Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by spectramax » Sat, Feb 08, 2020, 3:41 AM UTC

young_unixer wrote: post #3

https://drewdevault.com

I quite enjoy reading what Drew has to say. Something about his transparency, his intense honesty, his approach, minimalism, objectivity and slight tinge of libertarianism - it is quite refreshing. Not to mention all of this through the lens of software engineering.

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by visualphoenix » Sat, Feb 08, 2020, 3:44 AM UTC

Nicholas Frechette[0] has a deeply technical blog about building his MIT licensed animation compression library for game development...

[0] https://nfrechette.github.io/

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by SyneRyder » Sat, Feb 08, 2020, 4:01 AM UTC

Cliffski's blog is one of the only ones I follow that is still active. Not every post is on development progress, but enough that I find it worth following:

http://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/

A couple of recent posts I liked:

https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2019/12/16/stability-p...

https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2020/01/14/trying-to-a...

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by lhnz » Sat, Feb 08, 2020, 4:01 AM UTC

https://wordsandbuttons.online

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by _bxg1 » Sat, Feb 08, 2020, 4:05 AM UTC

John Carmack tweets pretty regularly, often about projects. Right now he's taking a solo swing at AGI

https://mobile.twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by rounakdatta » Sat, Feb 08, 2020, 4:22 AM UTC

One of the sweetest Distributed Systems blogs I have ever read: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com

And yes, also my favorite 101 explainer blog: https://arjunsreedharan.org

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by kmatthewc » Sat, Feb 08, 2020, 4:24 AM UTC

https://vorpus.org/blog

I was particularly influenced by this post.

https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by joshwcomeau » Sat, Feb 08, 2020, 4:45 AM UTC

Shameless self-plug: I blog about React, interaction/animation, and remote work. It's a bit of a pot pourri, but people seem to like it!

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by rammy1234 » Sat, Feb 08, 2020, 4:46 AM UTC

https://www.staticfire.site

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by simonw » Sat, Feb 08, 2020, 4:47 AM UTC

I started posting weeknotes a few months ago and it's really helped me get back into the habit of posting at least once a week: https://simonwillison.net/

Weeknotes archive here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/weeknotes/