Xe, thank you so much for your work. I love reading your blog, it’s calming and makes me laugh. I look up to you as someone who I would like to be in my professional life. Best wishes :)
Thanks! I recently just got a new lens for my camera after all of the income from last month came in. It's a very used 35mm lens for my D3300 and the autofocus is a bit broken, meaning that I'm forced to do the focus manually (which is something I want to get better at anyways).
That combined with Patreon does! I'm likely going to spin up a small corporation so that I can funnel my side income through there and avoid having to go through the logistical nightmare of double income tax because of imperialist IRS policies. Sometimes I justify fun purchases that I could afford anyways (eg: very used camera lens or that Anbernic Win600 that I ended up liking for 2D games but couldn't hold comfortably enough to use the sticks) with ad/Patreon income. Sometimes it ends up on the blog anyways. Stay tuned!
Speaking of the ad-block message, perhaps it is worth adding who/what ethicalads.io is. I too un-blocked them on yours site, partially because their approach seems more justifiable than others I've run across. I wouldn't even mind un-blocking ads that are self-hosted by a site I like, but nobody does that any more. Anything that smells of surveillance capitalism can stay on my shit list though.
Ethical Ads (https://www.ethicalads.io/) looks interesting, wish there were more ad-tech companies like this. Would love one focused on the travel niche.
Thanks! I have been working on that style of writing some more. I have another story in that "universe" called Protos (https://xeiaso.net/blog/protos) that you may enjoy. I'm working on some more, but it's a very subtle kind of magick that you have to poke at from all angles simultaneously. It takes effort.
I'm sure I'll come up with something eventually, I might do one about spatial computing. That seems like it could be a fun topic for this kind of satire.
Here's hoping! I have also been bringing that energy to the work blog (eg: https://tailscale.dev/blog/headscale-funnel), and it's been working really well. I'm working on turning the user personas that we're tracking in DevRel into Socratic characters. It's a slow process, but writing is never fast consistently.
Thanks! I try. Hacker News isn't my primary target audience, but I've come to peace with the fact that I'm well-loved there. I could really do without the harassment from the less tolerant side of the userbase, but I figure that this is the price of success.
I really like your website/blog! It's one of my fav blogs out there that I'd wholeheartedly recommend to anyone. I also like the fact that the ads are not intrusive at all
From an analysis perspective, I do not believe you can call an O(n) algorithm constant because you could run it on a computer with n cores.
From a practical perspective, I do not believe it is bounded by K, where all numbers you sort are less than K. Consider an array of one hundred trillion items, each being the number 1. This is bounded by the array length, not the number 1.
Realistically, I don't know what the complexity of that algorithm is or if it's possible to have one. Making the argument it is constant time is intended to be a bit of a joke at how difficult it is to give it a time complexity. My interpretation of it as constant time (temporal multiplicand multiplied by the largest value in the list) is going by wall clock time, which is arguably the time that matters in an interview.
People are welcome to post their own stuff as long as it's part of a mix of unrelated/interesting submissions. What gets accounts "super deranked" is when they only post their own stuff or use HN primarily for promotion (this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Your account hasn't been doing that at all, so you're fine, and certainly welcome to post your articles if you want to.
Edit: I sent you repost invites for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36211059 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35881175, both of which are great HN submissions. If you use them, the reposts will go in HN's second-chance pool, so they'll get a random placement on the front page. If you don't want to be bothered in this way, please say so and we won't do it again!
It's just enough to be a headache tax-wise, but not enough to be a viable replacement for my dayjob. Something like $50-$200 USD per month. Slow months are less, months where I post bangers are more. Combined with Patreon (consistently $200 per month), it's enough to make all of my hosting costs covered. It's seriously incredible that I can have that much support for not a lot of work. I am also looking at further cost-optimizing things so that I can move my website to something like Fly. My server that my website is hosted on is like 55€ per month and the main reason it needs something that chonky is because Tokio performs better when there's more runner threads.
Otherwise I've also been considering pooling money for a bit and buying a proper server to drop into a datacentre near where I live. That could be fun!
This was an interesting read but didn't describe what it was like to _use_ today, other than comparing UI interaction to older and modern devices. Did you try using it as your everyday music player?
The blog and the website is statically generated using a Common Lisp program. Only the comment form is dynamic and served using a tiny web application, also written in Common Lisp. See https://github.com/susam/susam.net for the source code.
You probably have seen this in the front page sometime last week due to the "Fast machines, slow machines" post :)
I started this blog during exams session back in university and I'll reach the 20-year mark next year. Wow. I write about my own projects, but also tech in general based on my current interests, which at the moment are around Rust, Bazel (again), and Unix systems in general.
It's interesting how the blog has changed: I used to write short posts almost daily describing whatever I had been tinkering with in open source projects (back when I contributed to NetBSD and Gnome regularly)... or whatever crossed my mind really. These days, most of those misc posts go into social media, and the blog is reserved for purposeful articles, which end up being much longer (and thus infrequent).
Commenting on the blog used to be much more common years ago, but these days discussion happen off-site in either social media or here. Similarly, people used to visit the blog periodically, but these days nobody does: traffic to the blog is either from organic searches or from spikes due to referrals from sites like HN.
As for how I build it: the posts are written in Markdown; I use Hugo to generate the site; Bootstrap for styling; and my custom web service (EndTRACKER) to offer email subscriptions, post voting and commenting, as well as privacy-respecting analytics.
Hey, I read your blog after you commented in another topic that was created with a link to my blog.
I didn't have the right context then to mention it, but now I do: I really enjoyed your topics on Bazel and especially the "A persistent task queue in Rust" post which I learned from.
I went back far enough that day to the point that some of your posts looked like they were taken from twitter threads, and I wondered how that worked.
If you're ever looking to work in GameDev (in Europe), hit me up.
The Bazel posts stopped for a while after I left Google, but I'm now back at a different place where I'm working with Bazel once again. So you can expect the posts on this topic to gradually come back :) (For some context, here is one: https://medium.com/snowflake/addressing-bazel-ooms-38023b736...)
Let's see if my plans to return to Europe in the next few years play out...
Edit: Oh, and the few posts that look like Twitter threads (they are tagged like that) are hand-crafted and were an experiment. I first wrote the threads as blog posts, ensuring each paragraph fit in a tweet, and then copy/pasted them into Twitter. I wrote them as a blog post because I wanted to have the "unrolled" version in the canonical source for future reference, without relying on those unroll apps.
I was going to just reply with a link to Frank Zappa's Muffin Man, but then I thought I'd better just check to see if there was any direct influence, however vanishingly unlikely that seemed.
And lo! The footnote on the about page even has a link to the song.
My most played Zappa song, sitting just above Eat That Question, Peaches En Regalia, and Montana (apologies for how mainstream that selection is).
Going to see an unbelievably talented Zappa cover band in a couple of weeks, here's a sample of their wares:
Fun story, while we were in high school, my friend's computer broke down. All of his music was on it, so I borrowed him a bunch of CDs. He really liked Zappa's "Strictly Commercial" compilation and he became obsessed. Fast forward a couple of years and he is the one sending me Zappa's bootlegs and weird recordings which I would probably never heard otherwise. He even created a compilation for me, which he named "Almost Commercial" and I cherish it dearly :)
Around 2006 these "desktop" webapps was getting popular, there are some with even more comprehensive features (for its time) which I forgot the name (probably OnlineOS, can't verify it because it's dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_OS).
I’ve been working as a software engineer for about a decade now, primarily at startups. Recently the first employee at incident.io, before then working at GoCardless.
Tend to write about lessons I’ve learned that others find useful, or stories I think will be enjoyable. Helps me collect my thoughts and practice my writing!
I feel a tad awkward because 1) I only started this last week 2) I'm not super tech-y or owt like everyone else here, I'm just a bloke who knows his limits. It's very lightweight & basic and inspired by the likes of bearblog and other small blogs.
It's for expressing general thoughts really, and it serves as a fun trial by fire as every little change inevitably runs into problems, but it's a nice learning experience. Hopefully my writing isn't terrible!
This'll probably sound silly but like everything else on the site I do it manually. I take notes of major changes I make to the site and write them down on that page.
I couldn't wrap my head around Jekyll* or any other service you can self host, so I figured that I could still put my stuff out there by making each page like it's 1999.
I realise that it's not the best option for the future, the other day I decided to change how the title tags looked, thus I went ahead manually changing it on every page. Without some script to fix that for me, it'll become a larger task with every post I make.
* I've only recently installed Linux on my ThinkPad – a process I'm procrastinating writing about – and my head's been a tad too scrambled at the moment to focus on it.
Started in 2004 on Dotclear, migrated to Wordpress around 2008/2009 then, last year, exported everything to make a static website/gemini capsule of it (with a custom python script)
This blog has changed my life. It landed me jobs, it made me become a writer without having to ask (all the book I’ve published so fare were on request of publishers because of my blog). I’m really happy to have all this history and I hope to keep it until my very last post. It is now part of my identity.
I read your capsule. I think you hit it out of the park when discussing how Google impacted XMPP and the possible implications for the fediverse. Nicely done.
Thanks, it really count for me to know that people care about what I write.
Indeed, I’ve merged my blog and my capsule now. Those are the same content (because I realized that, sometimes, stuff I wrote on Gemini ended being shared on the web through gemini proxies)
Hi there! I adore your blog. Quick question - you have an MBA from Stanford, and you're a software engineer rather than a 'manager'. Are there others like you? I was thinking of an MBA as an option, but was afraid my focus after that might not be technical enough.
"Quite a few people in business have paired a liberal arts undergrad degree with an MBA. They seem to do just fine. But I think that’s a missed opportunity—much better would be an MBA on top of an engineering or math undergraduate degree. People with that combination are invaluable, and there aren’t nearly enough of them running around."
I needed to read that today, (Purdue computer eng + Harvard MBA here)
Hey! You have some interesting content. If you had a rss/atom feed I'd happily subscribe to it.
A comment on your site: I have to zoom to 300% on firefox to get what seems like a 'natural' view. Without this it feels like I'm viewing a pdf. This is not serious criticism, but something that bothered me a bit. Others may feel differently.
I've been wanting to add RSS to it for a while tbh but I've been consistently distracted by other things. Since classes are over I might get around to it eventually.
As for the pdf look, you're right. The problem I encountered way back when I was actually building the site was that I didn't know what to put on the extra margins. I could've put footnotes and figures, but that's pretty hard to do if you're generating the site from markdown without a custom markdown engine. I'll see what I can do about it tho, and if you have any suggestions for how I could improve this I'm all ears.
i've found SO MANY wonderful personal blogs here on HN. I even built a little web scraping thing a long time ago to scrape these links from the top-level comments: https://random-hn-blog.herokuapp.com/
Heroku shut it down, but I'm gonna see if i can bring it back online in like 30 seconds...
The climbing one that you linked says something about “the video below” but I don’t actually see a video. Might just be because I’m on my phone but I was curious if that video still exists.
I had a whole thing happening around becoming a bold lead climber by becoming an amazing lead belayer.
It was great! I've helped many, many people become very safe, very confident sport climbers. Watching them 'climb through the grades' is enjoyable for all parties.
I'm a huge fan of your blog. _Part Time Creator Manifesto_ inspired me to start on side projects again and _Svelte for Sites, React for Apps_ was the first intro I had to Svelte.
Mine is about me and how I overcome loneliness that has been a part of my life for third of my life where I speak about my tips, advice and science on this subject. On the way I share my stories. Here it is - https://transcendloneliness.substack.com/
I started recently after a little cancer scare shook me up. It is about trying new things, re-starting my life a bit, I think. I plan to write for fun about things that I find interesting and that give me joy, like walking multiple paths of Camino de Santiago or my attempts to return to competitive cycling at 47.
About two months ago, there was an Ask HN about the most interesting interesting tech you built for just yourself [1]. In this topic, I shared about my Ghidra modifications to unlink pieces of an executable back into relocatable object files [2] in an effort to reverse-engineer a PlayStation 1 video game.
Long story short, I've wanted to write about this esoteric but powerful technique and it snowballed into starting my own blog with a series of articles about reverse-engineering. It's still a WIP draft, quite rough around the edges and not ready for prime-time, but you only have that kind of Ask HN thread once (every couple of years I assume).
Side-note: the Google and Bing webcrawlers managed to find and index that domain name despite having no public links to it whatsoever (to my knowledge) until now, my only logical explanation is that they've found it by scrapping the WHOIS database. It's also hosted inside my home on my personal Synology DS218 NAS with a rather dodgy setup, which will probably crash and burn under any level of load by the time you've read this comment.
Mostly tech stuff, and some games. Recent topics have been:
Python, Django, C, CMake, SDL2.
These days I generally use it as a place to write up notes on whatever I happened to be working on recently. This is sometimes useful for me to refer back to, and hopefully useful for others too.
On one occasion I searched on Google to try and help solve a programming problem, only to find a post from myself published 8 months earlier, in which I had solved that exact same problem:
Before becoming a full time software engineer I used to develop video games for fun, initially in Game Maker but then later in Unity and other languages. Over time I'm aiming to (re)publish them on my website, rather than just leaving them to rot on my hard drive. None were particularly big hits back in the day, though the most successful was probably Dominos 2: Winter Edition, a physics based platformer with level editor. You can play it here:
Fairly certain I played Dominos 2 back when it was in the yoyogames competition. Nice to see a little blast from the past! Makes me want to go dig my Game Maker games out of the pile of hard drives in my parents' basement.
I passed 400 posts a month or so ago; been writing for about a decade. It's a mix of programming, arty stuff, digital preservation, personal thoughts – the first link describes the sort of writing I do, and examples of each.
Haven't been posting lately – COVID+War, plus my main focus now on radical reforming sports system in Ukraine and building a new figure skating federation (a lot of cool coding stuff there too, but also a lot of research on sports governance/science).
An incomplete list of things that I do as a hobby.
There have been a few posts that have sparked discussions on HN, and quite a few of them relate to the ThinkPad T430. I often jokingly say that this laptop has been a good investment in more ways than one.
Perhaps a hundred posts, with the last significant block being ten years ago. I should really get back to it sometime... Posts that tend to have some lasting power:
Since 2012 I have a one-track mind. I want a world with:
* hundreds of software products for any need (mostly check)
* that can all be easily modified by hundreds of thousands of people,
* creating tens of thousands of forks,
* publishing thousands of forks
* used by millions of people.
Wake up sheeple! Add more resilience to your software tools! I joined Mastodon in 2018, the Tildeverse in 2020, Lemmy in 2022, Calckey in 2023. Monopolies won't break themselves, each of us has to be willing to think different, try out new things.
FWIW I like the direction of using Lua, and the text editor with graphics looks cool
I wasn't super excited about Mu because it wouldn't let me reuse my existing knowledge -- it would be a separate thing to learn, even if in theory it was easier to learn than mainstream stacks
I really love this thread. So many great websites, it almost reminds one of the good old days, where you could wander from one blog to another.
I have ended up with two blogs and by no means update them often enough. My personal blog started out as being tech-focused with a bit of photography and motorcycle content, but is probably leaning more and more in way of photography and motorcycles.
Hence I started a more simple static site generated from Github to handle the more tech-oriented topics. But as fate would have it, I have worked very little with any even mildly interesting tech-related subjects since then so the blog is a bit stale, even though I really like the design.
https://ilearnt.com/
Over 200 posts on random things I have learnt or found interesting. Some are techie, some are work related, some are about life. Recent posts have included:
I love second-life retirement activities like this! Such a benefit to the world. And I think your former domain expertise can give you unique insight into other disciplines.
I usually write about whatever I'm practicing and learning at the moment. My topics have included coding tips in various tech stacks, career growth, ai, web3, hiring, interviewing, knowledge management, leadership and everything in between.
I'm trying to adopt as much IndieWeb as I can while still remaining a static JS-free site (except for the crappy search results page). Comments are Webmentions.
I test compatibility with a lot more than just mainstream browsers: the Tor Browser's safest mode, various article extractors, NetSurf, Ladybird, w3m, and a dozen other user-agents work well. Accessibility-wise, I'm close to WCAG 2.2 AAA compliance, and have already passed AA; I consider WCAG a starting rather than a stopping point. More on its design is in the "Meta" section.
It has long-form blog articles and short-form notes (microblogs).
My best posts are on the homepage, followed by a bunch of webrings.
I love your blog. It's clear that you care as much about thinking and writing clearly as you do about your tech stack and readers' experience. I hop you continue to publish your ideas on the web. I always learn a lot from your posts.
It's only a few months old, but I kicked off the blog by sharing the story of my last three years: going through divorce, burnout and depression as a cofounder, in the midst of the pandemic.
I was mostly writing this blog in private in a md file in Obsidian, and then created a script to make it generate all the html for that site. (article for that here: https://robkohr.com/articles/created-a-new-blog-render)
Just chiming in, and quite happy to see this thread pop up! I was having a conversation elsewhere about how it's up to us to create the internet we want and bring back the allegedly already passed golden age of connection through creation!
Your post was dead, as are all your comments and submissions it seems. Since I didn't find any reason for that from a cursory look, I've vouched here. Maybe ask dang why and how to avoid that?
The only reliable way to do that is to email hn@ycombinator.com. Fortunately someone did, and I've fixed the problem.
The account was banned by a naughty spam filter, completely incorrectly. I've terminated that spam filter and restored the account and all its posts. Sorry joehx2 - you did nothing wrong!
https://dreadnaut.altervista.org - I can't believe I've been writing on it for 20 years now. I duplicated all content in English and Italian for a few years, then stuck to Italian when I moved to the UK — need to keep the balance.
I write very little these days, but you can find a mix of tech and economics, as well as a selection of my photography (mostly travel and street photo).
I'm closing in on the 100 blog posts mark. Almost all are about pretty esoteric electronics topics (by HN standards) that I've been learning about myself.
I rarely get a lot of traction, but that's to be expected given the topics.
I do get a bit of a kick out of the fact that many of my blog posts will end up in the top 5 Google results when you search for one or two words of the subject. There's just not a lot of people who write about the HP 11720A pulse generator...
I blog about functional programming (haskell, clojure), but also emacs org-mode, thing like these. I sometimes tell myself I should invest more time to write down more about my thoughts there.
Mostly I help developers grow — I share my thoughts as a CTO about building digital products, growing teams, scaling development and in general being a good technical founder.
All roughly related to software engineering, weekly cadence. Sometimes philosophical, sometimes technical, sometimes just random observations. Mostly it's about whatever is on my mind re: software at the moment or what I'm playing around with at the time.
I don't read the comments on discussion forums usually, but emails I will always read and respond to emails and I'm always grateful for the feedback.
Flutter Tech Blog : https://widgettricks.substack.com
A Flutter newsletter to share tips, tricks and techniques to build beautiful and maintainable mobile apps with Flutter.
https://raesene.github.io/ - these days, I generally blog about security/containers/k8s stuff that's interesting to me, and not suitable for a corporate blog, although it goes back to other stuff, as I've been posting at varying levels of regularity for almost 20 years now.
https://xenodium.comhttps://xenodium.com/rss.xml will hit 10 years in November. It started as a single org file for personal notes (programming, cooking, Emacs, bookmarks, iOS dev, travel). One day, I decided to export it to HTML and make it accessible to me from anywhere. Sorta just became both notes and blog over time…
While the tone of the posts may have evolved a bit, the blog still serves as personal notes/reference of sorts. The tech behind it hasn’t changed a whole lot. It remains a single org file (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xenodium/xenodium.github.i...) with my own ugly elisp hacks, but hey does the job ;-)
I write about a variety of topics including reverse engineering, amateur radio, digital signal processing, cryptography, machine learning, IT security etc.
Just a static site built with Jekyll, along with some custom Jekyll plugins.
It is a blog that focuses on jobs, careers, and the workplace, started 10 years ago and receives about two million visits worldwide every month. https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com
Wow, just realized it passed its 21st anniversary last month. A few iterations throughout the years, but the current form is basically 13-ish years old, regularly updated.
If this is what you actually do for a living, and have done for any substantial amount of time, I have to congratulate you for reminding me what envy feels like.
And if your real job is something more mainstream and this is just a side project, then I have to congratulate you for making it look like you have had all the time in the world to put into it.
But above all that I'm just happy that something like this exists, it feels like what the web should have grown into more broadly, back when it looked like everyone was going to make their mark on the world by meticuloudly curating something interesting about themselves to share with the rest of us.
https://medium.com/@oandreasc/ not writing much anymore but I should continue, there are many articles that I want to write and at the end they end up as threads in twitter, I should definitely go back to blogging.
It's intentionally obtuse, like ripping out the first page out of a notebook, so that I don't have an excuse _not_ to fill out the rest of the pages. It's already ruined, so what is a bit more ruin, really?
I'm not trying to be the superlative at anything, but simply want to capture the traffic of anyone following in my footsteps, easing their path if that's possible.
it's a mix of whatever is on my mind, but something I think this group would like is my "The Roboticist's Library" where I review books I've read that have influenced how I approach problem solving professionally.
Been off and on with blogs over my journey in tech (from blogspot to rolling my own custom static blog generator). Recently I decided to give it another go and this time using HashNode (I considered substack but its lack of code blocks turned me off). So far just one blog post there, but it's a start:
I've been on here a daily for several years now (you can tell when I'm really working on something because there are gaps in my comment history. E.g. the last two weeks or so I've been mucking about with my land.) Every once in a while I do a narcissistic trawl through my own comments and I feel like they're a pretty good representation of what I'm like and what I'm about.
I have a small Gemini "capsule" (site) gemini://sforman.srht.site/ that gets translated to HTML/HTTP at: https://sforman.srht.site/ I call it a blog but I haven't added anything recently.
I'm in the beginning stages of creating a mutual-benefit non-profit corporation to supply ecologically-harmonious homes at extremely low cost. I'm talking about systems that provide food, shelter, clothing, much medicine, energy, etc. automatically with minimal labor and oversight. We have all the technology already, it's just a matter of putting the elements together. So come watch or participate in that? ;)
Trying to break down big opportunities in big markets. Going to be doing some pieces in coming weeks on commercialising research and forgotten ideas from history that could still be viable startups today.
For the past 2.5 years, I've published summaries of each month as it ends, so on 2023-06-30, I published a summary of June 2023. Each post has the following:
- Narrative Introduction;
- Podcasts reviews (each review is 25 words or fewer);
- Nerdy Software (25 words or fewer on a piece of software I like);
- Bougie Products (25 words or fewer on a product I like);
- Personal Finance and Investing (advice in 25 words or fewer);
- Reading (each review is 25 words or fewer);
- A List.
The name of my blog comes from a quote that inspires me: "In music, as in everything, the disappearing moment of experience is the firmest reality." (Benjamin Boretz)
Recently started writing regularly. Have decided to focus on technical nuances and programming mental models learned the hard way, things I wish I knew in college or early career.
I've been trying to write more consistently (2x month) since the beginning of the year about startup and tech topics in general. I like to share experiences and perspective over organisational, hiring and product topics.
I always liked to do it and had a old Wordpress website, but now I decided to code it from scratch to make the blogging experience simpler. Allowing me to drag and drop Word files over the page to create articles. I also blogged about that!
I'm a productivity consultant so I write about productivity and how to be intentional about how you spend your time, energy, and attention in all parts of your life.
I’ma programming languages researcher, so most of my posts are about that. I also write (too much) about Emacs. Education figures in my posts as well. I try to write one to two posts a month; that doesn’t always work out. I’ve got an RSS feed. The colophon explains how I make my blog: https://lambdaland.org/docs/about/#colophon
A selection of fun tidbits from my work, focused on graphics programming and performance. It's largely written in a slightly less technical detail so I can share it with friends and family.
There's still two things I want to write from Wavetale (rendering and optimisation of the water), but those are more ambitious and technical, so I haven't gotten around to it, yet.
Started life on uboot.com (does anyone remember that?) then migrated to WordPress, and now Hugo.
The only articles which really get any hits any more are those where I've specifically solved problems I was having, i.e. posts which are similar to Stack Overflow answers. I guess people search for the error messages and find my articles, so that's search working as intended I guess.
If I write anything else e.g. my thoughts on software development, it's still a useful exercise to focus the mind, and I can send the article to a few mates and they might read it, but that's it, no hits from Google etc.
Back in the days of Google Reader I used to have some readers via RSS, and I used to follow a number of interesting blogs from various individuals I'd found. Those were nice times, but I guess they're over.
It used to be a separate website, but since becoming a principal investigator and starting my own group, I have integrated it into the group website. I mostly write about academic research/teaching and open-source software/principles/evangelization.
My personal favorite overall is the post from 2015 https://gaseri.org/en/blog/2015-09-14-what-is-the-price-of-o... where I wrote about proprietary and open-source software in computational chemistry by debunking an article from American Chemical Society's Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
But I like my real adventure where I got trapped in my car next to a leapoard, maybe everyone will find it boring but there is a terrible video I took with proof.
Recently started writing regularly. Have decided to focus on technical nuances and programming mental models learned the hard way, things I wish I knew in college or early career.
I journal ideas and thoughts about computers and software. I am interested in software architecture, parallelism, async, coroutines, database internals, programming language implementation, software design and the web.
Been off and on with blogging but next half of 2023 really committing to at least posting more monthly retrospectives and hopefully more articles .
In the past I've written more technical articles but going forward I'll be writing more articles about boostrapping , indie hacking, and software entrepeneurship which I am full time focused on
My most popular Hacker News posts were
Simplest App That Makes Money : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34101016 (213 points, 94 comments) - post about making simple and monetizable apps as an indie hacking starting point
Both of those articles were somewhat controversial and I am no longer working on the first app in question nor anything in crypto. The controversy of both posts was a small factor in me deciding to focus on other things. But I guess controversy gets views since they are by far my most popular posts. But going forward hoping to get the views without the controversy by just posting useful stuff (although even then, I thought my Django vs NextJS post was as tame as it gets and I got a shocking amount of hate mail for that one).
Sometimes I get excited about different topics and niches which I unload by writing in my blog so it's a collection of whatever I find interesting. Here are some categories and tags to try to keep everything organized:
Do you have an RSS feed? I am currently trying to consume more Finnish text to aid in my language learning. I feel that your blog would aid me as I also have interests in what you blog about.
Recently started writing regularly. Have decided to focus on technical nuances and programming mental models learned the hard way, things I wish I knew in college or early career.
Travel, life (in Taiwan), programming (especially my journey from a coding bootcamp to a relatively successful software engineering career for 6 years now), philosophy, motorcycling, digital nomad stuff
I started NLJ back in 2020. It is built with WordPress (hosted on Hetzner VPS and managed with Cloudron). I have published more than 800 articles and 350 short-form posts (almost all posts by me, but my friend has published 30something articles). I write about whatever interests me (I tell myself this means there is something for everyone). Common topics include, but are not limited to, tech (digital ownership, open source software, feeds, and my learning Linux), history (usually American or Roman), old books and poems, anime, visual novels (mainly English translations of freeware NScripter/KiriKiri novels), photos from my walks, fictional dialogues, and occasional commentary about life in NYC.
I am testing out Memos (https://github.com/usememos/memos) for short-form notes and microblog-style posts, but very much a side project next to NLJ. Neat little tool.
A site about the most effective techniques to improve your memory, intelligence, and effectiveness. Built with a custom software stack, want to put more time into it soon.
Selection of posts:
· Adults learn faster than children: challenging a discouraging myth that children are suited for learning more than adults. (https://wetware.engineering/adult-learning)
Mostly about UI design and IT management (management sounds boring I know but I hope they're useful articles. Good, I think, for us who are managers here -- and us who are managed!)
I'm particularly happy with the design of the site: I'd love to hear what readers think of the layout and typography. My CSS style is called 'manuscript' and it's very inspired by older book and manuscript look and feel.
There is zero Javascript and ZERO cookies or tracking. None at all.
I write weekly on https://connortumbleson.com using Ghost. Started as a new years resolution I've kept just discussing what crosses my life or mind. My favorite posts:
I do a monthly post with very short reviews of [audio]books I've read. Occassional other posts about tech, transport and random stuff. Trying to get out some more shorter tech posts.
Articles on software architecture. I'm also looking to make new friends to discuss these topics. Working remotely in my 30s from a not-major-city makes this difficult. In my blog there's a place to leave your email if you'd be up for it.
I blog about random bits and blobs in tech. Sometimes a review, sometimes trying out something new. Wanted to try and keep it interesting and not too fixated on one category.
https://Wa.rner.me
Write about The Arts & Tech
and how we can defend the former from the latter.
(via Micro.blog/warner - a superbly curated, sustainable blogger community)
I haven't posted for a while, as I've been going through a lot personally, but I've got a couple of drafts and rough outlines I hope to be able to post soon.
Most of my posts have to do with cryptography, over-engineered silliness, or "cursed" things.
https://www.georgesaines.com/
My personal blog. I originally started it when I was running my first company to document the stuff I learned. It's been around in various incarnations since 2008, but I don't blog very often. In the last couple of years, it's devolved into personal book and movie reviews. If you like indie movies or nonfiction, give it a read!
I post three things I find interesting, once a week. Very simple and to the point.
I’m at just a tad over 100 subscribers at time of writing. In the latest issue I shared some research on the “Pink Tax”, a blog sharing MacOS command line tools, and a Twitter thread demistifying a lot of the debate around water quality in the U.K.
For more long form content you can find me on medium: https://medium.com/@duartem where my writing has had over 25,000 reads over the years.
https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/
Writing about writing. And swords.
Of most interest to HN readers is probably this piece of flash fiction, Prompt Engineering for pre-Singularity Service Workers [0], inspired by the idea that LLMs like ChatGPT are likely to change the way people communicate with each other. But there's also this ten-part series on how to write a fight scene [1].
https://blog.samuellevy.com/ - I haven't posted in a few years, and I really need to upgrade it/clean up everything. It's not remotely mobile friendly.
I've had a few relatively popular posts over the years:
I mostly write about startups and fundraising from the POV of an engineer turned VC. The posts have gotten much less frequent over time, but I have a few good drafts that I hope to publish by the end of the year.
The posts below are less popular, but they're my personal favorites. Apologies in advance for poor formatting, I migrated to Substack a while ago and still need to fix some of the internal links.
I blog about the development of aircraft ice protection in the era of the
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, 1918 to 1958, a predecessor to NASA).
An amazing amount of analysis was conducted with analog computers, and many of the results are still found in design manuals today.
It’s barren these days — I got self conscious about writing for some reason, and removed most of what I’d written — but I’ve recently gotten back to it. I have a lot ready to go, just need to build that confidence and hit publish again.
I write for myself more than anything, which makes the hesitation that much stranger.
Not sure if I should publish my "blog" here or not. It's been in a hiatus the last 6-7 years due to life and because I don't "feel" qualified to publish anything.
Anyhow, lately the consensus on HN has been "some is better than none" and "hit that publish button"...
At the moment I'm transitioning from WP to Hugo, trying to retain content from the old blog to the new one. It is a joyful journey, which has lasted about 2 years give or take. It's not the top priority, but it has been chugging along.
Most of the time has ended up in tinkering with Hugo and partials/shortcodes, than to migrate and create new content.
I also wrote some more general pieces about building software, products and companies at https://ghinda.com/blog but did not had too much time lately also for that part.
I am afraid that my non native english make the content less pleasant to read ;-)
I have been blogging since a long time, including a blog with more than hundreds of articles that I am not sharing. It's strange when you realise that you basically could have written two or three non fiction books.
Of the shared content, the ones I think are the most interesting are:
I started this blog in 2019 and wrote around 50 articles. I focus on backend engineering on the jvm and all the surrounding. The blog was formerly called "code-held" and when I started to work as a freelancer earlier this year I migrated the content. I publish in German and English.
Mine's more for note taking and so I can find stuff via google when I forget so not sure how consumable it is for other people. It is relatively old though so can be interesting to look back over all the different trends and fads: https://whatibroke.com/
Where me and my partner write up our pet projects and experiments. Mostly arduino and gamedev but there's a bit of everything. One of them made it to the HN front page once: https://coconauts.net/blog/2016/08/01/retrophies/
However, it's been pretty much on hiatus since we've had kids and all of our free time is now consumed by them :)
I've been using nix/nixos a lot lately and will probably end up publishing more in that general area of interest. That and my excessively-overengineered homelab.
"Dave's Data" - very much a "whatever I want to post about" blog but with some of my historical cryptocurrency mining exploits, some CS professor babble, some cooking, and recently some Rust.
My most read article was the one where I discussed a pretty crazy adventure creating an optimized miner for the monero cryptocurrency, discovering in the process the mechanism that had been used to artificially pre-mine its predecessor, Bytecoin. (It was released with an artificially slowed down implementation of the PoW function, which I managed to reverse engineer and discover the original design): https://da-data.blogspot.com/2014/08/minting-money-with-mone...
My website is https://www.seanw.org and my very infrequently updated blog is https://www.seanw.org/blog/. I'm one of those people who probably has more fun setting up the blog and playing with static site generators but I keep thinking I'll get around to writing more one day. :)
Most of my writing was on web best practices which got migrated to my project here:
Also, kind of a personal blog - I scripted a blogging bot that writes a post daily, using the comments from the most commented article on HN, which today is this one:
https://www.eliza-ng.me/
Over a thousand posts (I've been doing this a while apparently) on APIs, open source, backend scripting languages, developer experience/relations, other random tech, and the occasional recipe.
I maintain two, with pretty different content. Both are intended to explore deep topics (AI and climate change, respectively), aiming for a middle ground between academic papers (meaty, but often hard to understand + contextualize if you're not already an expert) and popular press (often over-simplified or off the mark).
https://amistrongeryet.substack.com/ – was intended to be a general "things I've learned after coding for 40+ years", but so far just chronicles my attempt to wrap my head around the actual capabilities of current AI models and the potential trajectory and impact on society.
https://climateer.substack.com/ – my attempt to explain some of the big / controversial topics in climate change mitigation.
Writing mostly about Drupal from a ambitious site builder/designer perspective. But lately I've been venturing into blogs about how to live a better, easier, more fulfilled life.
Not really a blog, just a few static HTML articles I've written over the years related to my (and others) work on OpenBSD. I hope to write some more eventually, but preoccupied with other things in my life.
https://beuke.org/ A personal blog about computer science topics. I write a about category theory, llms, cosmology, haskell and generic linux releated topics.
I write about hobby projects including CRTs and analog video, basic electrical engineering, and technology/programming/audio tinkering. The website is implemented in Zola using a customized template.
I write quirky computer science articles. Usually based on some crazy project often at the intersection of computers and math. Currently working on a series that builds Finite Fields up from scratch step-by-step (haven’t published that yet)
My blog has seen more time and effort put toward trying out different static site generators than interesting posts, but I'm sharing none the less :) https://kdheepak.com/blog/
ProductiveGrowth is for leaders and entrepreneurs or aspiring to be on one. My newsletter explores the topics of productivity, personal development and scaling through processes.
A scattering of personal newsletters, tech, and data engineering. For the personal newsletters that involve traveling, what I do is journal every day while I am in the destination country, and then when I'm at home, begin writing. Each travel post takes about 40 hours of writing, editing, and picture selection.
For the travel posts, I try not to rehash a history of a place (you probably could watch a youtube video or read a book for better perspective), but instead try to find something hopefully new and insightful to reveal
Fifteen years of on/off blogging. Took it way too serious ten years ago and published anything I could and nowadays I just blog when I have something useful to share. Working on a couple of Elixir posts currently.
No tracking (no external domain requests or analytics), built using Gatsby.
Your IP only goes to Cloudflare (caching) + Netlify (Hosting) + BunnyCDN (when watching videos on the site), no other personal information is collected.
I've been writing for fun a few years ago, then one of my articles got really popular because it ranked high on search engines and it still receives a fair amount of traffic.
Since then, even though I wrote more articles, I discarded them because of this new "pressure": nothing really feels as good as the articles that I already published. I have not published anything in 4.5 years, but I keep promising myself that I'd start again some day.
Any feedback or criticism on the current articles is welcome.
I blog at https://friendshipcastle.zip. I'm still new to the world of blogging, but I have been trying to refine my writing style and learn how to talk about the things that I've been learning about.
Quick reminder: you can register your personal blog at https://indieblog.page/ and everyone interested in discovering new personal blogs can check it out.
I will later add the blogs mentioned in this thread.
Recently migrated to Ghost and I'm trying now to centralize all posts in a single place. It hasn't been busy in the last couple years, but I'm planning to revitalize it soon.
I talk mostly about web development (React mostly) and quantitative finance (Python mostly). I run a SaaS in the area, so I plan to talk more about running it.
Very few posts so far since I’ve mostly been focused on my book, but I’m hoping to start posting updates more regularly as soon as I’m finished with the extra online content for my book.
Only one post at the moment (about Bloom filters), but I’m working on another one about compressing integers! My focus is on high performance data analytics—adjacent things.
Wow, thank you for the kind words! Really glad you liked it. I don’t have much experience with RSS but I will try to add a feed (hopefully within the next week or so)
I (very occasionally) write about stuff that I'm interested in. The focus is on the Self programming language but I also have things about Zig and SerenityOS.
Ideas and research on how to improve social media protocols and design large scale human interaction on the internet. Applying computer science, game theory, statistics. Social Protocols is the research group, while the other two are personal blogs.
https://herbertlui.net/ — I don't write much technical content, I usually cover marketing, creativity, and the human condition.
Sharing a few posts that have resonated at hn, and highlighting the discussion (which I've found just as interesting—if not more so—as writing the post):
“Some things that aren’t worth doing are worth overdoing.”
I write about physics, language, and history, or whatever interests me at the moment, with an overarching theme of spending way too much effort analyzing useless topics. Here’s some of my favorites:
I have a newsletter blog called Engineering Leadership (https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/) and I write about (you guessed it :)) topics that are all things Engineering Leadership related.
The goal is to help:
- Engineers who want to progress their careers.
- Engineering leaders in the engineering leadership role for the first time.
- Seasoned engineering leaders who want to stay up-to-date.
- Founders who want to learn what it takes to build a high-performing engineering organization.
- Everyone who wants to learn more about engineering leadership topics in general.
I've been running this site since ~2015 (same CSS for at least 8 years now) but there's not a lot of content on it. I've been trying to get more into it recently though and I'm posting TIL-style content :)
It started out as a site built out of Mustache templates with plain CSS for styling. A few months ago I migrated it to Astro so that I don't have to maintain a build script written in bash but the CSS and site layout stayed the same.
Personal blog with a handful of tech-oriented posts and a gallery of some of my favorite photos. Haven't posted in a bit, but this thread is motivating. Made with Jekyll, hosted on GitHub pages, with Cloudflare in front. It's super lightweight. My goal is to keep the PageSpeed score at 100.
https://varun.ch
It's definitely still a work in progress with only a handful of posts (I have at least 2 posts ready to publish but I'm waiting for permission to disclose vulnerabilities), but my favourite is probably https://varun.ch/video-id, which is about creating a self referential YouTube video.
https://varun.ch/history is an experiment into getting a users history through a fake CAPTCHA, and it's my most viewed post so far.
It is my space to "think in public". The motto is "Writing = Thinking". Pet topics include functional programming, systems thinking, emacs, bash, clojure, organisation design etc.
I've been writing here sporadically for more than 10 years at this point, at ~1 post a year. The more recent posts took months to write, and tend to cover things I find myself repeating frequently while working with other engineers.
I wanted to express thanks for your post on ramping up on large projects. It's concise, links to further reading, and echoes a lot of the advice I have had to give to junior engineers. You've saved me time from having to write these tips out myself. :)
(As an aside I kind of disagree with the common quote of:
> "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious"
I find that most software I've worked on is muddy, confusing, and contradictory. Perhaps I will get better with time.)
Heh, definitely depends on the software itself but I generally find the contents /schema of tables used to save the data very illuminating: you can see the UX, whatever form it takes -- and then what is saved to the backend so it makes things slightly more understandable for me.
But the main purpose of my site is to scrape RSS feeds of data science blogs and serve them as an email digest (kind of like Google News alerts for data science tutorials).
https://skillenai.com/subscribe/ to subscribe.
I'm loving this thread of personal blogs, I may need to scrape it and add a bunch to my list...
Always down to share since it seems that HN has enjoyed our content, although this feels like someone is trying to jumpstart training of their LLM: https://staysaasy.com/
At least for our blog we've been posted a few times so we're hardly a secret, but yeah this no-context post really reads like they're fishing for training data.
I found my niche in a problem called Signal Integrity - a subset of digital hardware design. My work relies heavily on electromagnetic simulation so I enjoy playing around with that in my spare time as well. I probably only post about twice a year as I'm busy lately with grad school, but it's fun to keep the site going. I also have what is erroneously titled a "wiki" there where I want to accumulate a knowledge base of helpful SI/PI information. Since I just use static hosting, I currently generate the wiki section of the site from a Zim notebook.
My most popular page is an april's fools I made a few years ago. It still gets 4k organic unique visitors per month, which accounts for about 95% of my site's traffic. https://www.attejuvonen.fi/website-moves-your-cursor/
All static using Jekyll, no JavaScript, no external libraries, hosted on a CDN.
It helps me to think and straight things out, especially when things become an micro-obsession.
Moreover, blogging contributes to my personal branding.
Started couple years ago to practise my writing and analysis skills.
I mainly write about energy transition stuff, intersecting with my work at TenneT. I like to analyze stuff as a hobby without the work pressure. In the past I have used blog posts internally at TenneT as well if something came up that was similar to a post haha.
Traffic is mainly driven by summarizing and linking to a post on linkedin.
Writing about learning, healthy productivity, creating and things that interest me.
Next post will be on "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker, a summary of its content with relevant additions from elsewhere and a quick evaluation discussing its problems such as far far too many untruthful claims.
Future posts will be on my year studying in South Korea, burnout, motivation, front-end development and a rewrite of the post on Anki and learning. Have more thing planned but am already not publishing enough.
Seeing so many posts here feels intimidating and it might not be worth the effort to even share this. Hopefully one person enjoys it :)
One of the older posts include a quick intro to a Zettelkasten like system. Something that provides a lot of value to me now.
https://bryanhogan.me/second-brain/
I just started doing one article per week challenge in late may. I have been keeping up with it, and am proud of some of my work. https://medium.com/@k0ryk
topics are pretty random, but software engineering adjacent: rtl sdr, home automation, air quality monitoring, nature.
Sure, I can probably work around people who want to make their blog painful to read. I'd just rather read blogs written by people who want to make them easy to read...
I didn't consider many options to be honest. Medium was just an easy way to start writing. I am planning on moving to a platform where I have more control (was thinking self-hosted static html) eventually. Do you have a favorite alternative?
I understand and empathise. For sure it is much better to just start writing than to spend months obsessing over which technologies one is going to use.
> I am planning on moving to a platform where I have more control (was thinking self-hosted static html) eventually. Do you have a favorite alternative?
Not-Medium is my favourite alternative! The bar is low: any static site generator would do fine. I wouldn't even mind you hosting on GitHub pages or whatever...
I try to write up helpful or interesting pieces I feel either aren't covered sufficiently elsewhere or for my own reference.
Covers a pretty wide array of technologies (software architecture, messaging systems, DBMSs, etc).
I generally try to target the intermediate level that often gets lost in the spectrum between surface-level intros or expert level deep dives. My hope is that someone gains an better understanding or discovers a new practical tool or approach that they can then use to better their life and career.
Published two articles yesterday as part of a project that will hopefully allow anyone to fully automate the installation and/or migration of a Ghost blog to any cloud host that supports Ubuntu Linux VMs.
I have a starter post[1] for a project I did to see how to visit all of the Paris Metro stations in a single day. I completed the project last year after toying with it off-and-on for ~10 years.
Over 1000 posts since 2014, loooaods of movie reviews (mostly pithy short takes to remind me that I actually watched the movie) but some techy stuff which is what people actually seem to read.
I am currently doing a tour of Sheffield via its pork sandwiches.
https://potato.horse (“Important Meeting Notes” originally started as doodles I gathered during morbidly boring meetings when I had a semi serious job)
https://harshal-patil.com/ I started writing 3 years ago. I'm not sure if Wix has a RSS feed, but I rate limit my posts to once a week at https://harshalpatil.substack.com/
I write about business, entrepreneurship, and tech. Nowadays also about the journey in writing.
Random personal projects. Some hardware, some software, some random bits of what I think are insight. Maybe someday I will get around to adding an RSS feed.
(my previous post was missed, maybe because the "H" in "http" was capitalized; idk, try again, maybe one of those scrapers people are writing will pick it up)
Only pictures I made and commonplace book posts. I've tried long-form blogs in the past and just couldn't find a groove that was interesting enough (to me) to pursue. The pictures I've made however, have become a kind of notebook for things that have caught my eye or that have significance to me and mine. The commonplace posts capture things that have struck me as distilling wisdom or a useful perspective on life.
I write about awesome or useful technical stuff I encounter. Also I'll share lots of useful tips. Main topics are DIY gadgets, Linux and CLI. Most interesting thing I've done is rugged Raspberry Pi laptop https://developer.run/50 (and other gadgets mentioned in blog).
Rather than a site to write articles, it's a site where I keep links to things I write (or talks I give) so that I don't lose them.
I used to have a large blog ten years ago, with at least one post per day, because every blog guru on the internet said you needed to post every day to grow an audience. But I'm not smart enough to have something interesting to say every day, so it was rather poor quality. So I started this new iteration from scratch and post once or twice a year, mostly about software design.
I wanted to start with "this week in review" series, but it ended quite quickly.
Now I want to publish lesson learned while building my side-project (https://humadroid.dev), which is a missing tool I wish I had when running software house year-and-a-half ago, before I sold it.
Topics considered for near future:
* lessons learned while coding it in Rails with hotwire & stimulus
* lessons learned actually sellign it to people (Open-Startup idea/movement is close to my beliefs).
https://questionableengineering.com/
I really need to add more content. About 90% of the content is still in drafts. It's really my online notebook. I add content when I either organize my old files or finally find some free time. Tell me what you think.
It covers everything from software, ML, CNC, Wled, Robots, High voltage, and etc.
https://questionableengineering.com/
https://mgsloan.com - 11 posts about unorthodox computer ergonomics. 6 posts about Haskell ideas / weird tricks. Haven't posted in a couple years but would like to get back to it. Notable HN discussions:
General writing about musings on the world. Sometimes that's about how everyone in a big city is an npc. Why erotica exists in a world of free unlimited porn.
One of my first posts was about how Chinese anime migh die off due to the heavy handed censorship of stories over there. The same 10 acceptable stories aren't interesting enough to go outside China.
Made with Php, laravel, statamic as the CMS and static site builder. Hosted on surge.sh.
Wanted to move to cloudflare pages, but doesn't support Php 8+ yet for the build process.
Mainly a Linux administration site containing tweaks, software, how-to's, and other random stuff. I started this blog for my own benefit so I could remember those little tweaks or fixes which escape memory at crucial times when a needed repair or a new issue arose that I had never dealt with before. When I would research these issues, I would come across great posts and information I wanted to remember and posted that information here. Enjoy!
Haven't had the chance to write for awhile, but been wanting to get back to it. In addition to normal static site stuff it has webmentions/pingbacks, comments, and (probably now broken) interoperability with Twitter (likes would show up as webmentions) - overall it was a fun excuse to figure out IndieWeb stuff (https://gallant.dev/posts/a-blog-reborn/ is where I explain that).
I tweaked the theme just a bit, to add the faux scanlines, URL mouseover highlight, and background green glow (trying to mimic an old CRT). But pretty much everything else is just whatever the default was.
Essentially a place to take notes: on the digital devices I use and tips of the software I use. The main idea is to have a place I can refer to when I want some programming/software/hardware detail a second time, instead of returning to Google search again. I've found it easier to have my own notes (once I find the info I need) since other sources of info online can disappear over time or disappear from search results.
- tech (lots of Python & JS, but other topics too)
- media reviews (big best-ofs yearly)
- personal items
I post ~ 4 times a year, on average, but I put a lot of effort into what I post. I should probably invert that (more low/medium-effort posts), but haven't.
It’s mostly iOS and backend engineering, usually solutions to issues I faced and couldn’t easily find a straightforward answer to online.
Along with those, there are also some random thoughts and ideas about different topics.
I probably have twice as many unfinished drafts as published posts, and am looking to move from Ghost to some headless CMS and a custom frontend, to (better) support content internationalisation, tables of content, footnotes & series.
It's not much, and I haven't blogged much recently, but I'm currently working on a series of blog posts about using Nix (the package manager) for building docker images (or rather, OCI images) from monorepos that consist of projects in multiple programming languages, including caching of build artifacts and dependencies. I may also write about Rust, wgpu (the WebGPU implementation), computer graphics and game development in the future.
Kinda afraid of sharing it (the quality isn't "top notch", I just write about whatever, whenever my ADHD-addled brain allows for it), but in general, I write about tech stuff (OSS/nodejs/devops/frontend/backend) and some "higher-level" stuff (e.g. the role of software in business value chain, Conway's Law but for development processes, etc).
You can see all the ones I'm actually sort of proud of in the "Featured" sidebar to the right.
I started blogging here [0] in 2004 or so on any tech-related issue that would cross my mind; as I gathered viewers and matured, I began writing less and less until now I only write when I feel I have something actually valuable to share. These days it is mostly about open source, rust, and .NET.
I’m still posting after all these years. I have a blog, linkblog, podcast and newsletter. Currently still quite minimal. I’m trying to ensure it works well with little to no CSS, then progressively enhance it so it looks a bit nicer later. It’s slow going at the minute, created via a custom static site generator which works really well. Hoping to open source when the world / life allows.
I infrequently post about anything I feel like. Some older posts, which were exported from the wordpress version of the blog, are a bit badly formatted.
I usually write a post once a month about more high level topics of technological trends on their influence on society. Mostly opinion pieces. There are some outliers, like some more low level technical posts in there, too.
This year I haven't been feeling like writing much so far, though. Hope to do more again in the second half.
My most popular post, at least here on HN, is about how Cloudflare Images had a lot of issues ~1.5 years ago - unfortunately they still do too. A previous PM for the product told me at one point that he and the team was "very well aware" of my article, and it was at one point one of the top ranking search results for "Cloudflare Images" too.
I'm currently writing a post about how I discovered I have low-frequency tinnitus.
Just (re)started my blog last week, so content is super light. I have 15 or so posts in the queue and several more ideas lined up behind them. https://dkrichards.com/
I've been a founder (2x), CTO / tech lead, engineer, product lead, VC, film reviewer, and writer. My site is about all of those things. Mostly I write about tech, startups, ethics, and journalism, interspersed with links I find interesting.
I also post a live view of my RSS subscriptions over at https://sources.werd.io/ - I'm excited to add some more from this thread. Thanks for starting it!
I’ve been a researcher, engineer, consultant, investor, and product manager in Cyber Security since 1995. Interested in the design and architecture of secure systems and infrastructures, the prospects for strategic software, and the nascent subject of cyber statecraft. I blog at the conflux of these and other related subjects at https://blog.eutopian.io
Writing sporadically as commitments, projects, and the lawyers allow.
This should be a little different from everyone else's pretty technical blogs :).
I write in fits and starts (and just by looking at it right now, it's been a minute since I wrote on there, but I have a few half written posts that I should just throw up there), and mostly have been writing about my struggles with productivity and making indie films.
I write all the content for the Non-Human Party, explaining how we can transition to a digital-first, opt-in society that respects robots, plants and animals.
I mostly write about academia and machine learning these days, but every once in a while, I also have the urge to write a really nerdy post on a more technical topic. Writing continues to be cathartic for me, and I hope to make a small difference when I discuss things that are not typically discussed openly (in an academic setting).
Not too active lately but feeling like I should get back into it more. I also write more on the company blog about industry topics. Since it's a one many company, it often feels like the right place. https://reviewsignal.com/blog/
Great thread, bookmarked this one! I started programming over 10 years ago so I could make my own circus equipment.
I mainly blog about my IOT LED projects but there is a lot of creative coding as well which might be interesting to some.
Actually hit the front page of HN once with a post about how Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my world cup final (that ddosed my site with HN visitors, site was down for 2 days)
I don't have many posts, but some ideas in the pipeline that I'm working on. Planning on documenting a lot more about the hardware tinkering I am doing.
I also added a bunch of secrets and games to the website, with the idea that the source code can be used to explore and learn. There's even an unsolved crypto puzzle in there, but it seems to be a little too hard considering it's been unsolved for over 10 years now.
Been going for 10+ years now. It’s fun to watch my interested (professional and personal) change.
It all started with WPF then Silverlight (RIP), then diversified into HTML5 (when the version number seemed to be a thing). I also had a fun foray into mobile dev for a while, swift / iOS. More recently it’s been quite JS-heavy, and the past year or so, a lot of AI.
There is an underlying theme of open source throughout.
So far I’ve only got a few posts related to local-first home automation, which for me is Home Assistant and my open source library gome-assistant for writing automations in Go.
I plan to add some write ups for my woodworking projects as well when I get around to it. It exists for me to share things with friends/family and any others that are interested, and I don’t intend to force myself to write on any particular cadence.
This blog presents leadership methodologies for high-impact outcomes. Each post typically describes a challenge, hard-learned lessons, and the reusable framework to use.
Areas include building high-performing teams, setting direction, creating an engineering culture, identifying high-leverage interventions, and more. It aims to help engineering leaders accelerate their growth while supporting their teams to reach their highest potential.
And a recent foray into Substack and the realm of newsletters, a report from cycling Land’s End to John o’ Groats, completed a week ago (in Polish): https://danieljanus.substack.com/
Commentary on stuff I find online, public-facing journal at irregular intervals, collection of book reviews. Skews web-dev. I’m trying to use it as an archive of what I’ve been thinking about recently—the idea is that the primary audience is me, but 5 years from now.
I started writing publicly late last year. It's been tons of effort but it's been tremendously fun and fruitful.
Some of my more-visited or favorite posts:
* A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work -- https://vikramoberoi.com/a-primer-on-roaring-bitmaps-what-th.... This one ended up on the front page of HN and gets hundreds of visits monthly. I wrote it because it's the post I would have liked to read instead of reading the papers themselves.
* How I made atariemailarchive.org --
https://vikramoberoi.com/how-i-made-atariemailarchive-org/. I wrote this one when I open-sourced the dataset behind atariemailarchive.org. The dataset got featured in Data is Plural and in a podcast interview I did with Jeremy Singer-Vine.
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My favorite personal blog to read this past year is Phil Eaton's (eatonphil on HN): https://notes.eatonphil.com/.
I enjoy the subject matter he posts about (a lot of systems work and research, primarily), but his other posts are great too.
Mostly focused on frontend development (dating back to 2013) with some management topics, remote work topics (such as when I worked remotely from Thailand for 3 months with most of my team remaining in-person in the US), and a number of posts that lead up to the web development book I published via Apress. A few backend and random tech-focused opinion pieces in there too.
Maintaining this blog for more than 15 years. I share free software to do X things along with free Android apps, iOS app, and problem-solving via How tos.
Been doing this 12+ years, mainly focused on teaching sophomore organic chemistry. Started as a blog, don't know if it really qualifies anymore as I've organized many of the posts into chapters that follow the typical order of topics as taught in most North American schools. Still write rants from time to time
I blog on everything about Dev, DevOps, and Quality.
A number of topics are on dev speed: fast Dev, fast DevOps (e.g. TDD with cloud resources), fast Startup (post-deploy feedback like A/B testing). Some articles are published, many are in the coffee pot, waiting to be poured out :)
I'm writing about code and delivery. My most shared post is https://fev.al/posts/leet-code/ about why you should stop using leetcode for interviews. I have posted blogs multiple times here, I'm less active but should resume soon.
DevOps, Cloud related topics mostly. Sometimes some guides / howtos, sometimes my thoughts around technologies I use.
Started this year, few posts already there. I wanted to post on weekly basis, but well ;)
It's my 3rd or even 4th attempt at blogging. Previously I was writing in Polish so I didn't bother keeping archive, also the break was pretty long and everything got really outdated already.
Most of my posts are about shell scripting and messaging-based architectures. I wrote a small module framework for Bash that allows you to send messages (point-to-point and pub-sub) between scripts, so I'm doing a small series about enterprise integration patterns in Bash.
I'm planning to cover some of my other projects (embedded, hardware, baking -- everything I do is pretty low-level) once I get around to it.
I write about anything that can help frontend devs to use their skills in the whole stack. Lately, that's decentralization tech.
Wrote more frequently there in the past, but after a year of hobby blogging I transitioned into doing it as my main job and now I write mostly for other people's blogs.
It's been on and off for a long time, mostly quick "this is how I solved this specific issue" posts but I get enough natural traffic it's clearly helping some people. I want to make time for more long form writing though.
I write about random experiments I do in my life (data science, personal analytics, reviews, travel, etc). Been travelling a lot this year, but haven't been able to write about it much. Hoping to change that in the next few weeks.
I've started commentary on the messy business of running a tech conference.
(I'm a former NASA engineer now organizing indie conferences for a living.)
The essay "Why you can't Kickstart a conference" has thankfully done rather well.
Two days late, but as there have been a few submissions about compilations of the blogs featured in the comments attached to this post, I guess I might as well throw in mine too. https://blog.qiqitori.com
Mostly retro stuff, but not always. In fact, the next post won't really be about retro I think!
The blogposts are centered around tips on latest technology trends and cover topics such as AI/ML, Cybersecurity, DevOps and mostly derived from the products we list on cloud marketplaces (AWS, Azure, GCP).
I talk about application security and other stuff (common pitfalls from working on the field, career advices etc). I have yet to migrate the content from my old blog, but a new post will be released soon™.
Sometimes I post fun stuff, sometimes I post technical stuff. Right now, I'm nearing the finish on a post about how much I despise Unit Testing (at least the way it's commonly done right now) and an alternative I wish more people would take. It's not really a new topic, but it's not one with nearly enough traction, so I'm just doing my part.
After a few years as a Software Engineer I realized sitting at a desk was not making me long term happy. After years of saving and planning I quit to drive around the world. I’ve driven the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Argentina, right around the coastline of Africa and to all the remote corners of Australia.
More adventures in the works!
For now, just a collection of links. Anything interesting I found on the internet or newsletters during a week but plan to start writing original content in a couple of years.
Writing a lot about SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library) development-wise and projects made with it. Additionally, I cover topics on software engineering, or anything else that I come across and had some thoughts on.
https://chris.sears.io/projects/audiobook-wish/ has some info on my current side project, Audiobook Wish. Concept is to match people with expiring Audible credits with other people who would like free audiobooks. Any feedback is welcome!
Been blogging since 2008, on and off, using few different domains. This current one is the so called work in progress, no about me page etc. Mostly write via newsletter these days though.
Sharing for the variety's sake I guess this being HN.
Posts about my amateur astronomy / telescope making hobby, or work-unrelated programming projects, mostly Elixir. Before this site I worked on my side-projects by coding things and then eventually blog about it, now I try to write about what I'll code, then code it.
Mine is more of a personal website than a blog - I wrote about bands that I’ve been in over the years and various software projects that I created or was a significant contributor to.
https://liorsinai.github.io/ long detailed posts on mathematics, machine learning and algorithms. Most of the code is in Julia but older posts also feature Python, C# and C++. I recently did posts on Transformers and Diffusion Denoising Probabilistic models.
The most popular post is a Sudoku solver in Python.
You only remind me that I don't blog that often, it should turn 25 this year even though I didn't know the word blog back then and scraped the personal posts from it.
Molex to SATA, lose all your data. Injection-molded thermoplastic SATA power connectors have a tendency to short internally and catch fire, as opposed to SATA connectors made out of two separate pieces of plastic clamped together with a seam.
Yes something like that happened in this dusty, old machine. Good thing she was using the PC when it happened and unplugged it when she smelled the burnt plastic.
Unlike many people here, I don't like to write hundreds of mediocre posts. Instead, I prefer very few posts, that unfortunately are still mediocre.
If you're tired of all the perfection that exists on the internet, where every piece is deeply insightful and changes your life, I'd encourage you to read my articles, which only promise to shorten it:
Really, it should be one of those things, like journalling I suppose, that most people should try and do now and then. Get some thoughts down, for themselves and maybe others. Writing is a tool for thinking, after all.
Personal blog with random assortment of topics. Something for the Internet Archive to pick up so that one day my children and their offspring can learna a thing or two. Updated now and then. Still restoring a lot of older content from previous CMSes dating back to early 2000s. Currently using ghost and oracle cloud.
It's about product management, leadership, engineering organizations, and related topics. I still consider it personal because all of the content stems from personal experience.
Truthfully I spend more time tinkering with the layout and its features than I do writing but it's truly a very lovely project to always have to fall back on.
AS for other links regarding blogging, I highly recommend checking out the IndieWeb resources.
The loose theme is intended to be how making incremental improvements in the thousands of tiny things we do each day compound to make a difference over the course of our lives.
In practice, it serves more as a publishing ground for a bunch of random things that need to be put on paper/into code.
Intended to make and share my personal projects here. At the moment its around 2 good or known posts and one project. Hosted on github pages, based on Hugo, , which makes me feel too tired just to think about updating it. Will update it someday with most simplest to setup markdown based tool/framework.
I'm pretty bad at sticking to a set list of topics. I like to just write about whatever is interesting me at the moment. Lots of semi-how-to-style posts where I end up explaining how to do the things I find interesting.
It's new and has just one post. But over the next few days and months, I am hoping to post voluminous content that has utility and usefulness to a large or niche audience.
The kind of topics will vary from startups, AI, governance, technocracy and other projects and businesses I am building.
After some hand-wringing I decided to remove all my dev-related blog content when I changed professions. Instead you can have my photography portfolio: https://jamiedumont.com.
All coded with vanilla HTML, CSS and JS. No frameworks or templating engine involved. It's very liberating after 12 years of professionally swearing at computers that don't do what you ask!
Not a lot there right now. When I rehosted from WordPress to Hugo (after HostPapa started jacking up prices), I pulled a number of posts. Since I've been on hiatus from adding material to my blog. But, now that Reddit and Twitter have really soured, I'm leaning toward making it the one place where share thoughts.
Personal site for sharing thoughts and projects. It's not particularly active because of studies and school, but maybe more frequent posting down the line.
I write about once a month, mainly about technical stuff I come across at work (e.g. my last post is about writing a SAT solver for dependency resolution)
Mostly just articles with small tricks I don't want to forget and can't be bothered to remember. I added the rel=xml deally, so hopefully the RSS feed gets picked up.
Built with Django and Angular and the source is available!
Mine may or may not qualify as a "personal blog." It is running on blogging software (Wordpress) and I am a person, but our content is more magazine-like than blog-like. In any case, it can be found at https://www.damninteresting.com. Established 2005.
I just started this a couple weeks ago to start writing about personal projects. I write all my notes in markdown anyway so Bearblog is the perfect platform for me.
Posts so far:
Mean shift rotoscoping,
Room 23: Brainwashing Video Generator, Multi Image Steganography, Brake Safe, The Erosion of Patience for Scripted Chatbots and more.
https://bayesianneuron.com - I barely have time to write anymore but its a blog in 2 parts, one is a modern more professional-esque where I write about ML, discrete optimization, and security. The other is a good old fashioned 90s style geocities type “space” where I rant and do random writings
I've done some math tutoring, and word problems are really boring, so I decided to spice them up a bit with monsters and mayhem. Scroll down on the home page to see all the problems (this site is new and a little unorganized right now).
The hope is to eventually write enough problems that they could be part of a real curriculum.
One post per week for almost 9 years now. (In July I'm going to change this to one post per two weeks since I'm starting another blog.) Mainly Emacs stuff with a bit of JS and PostgreSQL, and sometimes other stuff once in a while.
The blog started in 2006 (then only in Polish), the English version started in 2009, and was rather irregular until 2014.
Huge emphasis on audio-description writing and accessibility, but I run linux, program Python and PHP, and live and go hiking in a biodiversity hotspot, so if those things aren't there yet, they will get a mention one day.
Right now I'm working on posts with interactive code snippets that you can edit / re-run directly in the page (like a Jupyter notebook). It's based off this: https://github.com/rameshvarun/blog-cells
Power by hugo after being on wordpress and then gatsby. The hardest was to get a workflow of writting so that i don't have streaks of multiple month without any writting going on.
Still hard but somehow it is improving.
I have also cut out twitter and I am trying to write everything on the blog first and then eventually to to tweet it later
I like writing about my own projects that usually involve web scraping, OpenStreetMap, or visualizing interesting datasets. I've been at it for about a year, mostly to gain motivation to actually finish my projects. To that end it's been quite successful, and it's a great opportunity to practice writing.
https://blog.steve.fi/ is my blog. The headline is "Debian & Free Software", but these days I write about toy scripting languages, CP/M, random hardware hacks, and other related "computer stuff".
I try to focus on software and everything I've encountered through projects throughout my software career, but often a general post about thoughts on life / software in general sneak in here & there.
My goal is always to share real world examples and code snippets, instead of the 1,000th iteration of the todo app.
A few of my posts on dynamic programming got a fair bit of traction here on HN.
I haven't posted in a while, but after a busy few years, I have some posts lined up. I want to reflect on some teaching I did (one big reason I didn't have time to blog), as well as document me getting a new home server set up (this time with containers, finally).
https://blog.reiterate.app
Reiterate is an app I wrote to help guide esports players through the process of self-improvement. The blog covers app releases, musing on self-improvement in general, and technical details about the app's code and the servers that run the backend.
Random stuff, mostly software with a little bit of 3D printing. My latest physical project (an ABENICS clone -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUv9Zda_48) has been getting a bit of traffic from the 3D printing community.
Posting for years, since 2010 at least, with gaps in between, most of which has served as a notebook of sorts for when I need to go back and find something. A few posts which did well when the blog existing on dev.to, winning a top post of the week award, but other than that, mostly just quick posts.
I usually write about machine learning & statistics topics as well as chess AI. I'm most proud of the search bar, which is all performed client-side so it's lightning fast.
Not really personal, mostly stuff I would be ok with my employer seeing. I used to write extremely personal stuff online, but then realized it's much better to just have a life and talk to people IRL.
I post about things that are interesting to me, which is mostly MediaWiki software-related (which means Lua, JS, CSS, Python, SQL in a MW context), but also sometimes not - I've talked about random unrelated Python libraries, written a bunch of book reviews, etc.
Two years into hosting this blog I did also write a post about hosting a blog.
https://venam.nixers.net and nixers.net
I have two main feeds, one is about Unix, really deep articles. And I got usual life stuff and philosophy-related articles. I always try to take new perspectives when I write. The second link is to the nixers community.
Started as a way to train English writing and try to establish some presence online to bolster my CV. Posts of topics related to work, weekend projects, and personal reflections.
It's interesting to get back to older posts and find out how my skills, perceptions and opinions change as I progress in my career.
About 80% tech topics, 15% culture and music, and about 5% my personal life and cat pictures. I'm thinking of splitting off my personal life topics to another blog. Some of my tech posts get moderate traffic and I doubt any of those visitors care about my personal life overmuch.
The content has varied over the years, but in the past few years, I've used the blog to explore side projects outside of work. This has allowed me to separate my primary responsibility at work (manager/unblocker/collaborator/prototyper) from my personal interests in hacking.
Mostly writing about software I'm working on or things I'm thinking about. Technical topics include: software startups, development with iOS, SwiftUI, Common Lisp (which the blog is built/served with!), Emacs Lisp, and soon Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView.
Was waiting for this moment :D
https://arunmani.in
I today only thought of (re)taking up the "an article a week" challenge.
I have promised myself to keep the website free of any analytics and especially no JS. That's why there is no way to comment. So, please share your thoughts by reaching out to me using the links in footer.
Not at all tech-oriented. It's just me — a cranky, anti-social old man — and my opinions, about old movies, public transit, news, politics, my mom who gets on my nerves, and long-ago memories of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll.
I just started, but my hope is to post about nature, photography and computer graphics.
I've only got time to finish one full article so far. It's a low-budget guide to the Montreal GP with some sweet photos I'm proud of: https://manas96.github.io/blog/f1guide/
I write about cloud minutia and generally focus on serverless. I try to focus on reproducible benchmarks and actionable advice. If you've wondered about the performance of AWS-SDK v2 or v3 in NodeJS, or weird edge case behaviors anywhere from Lambda to zip files, you may be interested.
I blog (and make videos) about what surrounds AppSec, ethical hacking, penetration testing, CTFs, and other various cybersecurity stuff. I also plan to do vulnerability research and responsible disclosures in the future, but only time will tell.
https://rjp.is/blogging/ - nothing too exciting unless you're fond of football league rabbit holes, the occasional Minecraft tool, and various other rabbit holes which tend towards coding.
Been dark for a while... moving everything from PHP to Python and React which has been fun, but tedious. Also, I had a baby and they are just crazy amounts of work (and fun).
I will hopefully soon continue to write about projects I'm working on, tech tutorials, Vim+Neovim, Linux, 3D printing, art and design.
I write about devops and kubernetes in general. I started this last year with the hopes of giving back to the communities that gave me everything. Another advantage is that i use it as a log for things i figured out so i dont forget them ;)
I post tech-related stuff, mostly just about projects I've built and more recently open source contributions under GSoC. The templating system to publish posts is very basic and custom, I wrote it in Python a couple years ago and never looked back.
I also appreciate some other tech, like using MicroG or Tailscale.
Going since late 2015. I post long form (/blog) and short form (/notes), mostly on programming, maths, (bad) generative art experiments, notes as I learn Japanese, and of course about the blog itself since I spend more time on the custom static site generator than I do on writing actual posts.
It was one of my best decisions ever, as it helped me understand things better and led to me meeting many great, interesting, and clever guys at conferences, etc.
It is a work in progress, but I’d like for it to be a place where I can write about projects and anything that interests me. Will primarily be a combination of computer science and urban planning topics, maybe with a little cooking and hiking mixed in.
I blog on https://andinfinity.eu/ occasionally. Microsaas, saas in general, build in public, building startups, planned posts are a lot on go, hexagonal architecture, ddd etc. And also weird things from the internet, love that!
Mostly notes to myself on the tech front. House renovation problems, boat problems (and non-problems), and other errata. These days, never work stuff, though there are some posts from a decade ago.
Looks like WP, but it's actually static. WP is the authoring side, and I export to the main site.
A relatively new blog. I've picked up posting more frequently in the last few weeks. Right now, I'm working through making a simple game end-to-end using WebGPU and TypeScript. I enjoy revisiting the linear algebra involved and focusing on something different to my work day.
I work at a neat intersection of tech, people, and highly regulated industries. I get to write about the things I build and talks I have done, as well as some fun projects. It’s an outlet for getting better at writing and provides a longer record of competence than fizzbuzz interview questions.
I write about building cloud multi-tenant SaaS products and run a niche newsletter that goes further into detail about building these. My goal is to help every software engineer (if they want to do this) turn their side project into a product they can monetize and live off of.
I blog about FHIR, in the healthcare space. Short posts that I also post on LinkedIn. I started at the beginning of the year and typically post two or three times a week.
It's helped boost my LinkedIn audience and profile. Which has helped in other areas.
Not much content there (guilty of the classic "dev building a blog engine rather than writing content" paradigm), but I had some fun writing interactive articles.
Currently looking into moving from static versioned markdown to a better authoring experience, any pointers welcome.
I swear I should just have an RSS feed of the changelogs for my various blogging engines and not pretend I'm actually going to do any writing with them :-)
Not sure how many people here read both Japanese and English, but it's mostly English with some Japanese posts here and there. It's mostly a collection of side projects that I've been working on and some memos for future me.
Coming in a little late, I've got a blog where I write about my tech findings in brazillian Portuguese. Mostly short write ups about how I research a new technology or topic (though there are some non tech related stuff here and there).
I should post more. I'm kind of leaning more towards an old-style homepage than a blog though, that's why I separated out the Notes and Miscellany sections for things that don't really make sense as a part of a chronological series of posts.
I don't write often (mostly lack of time), but I try to write technical articles on how to set things up, or if I want to share an opinion on the state of some things (most of them are older ramblings from when I was younger)
https://maninthedot.com/
my clunky eclectic web face online. slow growing bits of projects and tools, eventual rambles on topics from what i do, made with experimental builds because it's mine and it's fun to play in the codes ;)
Maybe too niche but it's focused on applying Stoicism in our day-by-day situations at work. I started it in November 2022, I usually publish every two weeks. I use problems that happen to me as inspiration.
SFSS is a curated collection of science fiction short stories from classic and current authors. This site was created for both sci-fi lovers and those looking to get into the genre through shorter entries.
There are only 2 articles right now, but I would love to get some feedback if anyone wants to provide any. I mostly write about things that I'm learning, and random thoughts. I'm interested in operating and distributed systems. Thanks!
Existed for the better part of the last 15 years, and missing /a lot/ of things from older versions, but some of the things I write are archived there.
Writings about Python on the Web, with a focus on PyScript and Pyodide. Also occassional notes about other technical projects (mostly microcontroller-based LED controls) and amateur radio.
I write pretty infrequently so there are only around 30 posts in the 3 years I've been writing. The content is mostly related to software and programming, but sometimes I'll write about anything I find interesting.
Mostly journaling projects in the physical realm. I’ve been enjoying making things with wood, leather, metal, electronics, 3D printing. And some introspective writing, mostly for myself. I have lots more drafts of projects that I’m hoping to publish in the near future.
Typical dev blog, though I'd like to invest a bit more into harvesting my thousands of notes, and be less picky on what i share. I am not a good formal writer, so wanting to transition into the more informal style which i find more natural.
It's a continuation of my earlier blog, but I wanted something more minimal. It's not something I'd read if someone else wrote it. Sometimes I like to write. I put professional content on my website.
My personal blog writing mainly about technical things such as Kubernetes (and Containers), WebAssembly or Zig. Lately I’m documenting my progress of learning the Rust programming language by taking notes on specific topics.
Just starting and on my way to 100 subs. I write about the stuff that I live and breathe daily: from startups, fundraising, and AI to bio-hacking, travel, and productivity
A suite of blogs on the latest advancements in technology that are shaping the future. From artificial intelligence and wearables to nano-sensors, cutting-edge diagnostics and less discussed medical cases.
Rants about C and undefined behaviors, random experiments with ham-compatible cryptography.
I finally gave up writing my own blog engine after a few iterations over the decades. I am just using WordPress. So at least, there is no article about how I implemented _this_ blog!
Started a couple years ago, but I don't have as much time to write as I'd like. The majority of topics relate to ASIC design and verification, since that is my day job, but with some other side projects mixed in.
I keep it tech focused, my personal life is elsewhere. I like doing deep dives into topics, especially where I don't know what I'll find. I usually start with "writing as thinking" and then edit most of it away to get something readable.
I think I'm a little late, but my personal blog is https://ajxs.me/
So far, I've mostly written about my hobby of reverse-engineering vintage synthesisers. I'm currently writing more 'general' tech articles.
I get in about 1-2 posts a year. They're mostly various projects that I do in my spare time: MakerFaire stuff, electronics and computing projects. Occasionally just slice-of-life things that pop up at the time. I recently made the site static, instead of Wordpress.
Not very many posts. I only started trying to take writing for it seriously the last few months, with a target of one post per month. But I think "All you need is data and functions" is a pretty good read! Briefly made the front page of HN shortly after it was published.
I write about about my favorite machine learning algorithms using as few formulas as possible, and about my journey of learning Rust writing my own machine learning frameworks.
Unfortunately, I only find time to write a post once a month or every other month. But it helps me organizing my thoughts
My first blog. Mostly writing about inner thoughts, my coding journey, politics and translation related stuff. The blog platform is privacy friendly, fast and unbloated. So the medium is minimal, which reflects my emotions too.
https://johnmathews.is
I've been writing since 2016 and have covered a wider range of topics that I ever expected. Initially it was just somewhere to write about the the programming concepts I was trying to learn. It's become my personal archive of resources and notes.
Most recently I wrote a series called “how to be a game changer” which focused on creating win win situations in all aspects of life. One of the essays “Opt out of cynicism” made it to #2 on HN.
I’ve been slow to write for the last 1.5y as I was giving a birth to a startup.
The writing is mostly about software projects, but I also document art stuff here as well. Had some fun with the actual site design itself, modeled after a pseudo-file-browser with windows that you can focus, resize, and drag around… hopefully not too unusable. :)
It's absolutely non-tech, and I'm just starting it, so it looks awful and has only a little content. The original thought was to write about books I've read or re-read recently. I eventually hope to add some original fiction.
I post a lot about PKM (mainly Obsidian), automation (iOS shortcuts and Alfred), slice of life posts, AI and philosophy. I also have a weekly newsletter!
Technical and personal stuff mixed up together, running since 2005 on Blogger first, then Movable Type and now Wordpress. Always nice to run down nostalgia lane on my personal life.
I haven't posted new content there in a while, but I hope to soon when I find the time. It's still largely a work in progress, and I think I've spent more time working on the custom theme than I have on the actual content.
At the moment, I post fairly infrequently. The whole site is written using emacs org mode. Most of the posts have to do with emacs and data stuff (often doing data stuff in emacs).
https://adnankhan.space/
Just a couple of posts there atm, I write about usability, interaction design, service design and other things that sit on the UX spectrum of work!
I write about things on my mind but mainly the posts consist of project updates, experimenting with new tech, and occasional one-off things. There’s no defined criteria which could be a good thing or bad thing. I recently moved from Wordpress to Ghost.
https://cobbaut.blogspot.com/
Sometimes hacker stuff, sometimes in Flemish, really succinct book reviews, a bit Lego, a bit Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Some rants with little thought since 2005 :-/
Just started blogging. I want to write about my learnings with RISC-V and rust. However, I need to get comfortable getting words on the page so the topics I've been writing about have varied wildly.
We should all have blogs and reboot "Web rings" mines run on https://micro.blog
I dabble about things I find interesting, call it a link blog if you must!
My open source blog mainly with (geospatial) niche tutorials.
It's a pretty personal thing as I mostly (but not only) derive the blog posts from challenges I encounter during work or my PhD research. In this way it documents my learnings and serves as a quite verbose personal wiki.
http://live.julik.nl Been there for nearly 20 years, but haven't been posting much the last few years. Mostly because most of the things I find important are the "people ops" and teamwork-related, and this can escalate quickly
https://www.heyhomepage.com
Websoftware for easily building your own website, blog and webshop. With a blog about everything related to the internet and open web.
I used to blog about the challenges of running high throughput / latency sensitive workloads on a shoestring budget at non-profits, these days it's mostly code snippets and me whining about enterprise culture ;')
I write about a lot of stuff, ranging from technical topics like page performance or git commands, up to how I run my business, or management topics like "How to set a goal".
I started a golf wiki, and I felt pretty unsatisfied with golf media, so I thought I'd start writing about some of the more analytical the stuff I was interested in.
I wrote a blog before this one for 19 years and I closed it because the archive of posts had too much weight and limited me on what I could write. Or that I thought. Turns out I write pretty much the same now.
I still have to find an area of focus for my writing but a pattern so far is that I like explaining and simplifying technical concepts to a non technical audience, starting with Digital Infrastructure and AI.
Writing about data-as-a-serice (ie. selling datasets), especially as it relates to finance & hedge funds. Includes both technical pieces, summaries of big events at my startup, and higher level questions on data valuation.
I've been blogging since 2008 (but very inconsistently) about sustainability, software development, diet & exercise, entrepreneurship, travel, finance, and other stuff.
I write about technical stuff I encounter throughout my day, mostly as a support for myself remembering it. Since it might be interesting for some people I asked myself why not putting it into some blog format.
I am still a student and I never wrote anything before this blog so it's not very interesting but Im having fun (and everything from the software running the blog to posts are by my hand!)
My personal blog: https://ybogomolov.me. I used to blog about functional programming in TypeScript and fp-ts. Now I don’t have much time for that, but I’m planning to revive the blog with more FP content soon.
https://wdkwwdk.com/posts - not much content, most interesting around some 10+ year old outages I investigated. Started writing a bit when I had some free time in 2022, but haven't done a great job of being consistent with new content.
https://wyclif.substack.com - it's occasionally been on the front page, mostly at weekends: "social science, genetics, history, culture and politics. The drunken ramblings of two Tang-dynasty poets may also feature."
I started this not too long ago, mostly write about stuff that I’m exploring at the moment, i.e. I’m currently writing a quick post about making simple GUIs with Tcl/Tk, which turns out is way simpler and more fun that what I expected :)
Not my personal notes, but how I do my writing and organize my thoughts. This is my Nix configuration that powers my Macbook, Linux PC, and home lab server. Emacs + org-roam to capture everything. https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config
The post above talks not so much about technical aspects of programming but rather what people (me included) have done using programming creatively. :)
I used to write about evolutionary computation, data science, and other tech bits. I'm on my sabbatical right now and mostly writing pieces with no real common theme. I recently wrote my own static site generator - that held me up a little!
Old tech notes collected over the many years mostly when I had to fix something that wasn't found on the net alreadt at the time. I purged a lot a couple of years ago when I rebuilt it all. Infrequently added but present.
My little corner of the internet, filled with things that I personally find interesting. The posts are a mixture of lecture notes, additional resources for my YouTube videos and random things I didn't want to forget.
Every time I try to put myself to write regularly, I fail miserably. But the ones that I get to complete are mostly related to data analysis on public data that I found interesting, or technologies that I've been working on.
I have been blogging for last several years on startups, stock options, accounting, taxes, SEC reporting, IPOs and other related issues encountered by entrepreneurs, as well as finance and accounting professionals.
https://thomask.sdf.org/ - a random assortment of programming (mostly Rust recently), technical quirks, and reflections on technology. I've given up on being consistent enough to stick to a theme.
Small feature that makes me write more: I added the ability for past posts to be "unlisted", so they don't show up on the "past posts" list. That way, I can mix evergreen and ephemeral posts on the same site.
Most of my writing energy the last couple months is going into finishing a book projects but when that's done I will have more to write on other topics!
Just random stuff I come across and my thoughts on it - more of entries that have interested me and so I have a log of it over time. More for me then others so - hope someone also gets something out of it :)
Like a lot of other people, I have a blog that I seldom post things on. Mostly on the topic of creating the blog itself. I try to be humorous and informative but who knows how much of either I actually am haha :)
When I'm on a roll I post every weekday, but it's been a bit while dealing with symptomatic PTSD on my end. Hoping to get back to it within a couple months.
I write about the stuff that I find interesting. Sometimes, that's a deep dive on the trucking industry, other times, it's about turning 25 and figuring out careers.
https://yieldthought.com - wrote some popular posts about programming (under the coderoom name) and I guess also about working with an iPad and Linode before it was cool.
Haven’t posted for a while now, too many other things going on I guess!
https://www.rvrx.dev/blog/
Early career Dev, just redid my website and started my blog. Newest post was on implementing a safe Wireguard Kill-Switch on Ubuntu
I really want to write more often, I'm not sure if it's that I don't know what to write about or that the idea of blogging doesn't come to mind easily when I'm doing things that I could blog about.
It helped me to make it really easy to get stuff out their: I just type a paragraph into Notion and it’s published automatically. Also, don’t think you need to publish long, polished pieces. Short texts to help build a habit. That one also helped me:
I’ve been writing on and off for a few years now! I’ve mostly been using this to note any particularly troublesome bugs/commands as well as use writing to think through some analysis throughout my career.
I have only written two blogs. One of them is on rust other on my frustrations with TDD. TDD one is more of a joke. I don't think it'll be of much interest to others. But I guess no harm in putting it out.
This isn't a blog per se, more of a collection of writeups about stuff I have on my mind. There's a few topics listed there that I have planned to write about that I haven't finished yet.
I've been maintaining my personal website since somewhere in 2014. I write a bit all over the place, but there's things from personal stuff to more technical things. On the homepage, you can also see some of my favourite posts.
I started this year. I only have one decent post about my project of hunting wasps with lasers. Already working on the next one: Setting up a Kali with GUI on LXC containers.
It's been a while since I posted, but I hope to correct that in the near future. Mostly random software projects and tips, sprinkled with some other posts.
I have been blogging before it was called blogging! Ha. Mostly just random technical musings, with a bit of book/movie reviews. There is always room for improvement and more, but I like my little slice of the web.
Online since 2001 in some form or another. Its mostly genuinely personal, but since tech is my life, there's a lot about tech in there. (I'm a top result when searching for getting a NeXT Station onto a home network!)
Here is my blog: https://www.antonoriza.com/
It has less than 1 year, im keeping it simple, just a basic Hugo template hosted in Github pages so Im only paying for the domain.
Generally I'll write a post when I try to do something that's difficult to find an example of online. I don't get a _ton_ of traffic, but writing prose is a nice change from writing code.
I'm a software developer who's been dipping his toes into making videos recently. I don't blog very often (planning on doing more soon, hopefully), but my videos are posted there as well.
I mainly focus on programming and editor workflows.
It’s been fun to have a couple python data science posts get popular, and to read very old posts and see whether ideas I had in my early 20s were decent or quite silly (a good mix of both!).
It doesn't have any particular theme or anything, it's just a place to put infodumps on things I've been reading about. It only gets updated very sporadically these days.
This is my collection of Friday newsletter and blog post where I list 2-3 suggested readings (occasionally podcasts or videos) on technology/innovation/management and 1 on climate change.
I know, it's a Blogger site, but it started long ago and I haven't had the time to move it. Programming, data analysis and philosophy, with some weight loss and running in there too.
https://samueldobbie.substack.com/ - published my first post today on personal productivity. Going forward I'll be writing about software engineering, startups, scuba diving, and AI (namely NLP).
I've been posting for ~8 years, there's 443 posts / videos and I post something new every week. It's focused on anything related to building and deploying web apps.
Note Nick has tons of great content. Example: a video on how to use checklists to reduce risk on operations like database migrations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOp7uog7_Xw
Rarely updated. Usually a conversational/expository style explaining what I did to fix something at home.
Its purpose is 99% to be a record of things I built/configured/did to remind me later. I write in a style I don’t find boring (e.g. not lab notebook style).
Not too many interesting technical or SWE related posts though. I mostly use it as a scratchpad for ideas and non-tech things I'm thinking about (probably write enough about technical topics at work!)
My posts are sporadic and span nearly two decades now. It's all programming related -- stuff on statistics, music notation, systems administration, etc. Some of these got to the HN front page. :-)
I'm trying to develop a habit of writing ~750 words each day and then taking one of these 'drafts' each week to edit into a blog post. I've found this is a good balance.
Started this blog about 2 years ago. I write about Python, web-scraping or some inconsequential tiny projects (inspired by tinyprojects.dev :D) that I worked on. TBH, I haven't settled on any niche.
Writing about data science, own projects and tech in general. You will also find some „today I learned“ posts where I share stuff that I found out while studying and working.
It's a personal blog, I've run different versions of it for 15 years or so, and there's few pages cached in archive.org which I would like to bring back to the latest incarnation.
Is my personal website, mostly a blog with a mix of my FOSS activity (project updates, mostly Python and C#), book reviews, links that catch my attention, hikes, etc.
Technology and technology-adjacent culture posts a few times per year. Mostly around my interest in data, programming, APIs, cryptography, travel, books, and consulting (way back in the 00s).
https://vincent.bernat.ch — not as active as I previously was by lack of time, but there are some quite popular articles with an accent on networking stuff, but also some programming.
There is a wide variety of random content on my site. This is my blog. I tend to write more often about gaming and life in general, and tech only sporadically.
There aren’t many articles on there at the moment, as I tend to get imposter syndrome part way through writing and never finish, but I have a couple in the works that I’d like to post soon.
I've recently compiled all of my blog posts from the various blogs I've owned since 2006. It really is a personal blog since I don't stick to a particular topic, but most of it is tech related.
I write as it strikes my fancy. I try to keep it about technology that I find interesting. I only post occasionally because I go through endless revising, but when I do, it’s quite the thrill for me.
I recently re-wrote this again, with high hopes of getting back to writing more frequently. I have started more drafts this year than I have finished posts... Hope to change that soon (tm)
(french) website in vanilla php/html/css, blog + list of my projects. This is a selfhosted website, with an emphasis on loading speed (webp images [...]).
Bare bones and just getting started, but I’ll hopefully be writing more about the Go projects I’ve been getting into on the side. Everything around the theme of plain technology, simple as can be.
I am practicing writing and blogging so most of my posts at the moment are mostly for that purpose. I still have a lot to learn and my blog will hopefully reflect my improvement over time.
Writing about my journey to $1B in 10 years as an engineer. Hope to guide others on their own journey, documenting every success and failure. It’s ambitious, but if anyone can do it, it’s me.
Try to write monthly about technical projects I've managed to complete. I'm beginning to mix it up to include more recently musings on non-technical topics now however!
I recently started writing about my experience as a full-time caregiver, having recently left my software career: https://crawlwalkrunbook.substack.com. Striving for one post each week.
I write about the Rust programming language. I basically write about whatever I learn in Rust. This not only helps cement my understanding of the topic but hopefully helps others as well.
Not much to look at yet since it's still new, but I'm hoping to post more regularly. Topics won't be restricted to just mobile dev stuff even though that's where most of my experience is.
https://www.quantable.com/blog
Analytics experiments and opinion, around 10 years of back deep dive articles -- mostly Google Analytics web performance, bots, SEO.
https://www.mschaef.com Technical blog covering a range of topics. Some ongoing focus on Lisp/Clojure and recent musings on personal computing in the 80's and 90's.
My personal blog with random notes, thoughts and blog posts. I don’t update it often sadly, but i like having my firstname @ my last name .com as my email address.
Personal blog focussed on tech things I find interesting. Some of them involve building small tools (like a swiss ID checksum generator) or illustrating certain algorithms (like the 4 color theorem).
It's a mix of personal stuff and occasionally technical notes - I've been contemplating splitting them up but I'm internally opposed to it for some reason.
Just got started this year so it's only got two posts so far. One on logging and the other on config languages.
I'd like to spend a bit more time writing but still need to build it into a habit.
I've been writing on this space for a while now but the frequency of posts has dropped to once in 2-3 months. I hope to make it a more consistent habit however.
https://andlukyane.com/blog/ I write about Data Science and my interests (like language learning). Recently most of my posts are dedicated to reviewing deep learning papers.
Started it a couple years ago. I post mostly about topics in the area of IT Performance Engineering, with more emphasis on low latency than on high throughput.
I subscribe to about a dozen HN people via RSS. Very often they comment on articles I haven't seen yet. Or, people whose ideas I respect have interesting takes on HN articles.
https://medium.com/luminasticity science fiction, time travel, poetry, art and literary criticism most often, but also sometimes visualization, dreams, product ideas, and music criticism.
I post about my electronics and DIY projects. I recently got a 3D printer and have been getting into woodworking as well, so hope to start posting more regularly.
A blog about Metta (lovingkindness) meditation, pop culture, and the Pali scriptures. I haven’t updated for a few months but I am about to post a new one on the joys of being a householder.
Every post includes a fully guided half-hour meditation.
I don't write nearly as much as I would like to, but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. I write about videogames and am hoping to write more tech stuff in the future
https://jfoucher.com/
My blog since 2004 with a variety of subjects, some technical some less so. I rarely blog anymore so most of the content is pretty out of date.
2,155 posts on parenting, traditional music, contra dance, effective altruism, programming, cooking, and anything else I'm excited about at the moment.
have been trying to do a writing challenge for this year, it's going ok. I write about whatever interests me, trying to do at least three articles a week
Mostly technical stuff, some non-technical stuff. I'm currently (indefinitely?) writing a series of posts documenting all the stuff I'm working on in my homelab, which has been fun.
Mostly theoretical-ish deep learning stuff as of late (I'm a PhD candidate in that field). But I want to expand it into really anything: psychology, dating, video game reviews, etc.
I write about vector search, ANN algorithms, neural search frameworks, search engines and algorithms in general and publish episodes of the Vector Podcast.
A simple blog musing about my thoughts and opinions as a software leader. I'm still new to both writing blogs and leadership, so feedback is most welcome: https://www.deskoftom.co.uk/
I only started it last week so it has a solitary post. I'm going to cover my journey of learning generative ai and generally rambling about code, art and making art with code
https://tholman.com/ - Largely JS experiments dating back 10+ years. Sometimes I scroll right back to the start and can appreciate the long journey I've taken from scrappy student to now.
Not very coherent, but I try to only post when I have something neat or interesting to say. Software engineering, neat gadgets, and 3d printing are some of the topics.
I just finished relaunching my blog 2 days ago with a design, new host, new build tool, etc. so I could get back into writing & owning my writings. I hope to write more soon: https://toast.al
https://blog.janetacarr.com I write a lot about Clojure and software developer with Clojure. I only have like a dozen posts though, but people seem to like them (mostly).
I tend to write about my research and experience as a PhD student in machine learning and bioinformatics, and other random topics (mostly tech) that I find interesting.
Just a personal blog with some essays that I post occasionally to get myself in the habit of writing. My next post will be about living with chronic illness as a SWE and how to get through it
A simple blog with me posting my musings and thoughts about software leadership. I'm new to both writing and being a leader, so feedback is welcome: https://www.deskoftom.co.uk/
Haven't posted for a while as we've just had a new baby, but I am planning on getting back to my music theory thing and the accompanying series of posts soon.
https://AndrewFerguson.net - used to be more of a diary way back when, but now more of a place to share non-work related technical stuff I’ve been doing
I started writing about animal ethics at the end of last year. This is mostly a clearing house for my thoughts, but I have found some people enjoy reading it.
I can’t always say my posts are great, but I try to stay consistent with posting at least twice a month. I find it to be a great way to organize my thoughts and learnings.
https://pawelurbanek.com/ it allowed me transition from full-time dev to on & off consulting and living off my side projects. I try to publish new posts at least once a month.
This is a project I’ve been working on to lob verbal grenades at everyone in power. If it seems like I haven’t criticized any certain person yet, just come back later, I’m getting to it.
There are only a few remaining old posts, since i removed many others. I honestly haven't blogged in sooo long...But, recently, I've been getting the itch to write more; and more publicly too. This might be the trigger that i needed to get some forward movement. Let the broadcasts of thoughts begin!
Usually one article a month. The content is driven for what I feel strongly about in the moment, be it cryptography or managing teams to tech-social issues.
Just a place for me to keep some of my thoughts and learnings public. I use it more for myself than others, I’m a big proponent of having your own personal playground.
I blogged about my involvement in FOSS last year. This year has had no updates on account of being the hardest year of my life yet, but I'll get back to it this month.
https://deadstar.one
Started blogging a few years ago. Although my writing has been stagnant for a while now, I'm intended to write more. I have a few personal pieces here.
Probably the most interesting things are homemade ice cream recipes and a (not very detailed) build journal for the teardrop trailer we made during COVID.
I’ve been writing monthly for 10 years, and otherwise for 20. Topics have ranged from product development to leadership to breakfast cereal selection techniques.
I blog, very occasionally, about Deep Learning and now mostly about NLP. I'm trying to get up on speed and blog more but there's always something else.
https://aniddan.com/blog
Small blog with some articles about my experiences from the startup world and a comprehensive list of great cafés from around the world.
A mix of technical and personal posts. I like to try and capture the hard bits of life as proof to point to in the face of any success that might pop up
Not published yet, but I snagged https://absurd.engineering/ and hope to write about security engineering, cloud security, and running my own consultancy.
I don't write as much as I would like, as you can see from the big gaps between posts. Some homelab stuff, a little Kubernetes, some food stuff as well.
I (re)started mine not too long ago. It's mostly photos I've taken since I wanted a place that I control to publish them. I also sometimes write words.
I use it for a portfolio, blog, and just posting random projects I do. It’s so gratifying to hear from people who found use out of it, which happens occasionally.
I mostly write about (web) development, accessibility or git. My post frequency varies from year to year, as I jump between blogging and other hobbies.
I post about programming and technologies that interest me. I've been posting since 2011 and lately I've been looking for inspiration about new topics.
I write about why programming is so hard and my approach to keeping code in good shape. Not really a blog but similar enough in shape to post it here :)
I’m bad for hidden drafts too. It feels slightly crazy to put all that effort into planning, writing, editing, and creating code/content for a post only to let it sit there.
Https://tyrel.dev/
A decade of intermittent blogging. Nothing much of substance but I still try to maintain it. Combines Tech, Flying, Coffee, and more.
Articles around (micro) SaaS projects and tech info like no-code alternatives , landing pages, and product and development tips for people trying to get involved or starting their micro SaaS adventure.
My blog is www.andreinc.net . I write mostly about undergrad cs curricula, math, and random thoughts going through my mind. Because of a busy life, i dont have time to write more than a few articles a year.
Could I ask why you're asking this question, that might help us to answer more specifically e.g. if you're looking for something particular from this list e.g. advice on aspect of blogging yourself.
The best time to start a blog is thirty years ago. The second best time is today.
This blog went active a couple of months ago. Writing for myself and for the sake of it, to make a habit of collecting thoughts concretely. I have a couple of dozen drafts ongoing evenly scattered between 1% and 100%, and it's fun to poke at things occasionally.
Just random stuff, quite often just how I solved something that I did’t have much success googling. I used to wonder if it made any difference until I googled some obscure error I was getting and ended up with my blog as the top answer. Totally solved my problem, too :-).
Long overdue and I've only been posting in the last year, but am slowly converting journal musings to posts. I want something that can survive me so my kids can read it.
You're right, it's missing the RSS feed. I wanted to add it but the last couple of months were really tough personally. Hopefully, I'll get some time soon to address it. Thanks for taking the interest!
I haven’t updated it in a long time, but hopefully going to be making some more regular updates soon. Truthfully I have a tough time sharing writing or thoughts in public (including hn comments) because I often find my opinions changing and posting in public is so static. i hope to overcome that mental hurdle and start writing again
Mostly write niche things for myself/people who know me directly, but occasionally write about tech-relevant stuff and and post it here, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32911306
Random software-developer-related topics that I find interesting and needed to try out. I focus on writing compact posts since my overall focus is limited. I also use it to look back what I've actually done in the last years.
I usually have more plans to write things than actual time, but I do keep some articles/lists "evergreen" and they come up in conversations quite a bit:
- Its a tech blog for beginners.
- The plan is to write more intermediate to advanced level articles.
- I haven't been updating it for quite some time, especially, after chatGPT.
- Learning about Bloom Filters by creating one. There are a ton of posts about implementing a bloom filter, but it was super fun to write one from scratch.
- Heroku-style deployments with Docker and git tags. I tried to create a deployment system where I could just `git push production`. It covers a bit of everything, git, docker, Caddy, blue-green deployments, git hooks, curl, etc.
I write mostly about engineering management and software engineering, in general. My most famous post was "Disasters I've seen in a microservices world" [1]
It has no topic and is kind of abandoned. Some posts from like 2006 are pretty embarrassing, but I keep them around anyway.
There are like two or three blog posts that rank well on Google for whatever reason and they comprise the majority of traffic despite not being very good or interesting.
I've mostly written technical, code-centric posts on Python, ML, and data science. Some of my early posts (2013) were wildly popular at the time and hit the top of HN and various subreddits.
I haven't written much recently, but I've been trying to branch outside of technical posts as I felt like my profession had started to become too much of my identity.
I write mostly about travel (been living nomadically the last 5+ years, currently in Asia), random thoughts I have (eg. on mindset, politics, occasionally even touchy topics like dating and sex), and updates on side projects I'm working on. I originally started the blog as a place to rant about wage slavery and the need for universal basic income, but I've already said everything I wanted to say there (also that topic is very depressing) so now I focus on other things. I'm a software engineer but I don't talk about tech here (currently using my Reddit / HN alternative as a pseudo-blog as a I build it out https://zsync.xyz/) - any serious technical writing I'd rather post to my personal blog under my real name or maybe Twitter.
I try to be as unfiltered and polarizing as possible - not because I'm an asshole, but because that's the type of content I personally enjoy the most. I don't plan out posts, just brain dump and never look at it again. Here are some posts:
Was going to post some older posts as well but looking back at them now some of them look like they were written by a different person, which is cool because it shows how much I've progressed.
I am an indie web enthusiast with a keen interest in knowledge, open source, unix, productivity and security. Proud member of https://512kb.club/ and https://250kb.club/. I usually write about Open Source, productivity and programming. At night, I am currently trying to solve issues related to knowledge access, productivity/discipline.
Near 400 posts, writing about a lot of stuff. Here's some of my favorites over the years:
- https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue - Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
- https://xeiaso.net/blog/a-weapon-to-surpass-metal-gear - A weapon to surpass Metal Gear
- https://xeiaso.net/blog/%F0%9F%A5%BA - : the best sudo replacement
- https://xeiaso.net/blog/sleeping-the-technical-interview - Sleeping Through the Technical Interview
- https://xeiaso.net/blog/experimental-rilkef-2018-11-30 - I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now
https://xeiaso.net/feeds to subscribe. Been considering an email list.