Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by hugozap » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 5:40 PM UTC

btown wrote: post #156

LukeB_UK wrote: post #8

Beware 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.

Sometimes pedestals are justified, though. For instance, Dan Abramov (mentioned by OP) is not only one of the most respected voices in React patterns and best practices, he also works at Facebook and has an outsized voice in advocating for development priorities internally; in fact, he is the secretary at the core group meetings [0]. What he retweets [1] is the closest indication we can get to what the core group wil…

I wish more developers had his mindset and put their ego aside. He is totally professional and open to ideas even from "competing" technologies.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by felipemnoa » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 5:41 PM UTC

Jonathan Blow, developer of The Witness.

[1] http://the-witness.net

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by BlackjackCF » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 5:43 PM UTC

ploggingdev wrote: post #39

Julia 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/

I follow Julia on Twitter.

She always has great drawings/hilarious stuff that she posts. It's really inspiring.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by tjholowaychuk » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 5:48 PM UTC

Flattered, but honestly many of us are just well-known because we work in the average domain, where many people happen to be. I don't think people should really look up anything I do that way, there are plenty of far more skilled programmers out there, they're just working on more obscure things haha. There's nothing I do that someone else couldn't easily achieve, just takes some time.

Besides, most of us also had the perk of working for startups where we got to produce a lot of OSS. Anyone in that position can do the same. The only skill you need is persistence.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by danesparza » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 6:14 PM UTC

Excellent list of devs already. I would add:

Tess Ferrandez: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tess/ (Fantastic analysis of Windows debugging internals)

John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by nojvek » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 6:15 PM UTC

I follow anyone on github who is doing something that's interesting.

It seems this thread mostly lists folks with white sounding names. May be because software development mostly happens in the West.

When I was in college, I actually believed white people were superior because they had faster neurons. Took a while to invalidate that theory out.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by teh_klev » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 6:25 PM UTC

danesparza wrote: post #165

Excellent list of devs already. I would add: Tess Ferrandez: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tess/ (Fantastic analysis of Windows debugging internals) John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/

++1 for Tess Ferrandez and her debugging labs. As an engineer for a web hoster I found these invaluable for tracking down why, with no knowledge of their codebase, customer worker processes on IIS would suddenly die, hang or go 100% CPU.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by donnfelker » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 6:39 PM UTC

yla92 wrote: post #63

For Android dev related, I follow Jake Wharton : https://github.com/jakewharton , https://twitter.com/JakeWharton - He is well known in Android community. He has authored a lot of great libraries personally and under Square. Mark Murphy - https://commonsware.com/blog/ Chris Banes - https://chris.banes.me/ Cyril Mottier - https://cyrilmottier.com , https://twitter.com/cyrilmottier Dan Lew - http://blog.danlew.net/ Don…

Thank you for mentioning me. I really appreciate it. I'm always here to help. Please reach out if there is anything I can do to help you in any way. :)

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by taway_1212 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 6:41 PM UTC

jackmott wrote: post #91

Mike Acton, Casey Muratori, Sean Barret, Jonathan Blow, Shawn McGrath. All game programmers, focused on low level C/C++ programming. I'd love to have some similar guys/girls to follow who do something at the other end of the spectrum (F#/Scala/Haskell etc) but haven't come across any that do educational streaming. I get a lot out of seeing people's workflows, as they build actual production code. Most of the function…

The same for me plus more of that from Charles Bloom's epic blog (http://www.cbloom.com/rants.html and http://www.cbloom.com/rambles.html)

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by steveklabnik » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 6:50 PM UTC

ad_hominem wrote: post #147

mingyeow wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, Steve is the best person on the internet indeed! Always outspoken, always protective, never nasty

> always protective, never nasty Nobody's perfect https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/

Yes, this is an incident I still regret deeply. I probably think about it once a week. It's one of the reasons that I'm a bit different these days than I am back then; I didn't want this to happen ever again.