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Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by Qub3d »

peterapps wrote: post #76
yori wrote: post #47

Here's a good one: https://susam.in/ Stumbled on this when his domain was hijacked accidentally due to an anti-botnet operation and his post about it came on HN (check the "Sinkholed" post). Since then I've subscribed to his blog, read the older posts and enjoyed the newer posts too. He mostly posts about technology and mathematics. The reason why I got hooked to this blog is that they are mostly about offbeat topics…

How does a domain get hijacked accidentally ? Don't domain transfers take a few days and require approval from current domain owner?

The blog post states that the domain was erroneously flagged as belonging to a botnet system by a German law enforcement org, which took control of the domain to "sinkhole" what they assumed was botnet traffic.

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by Arnie0426 »

I love reading these two for Python/Recommender Systems: 1. Ben Frederickson: https://www.benfrederickson.com/blog/ 2. Erik Bernhardsson: https://erikbern.com/

And for pure ML: 1. Ferenc Huszár: https://www.inference.vc/ 2. John Langford: https://hunch.net (although he hasn't written a technical post in a while)

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by brandon272 »

fulldecent2 wrote: post #109

Here is my list of solo developer blogs. Usually they are on topic. This does not include personal blogs I follow that happen to be developers. @mdo (Bootstrop) - http://markdotto.com/ Keith Cirkel - https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/ Coding – Corbin's Treehouse - https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog Aaditya Purani – Ethical Hacker - https://aadityapurani.com/ Ben Balter - http://ben.balter.com/ fulldecent - https://pri…

I stumbled upon Corbin's Treehouse back in the late 90s when I was a kid researching... treehouses! Was enthralled by his treehouse construction and still visit from time to time for all the other content.

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by chrisseaton »

spectramax wrote: post #124
chrisseaton wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if you're not a native English speaker, but 'please do X' is not a polite way to ask someone to do something in English. I know it looks like it is if you look up 'please' in the dictionary, but it really doesn't sound like it in practice to native ears. You made a blunt demand, not a polite request. Also since your username is 'BossingAround' and you were literally bossing someone around in your comment…

Completely disagree as a native English speaker. "Please do foo" is polite. "Please pickup milk after work", "Please forgive me", "Please create a SSL cert for your website". Tangentially: Same thing happens in code reviews. People become extra soft at objective reasoning!!! The onus is on the offendee, not the offender. Stop being offended so much all the time, you'll live a healthier, happier life. Special treatmen…

I think I’d always say ‘would you mind picking up some milk’. ‘Please pickup milk’ sounds blunt to the point of mocking sarcasm! Maybe it’s cultural.

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by app4soft »

1. Alex Pakhunov: https://blog.not-a-kernel-guy.com/

Alex Pakhunov (aka 'Not a kernel guy') is Sr. Software Engineer, Flight Software at SpaceX.

He born and graduated in Ukraine, but now is U.S. citizen.[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/alexeypa/status/958886120825081856

[1] https://blog.not-a-kernel-guy.com/about/

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by rcamargo »

notjustanymike wrote: post #120
enriquto wrote: post #106

I follow regularly these people, these are mostly slow-going blogs or websites: 1. Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org/ This is not really a blog, but a traditional website with links to the work of its author (who is probably one of the top programmers ever). It updates rarely, but when it does, it is to expose yet another monumental piece of computing work that will blow your universe. 2. Linus Akesson: https://ww…

Did I just run Windows 2000 on my Pixel???

lol

Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

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Post by spectramax »

chrisseaton wrote: post #134
spectramax wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Completely disagree as a native English speaker. "Please do foo" is polite. "Please pickup milk after work", "Please forgive me", "Please create a SSL cert for your website". Tangentially: Same thing happens in code reviews. People become extra soft at objective reasoning!!! The onus is on the offendee, not the offender. Stop being offended so much all the time, you'll live a healthier, happier life. Special treatmen…

I think I’d always say ‘would you mind picking up some milk’. ‘Please pickup milk’ sounds blunt to the point of mocking sarcasm! Maybe it’s cultural.

I think the amount of energy you've spent on this thread convincing others of what you find offensive is worrying, but you've also taken my comment out of context.

Yeah I agree, if you end the sentence abruptly it sounds blunt. Just replace it with "Please pick up milk on the way home" and it sounds normal. But that's not what I said.

I can't believe we all have spent so much energy, downvotes, and bikeshedding including myself. This is surely not efficient. Instigator is the offendee. What a disgrace!

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