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 phkahler » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 3:09 PM UTC

I'm not one to follow individuals. I prefer to follow projects that impress me. Within those there are often people who I have come to respect and will read what they have to say, but they usually only write on relevant tech stuff - not long form blog posts. Projects I look in on from time to time:

SolveSpace

risc-v

Rust (and Servo)

Daala

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

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Post by psyc » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 3:14 PM UTC

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

Every time I get stuck on a project, I watch this video. It's about games, but IMO a lot of it applies to software projects in general, especially MVPs. How to ship something that works before it collapses under its own complexity. I think the bit about remembering to optimize for developer effort is gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDsP5n2kSM

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

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Post by base698 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 3:16 PM UTC

grzm wrote: post #68

dustingetz wrote: post #55

Rich 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?

Not sure if unthinkable is the right word:

Simple Made Easy: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

David Nolen talks about how immutable structures work: https://youtu.be/SiFwRtCnxv4?t=504

Objects are Marionettes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSdnJDO-xdg&feature=youtu.be...

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

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Post by CiPHPerCoder » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 3:19 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.

Also: If you don't find your name on this thread, that doesn't mean that you're a nobody and that your work is unappreciated. It only means that the sort of folks who'd respond to a thread like this in earnest haven't noticed you, which probably isn't a reflection on your value to the {community, industry, world} (select appropriate).

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

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Post by fapjacks » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 3:20 PM UTC

Windytan (Oona Räisänen):

http://www.windytan.com/

https://twitter.com/windyoona

Not quite 100% programming, but she is always doing something super interesting. Mostly with electronics and DSP. She is an awesome hacker and very inspiring to me.

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

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Post by regularfry » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 3:21 PM UTC

Avdi Grimm. He's basically the version of me that's better at a) programming, and b) communicating.

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

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Post by base698 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 3:22 PM UTC

Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/ Gets posted a lot.

Brendan Gregg: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/ Everything Linux Performance.

Rich Hickey/David Nolen Mentioned enough around here.

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

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Post by phillc73 » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 3:23 PM UTC

All R related:

Hadley Wickham - https://github.com/hadley

Joe Cheng - https://github.com/jcheng5

Yihui Xie - https://github.com/yihui

JJ Allaire - https://github.com/jjallaire

Dean Attali - https://github.com/daattali

Bob Rudis - https://github.com/hrbrmstr

Kent Russell - https://github.com/timelyportfolio

Jeroen Ooms - https://github.com/jeroenooms

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

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Post by hudo » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 3:24 PM UTC

martijn_himself wrote: post #30

Scott Hanselman. If you are a Microsoft / .NET developer he is probably at the top of your list. Pragmatic, fun, quality blog posts and produces really good podcasts. http://www.hanselman.com/

But for .net the good ones are (from top of my head):

Jimmy Bogard (marten, mediatr, general architecture)

Jeremyd Miller (structuremap)

Jeremy Skinner (fluentvalidation)

K Scott Allen (typescript and genereal .net core)

Mike Hadlow (.net core)

Mark Rendle (.net on linux, funny guy)

Jonathan Channon (nancyfx)

Brad Wilson (xunit)

Damien Edwards (.net core)

Rick Strahl (.net core)

Jon Galloway (javascript and .net)

Leon Bambrick (very funny guy, knows everything)

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

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Post by davidwparker » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 3:25 PM UTC

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.