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Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
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Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#102Beware of putting people on pedestals. Far better is to just follow people who do cool stuff. They don't have to be a "master" to do something cool that will inspire you.
My introduction to the world of professional software development was meeting one of the idols and hanging out with him for two days before realizing who he was. We've kept in touch since then and I now consider him one of my best friends. I agree about putting people on pedestals, and my own experiences speak to that. The person I once saw in a very idealized way I now see as fully a person, complete with faults and…
> I would argue that there are no "masters" - or rather, that there are very few of them, and those that I might consider such are "just people" too.
Mastery does not obviate humanity.
The most gifted (which I define as the cross-section between talented and practiced) people I know tend to care more about the content of your character than your technical prowess.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#103For InfoSec: Troy Hunt https://www.troyhunt.com/ and Eric Lawrence https://textslashplain.com/
For JavaScript (particularly the language changes): Brendan Eich and Dominic Denicola
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#104Hmm... I don't really think of things in those terms. There are no individual developers that I explicitly "follow" to any particular degree. I think more about projects, although for single-developer projects I guess it's approximately the same difference.
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#105but, how do you follow them? follow them on github to get notifications? or do they have blogs?
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#106Marco Arment, of tumblr, instapaper, Overcast, and ATP: https://marco.org/ , https://twitter.com/marcoarment Gary Bernhardt, of wat: https://github.com/garybernhardt , https://twitter.com/garybernhardt
You actually mean Gary Bernhardt of Destroy All Software https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts
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#107James Hague, "a recovering programmer who has been designing video games since the 1980s...", http://prog21.dadgum.com
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#108Julia Evans : https://jvns.ca Rachel : https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ Jeff Atwood : https://blog.codinghorror.com/ Joel Spolsky : https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ Dan Luu : https://danluu.com/ patio11 : http://www.kalzumeus.com/
While he has many an interesting read on SEO and business related topics in the field of software, what programming related content from patio11 are you referring to?
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#109Steve https://twitter.com/steveklabnik He is awesome human being.
Yes, Steve is the best person on the internet indeed! Always outspoken, always protective, never nasty
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#110I would add to this list the late Pieter Hintjens, known for ZeroMQ and many other projects over the years.
Beyond programming, his writings about society and how it can be explained algorithmically are very interesting to programmers.