What Tech Blogs Am I Reading?
Last updated: 2021-06-16
There are a ton of people doing facinating work and writing about it. Here are the personal blogs I’ve appreciated reading the most (in no particular order):
- Salvatore Sanfilippo creator of Redis
- David Crawshaw for discussion on Go and SQLite
- Joseph Gentle for discussing the modern web, electron, CRDT’s
- Paul Frazee for Beaker Browser, P2P software
- Brett Cannon for great Python-related posts
- Martin Kleppmann for local-first software, CRDT’s, automerge
- Martin Sustrik for networking (ØMQ, NNG) and concurrency (libdill, libmill)
- Drew Devault for open source, simply built software, sourcehut
- Charles Leifer for database-related things in Python
- Jessie Frazelle for docker, especially her dockerized desktop apps
- Brandur Leach for discussion of databases
- Michał Górny for his perspective on Python, recently the cryptography/rust controversy
- Julia Evans for great devops-related content
- Solene in general, but especially for OpenBSD-related content
- Thorsten Ball for his great intro books on writing compilers & interpreters
- Rus Cox co-creator of Go
- Ben Hoyt for writing on Go and other software
- Micah Lerner for content on distributed systems
- Max Justiz for finding RCE in popular things (apt, gVisor, and more)
- Bob Nystrom for Wren and his book Crafting Interpreters
- Colin Percival runs Tarsnap, blogs on BSD, security, and AWS
- Andrew Kelly (on Vimeo or his blog) creator of the Zig programming language
- Ariadne Conill contributor to Alpine Linux & other FOSS projects
I also want to mention a couple organizations posting interesting things:
- 100 Rabbits (aka. Rek & Devine) for local-first, portable software
- Low Tech Magazine for radical simplicity, sustainable tech
- No Tech Magazine for when low tech was still too much tech
- CMU Database Group for lectures & courses on database internals
I am also listening to some great tech podcasts:
- The Software Freedom Conservancy’s Free as in Freedom for discussing FOSS enforcement
- Changelog’s Go Time for all things Go-related
- Tobias Macey’s
Podcast.__init__(link) for great interviews with Python people - Michael Kennedy’s Talk Python to Me also for talking with great people in the Python ecosystem
- Oxide Computer’s On the Metal has great interviews on computing history, dealing with hardware
- Software Engineering Radio and Heroku’s
Code[ish]for a broad view of industry topics
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