An upvote was insufficient t express my agreement with this recommendation. The amount of papers this guy gets through and summarises well is ridiculous.
I don't follow the blog, however from a quick scan at the other comments and a quick look at the blog I think you mistakenly said something you didn't mean.
> highest ratio of <X> to <Y>
You are saying he is very <X> and/or not very <Y>.
If you did mean to imply he was stupid I would be very interested to hear reasoning on that before I dive into his work!
Is there not also the possibility where the baseline of <X> is rather low, thus allowing for a comparatively "highest ratio" of <X> to <Y> without implying a low <Y>?
Not saying that's necessarily the case here, I don't follow the blog either, just pointing out another interpretation.
I think the point of the comment was to praise them for how they manage to have equal amounts of both things, when those things are rarely seen together. Most people would assume from context (given that the comment is phrased with positive sentiment) that it was meant that the ratio was low and the implicit sum was high.
This is probably the only automated email that I read start to finish (while consuming everything it links to.) It's been a pretty damn good time investment given how much it's "leveled me up."
The O'Reilly blog was unknown to me until today. On first glance, it seems that they have lots of interesting articles in my areas of interest (ML, data science, data governance).
Thanks. The high scalability looks exactly what I wanted few months back. The blogs looks interesting and talks lot about scalability which I'm lacking so badly.
https://stratechery.com/ - best tech blog on the Internet. Nothing related to coding but thorough and thoughtful take on every-day-happenings in the tech industry.
The OP was asking for blogs to follow though. The first link has months and sometimes years in between posts. The second link hasn't had any new content in 11 years.
Trivium is excellent, it's a lovely mix of both deep and playful bits of tech. Also worth pointing out its historical significance as a continuation of the world's first ever tumblelog, Anarchaia.
I was going to reply that Joel quit blogging already, opened a his site to find a prooflink - and wow! He actually writes new stuff, and even the site looks new.
Anyway, the old-time Joel posts should be required reading to anyone who even wants to be a developer. And should certainly be re-read once in every 3-5 years or so.
Oh interesting, it looks like Joel on Software recently got an update. Apart from cosmetic changes, there are now a number of recommended reading lists to help you find articles you might like.
Joel on Software is a brilliant blog. Read through all the posts a couple of years back, all of them were interesting and well written; a lot of them were solid gold.
Do anything for a long time and in a very busy life and you start picking habits, patterns. When you write a blog for so long it's obvious you will develop a tone, style and way of writting that will feel deja-vue. And of course you can't be a genious every day so many time you rely on a formula you know works for you when the spark isn't there. That does't make it less genuine. If anything, it's human.
Plus they have a (fantastic) business to run so it get influenced by it.
Still, the last articles on password were high quality material.
That's a good blog indeed. Markdown led me there ages ago, and I've been a regular since. BTW, probably the word you were looking for is systemic, not systematic.
You've got it wrong. He's not nearly as bad as some of the Apple commentators out there. He is consistent with his praise as well as his complaints. He close enough to the employees to add an accurate insight, but detached enough to maintain an in-bias view.
There isn't another Apple reviewer I trust more than Gruber.
In an unrelated anecdote I thought I'd share about daringfireball.net is that I used to do domain research for SEO purposes and sifting through each expired domain from the major registrars I was absolutely shocked as to how many links come from that domain.
He has linked to so many failed website and startup ideas over the time that I literally saw a link from his blog at least once a week.
His website may be one of the most prodigious spreaders of decent link-juice on the internet.
You've got it wrong. Just because he is not as bad as other apple commentators and him having some complains doesn't make him unbiased. His pro apple bias made me stop reading his blog.
Also: Yes, he created markdown. Mad respect for that!
http://hackaday.com Has a lot of good content for IoT and hardware hacking. Lately some spot-on articles summarizing various electronics and RF terminology for the layperson.
I use a desktop app, QuiteRSS. I'm in front of the same computer all day so I don't need a reader that's synced across devices. Whatever you use, I suggest you look into subscribing to everything you can using RSS (HN, Reddit, YouTube), it's a much better experience than rescanning sites over and over.
I've started using email where possible. As long as they only send me new articles I'm happy. The second they spam me, I don't read them anymore. Unfortunately not everywhere offers it.
I loved Google Reader. When it died, I tried several replacements. Feedly was the one I ended up using. I'm not as fond of it as I was of Reader, but in my opinion it's the best of the ones I tried.
I've recently been looking to use web based tools where possible and tried out feedbin. If it stops running I can self host as it's open source. In the meantime I'm more than happy to pay the monthly sub for something I use daily.
I wrote a personal bookmark web app to keep track of sites I visit frequently, group them, tag them, and search. It was a fun project, and I'm the only user, so there isn't any support overhead. It runs on a $5/month Linode instance.
Since I often don't have a connection Pocket is my goto for reading (though it's awful at math). https://feedhuddler.com automatically populates Pocket from rss.
http://semiengineering.com/ as I think we are at an inflection point of Moore's Law and it is worth understanding how that plays out at the lower layers of the stack.
This list highlights and confirms a mild annoyance I have every time I see (or get recommended) a blog I might want to follow: it's rarely easy to get an overview of historical posts.
Almost everyone seems to go for the 'no summaries, home page is the latest post in full, followed by the one before in full, ...' format.
Notable exceptions mentioned here: antirez (brief summaries) and danluu (list of titles). Both of these approaches are far better IMO.
Not a technology blog, but "Manager Tools" is a podcast that I love. Their solution to your problem is a "map of the universe" [1] which organizes every cast they've done since 2005 into a pretty easy to follow graph. They also revisit old topics every now and then.
On a side note - if you're in a technical leadership job where you're no longer an "individual contributor," think of a situation that's annoyed you, then click around the manager tools map. They probably touched on it (it's got "how to promote someone," "how to delegate" for various personality types, "how to give feedback," and even "how to handle body odor" and "how to fire someone").
I write a weekly AI newsletter called Import AI which is also cross-published to this WP blog. I try to cover a mixture of fundamental research papers and applied stuff. It also includes some OpenAI updates: https://jack-clark.net/
I've been following your mailing list for a while and it's a great way to stay up to date after a very busy week. So i recommend it in a non-self-promotional way !
I would recommend benedict Evans weekly news letter , it gives the best news and updates from the tech world. Unlike a blog site which can be monolithic this news letters covers the top tech happenings of the week and it feels very complete for me
The guy hacks and create stuff from time to time and it's very interesting to read. It's also more on the hardware side of things (I had to Google what's a shift register and how they work to understand one of the article)
Specialized in compressive sensing, matrix factorization and machine learning.
Don't let the blue color put you of, the author reads and reviews an unbelievable amount of research every week and maintains a huge repository of papers, implementations, talks and video's.
I pretty much scanned through the entire list of comments and i cant believe no one's mentioned www.hanselminutes.com. That is an excellent podcast and blog from Microsoft's Scott Hanselman who's an excellent interviewer and student ofn technology as well as a mentsch. Highly recommended.
I had to look up the phrase "expert beginner" as I was unfamiliar with it. I found it interesting. This was a good read for anyone else who might be unfamiliar with the term:
Stack Overflow newsletters[1] are great as well. It sends you top questions of the week, both answered and unanswered. Great way to learn small things about things you love. Its the perfect application of "Knowledge should be bite-sized".
I subscribe to RPi, Net Eng, CS, theoretical CS and Code Golf news letters. Any other suggestions?
I follow a blog/podcast called Scale Your Code (https://scaleyourcode.com/). The host interviews a lot of interesting people like DHH or Jeff Atwood. He didn't post every day, but interviews are pure gold (last one was with Nick Craver from Stack Overflow).
I put together a votable list of most of the sites recommended by HN users so its easier to see which blogs are the most popular/recommended (anyone can vote).
No one has mentioned https://kukuruku.co/. We translate popular and interesting tech articles to English. We are also working on letting users write and publish their own posts.
A related question, what tool do you use to manage your feeds? Instapaper is good for one time links, overcast is good for podcast feeds but I am still struggling to find a decent one after Google retired reader.
Feedly. From all the trials and searches I've done as a former Google Reader devotee, it's the closest to it from interaction perspective, but much MUCH better with integrations, including sending an article to Instapaper.
this site (it is still a pilot project) collects trend words together inside dashboards http://www.congruit.io/... I have written it for fun, because I don't want read tons of blogs :)
Agreed. I've tried nearly a dozen readers (online) during the frenzied Google Reader shutdown frenzy. Felt like the smoothest transition, fullest feature set and fairly straightforward. To the point that I've been a paid subscriber since the moment I chose it as my RSS solution.
I am in awe of many resources you are sharing here now but my question is how they are going to monetise their effort? Some of these are run on a volunteering basis and while it is good for the community, I am not sure it is healthy and sustainable in the long term. Any sort of funding provided?
I am in awe that some people seem only to think about things in terms of how much money can be made. Tech has always had a rich community of sharing. Let's not kill that.
They already make lots of money, do you think they really need an extra thousand / month from banners or selling t-shirts? I can guesstimate that they receive many inquires for new business and that could easily bring in more $ than they could ever get from some "clever" monetizing.
I'm the author of http://sametmax.com. And I like to brag, saying it's probably the highest quality blog on python. And I mean it. But it's in french and also talk about porn so you've been warned.