Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

2 years ago

https://xeiaso.net

Near 400 posts, writing about a lot of stuff. Here's some of my favorites over the years:

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue - Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/a-weapon-to-surpass-metal-gear - A weapon to surpass Metal Gear

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/%F0%9F%A5%BA - : the best sudo replacement

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/sleeping-the-technical-interview - Sleeping Through the Technical Interview

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/experimental-rilkef-2018-11-30 - I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now

https://xeiaso.net/feeds to subscribe. Been considering an email list.

  • Xe, thank you so much for your work. I love reading your blog, it’s calming and makes me laugh. I look up to you as someone who I would like to be in my professional life. Best wishes :)

  • Very thoughtful adblocker message. I disabled my uBO for your website :) thanks for the content!

    • Thanks! I recently just got a new lens for my camera after all of the income from last month came in. It's a very used 35mm lens for my D3300 and the autofocus is a bit broken, meaning that I'm forced to do the focus manually (which is something I want to get better at anyways).

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  • Loved the sleeping through the tech interview post you highlighted. Very amusing. Great writing style.

    • Thanks! I have been working on that style of writing some more. I have another story in that "universe" called Protos (https://xeiaso.net/blog/protos) that you may enjoy. I'm working on some more, but it's a very subtle kind of magick that you have to poke at from all angles simultaneously. It takes effort.

      I'm sure I'll come up with something eventually, I might do one about spatial computing. That seems like it could be a fun topic for this kind of satire.

  • Your blog gives me hope that personal quirky interesting places on the Internet are not dead

  • I love your blog! One of the best websites I encountered

    • Thanks! I try. Hacker News isn't my primary target audience, but I've come to peace with the fact that I'm well-loved there. I could really do without the harassment from the less tolerant side of the userbase, but I figure that this is the price of success.

  • I really like your website/blog! It's one of my fav blogs out there that I'd wholeheartedly recommend to anyone. I also like the fact that the ads are not intrusive at all

  • Nice seeing you on HN again. I really like your blog posts and I hope you'd post them here more often :)

    • I've found out that self-posting on hacker news gets you super deranked. If you really like the writing, please be the one that posts it here.

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  • I link your blog around to my colleagues quite a bit, thanks for the interesting and informative articles!

  • Could you disclose how much you make through ethical ads?

    • It's just enough to be a headache tax-wise, but not enough to be a viable replacement for my dayjob. Something like $50-$200 USD per month. Slow months are less, months where I post bangers are more. Combined with Patreon (consistently $200 per month), it's enough to make all of my hosting costs covered. It's seriously incredible that I can have that much support for not a lot of work. I am also looking at further cost-optimizing things so that I can move my website to something like Fly. My server that my website is hosted on is like 55€ per month and the main reason it needs something that chonky is because Tokio performs better when there's more runner threads.

      Otherwise I've also been considering pooling money for a bit and buying a proper server to drop into a datacentre near where I live. That could be fun!

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https://paulstamatiou.com

Been writing on it for almost 18 years - a mix of tech, design, photography. Custom designed myself, but built with Jekyll.

Some recent posts:

- https://paulstamatiou.com/stuff-i-use/ (a set of "gear" pages i've been trying to keep up to date)

- https://paulstamatiou.com/digital-clutter/ (Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes)

- https://paulstamatiou.com/revisiting-the-apple-ipod/ (Revisiting the iPod: Buying and using a 20 year old iPod)

- https://paulstamatiou.com/craft/ (Craft: Thoughts on elevating product quality)

- https://paulstamatiou.com/building-a-windows-10-lightroom-ph... (Building a Lightroom PC: Why I switched to Windows and built a water-cooled 5.2GHz editing machine)

https://susam.net/

I have been writing here since 2001. I write infrequently, so there are only about 50 posts so far. Some of my favourite posts:

- https://susam.net/blog/lisp-in-vim.html

- https://susam.net/blog/fd-100.html

- https://susam.net/blog/peculiar-self-references.html

- https://susam.net/blog/langford-pairing.html

- https://susam.net/blog/self-printing-machine-code.html

The blog and the website is statically generated using a Common Lisp program. Only the comment form is dynamic and served using a tiny web application, also written in Common Lisp. See https://github.com/susam/susam.net for the source code.

https://fasterthanli.me/

Infamous for discussions of Go.. (vs Rust..) but mostly it's me getting excited about learning & teaching computery stuff like:

ICMP in Making our own ping: https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-ping ELF in Making our own executable packer: https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-executable-pac... HTTP 1&2: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-http-crash-course-nobod...

Anyway yeah! Some folks hate it some folks love it, we need stuff for everyone.

https://jmmv.dev/

You probably have seen this in the front page sometime last week due to the "Fast machines, slow machines" post :)

I started this blog during exams session back in university and I'll reach the 20-year mark next year. Wow. I write about my own projects, but also tech in general based on my current interests, which at the moment are around Rust, Bazel (again), and Unix systems in general.

It's interesting how the blog has changed: I used to write short posts almost daily describing whatever I had been tinkering with in open source projects (back when I contributed to NetBSD and Gnome regularly)... or whatever crossed my mind really. These days, most of those misc posts go into social media, and the blog is reserved for purposeful articles, which end up being much longer (and thus infrequent).

Commenting on the blog used to be much more common years ago, but these days discussion happen off-site in either social media or here. Similarly, people used to visit the blog periodically, but these days nobody does: traffic to the blog is either from organic searches or from spikes due to referrals from sites like HN.

As for how I build it: the posts are written in Markdown; I use Hugo to generate the site; Bootstrap for styling; and my custom web service (EndTRACKER) to offer email subscriptions, post voting and commenting, as well as privacy-respecting analytics.

  • Hey, I read your blog after you commented in another topic that was created with a link to my blog.

    I didn't have the right context then to mention it, but now I do: I really enjoyed your topics on Bazel and especially the "A persistent task queue in Rust" post which I learned from.

    I went back far enough that day to the point that some of your posts looked like they were taken from twitter threads, and I wondered how that worked.

    If you're ever looking to work in GameDev (in Europe), hit me up.

    • Thanks!

      The Bazel posts stopped for a while after I left Google, but I'm now back at a different place where I'm working with Bazel once again. So you can expect the posts on this topic to gradually come back :) (For some context, here is one: https://medium.com/snowflake/addressing-bazel-ooms-38023b736...)

      Let's see if my plans to return to Europe in the next few years play out...

      Edit: Oh, and the few posts that look like Twitter threads (they are tagged like that) are hand-crafted and were an experiment. I first wrote the threads as blog posts, ensuring each paragraph fit in a tweet, and then copy/pasted them into Twitter. I wrote them as a blog post because I wanted to have the "unrolled" version in the canonical source for future reference, without relying on those unroll apps.

https://muffinman.io/

I've been writing for a while now. Mostly front-end development, random experiments and creative coding.

My most popular post that was on the first page of HN earlier this year: https://muffinman.io/blog/draw-svg-rope-using-javascript/

I'm pretty proud of my generative, pen plotted drawings: https://muffinman.io/art/

And one of my favorites: https://muffinman.io/blog/breaking-down-krypton/

Edit: Typo.

  • I was going to just reply with a link to Frank Zappa's Muffin Man, but then I thought I'd better just check to see if there was any direct influence, however vanishingly unlikely that seemed.

    And lo! The footnote on the about page even has a link to the song.

    My most played Zappa song, sitting just above Eat That Question, Peaches En Regalia, and Montana (apologies for how mainstream that selection is).

    Going to see an unbelievably talented Zappa cover band in a couple of weeks, here's a sample of their wares:

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kv_U83DPZUw&feature=share7

    • Ha, I'm a big Zappa fan!

      Fun story, while we were in high school, my friend's computer broke down. All of his music was on it, so I borrowed him a bunch of CDs. He really liked Zappa's "Strictly Commercial" compilation and he became obsessed. Fast forward a couple of years and he is the one sending me Zappa's bootlegs and weird recordings which I would probably never heard otherwise. He even created a compilation for me, which he named "Almost Commercial" and I cherish it dearly :)

      And thanks for the video, they sound really good!

  • That rope article is great. I think my favorite part is the hand-drawn sketches from your notebook.

    • Thank you!

      I'm proud of my scribbles and the whole process, but I didn't expect the post would explode on HN. It really made my day.

I've spent the last 2+ years rewriting it from WordPress into an entire desktop environment. But I still do blog whenever I get the courage to.

https://dustinbrett.com/

Ah this is fun to see everyone's favorite posts of their own!

Mine is eatonphil.com. Some of my favorite posts:

- https://notes.eatonphil.com/zigrocks-sql.html: Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB

- https://notes.eatonphil.com/documentdb.html: Writing a document database from scratch in Go: Lucene-like filters and indexes

- https://notes.eatonphil.com/2023-05-25-raft.html: Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go

- https://notes.eatonphil.com/lua-in-rust.html: Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust

- https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten...: Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021

- https://notes.eatonphil.com/emulating-amd64-starting-with-el...: Emulating linux/AMD64 userland: interpreting an ELF binary

  • When I think of hobby projects to have over my summer vacation, I'll make sure to get back to this list! All of these really trigger my curiosity.

Mine is https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/

I’ve been working as a software engineer for about a decade now, primarily at startups. Recently the first employee at incident.io, before then working at GoCardless.

Tend to write about lessons I’ve learned that others find useful, or stories I think will be enjoyable. Helps me collect my thoughts and practice my writing!

Examples would be;

- Want to found a start-up? Work at one first (https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/learn-at-scale-up/)

- Adding latency: one step, two step, oops (https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/latency/)

- My most impactful code (https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/most-impactful/)

- On working too hard: finding balance, and lessons learned from others (https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/working-too-hard/)

Occasionally get a popular share on HN or people mentioning they read my blog in real life, which makes it feel worth it.

I feel a tad awkward because 1) I only started this last week 2) I'm not super tech-y or owt like everyone else here, I'm just a bloke who knows his limits. It's very lightweight & basic and inspired by the likes of bearblog and other small blogs.

https://callmeo.live

It's for expressing general thoughts really, and it serves as a fun trial by fire as every little change inevitably runs into problems, but it's a nice learning experience. Hopefully my writing isn't terrible!

  • Nice and simple. What do you do to generate your changelog btw?

    • This'll probably sound silly but like everything else on the site I do it manually. I take notes of major changes I make to the site and write them down on that page.

      I couldn't wrap my head around Jekyll* or any other service you can self host, so I figured that I could still put my stuff out there by making each page like it's 1999.

      I realise that it's not the best option for the future, the other day I decided to change how the title tags looked, thus I went ahead manually changing it on every page. Without some script to fix that for me, it'll become a larger task with every post I make.

      * I've only recently installed Linux on my ThinkPad – a process I'm procrastinating writing about – and my head's been a tad too scrambled at the moment to focus on it.

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https://ploum.net/ (French and English content)

Started in 2004 on Dotclear, migrated to Wordpress around 2008/2009 then, last year, exported everything to make a static website/gemini capsule of it (with a custom python script)

This blog has changed my life. It landed me jobs, it made me become a writer without having to ask (all the book I’ve published so fare were on request of publishers because of my blog). I’m really happy to have all this history and I hope to keep it until my very last post. It is now part of my identity.

  • I read your capsule. I think you hit it out of the park when discussing how Google impacted XMPP and the possible implications for the fediverse. Nicely done.

  • I love your blog, and if i am not mistaken your capsule.

    • Thanks, it really count for me to know that people care about what I write.

      Indeed, I’ve merged my blog and my capsule now. Those are the same content (because I realized that, sometimes, stuff I wrote on Gemini ended being shared on the web through gemini proxies)

https://matt-rickard.com/subscribe

https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/blog.html

It's pretty new, first post was made in September of 2022. I've been going at the speed of ~1 post per month since then so I got 8 posts.

I mostly talk about stuff I've been learning about. For instance:

1. Lagrangian mechanics I [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/lanlifshitz_1/notes.html] and II [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/lanlifshitz_2/notes.html]

2. Group theory (solubility and symmetric groups in particular) [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/insolubility/p.html]

Besides this, I occasionally write about some of my own explorations as well; stuff that doesn't fit as neatly into a university course format:

1. Going over a random lemma from Newton's Principia [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/lemma14/lemma14.html]

2. Encoding ternary logic into the lambda calculus (I previously posted on HN) [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/ternary/ternary.html]

3. Some epistemological ideas (tbh this is not very good and I intend to write a better post about this stuff soon) [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/pragsol/p.html]

I hope you guys enjoy and give me some feedback if you got some.

  • Hey! You have some interesting content. If you had a rss/atom feed I'd happily subscribe to it.

    A comment on your site: I have to zoom to 300% on firefox to get what seems like a 'natural' view. Without this it feels like I'm viewing a pdf. This is not serious criticism, but something that bothered me a bit. Others may feel differently.

    • I've been wanting to add RSS to it for a while tbh but I've been consistently distracted by other things. Since classes are over I might get around to it eventually.

      As for the pdf look, you're right. The problem I encountered way back when I was actually building the site was that I didn't know what to put on the extra margins. I could've put footnotes and figures, but that's pretty hard to do if you're generating the site from markdown without a custom markdown engine. I'll see what I can do about it tho, and if you have any suggestions for how I could improve this I'm all ears.

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https://josh.works/blog

Oh, boy, it's a random collection of things.

Here's a smattering of posts about:

- climbing: https://josh.works/climbing/2016/05/29/on-boldness-in-climbi...

- went to the top of HN, changing your mac address: https://josh.works/shell-script-basics-change-mac-address

- how to write a letter of recommendation for yourself: https://josh.works/how-to-write-a-letter-of-recommendation-f...

i've found SO MANY wonderful personal blogs here on HN. I even built a little web scraping thing a long time ago to scrape these links from the top-level comments: https://random-hn-blog.herokuapp.com/

Heroku shut it down, but I'm gonna see if i can bring it back online in like 30 seconds...

  • The climbing one that you linked says something about “the video below” but I don’t actually see a video. Might just be because I’m on my phone but I was curious if that video still exists.

    • ooooh, sorry, no, it's gone.

      I had a whole thing happening around becoming a bold lead climber by becoming an amazing lead belayer.

      It was great! I've helped many, many people become very safe, very confident sport climbers. Watching them 'climb through the grades' is enjoyable for all parties.

https://sophiabits.com/blog

I started a few years ago but only found a good rhythm in the past ~year. I am 75% of the way to my (arbitrary) goal of hitting 100k written words.

Lots of posts on architecture, AWS, and performance with a little bit of engineering leadership mixed in.

Some recent posts:

* https://sophiabits.com/blog/understanding-secrets-manager (did you know Secrets Manager “staging labels” can be used to colocate related secrets?)

* https://sophiabits.com/blog/using-terraform-plan-to-write-ia... (write Terraform for your infra without learning Terraform)

* https://sophiabits.com/blog/object-ids-for-humans (ID formats have surprising performance and DX impacts!)

* https://sophiabits.com/blog/evaluating-a-new-technology (my checklist for when a team member proposes adding something new to our tech stack)

RSS: http://sophiabits.com/feed.rss.xml

https://www.swyx.io/

I merge things across essays, notes, talks, podcasts, tutorials, and snippets and have 542 items.

- https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/ My most impactful essay, read by millions.

- https://www.swyx.io/create-luck/ Luck Surface Area, The 4 Kinds of Luck & beyond

- https://www.swyx.io/measuring-devrel Split it into Community, Content & Product

- https://www.swyx.io/js-third-age/ The future of JS tools & infra from 2020-2030

- https://www.swyx.io/api-economy/ The API Economy: Why it's good, but also has a dark side

- https://www.swyx.io/cloudflare-go/ On AWS vs Cloudflare

- https://www.swyx.io/self-provisioning-runtime The final frontier of language and infra

- https://www.swyx.io/why-temporal/ The iPhone of System Design

- https://www.swyx.io/part-time-creator-manifesto Have a job, but don't BE your job

- https://www.swyx.io/meta-creator-ceiling Don't play games you don't want to win

  • I'm a huge fan of your blog. _Part Time Creator Manifesto_ inspired me to start on side projects again and _Svelte for Sites, React for Apps_ was the first intro I had to Svelte.

    Thanks for your great writing!

https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr

Random musings of a professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside. A few highlights:

- https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2017-12-10-csu.html - My investigation into a fictitious California university and its link to predatory academic journals.

- https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2019-08-19-gene-roddenberry-ucr... - Looking into filming locations for Gene Roddenberry's TV show pilot "Genesis II" that was filmed at UC Riverside in 1972.

- https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2019-08-06-stereo-records.html - How stereo phonograph records work.

Mine is about me and how I overcome loneliness that has been a part of my life for third of my life where I speak about my tips, advice and science on this subject. On the way I share my stories. Here it is - https://transcendloneliness.substack.com/

  • Thank you for sharing this. I have nothing but admiration for your resolve to turn your previous experience into a superpower.

https://crisis40.com/english/

I started recently after a little cancer scare shook me up. It is about trying new things, re-starting my life a bit, I think. I plan to write for fun about things that I find interesting and that give me joy, like walking multiple paths of Camino de Santiago or my attempts to return to competitive cycling at 47.

It also exists in Spanish and Czech (I have international friends as a result of living in multiple countries): - https://crisis40.com/ - https://crisis40.com/cesky/

No ads or pop-ups or anything, very simple design, powered by Hugo.

https://sam.hooke.me

Mostly tech stuff, and some games. Recent topics have been:

Python, Django, C, CMake, SDL2.

These days I generally use it as a place to write up notes on whatever I happened to be working on recently. This is sometimes useful for me to refer back to, and hopefully useful for others too.

On one occasion I searched on Google to try and help solve a programming problem, only to find a post from myself published 8 months earlier, in which I had solved that exact same problem:

https://sam.hooke.me/post/2018/10/that-weird-feeling/

Before becoming a full time software engineer I used to develop video games for fun, initially in Game Maker but then later in Unity and other languages. Over time I'm aiming to (re)publish them on my website, rather than just leaving them to rot on my hard drive. None were particularly big hits back in the day, though the most successful was probably Dominos 2: Winter Edition, a physics based platformer with level editor. You can play it here:

https://sam.hooke.me/game/dominos-2-winter-edition/

  • Fairly certain I played Dominos 2 back when it was in the yoyogames competition. Nice to see a little blast from the past! Makes me want to go dig my Game Maker games out of the pile of hard drives in my parents' basement.

https://alexwlchan.net/writing/

I passed 400 posts a month or so ago; been writing for about a decade. It's a mix of programming, arty stuff, digital preservation, personal thoughts – the first link describes the sort of writing I do, and examples of each.

Some favourites:

* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/screenshots/ – You should take more screenshots, a perennial darling of HN

* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/marquee-rocket/ – Launching a rocket in the worst possible way, aka abusing the <marquee> tag

* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/bure-valley/ – A day out at the Bure Valley Railway, trains!

* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/snapped-elastic/ – Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2, the sort of deep-dive debugging I don’t do often enough

(And a fairly basic post about prime factorisation with Python has been on the HN front page several times, for reasons I do not understand at all)

https://www.chestergrant.com

-It's like my open notebook. I use it to keep summary of books I have read.

Most Viewed:

1. Summary of No by Jim Camp - https://www.chestergrant.com/summary-no-the-only-negotiating...

2. Summary of Never eat alone by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz - https://www.chestergrant.com/never-eat-alone-by-keith-ferraz...

3. Summary of Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande - https://www.chestergrant.com/highlights-from-the-checklist-m...

4. Summary of Fate of Empires by Sir John Glubb - https://www.chestergrant.com/summary-fate-of-empires-by-sir-...

5. Summary of Don't make me think by Steve Krug - https://www.chestergrant.com/summary-dont-make-me-think-revi...

https://divan.dev

Top posts:

- Rethinking Visual Programming with Go - https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go

- Visualizing Concurrency in Go - https://divan.dev/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/

- TXQR - Animated QR data transfer https://divan.dev/posts/animatedqr/

- Fountain codes and animated QR - https://divan.dev/posts/fountaincodes/

- Thought Experiment: Flutter in Go - https://divan.dev/posts/flutter_go/

Haven't been posting lately – COVID+War, plus my main focus now on radical reforming sports system in Ukraine and building a new figure skating federation (a lot of cool coding stuff there too, but also a lot of research on sports governance/science).

https://ounapuu.ee/

An incomplete list of things that I do as a hobby.

There have been a few posts that have sparked discussions on HN, and quite a few of them relate to the ThinkPad T430. I often jokingly say that this laptop has been a good investment in more ways than one.

Top 3 as judged by HN:

- Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012: https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/01/09/why-i-went-back-to-using...

- Shrinkflation, SanDisk Style: https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/02/15/shrinkflation/

- Surviving the front page of Hacker News on a 50 Mbps uplink: https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/02/09/hn-stats-analytics/

https://imrannazar.com/

Perhaps a hundred posts, with the last significant block being ten years ago. I should really get back to it sometime... Posts that tend to have some lasting power:

- https://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript - A ten-part series (intended to be longer) on the implementation of emulators with the example of a GameBoy;

- https://imrannazar.com/Let's-Build-a-JPEG-Decoder - A four-part series (intended to be longer) about the concepts behind JPEG and building a decoder;

- http://imrannazar.com/Extended-Text-Mode-on-the-C64 - Going back fifteen years, an exploration of how to build an 80x25 text mode on the Commodore 64.

  • I learned so so much, as I'm sure many others here have too, from your GameBoy emulator series. Thank you!!!

  • Your Game Boy series has been a very nice reference for me as I've slowly cobbled together my own emulator, so thanks for that!

http://akkartik.name

Since 2012 I have a one-track mind. I want a world with:

* hundreds of software products for any need (mostly check)

* that can all be easily modified by hundreds of thousands of people,

* creating tens of thousands of forks,

* publishing thousands of forks

* used by millions of people.

Wake up sheeple! Add more resilience to your software tools! I joined Mastodon in 2018, the Tildeverse in 2020, Lemmy in 2022, Calckey in 2023. Monopolies won't break themselves, each of us has to be willing to think different, try out new things.

  • FWIW I like the direction of using Lua, and the text editor with graphics looks cool

    I wasn't super excited about Mu because it wouldn't let me reuse my existing knowledge -- it would be a separate thing to learn, even if in theory it was easier to learn than mainstream stacks

https://ilearnt.com/ Over 200 posts on random things I have learnt or found interesting. Some are techie, some are work related, some are about life. Recent posts have included:

https://ilearnt.com/posts/publicprivatekeysintro/ - an introduction to public/private keys for non techies

https://ilearnt.com/posts/serviceandhospitality/ - service v hospitality

https://ilearnt.com/posts/bewareofthenormal/ - beware of the normal

I really love this thread. So many great websites, it almost reminds one of the good old days, where you could wander from one blog to another.

I have ended up with two blogs and by no means update them often enough. My personal blog started out as being tech-focused with a bit of photography and motorcycle content, but is probably leaning more and more in way of photography and motorcycles.

https://jesperreiche.com/

Hence I started a more simple static site generated from Github to handle the more tech-oriented topics. But as fate would have it, I have worked very little with any even mildly interesting tech-related subjects since then so the blog is a bit stale, even though I really like the design.

https://jmreiche.github.io/

https://padiracinnovation.org/News/

A blog about research in neurodegenerative diseases such as Lou Gehrig disease, Parkinson's and Alzheimer diseases.

I am not a medical doctor, just a retired engineer with a strong interest in my domain.

Everyday I look at published scientific articles in those areas and I select a few ones that I summarize.

It's also a platform for me to experiment about Web technologies.

  • I love second-life retirement activities like this! Such a benefit to the world. And I think your former domain expertise can give you unique insight into other disciplines.

https://seirdy.one/

I'm trying to adopt as much IndieWeb as I can while still remaining a static JS-free site (except for the crappy search results page). Comments are Webmentions.

I test compatibility with a lot more than just mainstream browsers: the Tor Browser's safest mode, various article extractors, NetSurf, Ladybird, w3m, and a dozen other user-agents work well. Accessibility-wise, I'm close to WCAG 2.2 AAA compliance, and have already passed AA; I consider WCAG a starting rather than a stopping point. More on its design is in the "Meta" section.

It has long-form blog articles and short-form notes (microblogs).

My best posts are on the homepage, followed by a bunch of webrings.

  • I love your blog. It's clear that you care as much about thinking and writing clearly as you do about your tech stack and readers' experience. I hop you continue to publish your ideas on the web. I always learn a lot from your posts.

Incredible how many personal blogs are out there. I love using RSS, but how would I go about finding these sources based on things I like?

Feels like there should be a Spotify for reading, with “playlists” of articles cherry picked from blogs, and simple Discover Weekly recommendations.

Anyway, I’ll leave mine as well (mostly reverse engineering macOS related):

https://alinpanaitiu.com/

https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/

…and I’ll probably use the quality data on this thread to build that service I feel should already exist.

https://www.joehxblog.com/

It's a Jekyll blog using Github pages.

The domain is through Google, so I need to figure out what I'm going to do with that soon.

  • Your post was dead, as are all your comments and submissions it seems. Since I didn't find any reason for that from a cursory look, I've vouched here. Maybe ask dang why and how to avoid that?

    • The only reliable way to do that is to email hn@ycombinator.com. Fortunately someone did, and I've fixed the problem.

      The account was banned by a naughty spam filter, completely incorrectly. I've terminated that spam filter and restored the account and all its posts. Sorry joehx2 - you did nothing wrong!

https://tomverbeure.github.io

I'm closing in on the 100 blog posts mark. Almost all are about pretty esoteric electronics topics (by HN standards) that I've been learning about myself.

I rarely get a lot of traction, but that's to be expected given the topics.

I do get a bit of a kick out of the fact that many of my blog posts will end up in the top 5 Google results when you search for one or two words of the subject. There's just not a lot of people who write about the HP 11720A pulse generator...

https://robkohr.com

I was mostly writing this blog in private in a md file in Obsidian, and then created a script to make it generate all the html for that site. (article for that here: https://robkohr.com/articles/created-a-new-blog-render)

Topics include - 3d printing: https://robkohr.com/articles/making-a-laptop-holder

- Time management for someone who is a little adhd: https://robkohr.com/articles/you-have-to-check-yourself

- Working out: https://robkohr.com/articles/doubled-strength-about-1-year-s...

- Making bread: https://robkohr.com/articles/attempt-2-at-making-sourdough-s...

And other nerdiness from someone who randomly gets interested in lots of things.

https://ntietz.com

All roughly related to software engineering, weekly cadence. Sometimes philosophical, sometimes technical, sometimes just random observations. Mostly it's about whatever is on my mind re: software at the moment or what I'm playing around with at the time.

I don't read the comments on discussion forums usually, but emails I will always read and respond to emails and I'm always grateful for the feedback.

https://vadimkravcenko.com

Mostly I help developers grow — I share my thoughts as a CTO about building digital products, growing teams, scaling development and in general being a good technical founder.

Some of the popular posts are:

- https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/things-they-didnt-teach-yo... - Things they didn't teach you at the university

- https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/project-estimates/ - Rules of thumb for Project Estimations

- https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/contracts-you-should-never... - Contracts you should never sign.

Most of the blog posts have ended up on the Frontpage here, here's the list: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Cheers, Vadim

https://yannesposito.com (or its clone https://her.esy.fun)

I blog about functional programming (haskell, clojure), but also emacs org-mode, thing like these. I sometimes tell myself I should invest more time to write down more about my thoughts there.

I am happy to be part of the 512kb club.

Here are a few posts that were somehow popular:

- https://her.esy.fun/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/

- https://her.esy.fun/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way/ (updated by https://her.esy.fun/posts/0010-Haskell-Now/index.html )

- https://her.esy.fun/Scratch/en/blog/Yesod-tutorial-for-newbi...

https://dreadnaut.altervista.org - I can't believe I've been writing on it for 20 years now. I duplicated all content in English and Italian for a few years, then stuck to Italian when I moved to the UK — need to keep the balance.

- Some vim stuff: https://dreadnaut.altervista.org/categorie/vim

- Some web stuff: https://dreadnaut.altervista.org/categorie/web

I'm also fond of the handful of short stories I managed to produce

- https://dreadnaut.altervista.org/categorie/sogni

- https://dreadnaut.altervista.org/categorie/storie

And the books section has neat CSS-only shelves:

- https://dreadnaut.altervista.org/libri

https://solomon.io/

I'm a product designer/UI engineer who's been publishing since 2009. I've probably got 200-something posts.

Some recent favorites:

* https://solomon.io/improving-accessibility-with-design-token...

* https://solomon.io/childrens-story-written-illustrated-ai/

* https://solomon.io/code-school-10-years-later/

I've also been publishing my Year in Review for almost a decade: https://solomon.io/tag/year-in-review/

I spent several years interviewing designers, writers and people in the tech space. You can see those interviews here: https://solomon.io/interviews/

https://raesene.github.io/ - these days, I generally blog about security/containers/k8s stuff that's interesting to me, and not suitable for a corporate blog, although it goes back to other stuff, as I've been posting at varying levels of regularity for almost 20 years now.

https://djedr.github.io/writing.html and https://xtao.org/blog.html

Mostly technical writing about programming [languages] and my projects.

Most popular posts:

* Introducing Jevko: a minimal general-purpose syntax / https://djedr.github.io/posts/jevko-2022-02-22.html / hit on the front page of HN / about a little project I've been working on for years

* Why NOT to add the pipeline operator to JavaScript / https://djedr.github.io/posts/random-2018-01-25.html / I guess this was controversial

And for looser writing/drafts: https://github.com/jevko/writing

Enjoy!

https://stoic-cto.com

I write about my learnings as a YC-backed technical founder and personal stories on overcoming poverty, building resilience, and life philosophy.

Here are some of the top posts:

- https://stoic-cto.com/p/11-getting-more-candidates-to-hire

- https://stoic-cto.com/p/9-choosing-tech-stacks-for-early

- https://stoic-cto.com/p/7-developing-resilience

- https://stoic-cto.com/p/2-ai-anxiety

I'm happy to trade recommendations if we share the same audience (engineer/founders/managers) and we both use Substack.

https://xenodium.com https://xenodium.com/rss.xml will hit 10 years in November. It started as a single org file for personal notes (programming, cooking, Emacs, bookmarks, iOS dev, travel). One day, I decided to export it to HTML and make it accessible to me from anywhere. Sorta just became both notes and blog over time…

While the tone of the posts may have evolved a bit, the blog still serves as personal notes/reference of sorts. The tech behind it hasn’t changed a whole lot. It remains a single org file (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xenodium/xenodium.github.i...) with my own ugly elisp hacks, but hey does the job ;-)

https://jes.al/

I've been writing since 2007. You might have seen me on the front page once or twice.

My most popular post which was on the front page of HN earlier this year was about hiring: https://jes.al/2023/03/how-to-hire-engineering-talent-withou...

I usually write about whatever I'm practicing and learning at the moment. My topics have included coding tips in various tech stacks, career growth, ai, web3, hiring, interviewing, knowledge management, leadership and everything in between.

I also have a newsletter if you'd like to receive my latest posts in your inbox: https://incrementalist.substack.com/

https://www.gkbrk.com

I write about a variety of topics including reverse engineering, amateur radio, digital signal processing, cryptography, machine learning, IT security etc.

Just a static site built with Jekyll, along with some custom Jekyll plugins.

https://nobt.co.uk

It's only a few months old, but I kicked off the blog by sharing the story of my last three years: going through divorce, burnout and depression as a cofounder, in the midst of the pandemic.

The first part of the story is here: https://www.nobt.co.uk/p/three-years-part-one

I'm using this story as a springboard to understand burnout, explore recovery, and circle the bigger topics of meaning and fulfilment in work.

I have a bigger archive of writings on meditation, well-being and ultrarunning on my personal site: https://danbartlett.co.uk

https://craigmod.com

Wow, just realized it passed its 21st anniversary last month. A few iterations throughout the years, but the current form is basically 13-ish years old, regularly updated.

  • If this is what you actually do for a living, and have done for any substantial amount of time, I have to congratulate you for reminding me what envy feels like.

    And if your real job is something more mainstream and this is just a side project, then I have to congratulate you for making it look like you have had all the time in the world to put into it.

    But above all that I'm just happy that something like this exists, it feels like what the web should have grown into more broadly, back when it looked like everyone was going to make their mark on the world by meticuloudly curating something interesting about themselves to share with the rest of us.

  • Really enjoy reading Ridgeline, keep it up! Very relaxing. Inspired me to go walking in Japan and it was just as great as described in the articles

I just started 2 months back. Here it is: https://codeconfessions.substack.com/

Here are some of my posts which have been well received:

- https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/creating-chatgpt-plug... : It takes you through a tutorial showing how to use the function call feature to build your own ChatGPT with plugins

- https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/exploring-deepminds-a... - This explains the results of the AlphaDev paper from DeepMind

- https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/mojo-the-future-of-ai... - This gives an introduction to the Mojo programming language

- https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/will-ai-replace-progr... - This one is my personal take on whether programming jobs are in danger becaue of AI or not.

https://www.devever.net/~hl/

Some favourites:

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/ruthlessness - Computers are an inherently oppressive technology

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/mildlydynamic - The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/ortega - Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/sip-victory - Netheads vs. bellheads redux: the strange victory of SIP over the telephone network

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/power9tags - The Talos II, Blackbird POWER9 systems support tagged memory

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/backstage-cast - Modern CPUs have a backstage cast

https://www.databasesandlife.com/

Software, Coding, Databases, etc.

I've been writing the blog for about 20 years now.

- Full article list: https://www.databasesandlife.com/newest/

- List of categories (Java, PostgreSQL, etc.): https://www.databasesandlife.com/categories/

Started life on uboot.com (does anyone remember that?) then migrated to WordPress, and now Hugo.

The only articles which really get any hits any more are those where I've specifically solved problems I was having, i.e. posts which are similar to Stack Overflow answers. I guess people search for the error messages and find my articles, so that's search working as intended I guess.

If I write anything else e.g. my thoughts on software development, it's still a useful exercise to focus the mind, and I can send the article to a few mates and they might read it, but that's it, no hits from Google etc.

Back in the days of Google Reader I used to have some readers via RSS, and I used to follow a number of interesting blogs from various individuals I'd found. Those were nice times, but I guess they're over.

I think of my comments here on HN as my blog. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=carapace )

I've been on here a daily for several years now (you can tell when I'm really working on something because there are gaps in my comment history. E.g. the last two weeks or so I've been mucking about with my land.) Every once in a while I do a narcissistic trawl through my own comments and I feel like they're a pretty good representation of what I'm like and what I'm about.

I have a small Gemini "capsule" (site) gemini://sforman.srht.site/ that gets translated to HTML/HTTP at: https://sforman.srht.site/ I call it a blog but I haven't added anything recently.

I've been using a mailing list as a place to record notes: https://lists.sr.ht/~sforman/heliotrope.pajamas

I'm in the beginning stages of creating a mutual-benefit non-profit corporation to supply ecologically-harmonious homes at extremely low cost. I'm talking about systems that provide food, shelter, clothing, much medicine, energy, etc. automatically with minimal labor and oversight. We have all the technology already, it's just a matter of putting the elements together. So come watch or participate in that? ;)

https://lambdaland.org/

I’ma programming languages researcher, so most of my posts are about that. I also write (too much) about Emacs. Education figures in my posts as well. I try to write one to two posts a month; that doesn’t always work out. I’ve got an RSS feed. The colophon explains how I make my blog: https://lambdaland.org/docs/about/#colophon

Favorite posts:

- https://lambdaland.org/posts/2023-01-17_what_is_a_type_syste...

- https://lambdaland.org/posts/2022-11-17_continutations/

- https://lambdaland.org/posts/2022-07-04_kanren/

- https://lambdaland.org/posts/2021-12-07_metropolis_essay/

https://gilmi.me

31 posts. I write mostly about Haskell, compilers, webdev, and my hobby projects.

- https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2016/10/14/lisp-to-js - Compiling a lisp to JavaScript from scratch in 350 LOC

- https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2022/04/24/learn-twain-bulletin-a... - Build a bulletin board using Twain, Haskell, and friends

- https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2021/04/06/giml-type-inference - Giml's type inference engine

- https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2022/12/13/learned-from-haskell - 7 things I learned from Haskell

- https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2023/07/01/why-i-use-twain - Why I use the Twain web framework

https://blog.erethon.com/

I try to blog about things that I feel I have a good understanding and get into details. Examples:

- https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2023/06/21/what-happens-when-a... I recently had my Matrix server die on me and this documents my journey on bringing it back from the dead.

- https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2022/07/13/what-a-malicious-ma... An exploration on the powers of a malicious admin in Matrix

- https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2019/11/06/infrastructure-as-c... Old blog post that needs updating on how I manage my physical servers and spawn VMs using Terraform and Ansible to have an IaC setup without the "cloud".

https://blog.robertsimoes.org/

Lot's of random stuff from tools, to troubleshooting, to how-tos to random essays mostly with a philosophical bent I guess

- Tool: Indexed Book Note Taking https://blog.robertsimoes.org/posts/tool-indexed-book-note-t...

- Notes: How Dropbox scaled 2007 to 2023 https://blog.robertsimoes.org/posts/notes-how-dropbox-scaled...

- Social Network Behaviour and Taxation Strategies https://blog.robertsimoes.org/posts/social-network-behaviour...

- Four wings of a Software engineer: https://blog.robertsimoes.org/posts/four-wings-of-software-e...

- Return on Intelligence: Transhumanism, Stagnation or Bureaucracy? https://blog.robertsimoes.org/perspectives/on-return-on-inte...

Thanks for posting this Ask HN question.

I journal ideas and thoughts about computers and software. I am interested in software architecture, parallelism, async, coroutines, database internals, programming language implementation, software design and the web.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas (2013)

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4 <-- this is recent but needs editing

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas5 <-- this is what I'm working on now

https://github.com/samsquire/startups

https://github.com/samsquire/blog <-- thoughts I want to write about, but incomplete

I use README.md on GitHub and create a heading at the bottom for each entry. I use Typora on Windows or the GitHub web interface to edit.

https://spaccapeli.com/

I've been trying to write more consistently (2x month) since the beginning of the year about startup and tech topics in general. I like to share experiences and perspective over organisational, hiring and product topics.

I always liked to do it and had a old Wordpress website, but now I decided to code it from scratch to make the blogging experience simpler. Allowing me to drag and drop Word files over the page to create articles. I also blogged about that!

Some of my favorite articles: David and Goliath (big company v. startup) - https://spaccapeli.com/david-and-goliath Finding the One (how to hire) - https://spaccapeli.com/finding-the-one I remastered Facebook Little Red Book (project about remaking in high-quality the best culture startup book out there) - https://spaccapeli.com/i-remastered-facebooks-little-red-boo...

https://agentlien.github.io

A selection of fun tidbits from my work, focused on graphics programming and performance. It's largely written in a slightly less technical detail so I can share it with friends and family.

There's still two things I want to write from Wavetale (rendering and optimisation of the water), but those are more ambitious and technical, so I haven't gotten around to it, yet.

More thought out blog posts:

billprin.com/articles

Weekly updates, rants:

billprin.com/notes

Been off and on with blogging but next half of 2023 really committing to at least posting more monthly retrospectives and hopefully more articles .

In the past I've written more technical articles but going forward I'll be writing more articles about boostrapping , indie hacking, and software entrepeneurship which I am full time focused on

My most popular Hacker News posts were

Simplest App That Makes Money : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29797310 (168 points, 305 comments) - arguing that there are some valid use cases that ethereum enables

Both of those articles were somewhat controversial and I am no longer working on the first app in question nor anything in crypto. The controversy of both posts was a small factor in me deciding to focus on other things. But I guess controversy gets views since they are by far my most popular posts. But going forward hoping to get the views without the controversy by just posting useful stuff (although even then, I thought my Django vs NextJS post was as tame as it gets and I got a shocking amount of hate mail for that one).

https://manypossibilities.net

I write about affordable access to internet with a focus on Africa. Some recent-ish posts I am proud of:

* A Game of Stones - https://manypossibilities.net/2023/01/a-game-of-stones/ - rethinking telecom regulation

* A Penny Black Broadband Strategy - https://manypossibilities.net/2021/03/a-penny-black-broadban... - democratising access to backhaul

* The 5G Fugazi - https://manypossibilities.net/2020/05/the-5g-fugazi/ - dismantling 5G hype

* Annual review of African telecom infrastructure development - https://manypossibilities.net/series/africa-telecom-infrastr...

For the past 2.5 years, I've published summaries of each month as it ends, so on 2023-06-30, I published a summary of June 2023. Each post has the following:

- Narrative Introduction; - Podcasts reviews (each review is 25 words or fewer); - Nerdy Software (25 words or fewer on a piece of software I like); - Bougie Products (25 words or fewer on a product I like); - Personal Finance and Investing (advice in 25 words or fewer); - Reading (each review is 25 words or fewer); - A List.

The name of my blog comes from a quote that inspires me: "In music, as in everything, the disappearing moment of experience is the firmest reality." (Benjamin Boretz)

It's hosted on Buttondown: https://newsletter.disappearingmoment.com/archive

Posts that don't fit my monthly format are hosted on Sourcehut (via Hugo):

https://disappearingmoment.com/

My favorite post is about getting to know a song that a friend recommended:

https://disappearingmoment.com/exposure-loss-jacqueline/

https://blog.cetinich.net

Most popular posts is one an AWS X-ENI and the EMC VNX hacking and the Z16 Thinkpad review

- https://blog.cetinich.net/content/archive/2017-aws-xeni/ - https://blog.cetinich.net/content/2022/2022-lenovo-z13-z16-g... - https://blog.cetinich.net/content/archive/2015-emc-vnx-hacki...

But I like my real adventure where I got trapped in my car next to a leapoard, maybe everyone will find it boring but there is a terrible video I took with proof.

- https://blog.cetinich.net/content/archive/kruger-stuck-overn...

https://wetware.engineering

A site about the most effective techniques to improve your memory, intelligence, and effectiveness. Built with a custom software stack, want to put more time into it soon.

Selection of posts:

· Adults learn faster than children: challenging a discouraging myth that children are suited for learning more than adults. (https://wetware.engineering/adult-learning)

· A new curriculum: The topics we fail to emphasize in school. Was on HN front page for a bit. (https://wetware.engineering/curriculum)

· Everyday memory palaces: How to increase your memory by orders of magnitude, and apply that in daily life (https://wetware.engineering/memory-palaces)

· How to draw a 4D hypercube: Wrap your mind around higher dimensions. (https://wetware.engineering/hypercube)

https://borretti.me/

150 kilowords on Lisp, compilers, linear types, Rust, and broader software engineering opinions. Favorites:

- Effective Spaced Repetition: https://borretti.me/article/effective-spaced-repetition

- Unbundling Tools for Thought: https://borretti.me/article/unbundling-tools-for-thought

- Introducing Austral: https://borretti.me/article/introducing-austral

- Language Pragmatics Engineering: https://borretti.me/article/language-pragmatics

- Lessons from Writing a Compiler: https://borretti.me/article/lessons-writing-compiler

https://max.engineer

Hosted by amazingly convenient https://blot.im.

Articles on software architecture. I'm also looking to make new friends to discuss these topics. Working remotely in my 30s from a not-major-city makes this difficult. In my blog there's a place to leave your email if you'd be up for it.

https://www.craigkerstiens.com/

Been up and down on cadence over the years, but a few posts that have shown up here.

- Give me back my monolith - https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/13/give-me-back-my-mo...

- Why Postgres - https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2012/04/30/why-postgres/

- Unfinished business with Postgres - https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2022/05/18/unfinished-busines...

- A guide to PR for startups - https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2015/07/21/a-guide-to-pr-for-...

https://blanchardjulien.com/

Hey everyone!

I started this site during the pandemic, mainly to improve my written English. It's mainly around data science (mostly NLP) / analytics.

I'm trying to publish an article every 3 weeks.

Feedback is appreciated!

Recent articles:

* Exploring POS Tags Co-Occurrence With WinkNLP and Highcharts.js: https://blanchardjulien.com/posts/arcdiagram/

* Create a Simple In-Browser SQL Playground With Pyscript: https://blanchardjulien.com/posts/sql_pyscript/

* Time Series Forecasting With Meta's Prophet: https://blanchardjulien.com/posts/prophet/

* Network Graphs Part I: Python and JavaScript: https://blanchardjulien.com/posts/networkplots/

https://thenewleafjournal.com/

I started NLJ back in 2020. It is built with WordPress (hosted on Hetzner VPS and managed with Cloudron). I have published more than 800 articles and 350 short-form posts (almost all posts by me, but my friend has published 30something articles). I write about whatever interests me (I tell myself this means there is something for everyone). Common topics include, but are not limited to, tech (digital ownership, open source software, feeds, and my learning Linux), history (usually American or Roman), old books and poems, anime, visual novels (mainly English translations of freeware NScripter/KiriKiri novels), photos from my walks, fictional dialogues, and occasional commentary about life in NYC.

https://memos.emucafe.org/u/2

I am testing out Memos (https://github.com/usememos/memos) for short-form notes and microblog-style posts, but very much a side project next to NLJ. Neat little tool.

Here is my personal blog I've been running for a few years now since the pandemic:

- English: https://miikavonbell.com/

- Finnish: https://miikavonbell.com/fi/

Sometimes I get excited about different topics and niches which I unload by writing in my blog so it's a collection of whatever I find interesting. Here are some categories and tags to try to keep everything organized:

- Categories (English): https://miikavonbell.com/categories/

- Tags (English): https://miikavonbell.com/tags/

- Categories (Finnish): https://miikavonbell.com/fi/categories/

- Tags (Finnish): https://miikavonbell.com/fi/tags/

Very late to the game here

- https://donatstudios.com

I'm known for my Minecraft Circle Generator

- https://donatstudios.com/PixelCircleGenerator

but I've got other projects and spiels. Couple of them have been on HN before. Go, PHP, CSVs, and complaining about tech.

CSV: An Encoding Nightmare

- https://donatstudios.com/CSV-An-Encoding-Nightmare

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About CSVs

- https://donatstudios.com/Falsehoods-Programmers-Believe-Abou...

GitHub Shouldn't Allow Username Reuse (This problem just had a light shine down on it again recently)

- https://donatstudios.com/GithubsTotalSecurityFacepalm

Go Modules have a v2+ Problem

- https://donatstudios.com/Go-v2-Modules

https://ankitag9.substack.com/

Recently started writing regularly. Have decided to focus on technical nuances and programming mental models learned the hard way, things I wish I knew in college or early career.

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/startup-prerequisites-part-1 - About my learning from running my startup for 5 years.

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/perspective-newsletter-3 - The latest one I wrote on LLMs

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/what-is-in-the-box-ask-airpo... - About the breakthrough brought in by Airpods.

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/our-shopping-problem - Thinking about TAM

https://ankitag9.substack.com/

Recently started writing regularly. Have decided to focus on technical nuances and programming mental models learned the hard way, things I wish I knew in college or early career.

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/startup-prerequisites-part-1 - About my learning from running my startup for 5 years.

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/perspective-newsletter-3 - The latest one I wrote on LLMs

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/what-is-in-the-box-ask-airpo... - About the breakthrough brought in by Airpods.

https://ankitag9.substack.com/p/our-shopping-problem - Thinking about TAM

https://manuel.kiessling.net

Some personal favorites:

Applying The Clean Architecture to Go applications (2012):

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2012/09/28/applying-the-clean-a...

Object-orientation and inheritance in JavaScript: a comprehensive explanation (2012):

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2012/03/23/object-orientation-a...

Why developing software without tests is like driving a car without brakes (2011):

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2011/04/07/why-developing-witho...

Tutorial: Single Page Applications with a Serverless Backend and Infrastructure as Code (2021):

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2021/05/02/tutorial-react-singl...

Main Blog page is:

https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/

I do a monthly post with very short reviews of [audio]books I've read. Occassional other posts about tech, transport and random stuff. Trying to get out some more shorter tech posts.

Some posts:

https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2020/08/sidewalk-delivery-robot... - Sidewalk Delivery Robots: An Introduction to Technology and Vendors

https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2022/07/a-minimal-viable-light-... - A minimal viable Light Rail for Auckland

https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2023/06/prometheus-node_exporte... - Prometheus node_exporter crashed my server

https://daveon.design/

Mostly about UI design and IT management (management sounds boring I know but I hope they're useful articles. Good, I think, for us who are managers here -- and us who are managed!)

It's a new site. Some of my favorites so far:

- https://daveon.design/what-are-you-optimising-for.html - How managers ask for something and get something else, but think they're doing a good job

- https://daveon.design/creating-joy-in-the-user-experience.ht... - UX design often looks lovely, but what is it missing? Joy.

- https://daveon.design/metrics-and-mistakes.html - on measuring things... and poetry.

I'm particularly happy with the design of the site: I'd love to hear what readers think of the layout and typography. My CSS style is called 'manuscript' and it's very inspired by older book and manuscript look and feel.

There is zero Javascript and ZERO cookies or tracking. None at all.

RSS and Atom: https://daveon.design/rss.xml and https://daveon.design/atom.xml

https://wittweekly.substack.com/

I write satire in short form posts a couple of times a week. Often it’s about AI and tech, but really anything that makes me laugh.

A few that turned out well:

Apple Vision Pro is an iOpener https://wittweekly.substack.com/p/apple-vision-pro-is-an-iop...

Irish Spring stumbles into artificial intelligence https://wittweekly.substack.com/p/irish-spring-stumbles-into...

Steamboat Ronnie https://wittweekly.substack.com/p/steamboat-ronnie

Trader Joe’s upgrades Joes O’s https://wittweekly.substack.com/p/trader-joes-upgrades-joes-...

https://www.hallada.net/blog/

I post sporadically about side projects I'm working on. Some recent posts:

- https://www.hallada.net/2022/10/05/modmapper-putting-every-s...: Modmapper: Putting every Skyrim mod on a map with Rust

-https://www.hallada.net/2020/02/01/generating-icosahedrons-a...: Generating icosahedrons and hexspheres in Rust

- https://www.hallada.net/2017/08/07/proximity-structures.html: Proximity Structures: Playing around with PixiJS

I'm trying to get into the habit of posting more so hopefully updates will be more frequent in the future.

https://ktkaufman03.github.io/

I don't post a lot, but when I do, I try to make it interesting. So far I've covered:

- a creative use of Rust's type system (https://ktkaufman03.github.io/blog/2023/04/20/rust-compile-t...)

- taking a deep dive into some obscure, closed-source scanner drivers, and ultimately creating new ones (https://ktkaufman03.github.io/blog/2022/09/04/pakon-reverse-...)

I do have some more posts planned for the not-so-distant future, which I think will be interesting!

If for some reason you want to subscribe, I have an RSS feed set up: https://ktkaufman03.github.io/feed.xml

https://overthinkingmoney.com/ I started this one about six months ago as a way to indulge my passion for hacking wealth. No technical topics, but I've been writing about startups and businesses regularly. This series might be the most applicable to folks on Hacker News: https://overthinkingmoney.com/2023/05/02/start-a-business-no...

https://www.georgesaines.com/ My personal blog. I originally started it when I was running my first company to document the stuff I learned. It's been around in various incarnations since 2008, but I don't blog very often. In the last couple of years, it's devolved into personal book and movie reviews. If you like indie movies or nonfiction, give it a read!

I write weekly on https://connortumbleson.com using Ghost. Started as a new years resolution I've kept just discussing what crosses my life or mind. My favorite posts:

* https://connortumbleson.com/2017/05/01/the-human-behind-the-... - being an open source maintainer

* https://connortumbleson.com/2018/02/11/stumbling-into-a-mlm-... - wandering into an MLM and researching it

* https://connortumbleson.com/2019/06/02/apktool-in-the-wild/ - finding apktool unintentional markings in a released application

https://icinganalysis.github.io/

I blog about the development of aircraft ice protection in the era of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, 1918 to 1958, a predecessor to NASA).

An amazing amount of analysis was conducted with analog computers, and many of the results are still found in design manuals today.

https://blog.calebjay.com

Travel, life (in Taiwan), programming (especially my journey from a coding bootcamp to a relatively successful software engineering career for 6 years now), philosophy, motorcycling, digital nomad stuff

Has RSS feed: https://blog.calebjay.com/index.xml

Some posts that might interest you:

* A breakdown of all the best and worst snacks at 7-11 Taiwan, as decided at a party where we tested a shitload of the options https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/711-rankings/

* A record of my family visiting Taiwan (a good itinerary) https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/parents-trip-taiwan-2023/

* How I Write Code, Take Notes, Journal, Track Time and Tasks, and Stay Organized using Emacs https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/my-emacs-environment/

* How I Became a Software Engineer https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/how-i-became-an-engineer/

You can view the github repo as well: https://github.com/komali2/blog

https://www.codingvc.com/

I mostly write about startups and fundraising from the POV of an engineer turned VC. The posts have gotten much less frequent over time, but I have a few good drafts that I hope to publish by the end of the year.

My two most popular posts so far:

How to de-risk a startup (https://www.codingvc.com/p/how-to-de-risk-a-startup)

Salary and equity benchmarks based on AngelList data (https://www.codingvc.com/p/analyzing-angellist-job-postings-...)

The posts below are less popular, but they're my personal favorites. Apologies in advance for poor formatting, I migrated to Substack a while ago and still need to fix some of the internal links.

Not all revenue is equal (https://www.codingvc.com/p/when-is-a-dollar-not-a-dollar)

Becoming your future self (https://www.codingvc.com/p/becoming-your-future-self)

Startup thought experiments (https://www.codingvc.com/p/how-to-use-thought-experiments-to...)

I blog about growth @ https://contentdistribution.com/free-guides

Some of my more popular articles:

- 0 to 1,500,000 organics/month for an A16z startup: https://contentdistribution.com/seo-case-study/

- How to publish 100+ pages per month: https://contentdistribution.com/publish-100-pages-per-month/

- How to build a culture of documentation: https://contentdistribution.com/documentation/

- How to create a culture where everyone sends meeting recaps: https://contentdistribution.com/meeting-notes/

https://steve-adams.me

It’s barren these days — I got self conscious about writing for some reason, and removed most of what I’d written — but I’ve recently gotten back to it. I have a lot ready to go, just need to build that confidence and hit publish again.

I write for myself more than anything, which makes the hesitation that much stranger.

I write 'Requests for Startups' on Beehiiv.

https://r4s.beehiiv.com/

Trying to break down big opportunities in big markets. Going to be doing some pieces in coming weeks on commercialising research and forgotten ideas from history that could still be viable startups today.

Some prev pieces on:

- Generative New Knowledge Creation (https://r4s.beehiiv.com/p/idea-factories)

- Infrastructure for building a one-person company (https://r4s.beehiiv.com/p/startup-opportunities-building-one...)

- Personal teaching assistants for every child on earth (https://r4s.beehiiv.com/p/cracking-edtechs-holy-grail-tutor-...)

https://tomwh.uk/blog/index.html

I've got a few posts on there (although most are still on my "been meaning to write that post for literal years" list). Some at random:

https://tomwh.uk/blog/posts/2021/12/07/temphost/ - Temphost: Host files quickly on a dumb HTTP host with optional time-to-live

https://tomwh.uk/blog/posts/2021/06/29/rsync-backup-restore-... - How to Backup and Restore root-owned Files Over the Network Using Rsync

https://tomwh.uk/blog/posts/2020/04/12/fun-with-decompiled-m... - Some Fun With Decompiled Super Mario 64

https://tomwh.uk/blog/posts/2020/03/28/fake-home-prison/ - Imprisoning Naughty Dotfiles in a Fake $HOME

https://tomwh.uk/blog/posts/2018/02/09/alt-useful-key-vim/ - The Most Useful Key In Vim (Not Escape)

https://banagale.com

Musings on technology and other topics. Some examples:

A Timelapse of a monstera deliciosia taken from frames of a Wyze cam:

https://banagale.com/monstera-deliciosa-timelapse-with-wyzec...

My first experience with the 3D holographic laser disc game, Time Traveler and Dragon’s Lair in an arcade:

https://banagale.com/xr-vr-ar-2022-pt-1-dragons-lair-and-hol...

Early notes on Spatial Audio:

https://banagale.com/apple-spatial-audio.htm

A highlight of a Devendra Banhart song:

https://banagale.com/new-devendra-banhart-track-fur-hildegar...

https://predr.ag/blog/

A few of my more popular posts:

- Falsehoods programmers believe about undefined behavior: https://predr.ag/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-u...

- To ace exams, get better at the easy questions: https://predr.ag/blog/to-ace-exams-get-better-at-the-easy-qu...

- Speeding up Rust semver-checking by over 2000x: https://predr.ag/blog/speeding-up-rust-semver-checking-by-ov...

- Mediocrity can be a sign of excellence: https://predr.ag/blog/mediocrity-can-be-a-sign-of-excellence...

- Breaking semver in Rust by adding a private type, or by adding an import: https://predr.ag/blog/breaking-semver-in-rust-by-adding-priv...

- Debugging Safari: If at first you succeed, don't try again: https://predr.ag/blog/debugging-safari-if-at-first-you-succe...

Here’s mine :) https://david.coffee/

I blog about random bits and blobs in tech. Sometimes a review, sometimes trying out something new. Wanted to try and keep it interesting and not too fixated on one category.

Last post is a mini review on a travel router, and if you need one - https://david.coffee/the-case-for-a-travel-router/

Or going through the process of getting custom molded earplugs done - https://david.coffee/my-custom-molded-attenuating-earplugs/

Or using Elixir to build a distributed ChatGPT CLI - https://david.coffee/mini-chatgpt-in-elixir-and-genserver/

Not as active as I wished

Thank you for starting this.

Is it too optimistic of me to hope that someone turns this into the seed of a new blogroll or web directory (a la Dmoz, Curlie)?

I really enjoy this thread, thanks for opening it!

On my end:

- Technical stuff: https://thedarkside.frantzmiccoli.com/ - Entrepreneurship & thoughts on society: https://outofthecomfortzone.frantzmiccoli.com/

I am afraid that my non native english make the content less pleasant to read ;-)

I have been blogging since a long time, including a blog with more than hundreds of articles that I am not sharing. It's strange when you realise that you basically could have written two or three non fiction books.

Of the shared content, the ones I think are the most interesting are:

- A post mortem analysis about a solo startup project https://outofthecomfortzone.frantzmiccoli.com/thoughts/2016/...

- The recent articles about generative on the second blog.

- A write up about a very cool data science project around smart watches https://thedarkside.frantzmiccoli.com/experimentations/2016/...

- Debugging randomness https://thedarkside.frantzmiccoli.com/tricks/2015/11/11/debu...

Sure. I write about cryptography, computer security, LGBTQIA+ interest topics, and the Furry Fandom on my blog, Dhole Moments.

https://soatok.blog

My fursona is a dhole. It's a wordplay on "dull moments".

Some of my greatest hits:

Database Cryptography Fur the Rest of Us - https://soatok.blog/2023/03/01/database-cryptography-fur-the...

What We Do in the /etc/shadow - Cryptography with Passwords - https://soatok.blog/2022/12/29/what-we-do-in-the-etc-shadow-...

Why AES-GCM Sucks - https://soatok.blog/2020/05/13/why-aes-gcm-sucks/

Canonicalization Attacks Against MACs and Signatures - https://soatok.blog/2021/07/30/canonicalization-attacks-agai...

And a must-read to anyone that wants to complain about the furry art (which is 100% SFW): https://soatok.blog/2020/07/09/a-word-on-anti-furry-sentimen...

  • It's good posts. Even I can almost understand what you're talking about on infosec stuff with zero background in it.

https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/ Writing about writing. And swords. Of most interest to HN readers is probably this piece of flash fiction, Prompt Engineering for pre-Singularity Service Workers [0], inspired by the idea that LLMs like ChatGPT are likely to change the way people communicate with each other. But there's also this ten-part series on how to write a fight scene [1].

[0] https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2023/06/20/prompt-engineering-...

[1] https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2019/05/08/writing-the-fight-r...

https://da-data.blogspot.com/?m=1

"Dave's Data" - very much a "whatever I want to post about" blog but with some of my historical cryptocurrency mining exploits, some CS professor babble, some cooking, and recently some Rust.

My most read article was the one where I discussed a pretty crazy adventure creating an optimized miner for the monero cryptocurrency, discovering in the process the mechanism that had been used to artificially pre-mine its predecessor, Bytecoin. (It was released with an artificially slowed down implementation of the PoW function, which I managed to reverse engineer and discover the original design): https://da-data.blogspot.com/2014/08/minting-money-with-mone...

Mine's more for note taking and so I can find stuff via google when I forget so not sure how consumable it is for other people. It is relatively old though so can be interesting to look back over all the different trends and fads: https://whatibroke.com/

I maintain two, with pretty different content. Both are intended to explore deep topics (AI and climate change, respectively), aiming for a middle ground between academic papers (meaty, but often hard to understand + contextualize if you're not already an expert) and popular press (often over-simplified or off the mark).

https://amistrongeryet.substack.com/ – was intended to be a general "things I've learned after coding for 40+ years", but so far just chronicles my attempt to wrap my head around the actual capabilities of current AI models and the potential trajectory and impact on society.

https://climateer.substack.com/ – my attempt to explain some of the big / controversial topics in climate change mitigation.

https://blog.tjll.net/

The posts that made it to the top of HN (that I can recall at this moment)

35 Million Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx (https://blog.tjll.net/reverse-proxy-hot-dog-eating-contest-c...)

SSH Kung Fu (https://blog.tjll.net/ssh-kung-fu/)

Building My Ideal Router for $50 (https://blog.tjll.net/building-my-perfect-router/)

I've been using nix/nixos a lot lately and will probably end up publishing more in that general area of interest. That and my excessively-overengineered homelab.

https://blog.samuellevy.com/ - I haven't posted in a few years, and I really need to upgrade it/clean up everything. It's not remotely mobile friendly.

I've had a few relatively popular posts over the years:

https://blog.samuellevy.com/post/41-php-is-the-right-tool-fo... A kind of response to a certain post about PHP that still makes the rounds...

https://blog.samuellevy.com/post/46-do-i-look-like-i-give-a-... "Do I Look Like I Give A Shit Public Licence" an alternative to the WTFPL

https://mattrighetti.com

Here’s mine, I blog about programming stuff in general.

HN community particularly liked:

- https://mattrighetti.com/2022/04/05/i-need-to-find-an-appart...

- https://mattrighetti.com/2023/02/22/asciidoc-liquid-and-jeky...

Lately I’ve been blogging about my GSoC journey developing a new web protocol for the Tor organisation using actix and Rust.

It’s always fun to read emails and feedbacks from visitors so hit me up if you have the chance ;)

RSS: https://mattrighetti.com/feed.xml

https://blog.plover.com/ The Universe of Discourse, since 2006. I don't know how many posts, maybe 800 or 900?

About ⅓ math and ⅔ everything under the sun.

Hits the front page here several times a year.

A few of my favorites:

* https://blog.plover.com/lang/middle-english.html You can learn to read Middle English

* https://blog.plover.com/math/60-degree-angles.html 60-degree angles on a lattice

* https://blog.plover.com/math/24-puzzle-2.html Recognizing when two arithmetic expressions are essentially the same

https://www.xorvoid.com

I write quirky computer science articles. Usually based on some crazy project often at the intersection of computers and math. Currently working on a series that builds Finite Fields up from scratch step-by-step (haven’t published that yet)

https://cmetcalfe.ca/blog

Contains mostly guides on random things I learn over time and other bits of information I think should be publicly available.

Not very frequently updated, but RSS is available so it can be chucked in an RSS reader and forgotten about.

https://adriano.fyi

I mostly write about tech topics and write howtos, usually for my own future reference.

However I also write about being a "digital nomad" living in an RV, and sometimes that converges with tech, e.g. (https://adriano.fyi/posts/2023/2023-04-16-att-traffic-shapin...) and sometimes even mountain biking (https://adriano.fyi/posts/2023/2023-06-12-mountain-biking-ha...).

It scratches a personal itch, and covering any topic I want allows me to do that.

https://www.awanderingmind.blog/

People seem to have enjoyed my book reviews, of which there are currently a grand total of two: https://www.awanderingmind.blog/tags/book%20review.html.

Most recently I have tried to make a case against the dangers of intelligence explosions (I am unsure I succeeded): https://www.awanderingmind.blog/posts/2023-05-31-the-case-ag...

I have an RSS feed you can subscribe to. I welcome constructive feedback, regarding both my writing or the site itself.

https://www.quodsoler.com

I have started to share Unreal Engine hidden knowledge ( The engine has tons of cool things but not very documented )

One topic for instance is Component Visualizers, super helpful to work in the editor: - https://www.quodsoler.com/blog/unreal-engine-component-visua...

I plan to share more on the Gameplay Ability System and other topics as well.

Finally, lately I have started a weekly newsletter to help Solo Game developers:

https://www.quodsoler.com/unreal-solo-game-developer

Hope someone finds this helpful!

Not sure if I should publish my "blog" here or not. It's been in a hiatus the last 6-7 years due to life and because I don't "feel" qualified to publish anything.

Anyhow, lately the consensus on HN has been "some is better than none" and "hit that publish button"...

At the moment I'm transitioning from WP to Hugo, trying to retain content from the old blog to the new one. It is a joyful journey, which has lasted about 2 years give or take. It's not the top priority, but it has been chugging along.

Most of the time has ended up in tinkering with Hugo and partials/shortcodes, than to migrate and create new content.

The "new" blog is at https://studiofreya.org and the old one is at .com

The .org one will probably become .com when the perpetual tinkering is done.

https://www.dquach.com/

A scattering of personal newsletters, tech, and data engineering. For the personal newsletters that involve traveling, what I do is journal every day while I am in the destination country, and then when I'm at home, begin writing. Each travel post takes about 40 hours of writing, editing, and picture selection.

For the travel posts, I try not to rehash a history of a place (you probably could watch a youtube video or read a book for better perspective), but instead try to find something hopefully new and insightful to reveal

EG https://www.dquach.com/2023/04/05/personal-newsletter-2023-q...

https://blog.tedivm.com/

Most popular posts-

https://blog.tedivm.com/guides/2021/10/github-actions-push-t... - Using Github Actions OpenID Connect to push to AWS ECR without Credentials

https://blog.tedivm.com/open-source/2023/02/robs-awesome-pyt... - Rob’s Awesome Python Template

https://blog.tedivm.com/guides/2020/07/aws-ecs-with-ubuntu-a... - Getting AWS ECS to work on Ubuntu with Full GPU Support

https://blog.tedivm.com/guides/2021/11/openssh-pull-keys-fro... - Telling OpenSSH to Pull Keys from Github with AuthorizedKeysCommand

https://blog.tedivm.com/open-source/2021/11/multi-py-multipl... - Multi-Py: Multiplatform Container Images for Python Packages

https://blog.tedivm.com/open-source/2018/03/ec2details-the-m... - ec2details, the missing EC2 Instance Metadata API

https://geekmonkey.org

Fifteen years of on/off blogging. Took it way too serious ten years ago and published anything I could and nowadays I just blog when I have something useful to share. Working on a couple of Elixir posts currently.

No tracking (no external domain requests or analytics), built using Gatsby.

Your IP only goes to Cloudflare (caching) + Netlify (Hosting) + BunnyCDN (when watching videos on the site), no other personal information is collected.

https://umarniz.com/

https://brynet.ca/

Not really a blog, just a few static HTML articles I've written over the years related to my (and others) work on OpenBSD. I hope to write some more eventually, but preoccupied with other things in my life.

https://interessant3.substack.com

I post three things I find interesting, once a week. Very simple and to the point.

I’m at just a tad over 100 subscribers at time of writing. In the latest issue I shared some research on the “Pink Tax”, a blog sharing MacOS command line tools, and a Twitter thread demistifying a lot of the debate around water quality in the U.K.

For more long form content you can find me on medium: https://medium.com/@duartem where my writing has had over 25,000 reads over the years.

Alternatively I also have a (Jekyll) website at https://www.Santiago-Martins.com

https://roose.digital/en

Writing mostly about Drupal from a ambitious site builder/designer perspective. But lately I've been venturing into blogs about how to live a better, easier, more fulfilled life.

https://lornajane.net

Over a thousand posts (I've been doing this a while apparently) on APIs, open source, backend scripting languages, developer experience/relations, other random tech, and the occasional recipe.

https://save-buffer.github.io/

Only one post at the moment (about Bloom filters), but I’m working on another one about compressing integers! My focus is on high performance data analytics—adjacent things.

  • I loved your blog post! It was the first time I came across blocked/register-blocked bloom filters. The VLDB paper you linked seems interesting too.

    By any chance, could you consider adding an RSS feed to your blog?

    • Wow, thank you for the kind words! Really glad you liked it. I don’t have much experience with RSS but I will try to add a feed (hopefully within the next week or so)

https://backendhance.com/blog/

I started this blog in 2019 and wrote around 50 articles. I focus on backend engineering on the jvm and all the surrounding. The blog was formerly called "code-held" and when I started to work as a freelancer earlier this year I migrated the content. I publish in German and English.

My favorite posts are:

Microservices are a Big Ball of Mud - https://backendhance.com/en/blog/2022/microservices/ (was also featured at HN some while ago)

Don't Use The Builder Pattern in Kotlin - https://backendhance.com/en/blog/2021/dont-use-builder-in-ko...

How To Load A Shared Library From A Subfolder In Jenkins - https://backendhance.com/en/blog/2020/jenkins-local-shared-l...

RSS Feed (en): https://backendhance.com/en/blog/index.xml RSS Feed (de): https://backendhance.com/blog/index.xml

I publish every week now.

When you are interested in more opinionated content (infotainement) you might enjoy my newsletter as well: https://backendhance.com/newsletter/

In the newsletter I share some easy to consume inspiration twice a week.

https://herbertlui.net/ — I don't write much technical content, I usually cover marketing, creativity, and the human condition.

Sharing a few posts that have resonated at hn, and highlighting the discussion (which I've found just as interesting—if not more so—as writing the post):

https://herbertlui.net/dont-think-to-write-write-to-think/ hn thread: https://herbertlui.net/bill-watterson-picasso-and-hn-on-self... hn thread: https://herbertlui.net/for-productivity-geeks-futility-is-a-... hn thread: https://herbertlui.net/conference-talk-blog-post-transcribe/ hn thread: https://herbertlui.net/quitting-art-careers/ hn thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34857488

https://maximumeffort.substack.com/

“Some things that aren’t worth doing are worth overdoing.”

I write about physics, language, and history, or whatever interests me at the moment, with an overarching theme of spending way too much effort analyzing useless topics. Here’s some of my favorites:

https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-wago... I derive an expression for number of donkeys needed to move an army a distance L, and discuss its relationship to the tyranny of the rocket equation.

https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/guinea-pigs-are-fermion... I postulate that Guinea pigs are fermions, and simulate the quantum dynamics of multi-pig states.

https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/a-statistical-analysis-... I attempt to answer the timeless question of whether the characters in Wheel of Time sniff in disapproval more than average.

https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/i-taught-chatgpt-to-inv... ChatGPT and I invent a slime language.

https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/an-offering-for-the-dea... I teach you just enough Middle Egyptian to read some of the hieroglyphs on most museum artifacts.

https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/the-great-kings-of-assy... I share my technique for annoying text spammers by pretending to be Assyrian Royalty.

Mostly up to date index of posts: https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/coming-soon

Hope you enjoy!

  • I opened your home page. The two guinea pig headlines were enough to convince me I should add this to my RSS feed list and read more.

https://explog.in

I've been writing here sporadically for more than 10 years at this point, at ~1 post a year. The more recent posts took months to write, and tend to cover things I find myself repeating frequently while working with other engineers.

- https://explog.in/notes/elephants/index.html: Tips for ramping up on large projects

- https://explog.in/notes/devtools/index.html: Building developer tools

Planning to overhaul it later this year.

  • I wanted to express thanks for your post on ramping up on large projects. It's concise, links to further reading, and echoes a lot of the advice I have had to give to junior engineers. You've saved me time from having to write these tips out myself. :)

    (As an aside I kind of disagree with the common quote of:

    > "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious"

    I find that most software I've worked on is muddy, confusing, and contradictory. Perhaps I will get better with time.)

    • Happy to hear that!

      Heh, definitely depends on the software itself but I generally find the contents /schema of tables used to save the data very illuminating: you can see the UX, whatever form it takes -- and then what is saved to the backend so it makes things slightly more understandable for me.

https://rafaelquintanilha.com/

Recently migrated to Ghost and I'm trying now to centralize all posts in a single place. It hasn't been busy in the last couple years, but I'm planning to revitalize it soon.

I talk mostly about web development (React mostly) and quantitative finance (Python mostly). I run a SaaS in the area, so I plan to talk more about running it.

Fun fact, one of my posts actually feature #1 in HN a couple years ago: https://rafaelquintanilha.com/how-to-become-a-bad-developer/

https://daanmiddendorp.com

All static using Jekyll, no JavaScript, no external libraries, hosted on a CDN.

It helps me to think and straight things out, especially when things become an micro-obsession. Moreover, blogging contributes to my personal branding.

Topics: Travel, Finance and Engineering.

My recent favorite:

* Exploring Greece's innovative fight against tax evasion: QR codes, snitching apps, and VAT lotteries https://daanmiddendorp.com/financial/2023/04/03/exploring-gr...

https://varun.ch It's definitely still a work in progress with only a handful of posts (I have at least 2 posts ready to publish but I'm waiting for permission to disclose vulnerabilities), but my favourite is probably https://varun.ch/video-id, which is about creating a self referential YouTube video.

https://varun.ch/history is an experiment into getting a users history through a fake CAPTCHA, and it's my most viewed post so far.

https://shielddigitaldesign.com/

I found my niche in a problem called Signal Integrity - a subset of digital hardware design. My work relies heavily on electromagnetic simulation so I enjoy playing around with that in my spare time as well. I probably only post about twice a year as I'm busy lately with grad school, but it's fun to keep the site going. I also have what is erroneously titled a "wiki" there where I want to accumulate a knowledge base of helpful SI/PI information. Since I just use static hosting, I currently generate the wiki section of the site from a Zim notebook.

http://www.randomnoun.com - a wordpress blog covering a handful of projects I've opensourced and a few software-related rants

Here's a few posts:

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2021/12/11/flowcharts-r-us/ - java to graphviz

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2022/10/14/make-a-new-plan-stan... - visualising sql execution plans

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2020/12/19/the-complete-history... - data warehousing

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2016/07/04/2897/ - the template language to end all template languages

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2021/07/09/the-constant-refrain... - musical brainfarts

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2021/07/24/tabstop-me-if-you-th... - grappling with tabs in HTML

- http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2021/11/27/pointless/ - grappling with drawio

https://boerman.dev/

Started couple years ago to practise my writing and analysis skills. I mainly write about energy transition stuff, intersecting with my work at TenneT. I like to analyze stuff as a hobby without the work pressure. In the past I have used blog posts internally at TenneT as well if something came up that was similar to a post haha. Traffic is mainly driven by summarizing and linking to a post on linkedin.

Its completely written in markdown and generated with hugo and open source here: https://github.com/fboerman/blog

https://bryanhogan.me

Writing about learning, healthy productivity, creating and things that interest me.

Next post will be on "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker, a summary of its content with relevant additions from elsewhere and a quick evaluation discussing its problems such as far far too many untruthful claims.

Future posts will be on my year studying in South Korea, burnout, motivation, front-end development and a rewrite of the post on Anki and learning. Have more thing planned but am already not publishing enough.

Seeing so many posts here feels intimidating and it might not be worth the effort to even share this. Hopefully one person enjoys it :)

I just started doing one article per week challenge in late may. I have been keeping up with it, and am proud of some of my work. https://medium.com/@k0ryk

topics are pretty random, but software engineering adjacent: rtl sdr, home automation, air quality monitoring, nature.

Here is my most recent, a response to a post on here from last week about the hidden cost of air quality monitors: https://medium.com/@k0ryk/air-quality-monitoring-hidden-cost...

https://maciej.litwiniuk.net/

I wanted to start with "this week in review" series, but it ended quite quickly.

Now I want to publish lesson learned while building my side-project (https://humadroid.dev), which is a missing tool I wish I had when running software house year-and-a-half ago, before I sold it.

Topics considered for near future:

* lessons learned while coding it in Rails with hotwire & stimulus

* lessons learned actually sellign it to people (Open-Startup idea/movement is close to my beliefs).

https://bhoey.com/blog/

I try to write up helpful or interesting pieces I feel either aren't covered sufficiently elsewhere or for my own reference.

Covers a pretty wide array of technologies (software architecture, messaging systems, DBMSs, etc).

I generally try to target the intermediate level that often gets lost in the spectrum between surface-level intros or expert level deep dives. My hope is that someone gains an better understanding or discovers a new practical tool or approach that they can then use to better their life and career.

https://gallant.dev

Haven't had the chance to write for awhile, but been wanting to get back to it. In addition to normal static site stuff it has webmentions/pingbacks, comments, and (probably now broken) interoperability with Twitter (likes would show up as webmentions) - overall it was a fun excuse to figure out IndieWeb stuff (https://gallant.dev/posts/a-blog-reborn/ is where I explain that).

https://andreicioara.com/

I've been writing for fun a few years ago, then one of my articles got really popular because it ranked high on search engines and it still receives a fair amount of traffic.

Since then, even though I wrote more articles, I discarded them because of this new "pressure": nothing really feels as good as the articles that I already published. I have not published anything in 4.5 years, but I keep promising myself that I'd start again some day.

Any feedback or criticism on the current articles is welcome.

https://nicollet.net

Rather than a site to write articles, it's a site where I keep links to things I write (or talks I give) so that I don't lose them.

I used to have a large blog ten years ago, with at least one post per day, because every blog guru on the internet said you needed to post every day to grow an audience. But I'm not smart enough to have something interesting to say every day, so it was rather poor quality. So I started this new iteration from scratch and post once or twice a year, mostly about software design.

Sure, mine is at: https://xavd.id/blog. I've got RSS and JSON feeds too: https://xavd.id/blog/feeds

It mostly covers 3 main areas of interest:

- tech (lots of Python & JS, but other topics too) - media reviews (big best-ofs yearly) - personal items

I post ~ 4 times a year, on average, but I put a lot of effort into what I post. I should probably invert that (more low/medium-effort posts), but haven't.

Please tell me anything jumps out at you!

https://codeyarns.com/tech/

2500+ posts from almost 20 years on the web.

Essentially a place to take notes: on the digital devices I use and tips of the software I use. The main idea is to have a place I can refer to when I want some programming/software/hardware detail a second time, instead of returning to Google search again. I've found it easier to have my own notes (once I find the info I need) since other sources of info online can disappear over time or disappear from search results.

https://langsoul.com

General writing about musings on the world. Sometimes that's about how everyone in a big city is an npc. Why erotica exists in a world of free unlimited porn.

One of my first posts was about how Chinese anime migh die off due to the heavy handed censorship of stories over there. The same 10 acceptable stories aren't interesting enough to go outside China.

Made with Php, laravel, statamic as the CMS and static site builder. Hosted on surge.sh.

Wanted to move to cloudflare pages, but doesn't support Php 8+ yet for the build process.

Sure, here's mine: https://www.alexghr.me/.

I've been running this site since ~2015 (same CSS for at least 8 years now) but there's not a lot of content on it. I've been trying to get more into it recently though and I'm posting TIL-style content :)

It started out as a site built out of Mustache templates with plain CSS for styling. A few months ago I migrated it to Astro so that I don't have to maintain a build script written in bash but the CSS and site layout stayed the same.

https://janejeon.dev

Kinda afraid of sharing it (the quality isn't "top notch", I just write about whatever, whenever my ADHD-addled brain allows for it), but in general, I write about tech stuff (OSS/nodejs/devops/frontend/backend) and some "higher-level" stuff (e.g. the role of software in business value chain, Conway's Law but for development processes, etc).

You can see all the ones I'm actually sort of proud of in the "Featured" sidebar to the right.

https://werd.io

I've been a founder (2x), CTO / tech lead, engineer, product lead, VC, film reviewer, and writer. My site is about all of those things. Mostly I write about tech, startups, ethics, and journalism, interspersed with links I find interesting.

I also post a live view of my RSS subscriptions over at https://sources.werd.io/ - I'm excited to add some more from this thread. Thanks for starting it!

https://canolcer.com/ RSS feed: https://canolcer.com/index.xml

I usually write a post once a month about more high level topics of technological trends on their influence on society. Mostly opinion pieces. There are some outliers, like some more low level technical posts in there, too.

This year I haven't been feeling like writing much so far, though. Hope to do more again in the second half.

Really liking the idea of a blog revival.

I’m still posting after all these years. I have a blog, linkblog, podcast and newsletter. Currently still quite minimal. I’m trying to ensure it works well with little to no CSS, then progressively enhance it so it looks a bit nicer later. It’s slow going at the minute, created via a custom static site generator which works really well. Hoping to open source when the world / life allows.

Anyhow here you will find the latest:

https://markjgsmith.com/latest

I interpreted this as, are you allowed to share your own blog here.

Am I the only one who did?

https://blog.scottlogic.com/ceberhardt/

Been going for 10+ years now. It’s fun to watch my interested (professional and personal) change.

It all started with WPF then Silverlight (RIP), then diversified into HTML5 (when the version number seemed to be a thing). I also had a fun foray into mobile dev for a while, swift / iOS. More recently it’s been quite JS-heavy, and the past year or so, a lot of AI.

There is an underlying theme of open source throughout.

A fun trip down memory lane!

https://blog.klungo.no/

My most popular post, at least here on HN, is about how Cloudflare Images had a lot of issues ~1.5 years ago - unfortunately they still do too. A previous PM for the product told me at one point that he and the team was "very well aware" of my article, and it was at one point one of the top ranking search results for "Cloudflare Images" too.

I'm currently writing a post about how I discovered I have low-frequency tinnitus.

https://korz.dev

It's not much, and I haven't blogged much recently, but I'm currently working on a series of blog posts about using Nix (the package manager) for building docker images (or rather, OCI images) from monorepos that consist of projects in multiple programming languages, including caching of build artifacts and dependencies. I may also write about Rust, wgpu (the WebGPU implementation), computer graphics and game development in the future.

https://abdulapopoola.com/

This blog presents leadership methodologies for high-impact outcomes. Each post typically describes a challenge, hard-learned lessons, and the reusable framework to use.

Areas include building high-performing teams, setting direction, creating an engineering culture, identifying high-leverage interventions, and more. It aims to help engineering leaders accelerate their growth while supporting their teams to reach their highest potential.

https://vikramoberoi.com

I started writing publicly late last year. It's been tons of effort but it's been tremendously fun and fruitful.

Some of my more-visited or favorite posts:

* A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work -- https://vikramoberoi.com/a-primer-on-roaring-bitmaps-what-th.... This one ended up on the front page of HN and gets hundreds of visits monthly. I wrote it because it's the post I would have liked to read instead of reading the papers themselves.

* An internship working on "Customers who bought this also bought" at Amazon 16 years ago -- https://vikramoberoi.com/an-internship-working-on-customers-.... I wrote this one as an addendum to throwaway tweet I posted that went viral.

* How I made atariemailarchive.org -- https://vikramoberoi.com/how-i-made-atariemailarchive-org/. I wrote this one when I open-sourced the dataset behind atariemailarchive.org. The dataset got featured in Data is Plural and in a podcast interview I did with Jeremy Singer-Vine.

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My favorite personal blog to read this past year is Phil Eaton's (eatonphil on HN): https://notes.eatonphil.com/.

I enjoy the subject matter he posts about (a lot of systems work and research, primarily), but his other posts are great too.

His post, "Is it worth writing about?" is a nice inspirational one for folks who want to/have been thinking about writing: https://notes.eatonphil.com/is-it-worth-writing-about.html.

https://weekly.elfitz.com

It’s mostly iOS and backend engineering, usually solutions to issues I faced and couldn’t easily find a straightforward answer to online.

Along with those, there are also some random thoughts and ideas about different topics.

I probably have twice as many unfinished drafts as published posts, and am looking to move from Ghost to some headless CMS and a custom frontend, to (better) support content internationalisation, tables of content, footnotes & series.

https://ho.dges.online

Only pictures I made and commonplace book posts. I've tried long-form blogs in the past and just couldn't find a groove that was interesting enough (to me) to pursue. The pictures I've made however, have become a kind of notebook for things that have caught my eye or that have significance to me and mine. The commonplace posts capture things that have struck me as distilling wisdom or a useful perspective on life.

Great thread, bookmarked this one! I started programming over 10 years ago so I could make my own circus equipment.

I mainly blog about my IOT LED projects but there is a lot of creative coding as well which might be interesting to some.

Actually hit the front page of HN once with a post about how Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my world cup final (that ddosed my site with HN visitors, site was down for 2 days)

https://www.circusscientist.com/blog/

https://cookie.engineer

I don't have many posts, but some ideas in the pipeline that I'm working on. Planning on documenting a lot more about the hardware tinkering I am doing.

I also added a bunch of secrets and games to the website, with the idea that the source code can be used to explore and learn. There's even an unsolved crypto puzzle in there, but it seems to be a little too hard considering it's been unsolved for over 10 years now.

https://www.ckuhl.com/weblog/

It's intentionally obtuse, like ripping out the first page out of a notebook, so that I don't have an excuse _not_ to fill out the rest of the pages. It's already ruined, so what is a bit more ruin, really?

I'm not trying to be the superlative at anything, but simply want to capture the traffic of anyone following in my footsteps, easing their path if that's possible.

https://fllstck.dev/

I write about anything that can help frontend devs to use their skills in the whole stack. Lately, that's decentralization tech.

Wrote more frequently there in the past, but after a year of hobby blogging I transitioned into doing it as my main job and now I write mostly for other people's blogs.

(https://kay.is if you need a "pen for hire")

I’ve been a researcher, engineer, consultant, investor, and product manager in Cyber Security since 1995. Interested in the design and architecture of secure systems and infrastructures, the prospects for strategic software, and the nascent subject of cyber statecraft. I blog at the conflux of these and other related subjects at https://blog.eutopian.io

Writing sporadically as commitments, projects, and the lawyers allow.

https://saml.dev

So far I’ve only got a few posts related to local-first home automation, which for me is Home Assistant and my open source library gome-assistant for writing automations in Go.

I plan to add some write ups for my woodworking projects as well when I get around to it. It exists for me to share things with friends/family and any others that are interested, and I don’t intend to force myself to write on any particular cadence.

https://greaterdanorequalto.com/

Sometimes I post fun stuff, sometimes I post technical stuff. Right now, I'm nearing the finish on a post about how much I despise Unit Testing (at least the way it's commonly done right now) and an alternative I wish more people would take. It's not really a new topic, but it's not one with nearly enough traction, so I'm just doing my part.

https://m10k.eu

Most of my posts are about shell scripting and messaging-based architectures. I wrote a small module framework for Bash that allows you to send messages (point-to-point and pub-sub) between scripts, so I'm doing a small series about enterprise integration patterns in Bash.

I'm planning to cover some of my other projects (embedded, hardware, baking -- everything I do is pretty low-level) once I get around to it.

https://blog.mariom.pl/

DevOps, Cloud related topics mostly. Sometimes some guides / howtos, sometimes my thoughts around technologies I use.

Started this year, few posts already there. I wanted to post on weekly basis, but well ;)

It's my 3rd or even 4th attempt at blogging. Previously I was writing in Polish so I didn't bother keeping archive, also the break was pretty long and everything got really outdated already.

Here's mine:

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/

I mostly write about academia and machine learning these days, but every once in a while, I also have the urge to write a really nerdy post on a more technical topic. Writing continues to be cathartic for me, and I hope to make a small difference when I discuss things that are not typically discussed openly (in an academic setting).

Feedback is very welcome!

https://raynicholus.com

Mostly focused on frontend development (dating back to 2013) with some management topics, remote work topics (such as when I worked remotely from Thailand for 3 months with most of my team remaining in-person in the US), and a number of posts that lead up to the web development book I published via Apress. A few backend and random tech-focused opinion pieces in there too.

You only remind me that I don't blog that often, it should turn 25 this year even though I didn't know the word blog back then and scraped the personal posts from it.

Anyways, my last blog post is a bit of a highlight: saving a lightly burnt HDD https://tomk32.de/2022/10/03/hdd-data-rescue-a-burnt-cable.h...

  • Molex to SATA, lose all your data. Injection-molded thermoplastic SATA power connectors have a tendency to short internally and catch fire, as opposed to SATA connectors made out of two separate pieces of plastic clamped together with a seam.

    • Yes something like that happened in this dusty, old machine. Good thing she was using the PC when it happened and unplugged it when she smelled the burnt plastic.

https://ishanmahapatra.com/

This should be a little different from everyone else's pretty technical blogs :).

I write in fits and starts (and just by looking at it right now, it's been a minute since I wrote on there, but I have a few half written posts that I should just throw up there), and mostly have been writing about my struggles with productivity and making indie films.

Unlike many people here, I don't like to write hundreds of mediocre posts. Instead, I prefer very few posts, that unfortunately are still mediocre.

If you're tired of all the perfection that exists on the internet, where every piece is deeply insightful and changes your life, I'd encourage you to read my articles, which only promise to shorten it:

https://www.stavros.io/

https://murphyslab.ca/notes/

Not a lot there right now. When I rehosted from WordPress to Hugo (after HostPapa started jacking up prices), I pulled a number of posts. Since I've been on hiatus from adding material to my blog. But, now that Reddit and Twitter have really soured, I'm leaning toward making it the one place where share thoughts.

https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com

Been doing this 12+ years, mainly focused on teaching sophomore organic chemistry. Started as a blog, don't know if it really qualifies anymore as I've organized many of the posts into chapters that follow the typical order of topics as taught in most North American schools. Still write rants from time to time

After some hand-wringing I decided to remove all my dev-related blog content when I changed professions. Instead you can have my photography portfolio: https://jamiedumont.com.

All coded with vanilla HTML, CSS and JS. No frameworks or templating engine involved. It's very liberating after 12 years of professionally swearing at computers that don't do what you ask!

http://www.nuke24.net/plog/

Random personal projects. Some hardware, some software, some random bits of what I think are insight. Maybe someday I will get around to adding an RSS feed.

(my previous post was missed, maybe because the "H" in "http" was capitalized; idk, try again, maybe one of those scrapers people are writing will pick it up)

https://hyperific.bearblog.dev/

I just started this a couple weeks ago to start writing about personal projects. I write all my notes in markdown anyway so Bearblog is the perfect platform for me.

Posts so far: Mean shift rotoscoping, Room 23: Brainwashing Video Generator, Multi Image Steganography, Brake Safe, The Erosion of Patience for Scripted Chatbots and more.

https://ghoulschool.education/

I've done some math tutoring, and word problems are really boring, so I decided to spice them up a bit with monsters and mayhem. Scroll down on the home page to see all the problems (this site is new and a little unorganized right now).

The hope is to eventually write enough problems that they could be part of a real curriculum.

https://mbork.pl

One post per week for almost 9 years now. (In July I'm going to change this to one post per two weeks since I'm starting another blog.) Mainly Emacs stuff with a bit of JS and PostgreSQL, and sometimes other stuff once in a while.

The blog started in 2006 (then only in Polish), the English version started in 2009, and was rather irregular until 2014.

http://future-secured.com

Life Contextualized. - Sep '18 to present. 1100+ posts. Thorough taxonomy. Wordpress. 46 plugins.

automobile, artist, colorization, crystal, culture, enlightenment, fashion, generative, graffiti, haute couture, idea, judaism, kundalini, lyric, mashup, memoir, music, off-grid, photo, rainbow, regal, startup, storytelling, travel, twilight

I started blogging here [0] in 2004 or so on any tech-related issue that would cross my mind; as I gathered viewers and matured, I began writing less and less until now I only write when I feel I have something actually valuable to share. These days it is mostly about open source, rust, and .NET.

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/

https://yasha.solutions

Power by hugo after being on wordpress and then gatsby. The hardest was to get a workflow of writting so that i don't have streaks of multiple month without any writting going on.

Still hard but somehow it is improving. I have also cut out twitter and I am trying to write everything on the blog first and then eventually to to tweet it later

https://avikdas.com

A few of my posts on dynamic programming got a fair bit of traction here on HN.

I haven't posted in a while, but after a busy few years, I have some posts lined up. I want to reflect on some teaching I did (one big reason I didn't have time to blog), as well as document me getting a new home server set up (this time with containers, finally).

https://www.adamkdean.co.uk/

Posting for years, since 2010 at least, with gaps in between, most of which has served as a notebook of sorts for when I need to go back and find something. A few posts which did well when the blog existing on dev.to, winning a top post of the week award, but other than that, mostly just quick posts.

Mine is here: https://dissociatedpress.net/

About 80% tech topics, 15% culture and music, and about 5% my personal life and cat pictures. I'm thinking of splitting off my personal life topics to another blog. Some of my tech posts get moderate traffic and I doubt any of those visitors care about my personal life overmuch.

https://wcedmisten.fyi

I like writing about my own projects that usually involve web scraping, OpenStreetMap, or visualizing interesting datasets. I've been at it for about a year, mostly to gain motivation to actually finish my projects. To that end it's been quite successful, and it's a great opportunity to practice writing.

Was waiting for this moment :D https://arunmani.in I today only thought of (re)taking up the "an article a week" challenge.

I have promised myself to keep the website free of any analytics and especially no JS. That's why there is no way to comment. So, please share your thoughts by reaching out to me using the links in footer.

https://river.me

I post about things that are interesting to me, which is mostly MediaWiki software-related (which means Lua, JS, CSS, Python, SQL in a MW context), but also sometimes not - I've talked about random unrelated Python libraries, written a bunch of book reviews, etc.

Two years into hosting this blog I did also write a post about hosting a blog.

https://bajkowski.com

Personal blog with random assortment of topics. Something for the Internet Archive to pick up so that one day my children and their offspring can learna a thing or two. Updated now and then. Still restoring a lot of older content from previous CMSes dating back to early 2000s. Currently using ghost and oracle cloud.

https://thomasvilhena.com/

Started as a way to train English writing and try to establish some presence online to bolster my CV. Posts of topics related to work, weekend projects, and personal reflections.

It's interesting to get back to older posts and find out how my skills, perceptions and opinions change as I progress in my career.

https://aaronstuyvenberg.com/

I write about cloud minutia and generally focus on serverless. I try to focus on reproducible benchmarks and actionable advice. If you've wondered about the performance of AWS-SDK v2 or v3 in NodeJS, or weird edge case behaviors anywhere from Lambda to zip files, you may be interested.

Posts about my amateur astronomy / telescope making hobby, or work-unrelated programming projects, mostly Elixir. Before this site I worked on my side-projects by coding things and then eventually blog about it, now I try to write about what I'll code, then code it.

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/

https://xosh.org/

Intended to make and share my personal projects here. At the moment its around 2 good or known posts and one project. Hosted on github pages, based on Hugo, , which makes me feel too tired just to think about updating it. Will update it someday with most simplest to setup markdown based tool/framework.

https://blog.marcua.net/

The content has varied over the years, but in the past few years, I've used the blog to explore side projects outside of work. This has allowed me to separate my primary responsibility at work (manager/unblocker/collaborator/prototyper) from my personal interests in hacking.

I work in IT (hence my daily visits here) but blog about something else – cycling.

https://bikeinfolab.com/

Been blogging since 2008, on and off, using few different domains. This current one is the so called work in progress, no about me page etc. Mostly write via newsletter these days though.

Sharing for the variety's sake I guess this being HN.

https://chrisfrew.in

I try to focus on software and everything I've encountered through projects throughout my software career, but often a general post about thoughts on life / software in general sneak in here & there.

My goal is always to share real world examples and code snippets, instead of the 1,000th iteration of the todo app.

https://www.inttodouble.com/

The loose theme is intended to be how making incremental improvements in the thousands of tiny things we do each day compound to make a difference over the course of our lives.

In practice, it serves more as a publishing ground for a bunch of random things that need to be put on paper/into code.

https://gotlou.srht.site

I post tech-related stuff, mostly just about projects I've built and more recently open source contributions under GSoC. The templating system to publish posts is very basic and custom, I wrote it in Python a couple years ago and never looked back.

I also appreciate some other tech, like using MicroG or Tailscale.

https://liorsinai.github.io/ long detailed posts on mathematics, machine learning and algorithms. Most of the code is in Julia but older posts also feature Python, C# and C++. I recently did posts on Transformers and Diffusion Denoising Probabilistic models.

The most popular post is a Sudoku solver in Python.

I should work on doing so more often, but occasionally post to https://fractaldragon.net/.

Really, it should be one of those things, like journalling I suppose, that most people should try and do now and then. Get some thoughts down, for themselves and maybe others. Writing is a tool for thinking, after all.

https://some-natalie.dev

I work at a neat intersection of tech, people, and highly regulated industries. I get to write about the things I build and talks I have done, as well as some fun projects. It’s an outlet for getting better at writing and provides a longer record of competence than fizzbuzz interview questions.

https://qubyte.codes

Going since late 2015. I post long form (/blog) and short form (/notes), mostly on programming, maths, (bad) generative art experiments, notes as I learn Japanese, and of course about the blog itself since I spend more time on the custom static site generator than I do on writing actual posts.

https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net

Been dark for a while... moving everything from PHP to Python and React which has been fun, but tedious. Also, I had a baby and they are just crazy amounts of work (and fun).

I will hopefully soon continue to write about projects I'm working on, tech tutorials, Vim+Neovim, Linux, 3D printing, art and design.

https://www.cricalix.net/

Mostly notes to myself on the tech front. House renovation problems, boat problems (and non-problems), and other errata. These days, never work stuff, though there are some posts from a decade ago.

Looks like WP, but it's actually static. WP is the authoring side, and I export to the main site.

https://francoisbest.com/posts

Not much content there (guilty of the classic "dev building a blog engine rather than writing content" paradigm), but I had some fun writing interactive articles.

Currently looking into moving from static versioned markdown to a better authoring experience, any pointers welcome.

  • I swear I should just have an RSS feed of the changelogs for my various blogging engines and not pretend I'm actually going to do any writing with them :-)

https://battesonb.github.io

A relatively new blog. I've picked up posting more frequently in the last few weeks. Right now, I'm working through making a simple game end-to-end using WebGPU and TypeScript. I enjoy revisiting the linear algebra involved and focusing on something different to my work day.

https://bayesianneuron.com - I barely have time to write anymore but its a blog in 2 parts, one is a modern more professional-esque where I write about ML, discrete optimization, and security. The other is a good old fashioned 90s style geocities type “space” where I rant and do random writings

https://charlesharri.es

Commentary on stuff I find online, public-facing journal at irregular intervals, collection of book reviews. Skews web-dev. I’m trying to use it as an archive of what I’ve been thinking about recently—the idea is that the primary audience is me, but 5 years from now.

Powered by a good ol fashioned PHP CMS!

Sure https://tiltingatwindmills.dev/

I should post more. I'm kind of leaning more towards an old-style homepage than a blog though, that's why I separated out the Notes and Miscellany sections for things that don't really make sense as a part of a chronological series of posts.

Ey, here's my blog => https://0xbro.red :)

I blog (and make videos) about what surrounds AppSec, ethical hacking, penetration testing, CTFs, and other various cybersecurity stuff. I also plan to do vulnerability research and responsible disclosures in the future, but only time will tell.

You are welcome to my web space!

Two days late, but as there have been a few submissions about compilations of the blogs featured in the comments attached to this post, I guess I might as well throw in mine too. https://blog.qiqitori.com

Mostly retro stuff, but not always. In fact, the next post won't really be about retro I think!

https://ethanmick.com/

I write about building cloud multi-tenant SaaS products and run a niche newsletter that goes further into detail about building these. My goal is to help every software engineer (if they want to do this) turn their side project into a product they can monetize and live off of.

I recently started my blog on https://blog.fponzi.me/

There are only 2 articles right now, but I would love to get some feedback if anyone wants to provide any. I mostly write about things that I'm learning, and random thoughts. I'm interested in operating and distributed systems. Thanks!

https://alexsci.com/blog/

I keep it tech focused, my personal life is elsewhere. I like doing deep dives into topics, especially where I don't know what I'll find. I usually start with "writing as thinking" and then edit most of it away to get something readable.

https://frest.substack.com

I am working on better APIs driven by a better user interface experience.

The better APIs are REST but relational. The better UIs are driven by an embeddable component-based view of the API and its data.

The result is plastic software that out of the box more resembles Access or FileMaker than Ruby on Rails.

https://blog.reiterate.app Reiterate is an app I wrote to help guide esports players through the process of self-improvement. The blog covers app releases, musing on self-improvement in general, and technical details about the app's code and the servers that run the backend.

Http://theroadchoseme.com

After a few years as a Software Engineer I realized sitting at a desk was not making me long term happy. After years of saving and planning I quit to drive around the world. I’ve driven the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Argentina, right around the coastline of Africa and to all the remote corners of Australia. More adventures in the works!

https://www.adamconrad.dev

A lot of it is around engineering management best practices but there are some more philosophical and personal bits sprinkled here and there.

It has hit HN a few times but I’ll admit I have no analytics on it so I don’t really know how many readers I have beyond my newsletter subscribers.

https://benigninteroperability.com/

I blog about FHIR, in the healthcare space. Short posts that I also post on LinkedIn. I started at the beginning of the year and typically post two or three times a week.

It's helped boost my LinkedIn audience and profile. Which has helped in other areas.

https://mckayla.blog

Not very many posts. I only started trying to take writing for it seriously the last few months, with a target of one post per month. But I think "All you need is data and functions" is a pretty good read! Briefly made the front page of HN shortly after it was published.

https://lemonfold.io

I write about about my favorite machine learning algorithms using as few formulas as possible, and about my journey of learning Rust writing my own machine learning frameworks.

Unfortunately, I only find time to write a post once a month or every other month. But it helps me organizing my thoughts

https://skyefreeman.com

Mostly writing about software I'm working on or things I'm thinking about. Technical topics include: software startups, development with iOS, SwiftUI, Common Lisp (which the blog is built/served with!), Emacs Lisp, and soon Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView.

https://www.joe-bergeron.com

The writing is mostly about software projects, but I also document art stuff here as well. Had some fun with the actual site design itself, modeled after a pseudo-file-browser with windows that you can focus, resize, and drag around… hopefully not too unusable. :)

https://brett.coulstock.id.au

Huge emphasis on audio-description writing and accessibility, but I run linux, program Python and PHP, and live and go hiking in a biodiversity hotspot, so if those things aren't there yet, they will get a mention one day.

Hand-coded in HTML. No ads, trackers, javascript.

www.ashwinmenon.com

The most useful article is probably the one on personal finance, as lots have told me it cleared up a lot of confusion for them: https://www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/activities/2017-01-30-a-gu...

These two posts on tech interviews are also quite useful to understand the industry and increase your chances of landing a job: https://www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/thoughts/2022-01-21-tech-i...

https://www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/thoughts/2022-02-10-tech-i...

Please do let me know if you give it a read!

https://d13v.com

More than 100 essays on various timeless topics.

Most recently I wrote a series called “how to be a game changer” which focused on creating win win situations in all aspects of life. One of the essays “Opt out of cynicism” made it to #2 on HN.

I’ve been slow to write for the last 1.5y as I was giving a birth to a startup.

https://johnmathews.is I've been writing since 2016 and have covered a wider range of topics that I ever expected. Initially it was just somewhere to write about the the programming concepts I was trying to learn. It's become my personal archive of resources and notes.

https://zef.studio/

Mostly journaling projects in the physical realm. I’ve been enjoying making things with wood, leather, metal, electronics, 3D printing. And some introspective writing, mostly for myself. I have lots more drafts of projects that I’m hoping to publish in the near future.

https://aaroneiche.com

I get in about 1-2 posts a year. They're mostly various projects that I do in my spare time: MakerFaire stuff, electronics and computing projects. Occasionally just slice-of-life things that pop up at the time. I recently made the site static, instead of Wordpress.

Well, there's hardly anything there:

https://www.leehauser.com

It's absolutely non-tech, and I'm just starting it, so it looks awful and has only a little content. The original thought was to write about books I've read or re-read recently. I eventually hope to add some original fiction.

https://stelfox.net/blog/

It's been on and off for a long time, mostly quick "this is how I solved this specific issue" posts but I get enough natural traffic it's clearly helping some people. I want to make time for more long form writing though.

My blog is https://blog.usmanity.com

I write about things on my mind but mainly the posts consist of project updates, experimenting with new tech, and occasional one-off things. There’s no defined criteria which could be a good thing or bad thing. I recently moved from Wordpress to Ghost.

https://www.itsdougholland.com/

Not at all tech-oriented. It's just me — a cranky, anti-social old man — and my opinions, about old movies, public transit, news, politics, my mom who gets on my nerves, and long-ago memories of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll.

https://deadcomputersociety.com/

I haven't posted new content there in a while, but I hope to soon when I find the time. It's still largely a work in progress, and I think I've spent more time working on the custom theme than I have on the actual content.

https://abnercoimbre.com

I've started commentary on the messy business of running a tech conference. (I'm a former NASA engineer now organizing indie conferences for a living.) The essay "Why you can't Kickstart a conference" has thankfully done rather well.

https://duerrenberger.dev/blog/

Writing a lot about SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library) development-wise and projects made with it. Additionally, I cover topics on software engineering, or anything else that I come across and had some thoughts on.

My blog: https://hartenfeller.dev/blog . I mainly blog about WebDev (SvelteKit lastly) and Oracle APEX.

It was one of my best decisions ever, as it helped me understand things better and led to me meeting many great, interesting, and clever guys at conferences, etc.

https://qsantos.fr/

Rants about C and undefined behaviors, random experiments with ham-compatible cryptography.

I finally gave up writing my own blog engine after a few iterations over the decades. I am just using WordPress. So at least, there is no article about how I implemented _this_ blog!

https://davi.sh/blog -- Mostly technical content, but every once in a while I write about something else that grabs my attention.

I'm still trying to make writing regularly more of a habit. I don't have much of a backlog of topics, so trying to work on that a bit.

https://geo.rocks

My open source blog mainly with (geospatial) niche tutorials.

It's a pretty personal thing as I mostly (but not only) derive the blog posts from challenges I encounter during work or my PhD research. In this way it documents my learnings and serves as a quite verbose personal wiki.

My personal website isn’t something I’m proud of from a design or code perspective and most others are usually much better. But if it ain’t broke…

Currently working on uploading and mixing/mastering other guitar ditties

https://www.lifeonthereg.com

Edit: always finding bugs when viewing it too haha oh well

https://venam.nixers.net and nixers.net I have two main feeds, one is about Unix, really deep articles. And I got usual life stuff and philosophy-related articles. I always try to take new perspectives when I write. The second link is to the nixers community.

https://www.prbs23.com/blog/

Started a couple years ago, but I don't have as much time to write as I'd like. The majority of topics relate to ASIC design and verification, since that is my day job, but with some other side projects mixed in.

https://acehigh.substack.com/

write about: (1) lessons from building, including building/selling to a F500 for $>90M (2) summaries of stuff books i read

goal is to 1/ share what my failures with others and hopefully help someone 2/ give my thoughts clarity

https://benjcal.space/

I started this not too long ago, mostly write about stuff that I’m exploring at the moment, i.e. I’m currently writing a quick post about making simple GUIs with Tcl/Tk, which turns out is way simpler and more fun that what I expected :)

https://guilhermegarcia.dev

Coming in a little late, I've got a blog where I write about my tech findings in brazillian Portuguese. Mostly short write ups about how I research a new technology or topic (though there are some non tech related stuff here and there).

Mine is https://ache.one

I don't write a lot. Mostly in French. But the web site have a lot of features.

- Static - Multilingual - Integrated performant Kudo system - RSS feed

And a bunch of things like side notes, dark-theme, zen mode, etc. I seem to enjoy to improve the blog more than to write blog posts.

https://benkettle.xyz

It is a work in progress, but I’d like for it to be a place where I can write about projects and anything that interests me. Will primarily be a combination of computer science and urban planning topics, maybe with a little cooking and hiking mixed in.

https://shahinrostami.com

I used to write about evolutionary computation, data science, and other tech bits. I'm on my sabbatical right now and mostly writing pieces with no real common theme. I recently wrote my own static site generator - that held me up a little!

https://mergy.org/index/

Old tech notes collected over the many years mostly when I had to fix something that wasn't found on the net alreadt at the time. I purged a lot a couple of years ago when I rebuilt it all. Infrequently added but present.

https://paeselhz.github.io/

Every time I try to put myself to write regularly, I fail miserably. But the ones that I get to complete are mostly related to data analysis on public data that I found interesting, or technologies that I've been working on.

https://wdkwwdk.com/posts - not much content, most interesting around some 10+ year old outages I investigated. Started writing a bit when I had some free time in 2022, but haven't done a great job of being consistent with new content.

https://maninthedot.com/ my clunky eclectic web face online. slow growing bits of projects and tools, eventual rambles on topics from what i do, made with experimental builds because it's mine and it's fun to play in the codes ;)

https://magis.substack.com/

Writing about data-as-a-serice (ie. selling datasets), especially as it relates to finance & hedge funds. Includes both technical pieces, summaries of big events at my startup, and higher level questions on data valuation.

https://christophvoigt.com/

My personal blog writing mainly about technical things such as Kubernetes (and Containers), WebAssembly or Zig. Lately I’m documenting my progress of learning the Rust programming language by taking notes on specific topics.

https://keita.blog/

Not sure how many people here read both Japanese and English, but it's mostly English with some Japanese posts here and there. It's mostly a collection of side projects that I've been working on and some memos for future me.

https://pinecoder.dev

Typical dev blog, though I'd like to invest a bit more into harvesting my thousands of notes, and be less picky on what i share. I am not a good formal writer, so wanting to transition into the more informal style which i find more natural.

https://infinitelimit.net

I started it fairly recently (linking it here will probably cause the server to melt) Just my space to talk about whatever I'm thinking/working on.

Currently it's focused on Fang, the programming language I'm designing/developing.

https://www.hoelzel.it

I write about devops and kubernetes in general. I started this last year with the hopes of giving back to the communities that gave me everything. Another advantage is that i use it as a log for things i figured out so i dont forget them ;)

https://yulian.kuncheff.com

I don't write often (mostly lack of time), but I try to write technical articles on how to set things up, or if I want to share an opinion on the state of some things (most of them are older ramblings from when I was younger)

https://www.shruggingface.com/

I started this blog a few months ago to explore the emerging world of generative AI. Hoping to write much more soon!

I built it as a next.js app with mdx support, and the microblog posts are rendered from a custom notion CMS setup.

https://blog.perryizgr8.com

I write pretty infrequently so there are only around 30 posts in the 3 years I've been writing. The content is mostly related to software and programming, but sometimes I'll write about anything I find interesting.

http://live.julik.nl Been there for nearly 20 years, but haven't been posting much the last few years. Mostly because most of the things I find important are the "people ops" and teamwork-related, and this can escalate quickly

I really, really need to get back to writing and updating it (let alone use the new static pages instead of PHP) but this is mine: https://0xff.nu/

I write about my (previous) PHP and Python projects as well as experiments and opinions on the small-web.

I blog on https://andinfinity.eu/ occasionally. Microsaas, saas in general, build in public, building startups, planned posts are a lot on go, hexagonal architecture, ddd etc. And also weird things from the internet, love that!

https://blog.ioces.com/matt

I post pretty sporadically about things I'm working on or that interest me. Electronics, coding, food, general hacking and making.

There are only a handful of posts there now, with 2 or 3 in the pipeline for the coming months.

https://www.jonandnic.com

Online since 2001 in some form or another. Its mostly genuinely personal, but since tech is my life, there's a lot about tech in there. (I'm a top result when searching for getting a NeXT Station onto a home network!)

I think I'm a little late, but my personal blog is https://ajxs.me/ So far, I've mostly written about my hobby of reverse-engineering vintage synthesisers. I'm currently writing more 'general' tech articles.

https://johnfraney.ca/blog/

Generally I'll write a post when I try to do something that's difficult to find an example of online. I don't get a _ton_ of traffic, but writing prose is a nice change from writing code.

https://wyclif.substack.com - it's occasionally been on the front page, mostly at weekends: "social science, genetics, history, culture and politics. The drunken ramblings of two Tang-dynasty poets may also feature."

https://www.zachnielsen.org/

I’ve been writing on and off for a few years now! I’ve mostly been using this to note any particularly troublesome bugs/commands as well as use writing to think through some analysis throughout my career.

https://hacdias.com

I've been maintaining my personal website since somewhere in 2014. I write a bit all over the place, but there's things from personal stuff to more technical things. On the homepage, you can also see some of my favourite posts.

https://insightfultroll.com/

Just random stuff I come across and my thoughts on it - more of entries that have interested me and so I have a log of it over time. More for me then others so - hope someone also gets something out of it :)

https://cretezy.com

I'm a software developer who's been dipping his toes into making videos recently. I don't blog very often (planning on doing more soon, hopefully), but my videos are posted there as well.

I mainly focus on programming and editor workflows.

https://dylanfitzgerald.net/

Mostly the-consulting-side-of-technical-consulting posts.

When I'm on a roll I post every weekday, but it's been a bit while dealing with symptomatic PTSD on my end. Hoping to get back to it within a couple months.

https://blog.kronis.dev/

I write about mostly WebDev and DevOps adjacent topics, though there's the occasional post about game engines and AI in there as well.

Still working on writing more often, probably should upload some past presentations as well.

https://marginhound.com/

Python & Analytics, with a heavy skew towards pricing and website investments.

Also has a bunch of web calculators and some past research projects.

Pricing content goes on hold when my day job is focused on that. Too much professional backlash...

https://blog.hnnng.space/

I write about technical stuff I encounter throughout my day, mostly as a support for myself remembering it. Since it might be interesting for some people I asked myself why not putting it into some blog format.

For frenchs: https://www.mylloon.fr/blog

I am still a student and I never wrote anything before this blog so it's not very interesting but Im having fun (and everything from the software running the blog to posts are by my hand!)

https://kerunaru.substack.com

Maybe too niche but it's focused on applying Stoicism in our day-by-day situations at work. I started it in November 2022, I usually publish every two weeks. I use problems that happen to me as inspiration.

https://nkit.dev/blogs

I have only written two blogs. One of them is on rust other on my frustrations with TDD. TDD one is more of a joke. I don't think it'll be of much interest to others. But I guess no harm in putting it out.

https://ewpratten.com

I'm pretty bad at sticking to a set list of topics. I like to just write about whatever is interesting me at the moment. Lots of semi-how-to-style posts where I end up explaining how to do the things I find interesting.

https://slama.dev/

My little corner of the internet, filled with things that I personally find interesting. The posts are a mixture of lecture notes, additional resources for my YouTube videos and random things I didn't want to forget.

  • My RSS app wasn’t able to find your RSS feed. That’s how I (and I’m sure many others here) keep track of updates on blogs that post occasionally.

https://omarkama.li/blog

I still have to find an area of focus for my writing but a pattern so far is that I like explaining and simplifying technical concepts to a non technical audience, starting with Digital Infrastructure and AI.

https://yieldthought.com - wrote some popular posts about programming (under the coderoom name) and I guess also about working with an iPad and Linode before it was cool.

Haven’t posted for a while now, too many other things going on I guess!

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/

I've been posting for ~8 years, there's 443 posts / videos and I post something new every week. It's focused on anything related to building and deploying web apps.

https://smcleod.net

I used to blog about the challenges of running high throughput / latency sensitive workloads on a shoestring budget at non-profits, these days it's mostly code snippets and me whining about enterprise culture ;')

https://www.sunilshenoy.com

I blog once a week on Saturday or Sunday, about the thing that is on my mind.

Going through the list above, I have made a note to also start writing about programming, UI / UX and API Performance Monitoring and Improvements.

https://alanpearce.eu

I really want to write more often, I'm not sure if it's that I don't know what to write about or that the idea of blogging doesn't come to mind easily when I'm doing things that I could blog about.

https://cskwrd.github.io/

Just started blogging. I want to write about my learnings with RISC-V and rust. However, I need to get comfortable getting words on the page so the topics I've been writing about have varied wildly.

https://tommynguyen.dev/

Not too many interesting technical or SWE related posts though. I mostly use it as a scratchpad for ideas and non-tech things I'm thinking about (probably write enough about technical topics at work!)

https://0xfe.blogspot.com/

My posts are sporadic and span nearly two decades now. It's all programming related -- stuff on statistics, music notation, systems administration, etc. Some of these got to the HN front page. :-)

Like a lot of other people, I have a blog that I seldom post things on. Mostly on the topic of creating the blog itself. I try to be humorous and informative but who knows how much of either I actually am haha :)

https://blog.pangalos.dev

https://mattsimpson.ca

I have been blogging before it was called blogging! Ha. Mostly just random technical musings, with a bit of book/movie reviews. There is always room for improvement and more, but I like my little slice of the web.

HTTPS://zacbrown.org

Rarely updated. Usually a conversational/expository style explaining what I did to fix something at home.

Its purpose is 99% to be a record of things I built/configured/did to remind me later. I write in a style I don’t find boring (e.g. not lab notebook style).

Sometimes people find it useful. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://jerrynsh.com/

Started this blog about 2 years ago. I write about Python, web-scraping or some inconsequential tiny projects (inspired by tinyprojects.dev :D) that I worked on. TBH, I haven't settled on any niche.

https://ides.dev/notes/

There aren’t many articles on there at the moment, as I tend to get imposter syndrome part way through writing and never finish, but I have a couple in the works that I’d like to post soon.

https://luten.dev/

I've recently compiled all of my blog posts from the various blogs I've owned since 2006. It really is a personal blog since I don't stick to a particular topic, but most of it is tech related.

https://wells.dev/

Not much to look at yet since it's still new, but I'm hoping to post more regularly. Topics won't be restricted to just mobile dev stuff even though that's where most of my experience is.

https://heitorpb.github.io/

I recently re-wrote this again, with high hopes of getting back to writing more frequently. I have started more drafts this year than I have finished posts... Hope to change that soon (tm)

https://dSebastien.net

I write about Personal Knowledge Management, note-taking, note-making, entrepreneurship and more. I also have a weekly newsletter.

I started writing on that domain ten or so years ago. Some of the older content is long gone :p

https://www.riffraff.info

It's a personal blog, I've run different versions of it for 15 years or so, and there's few pages cached in archive.org which I would like to bring back to the latest incarnation.

Alas, never a priority.

My personal blog: https://ybogomolov.me. I used to blog about functional programming in TypeScript and fp-ts. Now I don’t have much time for that, but I’m planning to revive the blog with more FP content soon.

https://joshuarogers.net

I write as it strikes my fancy. I try to keep it about technology that I find interesting. I only post occasionally because I go through endless revising, but when I do, it’s quite the thrill for me.

https://www.kleemans.ch

Personal blog focussed on tech things I find interesting. Some of them involve building small tools (like a swiss ID checksum generator) or illustrating certain algorithms (like the 4 color theorem).

I'm working on a project to create a blog powered entirely by GitHub gists, POC is working but there is lots more to do.

https://gist.aviperl.me/

It's an outlet for sharing some small code ideas I have here and there.

https://laeri.me/blog

I am practicing writing and blogging so most of my posts at the moment are mostly for that purpose. I still have a lot to learn and my blog will hopefully reflect my improvement over time.

http://beckham.nz/blog

Mostly theoretical-ish deep learning stuff as of late (I'm a PhD candidate in that field). But I want to expand it into really anything: psychology, dating, video game reviews, etc.

https://hashrust.com/

I write about the Rust programming language. I basically write about whatever I learn in Rust. This not only helps cement my understanding of the topic but hopefully helps others as well.

https://tholman.com/ - Largely JS experiments dating back 10+ years. Sometimes I scroll right back to the start and can appreciate the long journey I've taken from scrappy student to now.

https://blog.untrod.com

It’s been fun to have a couple python data science posts get popular, and to read very old posts and see whether ideas I had in my early 20s were decent or quite silly (a good mix of both!).

Http://www.camasmeditation.com

A blog about Metta (lovingkindness) meditation, pop culture, and the Pali scriptures. I haven’t updated for a few months but I am about to post a new one on the joys of being a householder.

Every post includes a fully guided half-hour meditation.

Not for everyone but some of you may enjoy it.

https://pv.wtf

Just got started this year so it's only got two posts so far. One on logging and the other on config languages. I'd like to spend a bit more time writing but still need to build it into a habit.

My personal blog: https://mrkaran.dev/

I've been writing on this space for a while now but the frequency of posts has dropped to once in 2-3 months. I hope to make it a more consistent habit however.

https://vishalsodani.com

I infrequently post about anything I feel like. Some older posts, which were exported from the wordpress version of the blog, are a bit badly formatted.

I am using Zola and github actions to publish.

https://joecode.com

Mostly links to various articles and noise I find interesting along with a photo journal of my school bus conversion project.

Not a lot of words. "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?"

I just finished relaunching my blog 2 days ago with a design, new host, new build tool, etc. so I could get back into writing & owning my writings. I hope to write more soon: https://toast.al

Well, it seems people are still posting here, so here's mine:

http://johnj.com

"I post things here related to programming and art..... You can also find many blog posts written during ten trips to Antarctica here."

http://prepend.com

Technology and technology-adjacent culture posts a few times per year. Mostly around my interest in data, programming, APIs, cryptography, travel, books, and consulting (way back in the 00s).

https://hymnos.existenz.ch

(German.)

Technical and personal stuff mixed up together, running since 2005 on Blogger first, then Movable Type and now Wordpress. Always nice to run down nostalgia lane on my personal life.

https://jeff.glass

Writings about Python on the Web, with a focus on PyScript and Pyodide. Also occassional notes about other technical projects (mostly microcontroller-based LED controls) and amateur radio.

This is a project I’ve been working on to lob verbal grenades at everyone in power. If it seems like I haven’t criticized any certain person yet, just come back later, I’m getting to it.

https://larata.media

https://notedwin.com

I write about projects I have worked on.

Topics: Python, expected goals, feature engineering, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, Raspberry Pi, iPhone sqlite DB's (heart rate data and screen time)

https://allenpike.com/

I’ve been writing monthly for 10 years, and otherwise for 20. Topics have ranged from product development to leadership to breakfast cereal selection techniques.

https://jiml.us/

Subjects: tech, retrocomputing, retro pop culture, radio, interviews, books, comics, TV, music, movies ...etc.

For the record, it's all static content. It's generated using Hugo.

https://ihavea.quest

I blogged about my involvement in FOSS last year. This year has had no updates on account of being the hardest year of my life yet, but I'll get back to it this month.

My blog is at https://ailef.tech

I write mostly about my for fun personal side projects. I don't have that many posts but I'm proud of having hit the HN front page a couple of times!

http://briankitano.com

I write about tech, personal growth and some random stuff.

I really love bearblog, it was exactly what I was looking for to get started, shout-out Charlie Meyer for getting me started!

https://ivymike.dev

Not very coherent, but I try to only post when I have something neat or interesting to say. Software engineering, neat gadgets, and 3d printing are some of the topics.

https://eftegarie.com

My personal blog with random notes, thoughts and blog posts. I don’t update it often sadly, but i like having my firstname @ my last name .com as my email address.

https://l3m.in/

(french) website in vanilla php/html/css, blog + list of my projects. This is a selfhosted website, with an emphasis on loading speed (webp images [...]).

https://oo.svbtle.com/

Hope this will motivate posting a bit more things. So far mostly hidden drafts and some brain dumps and new years resolutions. Leave me a Kudos :)

  • I’m bad for hidden drafts too. It feels slightly crazy to put all that effort into planning, writing, editing, and creating code/content for a post only to let it sit there.

    • Hope we'll both get through this. Thanks for sharing similar experience with me :)

Mostly philosophical spitballing: https://zrkrlc.com

Not a lot going on there but some people have told me they really like my essays so I elected to put my favourite ones online.

https://brntn.me

I'm a web developer, so I end up mostly writing about Python / Django related topics in that space, but really it's anything tech related.

https://pointlessproject.com/

I started it last month and I’m trying to figure out a sustainable writing schedule. Feedback appreciated, thank you!

  • I liked From the Notes. The story had an Asimov vibe to it and the flow was captivating for me.

    Maybe you could make a newsletter so I can subscribe and get notifications for when you write? I'd probably read them once in a while.

  • It’s polished and works well on mobile. The graphics are cool, we’re they made by you?

    I think the most sustainable writing schedule is whenever you feel like it!

    • Thank you! The images are AI generated. I do some minor photoshop work to make the style consistent.

I’ve had many blogs but recently started hosting under my own domain.

https://ruky.me where I mainly talk about digital health, startups, programming and open source

Could I ask why you're asking this question, that might help us to answer more specifically e.g. if you're looking for something particular from this list e.g. advice on aspect of blogging yourself.

My blog is www.andreinc.net . I write mostly about undergrad cs curricula, math, and random thoughts going through my mind. Because of a busy life, i dont have time to write more than a few articles a year.

Articles around (micro) SaaS projects and tech info like no-code alternatives , landing pages, and product and development tips for people trying to get involved or starting their micro SaaS adventure.

Https://tyrel.dev/ A decade of intermittent blogging. Nothing much of substance but I still try to maintain it. Combines Tech, Flying, Coffee, and more.

Pelican site, HTML, images, and CSS only, no JS!

paritybits.me

The best time to start a blog is thirty years ago. The second best time is today.

This blog went active a couple of months ago. Writing for myself and for the sake of it, to make a habit of collecting thoughts concretely. I have a couple of dozen drafts ongoing evenly scattered between 1% and 100%, and it's fun to poke at things occasionally.

Only the first post, https://www.paritybits.me/copilot-seo-war/, had any uptake. That's ok!

homepage = https://mxuribe.com

blog = https://mxuribe.com/posts

There are only a few remaining old posts, since i removed many others. I honestly haven't blogged in sooo long...But, recently, I've been getting the itch to write more; and more publicly too. This might be the trigger that i needed to get some forward movement. Let the broadcasts of thoughts begin!

Am I late to the party?

https://blog.est.im/

in three categories:

- stdout: technical, objective stuff

- stdin: stuff from other places I think worth noting

- stderr: rants and opinions.

Https://Jodavaho.io

Long overdue and I've only been posting in the last year, but am slowly converting journal musings to posts. I want something that can survive me so my kids can read it.

https://porkrind.org/missives/

Just random stuff, quite often just how I solved something that I did’t have much success googling. I used to wonder if it made any difference until I googled some obscure error I was getting and ended up with my blog as the top answer. Totally solved my problem, too :-).

I was going to submit this entry to HN but never got around to it: https://porkrind.org/missives/decoding-the-sprite-format-of-...

https://vladsiv.com

Writing about Data Engineering, ML, and AWS solutions with some focus on numeric calculations.

  • Unfortunately you don’t have a rss feed to follow… can you implement it?

    • You're right, it's missing the RSS feed. I wanted to add it but the last couple of months were really tough personally. Hopefully, I'll get some time soon to address it. Thanks for taking the interest!

https://anisse.astier.eu

HN really liked this article: Awk driven IoT https://anisse.astier.eu/awk-driven-iot.html

But there many others that could be interesting:

Making a Twitter bot that looks for hashes https://anisse.astier.eu/making-a-twitter-bot-that-looks-for...

SIGSEGv1 qualification CTF https://anisse.astier.eu/qual-sigsegv1-rtfm.html

Bash, so long and thanks for all the fish https://anisse.astier.eu/bash-to-fish.html

Playing with ARM servers in a pre-Ampere era https://anisse.astier.eu/distro-kernel-scaleway-arm.html

How remote work pushes you towards engineering best practices https://anisse.astier.eu/embedded-software-maturity.html

How I traded my first software project: https://anisse.astier.eu/gmail-binary-clock-rust.html

Winning r2wars 2019 https://anisse.astier.eu/r2wars-2019.html

And of course my ongoing Game Gear emulator in Rust series: https://anisse.astier.eu/talks-emulation.html https://anisse.astier.eu/gears-update-2023-01.html https://anisse.astier.eu/gears-update-2023-02.html https://anisse.astier.eu/gears-update-2023-03.html

https://dorotac.eu

Too many projects, not enough time. Brutalist design, no JS :)

  • My browser and feed reader report your atom xml has invalid xml:

      error on line 58 at column 82: Unescaped '<' not allowed in attributes values

    • Thanks! That's the Markdown renderer failing to escape entities properly. Fixed now by switching to markdown-it-py.

Peanball.net

A random list of technical things I work(ed) on in my spare time and a reading list of articles I found interesting to remember and share.

If anyone blogs about design, UX, media theory, data/information science, privacy and/or geopolitics, please respond here.

prashanth.world

I haven’t updated it in a long time, but hopefully going to be making some more regular updates soon. Truthfully I have a tough time sharing writing or thoughts in public (including hn comments) because I often find my opinions changing and posting in public is so static. i hope to overcome that mental hurdle and start writing again

I read this as: could your personal blog successfully be shared on the front page of HN without being hugged to death?

Blog to let parents semi-anonymously share their stories about parenting.

HTTPS://www.babyblackbox.com

Technically not my blog but built it.

Sure, it's blog.thea.codes. I write about open source, synthesizers, 3d printers, and PCB design.

evilcookie.de

Random software-developer-related topics that I find interesting and needed to try out. I focus on writing compact posts since my overall focus is limited. I also use it to look back what I've actually done in the last years.

linux, programming, golang, godot, advent of code

Http://blog.pythonaro.com

...but tbh it blogfaded when I started being interested in motorbikes.

Https://www.hypergeometric.com

I’ve been posting off and on this year after a long hiatus.

www.shankhs.com

- Its a tech blog for beginners. - The plan is to write more intermediate to advanced level articles. - I haven't been updating it for quite some time, especially, after chatGPT.

www.extremelearning.com.au

Posts about interesting extensions I’ve found to some statistical algorithms for use in computer graphics, physics and applied maths.

Major focus on quasirandom sampling.

https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/

A mix of tutorials and interesting things I learn or discover. Most of the posts involve Python, SQLite or both.

Some of my favourite posts.

- Extending SQLite with Rust. The basics of writing a SQLite extension in Rust.

https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/extending-sqlite-with-rust...

- Building a remote SQLite explorer. TL;DR: SSH tricks to turn SQLite into a networked DB.

https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/sqlite-remote-explorer-gui...

- Using SQLite for logging and ad-hoc profiling (SQLite is a powerful JSON database!)

https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/sqlite-logging-profiling-p...

- Learning about Bloom Filters by creating one. There are a ton of posts about implementing a bloom filter, but it was super fun to write one from scratch.

https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/understanding-bloom-filter...

And my favourite one:

- Heroku-style deployments with Docker and git tags. I tried to create a deployment system where I could just `git push production`. It covers a bit of everything, git, docker, Caddy, blue-green deployments, git hooks, curl, etc.

https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/git-push-deployments-docke...

agentydragon.com

Idk, something like maybe 20 posts. Writing about AI, rationality-adjacent stuff, effective altruism, some philosophy/psychology

g-w1.github.io/blog

I love to write about anything that interests me. I want to become a better writer. I plan to become one through my blog.

www.moderndescartes.com/essays

Pretty much all over the board, with infrequent but polished essays

davided . win

I write about my journey with music, electronic music production, and single-sided deafness!

https://thomasahle.com/blog

Each post is using a different platform. Blogger, medium, self-rolled.

I still haven't found a really good system that allows me to write math in latex while looking modern and not paywalled like medium.

I'm also wondering about a self hosted blog for "twitter thread" like shorter content. Any recommendations?

mohsaad.com/blog

A little shuttered over the years, but I'm hoping to revive it this year.

blog.harterrt.com

Mostly data science - been slow lately, but I’m working on a couple pieces again.

https://blog.tasuki.org/

It has no topic and is kind of abandoned. Some posts from like 2006 are pretty embarrassing, but I keep them around anyway.

There are like two or three blog posts that rank well on Google for whatever reason and they comprise the majority of traffic despite not being very good or interesting.

anyfactor.github.io

Not much stuff there really. I am trying to write as a way to decompress.

sledgeworx.io General software stuff

estimating.dev Focus on software estimates

https://gregreda.com/

I've mostly written technical, code-centric posts on Python, ML, and data science. Some of my early posts (2013) were wildly popular at the time and hit the top of HN and various subreddits.

I haven't written much recently, but I've been trying to branch outside of technical posts as I felt like my profession had started to become too much of my identity.

The post I'm most proud of:

- https://gregreda.com/2022/11/30/this-ones-for-me/ - Feeling pride and catharsis after years of bad health luck (leukemia, bad bike crash, cardiac arrest).

My most popular posts:

- https://gregreda.com/2013/03/03/web-scraping-101-with-python... - Web scraping tutorial using Python and beautifulsoup

- http://www.gregreda.com/2015/02/15/web-scraping-finding-the-... - Another web scraping tutorial with Python, but this time for sites that dynamically load content

- https://gregreda.com/2013/10/26/intro-to-pandas-data-structu... - The start of a series of posts on Python's pandas library

- https://gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-scien... - Some useful unix commands for data processing

- https://gregreda.com/2015/08/23/cohort-analysis-with-python/ - Tutorial on doing cohort analysis using Python and pandas

- https://gregreda.com/2017/01/07/freelance-data-science-exper... - My experience as a freelance data scientist

- https://gregreda.com/2018/02/04/hiring-data-scientists/ - My approach to hiring data scientists (though my thoughts on this have evolved over the last five years).

https://jsavage.xyz

I write mostly about travel (been living nomadically the last 5+ years, currently in Asia), random thoughts I have (eg. on mindset, politics, occasionally even touchy topics like dating and sex), and updates on side projects I'm working on. I originally started the blog as a place to rant about wage slavery and the need for universal basic income, but I've already said everything I wanted to say there (also that topic is very depressing) so now I focus on other things. I'm a software engineer but I don't talk about tech here (currently using my Reddit / HN alternative as a pseudo-blog as a I build it out https://zsync.xyz/) - any serious technical writing I'd rather post to my personal blog under my real name or maybe Twitter.

I try to be as unfiltered and polarizing as possible - not because I'm an asshole, but because that's the type of content I personally enjoy the most. I don't plan out posts, just brain dump and never look at it again. Here are some posts:

- Tokyo Trip Reflections – The Nicest City https://jsavage.xyz/2023/06/30/tokyo-trip-reflections-the-ni...

- Left Bali, now in Hong Kong https://jsavage.xyz/2023/05/30/left-bali-now-in-hong-kong/ (at the end I question the conflation of love and sex)

- When AI Can Execute, Your Job Will No Longer Be Necessary https://jsavage.xyz/2023/05/09/when-ai-can-execute-your-job-...

- Addiction is a Lack of Self-Control, and Every Choice You Make is Interlinked https://jsavage.xyz/2023/02/11/addiction-is-a-lack-of-self-c...

- Execution is The Most Important and Underrated Skill https://jsavage.xyz/2023/01/03/execution-is-the-most-importa...

- Life Needs Challenge to be Fun (thoughts on work, happiness, and fulfillment) https://jsavage.xyz/2022/08/31/life-needs-challenge-to-be-fu...

- Happiness = Fulfillment + Community. Should You Do What You Love? https://jsavage.xyz/2022/05/07/happiness-fulfillment-communi...

Was going to post some older posts as well but looking back at them now some of them look like they were written by a different person, which is cool because it shows how much I've progressed.

https://taylor.town

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Synthetic Intelligence :: https://taylor.town/synthetic-intelligence

When to Build Millennia Sewers :: https://taylor.town/millennium-sewer

Candid Culture :: https://taylor.town/candid-culture

A Cyberpunk Bathroom in the Middle of Nowhere :: https://taylor.town/cyberpunk-bathroom

Please Sell My Personal Information :: https://taylor.town/please-sell-my-personal-information

Your Brilliant App Idea :: https://taylor.town/brilliant-app-idea

Weeds & Bozo Explosions :: https://taylor.town/bozo-explosions

Don't Play Near Black Holes :: https://taylor.town/black-holes

Ghost Story :: https://taylor.town/ghost-story

10 Minutes is 1% of Your Day :: https://taylor.town/10-minutes

Time :: https://taylor.town/time

Pick Practical Principles :: https://taylor.town/pick-practical-principles

Death in Diapers :: https://taylor.town/death-in-diapers

Are You Serious? :: https://taylor.town/are-you-serious

How Do Taoists Quit Smoking? :: https://taylor.town/how-do-taoists-quit-smoking

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