In 2023, I boldly decided to quit (or reduce) the time lost on various Social Media Sites.
As a natural consequence, I decided to create my own social media feed by traveling back to the 2000s, installing an RSS Reader (called unimaginatively Feeder), and curating a list of blogs that I found interesting. I’ve become my own algorithm.
I usually find blogs I like by scrolling the top page of hn or lobste.rs. Unfortunately, there’s no other way. Searching for quality blogs online is almost impossible.
They never pop up on the first page of any search engine.
A good source of finding good information is now https://www.marginalia.nu/. The Website Explorer is an excellent way of accessing the alternative indie internet.
Another interesting source is https://bukmark.club/.
And there is the hackernews blogroll.
If you have a personal blog, I recommend you create your blogroll section. Your readers will appreciate it. Accessing quality content has become challenging in recent years. Publishing a list of sites you truly like & follow & subscribe to is helpful for everyone.
You can email me if you know of similar blogs (see /about/ for my address).
I can’t entirely agree with everything the following people are writing.
| 0x44.cc/ | Reverse Engineering?! |
| 250bpm.com/ | “My name is Martin Sústrik. These days I blog about random stuff.” |
| a.exozy.me/posts/ | The personal blog of a random person that crafts dodecahedra. |
| acko.net/ | Hackery, Math & Design. |
| ahelwer.ca/ | Distributed systems, formal methods, quantum computing, Andrew Helwer. |
| alexmolas.com/ | A search engine in 80 lines of Python ? Yes, why not? |
| amygoodchild.com/ | Amy is an artist based in London |
| andrewkelley.me/ | President and Lead Developer of Zig Software Foundation. Jack of all trades, master of one. |
| ar.al/ | The personal blog of Aral Balkan |
| artem.krylysov.com/blog/ | The blog of Artem Krylysov. |
| artojonsson.com/ | The personal blog of Arto Jonsson. |
| antirez.com/ | Antirez!? |
| apieceofthepi.substack.com/ | An entertaining blog about mathematics, by Richard Green. |
| ariadne.space/ | Free software developer and internet jackalope extraordinaire. |
| arne.me/ | A developer, podcaster & dad based near Frankfurt, Germany. |
| attractivechaos.wordpress.com/ | This is an anonymous blog. I am unsure if the (unknown) author plans to maintain it further, but here is where some particular questions of mine found the answers. |
| austinhenley.com/ | Austin Z. Henley, computer scientist, AI researcher. |
| avi.im/blag/ | Hey there👋 I am v. |
| baatz.io/notes/ | The personal blog of Carl Baatz. |
| begriffs.com/ | This is the personal blog of Joe Nelson: cool projects, anecdotes, parsing and lexing, postgres, postgrest, and much more! |
| benhoyt.com | This is Ben Hoyt’s personal site. The articles about GoAWK are some of my favorites. |
| bernsteinbear.com/blog/ | The blog of a human programmer. |
| betterwithout.ai/ | An highly opinionated blog. |
| bleuje.com/ | Personal blog of Etienne Jacob. |
| blog.bayindirh.io/ | tail -f /dev/brain0 |
| blog.bonnieeisenman.com/ | Software engineer, author, knitter, Esperantist. Bonnie Eisenman |
| blog.codinghorror.com/ | Cthulhu. |
| blog.ctms.me/ | Thoughts, opinions, wild speculation, and haphazard technical advice from Dom. |
| blog.fogus.me/ | Send more paramedics. |
| blog.ignaciobrasca.com/ | The Personal Blog of Ignacio Brasca. |
| blog.jgc.org/ | The blog of John Graham-Cumming. |
| blog.kellybrazil.com/ | Musings on automation, scripting, programing, DevOps, and cybersecurity. |
| blog.nelhage.com/ | The personal blog of Nelson Elhage. |
| blog.oddball.tech/ | The oddball blog, by Horst Günther Burkhardt. |
| blog.plover.com/ | The universe of discourse. |
| blog.rongarret.info/ | Rondam Ramblings. |
| blog.sulami.xyz/ | Hi, my name is Robin Schroer, and this is my blog. |
| blog.thenewoil.org/ | The new oil |
| blog.tymscar.com/ | Personal blog of Oscar Molnar. |
| boehs.org/in/blog | Evan Boehs is making friends. |
| brainbaking.com/ | Freshly baked. |
| brajeshwar.com/ | My name is Brajeshwar Oinam. |
| bryanbraun.com/ | The personal blog of Bryan Braun. |
| ciechanow.ski/ | Hard to explain, but of a different league. |
| confusedbit.dev/ | Valentin Tolmer explains complex things with simple words. |
| coryd.dev/ | The personal blog of Cory Dransfeldt. |
| cprimozic.net/blog/ | The personal blog of Casey Primozic. |
| creativegood.com/blog/ | Creative Good since 1997. |
| danpalmer.me/ | I’m a software engineer living in London and regularly visiting Melbourne. I enjoy writing software to solve interesting problems and improving engineering culture and processes. |
| dansalva.to/blog/ | A guy best known for creating Doki Doki Literature Club and FrankerFaceZ. |
| death.andgravity.com/ | Adrians talks python. |
| defn.io/ | You’ve reached Bogdan Popa’s personal website. |
| degrowther.smol.pub/ | “I’m a middle-aged scientist and technologist living with my family in Southern California.” |
| dotat.at/ | The personal blog of Tony Finch. |
| drewdevault.com/ | this is the personal blog of Drew DeVault: open source, the hare programming language, unpopular opinions and a good sense of humor |
| ericlathrop.com/ | Eric Lathrop’s blog. |
| eternodevir.com/ | Vinicius Moraes’ corner of the Internet. |
| eukaryotewritesblog.com/ | As the title says. |
| fabiensanglard.net/ | The personal website of Fabien Sanglard. |
| fgiesen.wordpress.com/ | When I grow up I’ll be an inventor. |
| foudil.fr/blog/ | Jazz trumpet player and Software Engineer. |
| gabrielistrate.wordpress.com/ | Gabriel Istrate’s blog. Romanian teacher and researcher. Blog is in Romanian. |
| bearblog.dev/blog/ | Herman’s bear blog. |
| hirrolot.github.io/ | A talented young developer. |
| healeycodes.com/ | The personal blog of Andrew Healey. |
| hondu.co/ | Javier Honduvilla Coto, a Software Engineer from Madrid living in London. |
| hookrace.net/ | Blog of Dennis Felsing. Dennis believes God writes Haskell. |
| isohedral.ca/ | The website of Craig S. Kaplan. |
| jsomers.net/ | James Somers is a writer and programmer based in New York, NY. |
| jaylittle.com/ | The blog of Jay Little. |
| j3s.sh | The (minismallist) good-looking personal site of Jes Olson. Talks about Free Software and other tech topics. Here is where I found the motivation for writing this |
| jmmv.dev/ | The personal blog of Julio Merino. Programming languages and operating systems. |
| junkiyoshi.com/ | Mathematical art. |
| justinmiller.io/ | Justin Miller, maker, programmer, photographer, and traveler. |
| jvns.ca/ | Julia Evan’s blog. |
| keybits.net/ | Tom Atkins’ site. |
| lemire.me | The blog of Daniel Lemire, a science professor at the University of Quebec. He sure loves optimizations. |
| letterstoanewdeveloper.com/ | What I wish I had known when starting my development career. |
| levlaz.org/ | The personal blog of Lev Lazinskiy |
| Low Byte Productions | This is the YouTube channel of Francis Stokes |
| massimo-nazaria.github.io/ | Massimo Nazaria. |
| matklad.github.io/ | Alex Kladov, a programmer who loves simple code and programming languages. |
| matduggan.com/ | The personal blog of Mathew Duggan, an OLD fashioned YAML farmer. |
| matt.might.net/ | The blog of Matt Might. |
| matt-rickard.com/ | The personal blog of Matt Rickard. |
| maxbittker.com/blog/ | The personal blog of Max Bittker. |
| mazzo.li/ | Frhttps://brainbaking.com/ancesco is a programmer. This is his homepage. |
| milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/ | Milan Cvitkovic working on neurotechnology. |
| minus-ze.ro/ | Personal blog of Alexandru Ică. |
| mitjafelicijan.com/ | The personal blog of Mitja Felicijan. |
| mcmillen.dev/ | Colin McMillen, author of 93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs |
| muscar.eu | This is the blog of Alex Muscar, an old childhood friend. He writes about algorithms and CS topics. |
| nedbatchelder.com/ | Ned Batchelder’s blog. |
| netmeister.org/blog/ | Personal blog of Jan Schaumann. |
| notes.atomutek.org/ | I am Matt, a roboticist, dabbling in everything tech, polyglot. |
| notes.eatonphil.com/ | The technical notes of Phil Eaton. |
| nullprogram.com | This is Chris Wellons’s blog. His articles are always a source of inspiration. |
| nutcroft.com/ | This is the blog of Theodore Keloglou. |
| odonnellweb.com/pelican/ | O’DonnellWeb was launched on 12/31/1995. That makes it one of the longest continuously running personal websites on the Internet. |
| openmymind.net/ | The blog of Karl Seguin. |
| opensourcemusings.com/ | “A blog where I share my passion for Linux and open source, with a decidedly non-techie slant.” |
| www.oranlooney.com/ | “Hi, I’m Oran Looney. I do math. I write programs. I science… data?” |
| paritybit.ca | This is the personal blog of jbauer. One thing I love about it is the careful gardening of the digital garden |
| peterkrautzberger.org/ | Personal blog of Peter Krautzberger. |
| ploum.net/ | Personal blog of Lionel Dricot. |
| posts.decontextualize.com/ | Allison Parrish, poet and programmer. |
| ptomato.wordpress.com/ | This is the personal blog of “Philip Chimento”: well-articulated and well-documented coding adventures |
| quaxio.com/ | Blog of Alok Menghrajani. |
| qubyte.codes/blog/ | The personal blog of Mark Stanley Everitt. |
| randomascii.wordpress.com | This is the blog of Bruce Dawson: bugs, optimizations and technical anecdotes. |
| rednafi.com/ | Ahoy, fellow nightcrawlers! I’m Redowan Delowar, also known as “rednafi” on most platforms. |
| rickadams.org/ | After 40 years as a computer programmer and game developer—and the passing of his wife of 47 years—Rick has retired and is now living in Ye Olde Folks Home, where he still tinkers with tech and likes to write these amusing and/or thoughtful tales about his storied life. |
| rknight.me/blog/ | The personal blog of Robb Knight. |
| rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/ | This is the personal blog of Ross Hartshorn, who is a middle-aged father, husband, computer programmer, and bookreader. |
| ruudvanasseldonk.com/ | Hi, I am Ruud. I love to create beautiful things with elegant code. I particularly like low-level optimisation for bare metal performance and systems programming, but I also enjoy high-level functional programming. Sometimes I write about that. I am mildly allergic to buzzwords. |
| scattered-thoughts.net/ | Tinkering with systems, Jamie Brandon. |
| schneier.com/ | Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. |
| scottwillsey.com/ | The personal blog of Scott Willsey. |
| seancoates.com/ | Sean Coates blogs (active) brews shares is about the Web, beer, and other stuff. |
| sharats.me/ | Shrikant says Namaste! |
| skeptical-science.com/ | Skeptics united. |
| sohl-dickstein.github.io/ | Jascha’s blog. |
| stavros.io/ | Greek. Amateur F1 driver. Technology enthusiast. Single parent. Liar. |
| susam.net/blog/ | The personal blog of Susam Pal. |
| thenumb.at/ | The personal blog of Max Slater. |
| ttntm.me/ | Tom’s personal website, Tom is a software developer from Austria. |
| tsev.dev/ | https://tsev.dev/ |
| tudorr.ro/ | The personal blog of Tudor Roman. |
| two-wrongs.com/ | The personal blog of Chris who lives in Sweden :). |
| verdagon.dev/ | Evan Ovadia, a software architect, hobbyist game developer, and lead for the Vale Programming Language. |
| vfoley.xyz/ | A blog of reasonable performance. |
| vzqk50.com/ | The hive. |
| wellquite.org | This is Matthew Sackman’s blog. I found the series Let’s build! A distributed, concurrent editor, extremely entertaining. |
| wheresyoured.at/ | Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At. |
| willhbr.net/ | The personal blog site of Will Richardson. |
| wilw.dev/blog/ | The personal site of Will Webberley. |
| wingolog.org/ | Personal blog of Andy Wingo. |
| wordsandbuttons.online/ | This is Words and Buttons Online — a collection of interactive #tutorials, #demos, and #quizzes about #mathematics, #algorithms, and #programming. |
| xeiaso.net | This is the personal site of Xe Iaso. The articles here have a high level of geekiness and humor. |
| xorvoid.com/ | If you stare into the void long enough, you’ll find some xors staring back. |
| yequari.com/blog/ | I write code and occasionally blog posts. |
| yurichev.org/ | CS, math, reverse engineering, SAT/SMT solvers, cryptography, tinkering with *NIX… |
| zellic.io/blog/ | Zelic research blog. |
| zserge.com/ | The personal blog of Serge Zaitsev. |
| zeux.io/ | Personal blog of Arseny Kapoulkine. |