These are the best personal blogs I have found. Most of them are related to technology, but not all. I’ve also included links to some of my favorite articles.
| Author | Site(s) | Summary | Favorites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Miller | alex.miller.garden | Software developer & artist. | Grid world |
| Amit Patel | amitp and Red Blob Games | Game developer with detailed articles on algorithms that are commonly used in game development. | |
| Austin Henley | austinhenley | Software engineer & academic. | Challenging projects every programmer should try and More challenging projects every programmer should try |
| Bartosz Ciechanowski | ciechanow.ski | Some of the absolute best visual & narrative explanations of complex systems. All of his posts include fantastic interactive widgets allowing you to explore the concepts in depth. | Cameras and lenses and GPS |
| Bret Devereaux | acoup | A military history professor who examines modern media with a lens of historical realism. | The siege of Gondor |
| Cal Peterson | calpaterson | Software engineer specializing in Python. | |
| Connor Tumbleson | connortumbleson | Programmer. | Someone is pretending to be me |
| Dan Luu | danluu | A software engineer writing a minimalist blog with dense technical details. | Sounds easy, Corporate engineering blogs, and A collection of port-mortems |
| David Koloski | david.kolo.ski | A software engineer, game designer, and web developer. | Intelligent brute forcing |
| Eric Law | textslashplain | Cybersecurity and software engineer. | |
| Eric Wastl | was.tl | A software engineer who runs one of the most popular (and long-running) programming puzzle contests. | Advent of code |
| Evan Martin | neugierig | Software engineer who helped build Chromium. | |
| Fabrice Bellard | bellard | A software engineer writing a minimalist blog with dense technical details. | |
| Francesco Mazzoli | mazzo.li | A software engineer with deep understanding of Unix internals. | |
| Gwern Branwen | gwern | A prolific writer in AI, psychology, and statistics with a bold and unique website design. | |
| Jake Lazaroff | jakelazaroff | Web designer and musician. | An interactive intro to CRDTs |
| Julia Evans | jvns | A software developer with an abundant catalog of writing on a variety of deep technical topics. | |
| Justine Tunney | justine.lol | A software engineer writing about low-level, efficient programs. | |
| Kyle Kingsbury | aphyr | A computer safety researcher. | |
| Martin Kleppmann | martin.kleppmann | A software engineer turned academic known for his book “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”. | Accounting for computer scientists |
| Matt Chapman | mchap | An infrequently updated blog about civic hacking. | |
| Mitchell Hashimoto | mitchellh | Founder of HashiCorp who writes about entrepreneurship & software. | mitchellh |
| Michael Lynch | mtlynch | Software developer turned entrepreneur. Writes about software, hardware, and his business. | |
| Nick Craver | nickcraver | A software engineer, formerly lead architect at Stack Overflow. Major contributor to Redis and Dapper. | |
| Nolen Royalty | eieio | Software and game developer, putting games in unexpected places. | Implementing Wordle in the Firefox address bar |
| Patrick McKenzie | kalzumeus and bitsaboutmoney | An American expat to Japan and entrepreneur, talks about software, starting and running a small business, finance, and life in Japan. | |
| Peter Norvig | norvig | Director of research at Google with a long and storied career in industry and academia. | PyTudes (GitHub) |
| Phil Eaton | eatonphil | An engineer writing about software internals. | |
| Rachel | rachelbythebay | IT professional writing about software and systems administration. | |
| Robert Elder | robertelder | Software consultant with a variety of content on Linux and software engineering concepts. | |
| Samuel Reed | strml | Software developer with a unique homepage that writes itself. | |
| Scott Hanselmen | hanselman | A Microsoft developer community leader and teacher. Lots of writing to help get new developers started in the industry, especially focusing of social equity. | |
| Taylor Swift | @SwiftOnSecurity | A Twitter personality with depth of knowledge on Windows internals and cybersecurity. Also a very creative (almost unhinged) writer. | The Immediate Sound of Distant Hammers |
| Tom MacWright | macwright | A software engineer specializing in mapping and open data. | |
| Tom Murphy | tom7 | Game developer and polymath. | |
| Troy Hunt | troyhunt | Cybersecurity professional who runs a database of hacked passwords. | |
| Vicki Boykis | vickiboykis and Substack | A machine learning engineer and book lover. | |
| Werner Vogels | allthingsdistributed | CTO at Amazon sharing thoughts on architecture and business. | Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 |