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Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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https://livingstingy.blogspot.com (Robert Platt Bell, former patent attorney)

^^ His blog has changed quite a bit since I started reading it in 2013. Used to be more about ways to save money, but he's long since moved on to just writing about various current issues. I don't always agree with what he has to say, but I find his experiences and opinions very interesting.

Here's a sample:

https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2009/04/parent-trap.html

https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2018/05/are-all-psychiatri...

https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/02/culture-of-bellige...

https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/09/cheap-kayaks.html

https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2009/11/understanding-chec...

https://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-i-hate-young-p...

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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I love blog posts by Amos - https://fasterthanli.me They write long, informative, and fun articles. I usually spend hours to on each post. Some recommendations if you want to get started: 1. What's in the box? - https://fasterthanli.me/articles/whats-in-the-box 2. Making our own ping - https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-ping 3. What's in a Rainbow table? - https://fasterthanli.me/articles/whats-in-a-rainbo…

Amos is by far one of the best technical writers that I've come across.

Not only are all their articles super in-depth, but they have a real talent for making the content both accessible and (most importantly) interesting.

Each post is a real treat!

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Brian Hayes's bitplayer: http://bit-player.org/

Brian Hayes was once an editor of Scientific American. The blog covers a variety of topics, some related to computer science or math, some not. It reminds me a bit of the old Computer Recreations column that used to run in Scientific American.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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https://cheapskatesguide.org -- Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and Internet. Low-end and frugal computing in the 21st century. Long, opinionated posts on a pink(!) background.

http://ranprieur.com/ -- Ran Prieur. Frugality, societal collapse, "dropping out", and beyond. Has been constantly blogging for ages; it's really interesting to see how his views have changed in time.

http://joeyh.name/ -- Joey Hess, former long-time Debian developer, author of git-annex. Frugal living and computing in the wilderness (he used to do everything on a 9-inch Dell Mini 9).

https://datagubbe.se/ -- Carl Svensson. Great long-form essays on frugal computing and, uh, what has gone wrong after 1994 or so.

http://len.falken.ink/ -- I just really like the "layout", even if it feels a little pretentious to some. IIRC, his essay "Writing for the Internet across a Human Lifetime" also had some feedback on HN.

http://viznut.fi/en/ -- Viznut. Demoscene, "low-end technical extremism", permacomputing. Updates are rare, but the older pieces are well worth a read.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

#178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I clicked on this thread wondering how high in the comment section would his blog appear. I'm not disappointed.

I have wondered why a historian's blog ends up being a regular favorite on Hacker News. I would imagine because it is nearly surgical in its descriptions of technical and mechanical processes. He goes into granular step-by-step detail about how things work, both at a low-level and at a high-level. Not unlike the work of a programmer!

I mean, when discussing archers, he actually brought physics, empirical studies, historical anecdotes, analyzed artwork, and compared to modern video games and TV.

The guy thinks and that's fun to watch.

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