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 dcookie » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 11:58 PM UTC

reitanqild wrote: post #122

CiPHPerCoder wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Talent is innate. Skill is practiced. If you're passionate enough about something that you happen to have a natural affinity for in order to hone your skills, I call that a gift.

Not a native speaker but I also find that odd: I always thought talented referred to the parable about the servants who were given talents, and as such I would expect that talented and gifted would be almost the same.

I assume you are referring to Jesus' "parable of the talents". If so, it is dealing with money, not skills. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent_(weight)

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

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Post by caf » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 12:13 AM UTC

I try to read most public mailing list posts (and for some, technical Google+ postings) by Linus Torvalds, Al Viro, Alan Cox, Ted Ts'o, Andy Lutomirski and the pseudonymous "George Spelvin".

I also keep a weather eye on the blogs of mjg59 and (not a developer, but an academic computer scientist) John Regehr.

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

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Post by godzillabrennus » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 12:51 AM UTC

Peteris Krumins - http://www.catonmat.net always has interesting bits on his blog.

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

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Post by nickthemagicman » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 1:19 AM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #193

nickthemagicman wrote: post #192

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That's like a doctor not following leading medical scientists in his field... You don't have to, but, it's probably a good thing.

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

Why can't we have both?

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

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Post by IgorPartola » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 1:37 AM UTC

sportnak wrote: post #196

IgorPartola wrote: post #176

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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.

I understand what you're saying, some people follow a popular developer and that can cause them to take what they say and regurgitate it with an annoying arrogance. But supposing everybody took your stance we wouldn't be able to have something like Hacker News. I think following popular developers and sharing what you believe to be good content may not be enjoyable all the time, but I do think it's necessary. Just as…

You are right. Someone has to do it. I suppose I just don't want to be me :-p

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

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Post by midwestcode » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 1:53 AM UTC

mschaef wrote: post #80

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…

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/

Any anecdotes from anyone who has used this? What did you use it for and did it work how you expected?

Only curious -- it seems really interesting for a personal project I plan on working on soon.

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

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Post by lj3 » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 1:57 AM UTC

davidwparker wrote: post #90

jcalabro wrote: post #16

Jon Blow: A game designer and programmer behind the popular titles "Braid" and "The Witness". He's currently working on making a new programming language and chronicling it on YouTube. - Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuoqzrsHlwv1YyPKLuMDUQ

I like Jonathan Blow too. He has a twitch.tv channel https://www.twitch.tv/naysayer88 which he livestreams coding from time-to-time as well.

In the last week, it's gone from 'time-to-time' to 'multiple times a day'. Great stuff, but it's getting very hard to keep up with.

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

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Post by limedaring » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 2:11 AM UTC

jMyles wrote: post #190

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/

Hola limedaring. You rock. Thanks for adding this specifically non-male list. A shame you're being downvoted. See you at PyCon?

Here's hoping! Travel wise it might be hard — all my sessions were denied this year so it's a lot harder to attend. But still might happen. :)

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

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Post by artacus » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 2:24 AM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #225

sportnak wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand what you're saying, some people follow a popular developer and that can cause them to take what they say and regurgitate it with an annoying arrogance. But supposing everybody took your stance we wouldn't be able to have something like Hacker News. I think following popular developers and sharing what you believe to be good content may not be enjoyable all the time, but I do think it's necessary. Just as…

You are right. Someone has to do it. I suppose I just don't want to be me :-p

They call me the wanderer.

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

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Post by jmts » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 2:54 AM UTC

Chris from Clickspring [1].

Perhaps a little off topic because his content is not specifically software, but given some other mentions of hardware and inspiration his videos are lovely to watch after a long day of code reviews. He recently completed a series building a brass skeleton clock and looks to have some more interesting things going on soon for anyone interested in building things other than software.

[1] http://www.clickspringprojects.com/