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. This list is pretty close to what my RSS feed reader looks like.
| 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 |
Some companies publish interesting technical blogs. I didn’t want to include these in the personal blog directory as I wanted to highlight individual creators rather than corporations.