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 jordanthoms » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 9:01 PM UTC

caleblloyd wrote: post #74

Brad 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…

I also have to point to his filmmaking work in the genre of dystopian horror: https://youtu.be/BpsMkLaEiOY

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

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Post by zem » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 9:05 PM UTC

sapeien wrote: post #120

Troll 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 )

oh man, xah lee is still going strong? i remember him trolling usenet in the 90s!

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

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Post by dubin » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

BlackjackCF wrote: post #163

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.

Yes! Julia's zines are an amazing way of communicating technical concepts https://jvns.ca/zines/ Wish more people made them

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

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Post by juancampa » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 9:26 PM UTC

Lee Byron (@leeb) His work as a maintainer/evangelist of GraphQL is pretty impresive, in particular the way he communicates with contributors (i.e. soft skills) is something to learn from. He's also the author of immutable.js.

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

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Post by merqurio » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 9:26 PM UTC

transcranial - Because he is an MD and works on ML like me - Because he is the guy behind kerasJS (Tensorflow on the browser)[1]

[1] https://github.com/transcranial/keras-js

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

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Post by liviu- » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 9:53 PM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #199

IgorPartola wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't the doctor read medical journals and published papers in their fields instead of tweets from a select few peers?

What's the analogue to that in the software development space? Following a project usually means following a person, unless you're talking about huge projects maintained by a team of developers.

I suspect he's referring to following HN and similar communities.

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

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Post by joe563323 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 9:57 PM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #125

None 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…

> when I see a new thing by antirez on HN, I am likely to click it because it's usually good stuff, but I am not going to be following his blog

In that case following his blog explains how he made that good stuff which helps in building skill and also helps others to build great stuff.

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

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Post by novia » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:06 PM UTC

John Walkenbach. https://plus.google.com/+JohnWalkenbach

I followed him initially hoping to learn some Excel tricks, but he mostly posts recipes and songs and political posts. I've been following him since I was about 13 years old, and I feel like his posts have really shaped my personality growing up.

I also started following these two guys after I came across an interesting post they wrote (not together):

https://plus.google.com/+EliBenderskyGplus

https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru

However, I've never seen an interesting post from them since, so I should probably stop following them.

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

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Post by caffeinewriter » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:13 PM UTC

The_Hoff wrote: post #73

Jessie Frazelle : https://blog.jessfraz.com - Funny, culturally aware, and works with a lot of things that are going to be shaping our world. Also, @jessfraz

I follow them as well :) Their work with containers, and their general commentary make for fascinating reading.

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

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Post by joe563323 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:14 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/

Jeff Atwood is not a serious programmer. He writes stories.