Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?

893 points by buddies2705 ↗ HN
I check hacker news daily. Is there any other blogs which provides good technology content daily basis ?

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These are the three technology sites I visit (almost) daily:

1. https://dev.to/ 2. http://highscalability.com/ 3. https://www.oreilly.com/ideas

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.
i keep up with highscalability, the ~weekly digests are awesome. I don't know how he keeps up with so much.
I learned so much from those weekly high scalability digests. I can't recommend them enough.
Where do I subscribe for the weekly digests on highscalability.com/? Thanks
They are published every friday. No subscription needed.
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 for the tip!

Coding Horror [1], and Joel on Software [2] are my favorites.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/ [2] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/

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.

Probably one of the best blog ever, programming or not, because it's not just good, it's so damn genuine.

Also http://thedailywtf.com/

I followed that for a long time, but stopped a few years ago as the articles felt so fake and/or fluffed up.
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.

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.
Self promotion: https://ma.ttias.be

Not daily, but plenty of links to follow-up on.

Alternatively, weekly summary of all things Linux & open source (RSS feed available); https://cronweekly.com

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 !

p.s.: I miss your podcast already

OpenBSD related - http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/

Weekly aggregations:

- http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/

- http://www.dragonflydigest.com/ (Look for the weekly "Lazy Readings" post)

Ted Unangst's blog is interesting even if you have nothing to do with OpenBSD.
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.
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.
If you can read french, http://sebsauvage.net/links/ is a nice generalist IT blog.

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.

Oh! Sametmax sur HN, vous êtes partout

Merci de m'avoir donné envie de programmer en python, c'est vraiment un langage sympa !

We are everywhere. Pycon, stackoverflow, irc, python-idea... You can't escape !
Steve Yegge was one of the best bloggers I've read. Other than a post from November it'd been dark for a few years. Still a good read though.

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/blog-rants

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.
For the downvoters, The OP specifically asks:

"Is there any other blogs which provides good technology content daily basis"

Note the word "daily" so suggesting blogs that are very rarely updated or have not been updated in over 10 years are odd suggestions.

to be fair, he did specify in his comment that they have not been updated but are still a good read, so I don't understand your hostility.
Hostility? There was nothing even remotely hostile in anything I wrote.
Agree, thanks for pointing the 'daily' part out, I'd missed that in the OP.
You can downvote on HN? Genuine question. I'm new here
Indeed you can however I believe you need greater than 500 karma points to do so.
John Gruber's blog, Daring Fireball, is pretty good if you don't mind the occasional (ok, near systematic) pro-Apple biais.

Likewise for the Macalope's column.

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.

Also the guy created Markdown. Show some respect. http://daringfireball.net

The fact John Gruber created Markdown is completely unrelated to the issue of the quality and/or bias of his blog.

Also I don't see anything in the post you replied to that shows any disrespect to John.

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!

I read Gruber. I like Gruber. But I think he is sometimes not critical enough of Apple.

But he is much better than people like Rene Ritchie. I simply cannot read anything he writes.

I quit reading as I've grown tired of how much content is political and not Apple/tech-related
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.
http://joeduffyblog.com is great, albeit it's far from being daily. It has long posts about operating system and programming language design
It's updated monthly but really worth to have in your rss feed http://spritesmods.com/

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)

I am keeping a mind map of all blogs that I want to read and follow (https://my.mindnode.com/Lr33AxQg1yTrPzYJrAbFD7E6Wr7cM6YyoUfX...)

It's part of a bigger mind map I am making (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge-map)

Interesting. What tool, if any, do you use to create the mind map? (Maybe it shows that on the site, have not looked yet, plan to later today).
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/
The morning paper (in Computer Science): https://blog.acolyer.org/
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."
An upvote was insufficient t express my agreement with this recommendation. The amount of papers this guy gets through and summarises well is ridiculous.
Adrian Colyer has the highest ratio of being genuinely lovely to being smart of anyone I've met
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.

Can you give a couple of intuitive examples of "highest ratio of <X> to <Y>"?
High ratio of salary to mundane work - either the work is interesting, or salary is large enough to compensate.
been on both sides of that one. :)
I agree I made it complicated - I mean he is very nice and very clever
Right, the parent probably meant lowest ratio. Though that sounds weird in casual conversation.
Except that also occurs when both things are very low - not a compliment either.

Best to steer clear of 'ratio' if praising two traits, sum them or something, don't divide by one of them.

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.
The series of "A paper each weak" is very good :)