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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?
#172I don't follow developers, because of time. I tend to search for information I need, rather than follow someone and read what they have to say. If I did the latter I would be continuously distracted and overloaded with too many ideas to explore!
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#1733 hours and nobody Linus Torvalds? I must be getting old...
If you wanted to follow him, how would you do it? He doesn't exactly have a blog, or other channels aimed at a wide audience
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#174Troll picks: Curtis Yarvin a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin ) Xah Lee ( http://xahlee.org/ ) Michael O'Church ( https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/ ) Bryan Edds ( https://medium.com/@bryanedds ) CAT-V ( http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ ) Suckless ( http://suckless.org/philosophy )
This will either be my most highly upvoted post ever or will get me hellbanned, but that MOC blog has got to be some of the most aggrandizing, self-obsessed nonsense I have ever read. It's like he's living in his own fantasy world where he is simultaneously the smartest person on Earth and incredibly oppressed.
The idea that someone is going through life thinking that way is more than a little depressing.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#175Rich Hickey (Clojure, Datomic) and David Nolen (ClojureScript) - consistently helping us to express previously unthinkable thoughts
consistently helping us to express previously unthinkable thoughts Care to share three or four?
Sure, there's a couple in this post: http://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/
Humans think in language and as such the languages we use shape the ideas we can have, and as our ideas evolve we build upon old languages with new languages to express new ideas that old languages lacked the necessary atoms.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#176None of them. There are lots that I respect and admire, and there are lots that I think provide a great value to our community. But I don't "follow" them for a few reasons: (1) it takes time, which I don't have, (2) I don't like buying into a cult of personality, no matter how benevolent and (3) I don't derive much value from that and would rather spend that time/energy on creating my own thing. For example when I se…
> (2) I don't like buying into a cult of personality, no matter how benevolent The reason to follow many developers is could be due to their useful output (e.g. informative blog posts). You don't have to agree with everything that someone puts out (cult of personality) to find things that they produce useful. There are developers that I have met in real life, whom I didn't really like their personalty, yet I still ta…
I suppose I prefer to consume my personal developer blog posts filtered through something like HN. It ends up being fairly high quality without worrying if I'm following enough people or the correct people.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#177[Greg Hurrell](https://wincent.com/) for Vim and Relay
I wouldn't say closely follow, but I just really like the work he puts out there.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#178David Beazley : http://www.dabeaz.com/ Kenneth Reitz : https://www.kennethreitz.org/ Armin Ronacher : http://lucumr.pocoo.org/ Julien Danjou : https://julien.danjou.info/ Hynek Schlawack : https://hynek.me/ Donald Stufft : https://caremad.io/
I enjoy David Beazley's presentations. My mind is usually mush after watching, though. He makes the difficult look way to easy.
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
consistently helping us to express previously unthinkable thoughts Care to share three or four?
Sure, there's a couple in this post: http://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/ Humans think in language and as such the languages we use shape the ideas we can have, and as our ideas evolve we build upon old languages with new languages to express new ideas that old languages lacked the necessary atoms.
Okay. I think we just have different expectations of the word "unthinkable".
Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
#180Brad Fitzpatrick - https://bradfitz.com/ - Started and sold LiveJournal, wrote memcached, works on Golang at Google now. Always enjoy his talks on YouTube. My favorite part is that he doesn't come off as super serious so I find subtle humor in his delivery. In one of his videos where he talks about HTTP/2, he says "HTTP/2 is just supposed to be a better wire format for HTTP, so it's not that interesting". In an earli…
He's also spearheaded Camlistore, which is intended to be a archival system for electronic data. Interesting both technically, and for the problem it attempts to solve. https://camlistore.org/
For a second there I got excited because I thought it might be written in OCaml :-)