/
|
| https://blog.samaltman.com/
| alphabet9000 wrote:
| https://tommoody.us
|
| particularly nice category:
| https://www.tommoody.us/archives/category/computers-r-stupid...
| juramento wrote:
| 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-syst...
|
| Really recommend it ;)
| rackjack wrote:
| 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."
| e1g wrote:
| Considering the subject matter, could be Alone/The Last
| Psychiatrist @ https://thelastpsychiatrist.com
| jaybaxter wrote:
| Sounds like it might be The Last Psychiatrist?
| https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
| scythe wrote:
| No longer updated, but still full of valuable insights:
|
| http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
| schemescape wrote:
| If you're interested in the Commodore era:
| https://techtinkering.com/
| shime wrote:
| A couple of my favorites:
|
| - https://meltingasphalt.com/
|
| - https://simonsarris.substack.com/
|
| - https://ava.substack.com/
| s_T_e_v_o wrote:
| Might not technically be blogs, but definitely by individuals:
| https://mediamonarchy.com/ https://www.corbettreport.com/ And for
| the musicians: https://guitardashboard.com/
| pmohun wrote:
| 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://www.gwern.net/index
|
| - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
|
| - https://dcgross.com/
|
| - Paul Graham: paulgraham.com
|
| - https://nintil.com/
|
| - Laura Deming: https://www.ldeming.com/
|
| - Sam Altman: https://blog.samaltman.com/
|
| - Casey Handmer: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/
| davidkunz wrote:
| https://blog.fefe.de/ (in German, about software security,
| politics etc.)
|
| I like the design a lot.
| dividuum wrote:
| Can confirm. It's basically what
| https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ suggest and actually provides
| entertaining content/rants.
| davidkunz wrote:
| 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.
| harr_ison wrote:
| Anything from Craig Mod - https://craigmod.com
| sarimabbas wrote:
| For me:
|
| - https://twopagesdoublespaced.substack.com/ - short form non-
| fiction
|
| - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ - technical snippets
|
| - http://paulgraham.com/ - entrepreneurship
|
| - https://audacity.substack.com/ - a variety of talented writers
| 8note wrote:
| I really enjoyed https://prog21.dadgum.com/
| zem wrote:
| 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.
| randymonday wrote:
| https://blog.openstartuplist.com/ Open Startup List blog
| https://tinyprojects.dev/blog tiny projects blog
| http://hummusrezept.de/ food recipes blog https://nav.al/ Tech
| investments blog
| Tangokat wrote:
| 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/ - 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 wrote:
| I second collaborative fund blog, really great stories and
| reflections
| Torwald wrote:
| I still read some of the classics (surprised nobody mentioned
| them so far) and also a few newer ones:
|
| https://kottke.org/
|
| https://daringfireball.net
|
| https://seths.blog
|
| https://www.freedomain.com/blog/
|
| https://www.cringely.com
|
| https://www.zeldman.com
|
| https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com
|
| http://quirksmode.org/blog/
|
| http://hypercritical.co
| gengstrand wrote:
| If you are a manager / founder in a startup with a visionary
| interest in corporate culture, then you might find
| 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.
| boringg wrote:
| Anyone have any good cleantech blogs?
| johannesha wrote:
| My favourite ones (mainly tech or bio related):
|
| - https://www.gwern.net/index
|
| - https://guzey.com/
|
| - https://nintil.com/
|
| - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
|
| - https://waitbutwhy.com/
| luke2m wrote:
| Every one on this list is pretty good. -
| https://kevq.uk/blogroll/
| throwaway77112 wrote:
| [1] Tanya Khovanova, Soviet-American mathematician who became the
| second female gold medalist at the International Mathematical
| Olympiads.
|
| https://www.tanyakhovanova.com/
|
| [2] Filippo Valsorda (cryptography)
|
| https://filippo.io/
|
| [3] David Wong (cryptography)
|
| https://www.cryptologie.net/
|
| [4] OpenBSD everything
|
| https://www.undeadly.org/
|
| [5] blog with some funny articles
|
| https://idlewords.com/
|
| [6] Might need a proxy/VPN to access this site
|
| https://www.otherhand.org/
|
| [7] Not a blog but something nice
|
| https://thenicestplace.net/
|
| Edit:
|
| [8] weekly useful/curious datasets
|
| https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/
|
| [9] documenting startups getting swallowed by the big fish
|
| https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
| bear8642 wrote:
| 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/ is good read
| about various functional ideas and others
|
| 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 some intersting posts
| about various aspects of programming language tools
| fsflover wrote:
| I wish people wrote some description and not just ten links.
| lars wrote:
| Daniel Lemire's blog is brilliant: https://lemire.me/blog/
| holistio wrote:
| Wait But Why is what comes to mind without thinking.
| rmesters wrote:
| Link: https://waitbutwhy.com/
| ruairidhwm wrote:
| - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/
|
| - https://www.kalzumeus.com/
|
| - https://pomb.us/
|
| - https://jvns.ca/
|
| - https://monicalent.com/
|
| - https://www.taniarascia.com/
|
| - https://seanbarry.dev/
|
| Shameless plug, I quite like my own: https://ruairidh.dev
| throwboomboom wrote:
| 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.
| dcchambers wrote:
| Miscellaneous technical stuff:
|
| - https://danluu.com/
|
| - https://blog.jessfraz.com/
|
| - https://adamwathan.me/
|
| - https://jvns.ca/
|
| - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/
|
| - https://dankim.org/
|
| - https://mtlynch.io/
|
| - https://rgz.ee/
|
| - https://markdotto.com/
|
| - https://thorstenball.com/
|
| - https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/writing/
|
| - 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/
| jeffreyrogers wrote:
| 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/
|
| 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/
|
| 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/
| robmay wrote:
| 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/ - on economics but so much else
|
| https://avc.com/ - Fred has some of the best startup insights
|
| https://abovethecrowd.com/ - Gurley doesn't blog much but when he
| does it's great
| klaudius wrote:
| - https://greyenlightenment.com
|
| - https://www.joelonsoftware.com
|
| - https://meltingasphalt.com
|
| - https://lukesmith.xyz/blog
| gaws wrote:
| > 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...
|
| [2]: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/capitol-riot-bitcoin-
| do...
| beaconstudios wrote:
| 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 (it's very much a
| diamonds-in-the-rough type blog imo)
|
| - the farnam street 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/
|
| - 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/
| Tepix wrote:
| Please add a one line description of the blog's URL/name and
| hopefully another line why you like it so much.
| Kye wrote:
| 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.
| pvsukale3 wrote:
| 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/
| dlkf wrote:
| Some data science blogs I enjoy:
|
| - https://erikbern.com/
|
| - https://davefernig.com/
|
| - https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/
| smcameron wrote:
| Brian Hayes's bitplayer: 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.
| ajnin wrote:
| Sprites Mods, great hacker, an inspiration for me :
| https://spritesmods.com/
|
| Fabrice Bellard, creator of FFMPEG, QEMU, and lots of other
| amazing stuff : https://bellard.org/
| ark__n wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| torh wrote:
| Fabien 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 wrote:
| Fabien is one of my favorite writer ever. I love everything
| about his work!
| skywal_l wrote:
| I also like the minimalist style of his site.
| philsnow wrote:
| https://www.redblobgames.com/ Amit Patel's blog, there's lots of
| game dev articles there and many of them have interactive demos
| kilodeca wrote:
| Drew Devault's blog - https://drewdevault.com
| villasv wrote:
| Zeynep Tufecki's (https://zeynep.me/) newsletter is pretty good,
| and sometimes she publishes elsewhere like The Atlantic but links
| back to it, which I like too.
| phkahler wrote:
| Motor controllers, flying things, looks like now high framerate
| video capture:
|
| http://scolton.blogspot.com/
| marttt wrote:
| 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/ -- 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/ -- 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/ -- Carl Svensson. Great long-form essays on
| frugal computing and, uh, what has gone wrong after 1994 or so.
|
| 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/ -- Viznut. Demoscene, "low-end technical
| extremism", permacomputing. Updates are rare, but the older
| pieces are well worth a read.
| ijames55 wrote:
| Surprised I haven't seen https://www.swyx.io/ mentioned for
| articles in the JS world and general dev stuff
|
| https://kentcdodds.com/ Is also great for JS, React especially
| testing opinions
| swyx wrote:
| 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
| montenegrohugo wrote:
| https://waitbutwhy.com/ - so good
|
| https://dcgross.com/ - good design, smart guy
|
| http://www.paulgraham.com/ - classic
|
| https://mtlynch.io - love the openness
|
| https://www.gwern.net/ - love the design. very well organized
|
| https://coderscat.com/ - some fun projects
|
| https://shauninman.com/ - simple but good
|
| And shameless plug of my own: https://www.hugomontenegro.com/
| wepple wrote:
| > https://coderscat.com/ - some fun projects
|
| I wonder if they wished they'd hyphenated that domain
| tomcooks wrote:
| After having opened the link and checking the <title> tag I
| wonder the same
| zamalek wrote:
| 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/
|
| - https://www.hanselman.com/blog/
| swilliamsio wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Bret Devereaux's 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/
|
| [1] https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-battle-of-
| helms-...
|
| [2] https://acoup.blog/category/collections/teaching-paradox/
| littlestymaar wrote:
| I clicked on this thread wondering how high in the comment
| section would his blog appear.
|
| I'm not disappointed.
| alexpetralia wrote:
| 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!
| jvanderbot wrote:
| I mean, when discussing archers, he actually brought
| physics, empirical studies, historical anecdotes, analyzed
| artwork, and compared to modern video games and TV.
|
| The guy _thinks_ and that 's fun to watch.
| gerdesj wrote:
| Thank you for this heads up. I've just dived into a
| discussion/state of play/essay of medieval medicine by an
| expert in the field. I'm now in the middle of a personal
| paradigm shift, if that's not too ridiculous!
|
| This is part of a longer paragraph with some more context but
| it is indicative of the treasures to be found:
|
| "So, we have a doubly difficult time understanding what
| medieval medicine was, because the people who practiced didn't
| write about it, and the people who wrote about medicine thought
| practice was beneath them."
| D13Fd wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| The series on iron-working is also superb:
| https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-
| they-...
| kzrdude wrote:
| Thanks for linking the paradox post, very interesting!
|
| Unfortunately, this writer is seriously overusing parentheses
| and this disrupts the reading flow.
| JCharante wrote:
| 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
| throwkeep wrote:
| Lots of great blogs here. One I haven't seen mentioned yet is
| Robin Hanson's - https://www.overcomingbias.com
| yboris wrote:
| _Slate Star Codex_ https://slatestarcodex.com/
| danso wrote:
| Great thread, found lots of people to add to my feedly.
|
| Surprised to see no one has yet mentioned https://filfre.net --
| The Digital Antiquarian -- a frequently upvoted domain:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=filfre.net
| throwanem wrote:
| 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/
| agency wrote:
| 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!
| flakiness wrote:
| Dan Luu! https://danluu.com/
|
| He talks about systems performance and it's super deep and
| detailed. Highly respectable and inspiring.
| vuciv1 wrote:
| https://tinyprojects.dev/
|
| convinced me to begin marketing the little projects I make :)
| very fun, informative, and inspiring
| kingkongjaffa wrote:
| Whenever I go searching for how to take better notes I always end
| up on:
|
| https://notes.busterbenson.com/
|
| https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes
|
| And
|
| https://www.kalzumeus.com/
| MorganGallant wrote:
| Surprised no one mentioned https://apenwarr.ca/log/ yet - such a
| great read!
| geocrasher wrote:
| https://madned.substack.com/ What hooked me:
| https://madned.substack.com/p/a-teenagers-guide-to-avoiding-...
| which was on HN a week or two ago.
| corobo wrote:
| I really wish people had given a brief little snippet for each
| one rather than just dump their OPML files haha
| bluishgreen wrote:
| https://www.ribbonfarm.com/
| tofukid wrote:
| Seth Godin has written a short, thoughtful post every day for _13
| years_ : https://seths.blog
|
| Also worth reading is Seth's top 100: https://seths.blog/top-100/
| red2awn wrote:
| Awesome technical and programming related blogs:
|
| https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
|
| http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
| quux wrote:
| https://daringfireball.net
|
| https://kottke.org
| tootie wrote:
| 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.
| ravenstine wrote:
| 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/2018/05/are-all-psychiatri...
|
| https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/02/culture-of-bellige...
|
| https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/09/cheap-kayaks.html
|
| https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2009/11/understanding-chec...
|
| https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-i-hate-young-p...
| ajdude wrote:
| christine.website is a fun one
| jgwil2 wrote:
| Some good programming/mathematical logic content here:
| https://stopa.io/
|
| Russ Cox of Go: https://research.swtch.com/
| stopachka wrote:
| Brought a smile see the blog mentioned, thanks! :)
| baby wrote:
| If you're looking for cryptography, I maintain my favorite active
| blogs here: https://github.com/mimoo/crypto_blogs
|
| I was even interviewed about that list :P
|
| https://netzpolitik.org/2017/interview-how-to-pique-your-cur...
| rmesters wrote:
| - https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/ - for Fintech News
| - https://stratechery.com/ - for tech related discussions
| MaxwellM wrote:
| 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.
| psim1 wrote:
| daedtech.com - Erik Dietrich - software, consulting,
| entrepreneurship, slow travel while doing the aforementioned
| jonnycomputer wrote:
| Dead Voles - https://deadvoles.wordpress.com/
|
| Interfluidity - https://www.interfluidity.com/
|
| The Debate Link - http://dsadevil.blogspot.com/
|
| Econbrowser - http://econbrowser.com/
|
| Empassive - 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.
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