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

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Post by jackmott »

Mike Acton, Casey Muratori, Sean Barret, Jonathan Blow, Shawn McGrath.

All game programmers, focused on low level C/C++ programming. I'd love to have some similar guys/girls to follow who do something at the other end of the spectrum (F#/Scala/Haskell etc) but haven't come across any that do educational streaming. I get a lot out of seeing people's workflows, as they build actual production code. Most of the functional programming stuff I follow is blogs about toy examples or ideas.

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

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Post by sdfjkl »

I don't really follow anyone, but here's a few whose work I've admired and learnt from (not just their code):

D. Richard Hipp (SQLite, Fossil) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Richard_Hipp

Guido van Rossum (Python)

Any of the FreeBSD folk. Same goes for the PostgreSQL lot too - I just like their way of doing things in a calm, collected and efficient manner. Well, at least compared to some other dev teams I've seen :)

Donald Knuth of course.

The guy who tried to make Objective-C more Smalltalkish. Uh, Marcel Weiher. Had to look that up.

Bret Victor.

There's more, but that's all I can think of for now.

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

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Post by LyndsySimon »

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.

My introduction to the world of professional software development was meeting one of the idols and hanging out with him for two days before realizing who he was. We've kept in touch since then and I now consider him one of my best friends.

I agree about putting people on pedestals, and my own experiences speak to that. The person I once saw in a very idealized way I now see as fully a person, complete with faults and failures.

I would argue that there are no "masters" - or rather, that there are very few of them, and those that I might consider such are "just people" too.

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

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Post by rahilb »

Mainly scala devs or java performance people:

https://github.com/Atry

https://github.com/lihaoyi

https://github.com/davegurnell

https://github.com/nitsanw

https://github.com/mjpt777

https://github.com/milessabin

https://github.com/xeno-by

https://github.com/travisbrown

I follow a lot more but have chosen the n most interesting with a recency bias. In a few cases their blogs are way more active than github.

honourable mention for https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mechanical-sympathy

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

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Post by OJFord »

Sean Griffin, going forward (recent discovery).

He's a member of both Rails and Rust teams; works on database stuff for both (https://diesel.rs).

Always working on something interesting to talk about on 'The Bike Shed' podcast, which I 'follow'/would recommend in its own right.

Podcast: http://bikeshed.fm

Github: https://github.com/sgrif

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

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Post by jackmott »

cableshaft wrote: post #70
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

He's the main one I follow too, although I haven't kept up on his programming language progress (although I should get on that). He gives very interesting lectures though. I had the good fortune to see him give two in person at the Game Developer's Conference in 2008, and that was actually before I knew who he was and before Braid came out. He actually showed a tiny piece of Braid during the lecture, although it didn…

He did a couple of streams recently using his language to work on a new game.

At the very least it will be C/C++ where you don't have to type () around if expressions. So there is that. :D

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

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Post by Hortinstein »

queicherius wrote: post #26

Since you seem to be in the web area: - Addy Osmani https://github.com/addyosmani - Paul Irish https://github.com/paulirish - Substack https://github.com/substack - Jeff Atwood https://blog.codinghorror.com/

I really like Substack's philosophy of development. It has stuck with me for a long time:

https://gist.github.com/substack/5075355

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

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Post by grzm »

base698 wrote: post #83
grzm wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Not sure if unthinkable is the right word

That's exactly what I'm asking about. I'm familiar with Hickey and Nolen.

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