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 phyrex » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 2:23 PM UTC

keymone wrote: post #13

https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub

Whenever Rich Hickey says something, I listen!

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

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Post by lj3 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 2:24 PM UTC

Jonathan Blow (The Witness), Erich Ocean (Fohr), Howard Chu (LMDB), Dan Luu (BitFunnel) and Casey Muratori (Handmade Hero).

These developers have a unique way of looking at problems. I've gained a lot of valuable knowledge from them.

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

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Post by ggregoire » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 2:25 PM UTC

Some names from memory:

- all the React team (Dan, Sebastian, Vjeux, Christoph, etc)

- Addy Osmani (Google)

- Sindre Sorhus (full time open sourcer)

- JD Dalton (Lodash)

- Guillermo Rauch (Zeit)

- Jeff Atwood (StackOverflow)

- Elon Musk (genius)

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

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Post by mej10 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 2:25 PM UTC

Shicholas wrote: post #48

Davertron wrote: post #37

David Nolen - http://swannodette.github.io/ James Long - http://jlongster.com/ I follow these guys for similar reasons. They always seem to be a couple steps ahead of the rest of the industry and it's frankly a little embarrassing how productive they are. Come to think of it maybe I'd feel better about myself as a programmer if I stopped following them...

I mean this in the most respectful way possible: David Nolen has a reached a level of enlightment the French describe as jouissance I will never achieve.

What makes you say that?

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

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Post by dustingetz » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 2:26 PM UTC

Rich Hickey (Clojure, Datomic) and David Nolen (ClojureScript) - consistently helping us to express previously unthinkable thoughts

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

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Post by OliverLassen » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 2:27 PM UTC

https://ayende.com/blog

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

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Post by jfaucett » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 2:28 PM UTC

For JavaScript there are a lot of great devs but these two are the guys who I like reading the most, IMHO they write code thats beautiful to look at and well designed.

1. Jeremy Ashkenas - https://github.com/jashkenas

2. Nathan Faucett - https://github.com/nathanfaucett

There are others that are really good from a technical skill/functional standpoint, (https://github.com/jdalton, https://github.com/jeresig, https://github.com/douglascrockford) but I personally don't find their code as aesthetically pleasing i.e. Resig's love of the terniary statement.

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

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Post by santiagobasulto » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 2:28 PM UTC

mrsmn wrote: post #49

David 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/

found the Python guy

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

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 2:30 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by Shank » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 2:31 PM UTC

[Zach Holman](https://zachholman.com/) is a big one for me.