Blogroll

Blogs and people who I think are doing cool work. Presented in no particular order.

• Jestem Króliczkiem
  • Topics: Quantified self, Python
  • Good starting post: What data on myself I collect and why?
• Martin Tournoij
  • Good starting post: Go’s features of last resort
• Of Dollars And Data
  • Topics: Finance, Investing
  • Good starting post: Climbing the Wealth Ladder
• Slime Mold Time Mold
  • Topics: Scientific inquiry
  • Good starting post: TODOs from Paper Systems – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
• Charity Majors
  • Topics: Tech careers, systems management
  • Good starting posts:
    • Know your “One Job” and do it first
    • Questionable Advice: The Trap of The Premature Senior
    • Software deploys and cognitive biases
• FasterThanLime
  • Topics: Rust, Networking, System Programming
  • Good starting posts: Image decay as a service, Working with strings in Rust
• Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk
  • Topics: Tech, Finance
  • Good starting posts:
    • Robinhood and How to Lose Money
    • The Other Digital Divide
• Fred Hevert
  • Topics: Erlang, Systems Design
  • Good starting posts:
    • You Reap What You Code
    • The Zen of Erlang
• Overthinking Everything by David MacIver
  • Good starting post: Difficult Problems and Hard Work
• Astral Codex Ten (previously StarSlateCodex)
  • Topics: Rationality, Medicine/Mental Health
  • Good starting post: I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
• Matt Rickard
  • Topics: Software engineering, programming, etc.
  • Good starting posts:
    • Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming
    • The IKEA Effect in Software Development
• Interconnected by Matt Webb
  • Good starting posts:
    • Risk: micromorts, microCOVIDs, and skydiving
    • There is no After
    • Lockdown and discovering new micro-hedonisms
• Fogknife by Jason McIntosh
  • Topics: Indieweb, politics, gaming, books.
  • Good starting posts:
    • Reflections on Kelly’s “68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice”
    • In support of leaving the table
• Jan-Lukas Else
  • Topics: Indie Web
• David Perell
  • Topics: Writing, Tech
  • Good starting post: Why You Should Write Pseudonymously
• Tom Critchlow
  • Topics: Indie Web, Consulting
  • Good starting post: Library JSON
• Henrik Warne
  • Topics: Technical Book Reviews, Software Development
  • Good starting post: Artificial Intelligence - A Guide for Thinking Humans (Book review)
• James Stanley
  • Topics: Hardware Projects
  • Good starting post: Autopatzer: My Automatic Chess Board
• John Battelle
  • Good starting post: Predictions 2020
• Tom MacWright
  • Topics: Web, Programming
  • Good starting posts: Elm, Dark
• Robert Heaton
  • Topics: Software Engineering, Blogging, Privacy
  • Good starting post: A blogging style guide vol. 2
• Tim Kadlec
  • Good starting post: The Ethics of Web Performance
• Rick Carlino
  • Good starting post: Software Tools for Hobby-Scale Projects
• Dennis Schubert
  • Topics: Decentralization, ActivityPub
  • Good starting post: The 2010s and alternative Social Media: A decade full of work, hope, and disappointment
• TheNewOil
  • Topics: Privacy, Security
  • Good starting post: One Size Does Not Fit All
• Matt Levine (Bloomberg)
  • Topics: Finance, Economics
  • Good starting posts:
    • Day Traders Might Have Fun Saving Hertz From Bankruptcy
    • People Loved Nikola But Not Its Warrants
• Bennett Notes
• Aaron Parecki
  • Topics: Indie Web, Quantified Self

Digital Gardens

• Matt Widmann
• Gwern
  • Topics: Open Science, Quantified Self, Statistics and Experimentation
  • Good starting post: Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning
• Alexey Guzey
  • Topics: Open Science, Writing, Quantified Self
  • Good starting post: Every productivity thought I’ve ever had, as concisely as possible

Inactive

• Normcore Tech by Vicki Boykis
  • Topics: Tech, Privacy
  • Good starting posts:
    • Congrats, you’re the CEO now
    • The person on the other side of the crowd
• Pablo Meier
• Paul Jarvis
• I’m Left Handed
• Second Breakfast
  • Good starting posts:
    • It’s too late to collect sand
    • Shaving and being human

Friends

• Joshua Dunigan: Philosophy, Ethics, Arts/Culture
• Tyler Kim
• Naran Dasan

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Standard Disclaimer: Linking to a blog does not mean I agree with everything the author has written.

(Updated June 16, 2025 )