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 joe563323 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:15 PM UTC

novia wrote: post #208

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://p…

Eli has highly technical in depth dry stuff. I followed him even before he joined google and became core python developer.

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

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Post by mosselman » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:20 PM UTC

liviu- wrote: post #206

Cyph0n wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Or, scientific research? We do have that in IT.

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

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Post by Insanity » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:20 PM UTC

joe563323 wrote: post #210

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.

I disagree with saying "Not a serious programmer" but I would say his blog is not a "serious programming blog". As far as I remember, his blogposts were not _that_ technical in nature, and dealt more with the human aspect of software engineers and the people using their software. We need that as well though.

But he did work in Discourse and StackOverflow, which I'd say are pretty good achievements in the software industry.

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

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Post by ZeroClickOk » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 10:36 PM UTC

[John Skeet] (https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/) C#'s transcedence lord

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

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Post by olieidel » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 11:00 PM UTC

As no one else has mentioned him yet: Mike Thompson, creator of re-frame (ClojureScript).

There are not many ways to follow him (mostly GH [1]), he hardly uses his Twitter [2]. Maybe that's why he's so productive?

The constantly evolving re-frame docs [3] are all you need to follow..

[1] https://github.com/mike-thompson-day8

[2] https://twitter.com/wazound

[3] https://github.com/Day8/re-frame

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

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 11:05 PM UTC

mej10 wrote: post #198

dustingetz wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I write Clojure every day and enjoy it. I think Hickey/Nolen have clarified many ways of thinking about programming problems for me. I've learned a lot from them. But this level of marketing spiel can be off-putting -- especially when you provide examples that non-web architectures have been using for many years. Imagine I'm an experienced developer, and you've promised that I will be able to express previously unthi…

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

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Post by me_bx » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 11:14 PM UTC

Mike bostock, the founder of d3.js

* cool blog articles: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/

* Beautiful dataviz and tips on twitter: https://twitter.com/mbostock

* github: https://github.com/mbostock/

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

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Post by beefman » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 11:40 PM UTC

beefman wrote: post #183

John Carmack https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack Fabrice Bellard http://www.bellard.org/ Douglas Crockford https://github.com/douglascrockford Guillermo Rauch https://zeit.co/blog James Halliday https://github.com/substack Terry Cavanagh http://distractionware.com/blog/ Sam Gentle https://twitter.com/sgentle Caolan McMahon https://github.com/caolan

Edit: And Peter Norvig http://norvig.com/ipython/

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

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Post by heyts » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 11:43 PM UTC

This is fun. Here's mine:

- Brad fitzpatrick -- http://bradfitz.com/

- Julia Evans -- https://jvns.ca

- Raymond Hettinger -- https://rhettinger.wordpress.com/

- Rich Hickey -- https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits

- Peter Bourgon -- https://peter.bourgon.org/

- Rebecca Murphey -- https://rmurphey.com/

- Daniel Greenfield -- https://www.twoscoopspress.com/

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

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Post by bioxcession » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 11:50 PM UTC

limedaring wrote: post #129

Some amazing non-male developers: — Jen Simmons: http://labs.jensimmons.com/ — Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/ — Lea Verou: http://lea.verou.me/ — Mina Markham: http://mina.codes/ — Sara Soueidan: https://sarasoueidan.com/articles/ — Sarah Mei: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/ — Ana Tudor: https://thebabydino.github.io/ — Anna Debenham: http://www.maban.co.uk/

Much appreciated.