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Recommendations
Cool technical blogs
In the order that they're listed in my feed reader. If there's interest I can also compile all the RSS feeds for these, just email me:
My personal favorites
Other great blogs
- Steve Klabnik - mostly Rust
- Arabesque - occasional posts about Vim and Unix tools
- Jessitron - software engineering practices
- Drew DeVault - maintains a number of cool open source projects, has very strong opinions
- Evan Jones - software engineering
- The Life of Kenneth - networking
- Evan Miller - applied math, programming languages, some general programming/technology
- mrale.ph - compilers, programming languages, very dense articles
- Mary Rose Cook - general software engineering
- pcwalton - rust, graphics, browsers
- edumham - ops, rust, tech industry
- Zed A. Shaw - programming, pedagogy. Don't agree with a lot of his stuff but still interesting to read
- Mike Bostock - cool visualizations
- Joel On Software - the human side of software
- Open Computing Facility Status Blog - know when a particular student-run computing lab at UC Berkeley goes down
- mango.pdf.zone (the hacker known as "Alex") - security, somewhat satirical
- Benedict Evans - commentary on trends in the tech industry
- Ethan ^ Python - Python
- Joe Edelman - "human systems", human nature, social networks
- Hugo Landau - technology, law, commentary
- Two-Bit History - fun stories about computer history
- In Pursuit of Laziness by Manish Goregaokar - Rust, Servo, Mozilla
- Neopythonic by Guido van Rossum - "Ramblings through technology, politics, culture and philosophy by the creator of the Python programming language."
- Likewise a Blog - software engineering careers
- Purple Idea - Linux, free software, configuration management
- The Observation Deck by Byran Cantrill - FOSS, programming, ops
- Ben Balter - attorney @ GitHub, software engineering, practices