I like to keep the content I read curated.
Infinitely scrolling a social media wall is not something that I find satisfactory anymore (https://lobste.rs/ is one of the few exceptions). In this regard, I returned to the good old habit of using RSS feeds. In this section, I keep the list of blogs (or notable articles) that I find/found interesting.
I am sure many others are waiting to be discovered (by me), so this page should get updates as time flies.
As a personal preference, I usually don’t read articles on blogs “powered by” medium or substack.
Blogs I keep an eye on (alphabetical order)
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abyteofcoding.com - this is not exactly a blog but rather a newsletter that tracks and reviews geeky articles trending around the tech web.
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attractivechaos.wordpress.com/ - this is an anonymous blog. I am unsure if the (unknown) author plans to maintain it further, but here is where some particular questions of mine found the answers.
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begriffs.com/ - this is the personal blog of Joe Nelson: cool projects, anecdotes, parsing and lexing, postgres, postgrest, and much more!
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benhoyt.com - this is the personal site of Ben Hoyt. The articles about GoAWK are some of my favorites (I don’t even know how to write code in go!).
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dlvhdr.me - this is the personal blog of Dolev Hadar. I discovered the blog only recently, but “The Renaissance of the Command Line”, is one of my 2022 favorite articles.
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drewdevault.com/ - this is the personal blog of Drew DeVault: open source, the hare programming language, unpopular opinions and a good sense of humor.
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j3s.sh - this is the (minismalist) good-looking personal site of Jes Olson. Talks about Free Software and other tech topics. Here is where I found the motivation for writing this.
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jse.li/ - this is the personal blog of Jesse Li: interesting and diverse articles, bonus points: humor.
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lemire.me - this is the blog of Daniel Lemire, a science professor at the University of Quebec. His articles always bring something unexpected to the table. For example, when was the last time you wondered: How quickly you can convert floats to doubles and back?.
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lowleveljavascript - this is the YouTube channel of Francis Stokes. Emulators, low-level stuff, javascript, it all makes sense now!
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muscar.eu - this is the blog of Alex Muscar, an old childhood friend. He writes about algorithms and CS topics.
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nullprogram.com - this is the personal blog of Chris Wellons. His articles are always a source of inspiration (check this out). Bonus: his GitHub account is full of gems!
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ptomato.wordpress.com/ - this is the personal blog of “Philip Chimento”: well-articulated and well-documented coding adventures.
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randomascii.wordpress.com - this is the blog of Bruce Dawson: bugs, optimizations and technical anecdotes.
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smalldatum.blogspot.com/ - this is the personal blog of Mark Callaghan. This a niche blog that focuses on databases, storage engines, and the like.
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wellquite.org - this is the personal blog of Matthew Sackman. I found the series Let’s build! A distributed, concurrent editor extremely entertaining.
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xeiaso.net - this is the personal site of Xe Iaso. The articles here have a high level of geekiness and humor.