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http://www.windytan.com/ - Oona Räisänen - great hacker of signal-related stuff (audio, video, wireless, etc), graphics, and more.
https://syonyk.blogspot.com/ - a lot of hacking around batteries, off-grid energy, and teardowns and repairs of various devices.
Non-tech related, Ken White at https://www.popehat.com/ can be quite funny, though he hasn't been posting as much lately.
These are my two favorite blogs of Q4`19: Pat Collison [1] (Co-founder, CEO Stripe) doesn't blog often, but is one of the most interesting and insightful people I have ever read I don't know much about Alexey Guzey [2] yet, but he also has some very good posts (he writes more often and more long form, and is more similar to Gwern and SSC, in part because I think those two blogs have influenced him heavily) [1] https:…
Two tech blogs of which I read every post: http://www.windytan.com/ - Oona Räisänen - great hacker of signal-related stuff (audio, video, wireless, etc), graphics, and more. https://syonyk.blogspot.com/ - a lot of hacking around batteries, off-grid energy, and teardowns and repairs of various devices. Non-tech related, Ken White at https://www.popehat.com/ can be quite funny, though he hasn't been posting as much lat…
If you read only one of hist articles, make it https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/thirty-two...
You might enjoy seeing the complexity of optimising these systems that you know so well but only superficially. There may be articles about your region, and it will point out some huge mistake with the subway interchange at that is totally obvious once you read about it. At that point you'll be sharpening some pitchfork and trying to find where that totally corrupt mayor from the 90s now lives. But on the way over to his nursing home you miss the connection at and have enough time to finish the article, which gives a reasonable-but-not-totally-satisfying reason the problem couldn't be avoided.
You turn around, and pretty soon you're back in a happy mood. Because at least you don't have to suffer some US transit system.
(Sorry, I got slightly carried away in the narrative fiction there)
https://apenwarr.ca/log/ - programming, high level perspective
https://www.benkuhn.net/ - programming, startups, effective altruism
https://danluu.com/ - programming, hardware
https://pedestrianobservations.com/ - public transit
https://sideways-view.com/ - lots of interesting ideas, very eclectic
And plugging my own blog: https://www.jefftk.com - effective altruism, contra dance, diy, not very focused
I revisit his article "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" (link: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...) every time I get the itch to rewrite code from scratch.
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/
The blog is authored by Bill McBride who correctly called the 2008 downturn and housing market blow-up. I find his data points and corresponding analysis to be much better than any coverage in major media organizations, and it has majorly influenced the financial decisions that I have made over the past decade.
At the moment he is posting about a series of 10 questions about how the US economy will perform in 2020 that are worth checking out.
Two tech blogs of which I read every post: http://www.windytan.com/ - Oona Räisänen - great hacker of signal-related stuff (audio, video, wireless, etc), graphics, and more. https://syonyk.blogspot.com/ - a lot of hacking around batteries, off-grid energy, and teardowns and repairs of various devices. Non-tech related, Ken White at https://www.popehat.com/ can be quite funny, though he hasn't been posting as much lat…
Ken White now often writes at The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ken-white/ . It's much the same, only now he gets paid and far wider circulation. If you read only one of hist articles, make it https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/thirty-two...