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Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

621 points by lucasfdacunha ↗ HN
Hey guys, I like to read blog bosts about developers that run some kind of project (rentable or not) and usually are pretty open about its development and how things are going.

However, it's really hard to find some of those, unless you found those somewhere. Hacker Newsletter today had a pretty good article https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-2/

I'm mostly looking for something similar since this kind of blog post can give some good insights.

Thanks.

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SlyShy
Indiehackers.com has tons of these. Enjoy!
young_unixer
https://drewdevault.com
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spectramax
I quite enjoy reading what Drew has to say. Something about his transparency, his intense honesty, his approach, minimalism, objectivity and slight tinge of libertarianism - it is quite refreshing. Not to mention all of this through the lens of software engineering.
yuri91
I second this, but all of his posts hit the front page of HN anyway, no need to actively follow it! (/s)
dhardenb
I started a blog last year with the intent of sharing my journey to build an online game as a solo developer.

My activity dropped off but I’ve recently committed to push forward again so plan to get back to blogged several times a week.

I’m working on a post right now to talk about my experience of having my game reach #2 here at HN at what that was like. Should have it out tomorrow.

Anyway, you might find it interesting: https://blog.spacefrigates.com

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ChrisMarshallNY
I write about Swift and various development topics.

I’m getting ready to start a new series about Core Bluetooth.

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany

koenigdavidmj
Joey Hess: http://joeyh.name/

Lives out in the sticks and codes embedded stuff in Haskell, usually to automate his life in the backwoods of East Tennessee.

philsnow
I had never looked into who ran olduse.net, turns out it's Joey Hess. Joey if you're reading this, thank you, I love it!
mark_l_watson
Thanks for posting that. I went down a rabbit hole reading his off the grid material. I live in a fairly small mountain town but still with a civilized lifestyle: I can easily walk to two health food stores, movie theater, library, and the local food bank where I enjoy volunteering. My wife and I talked about moving ten miles outside of town but decided against it.

I also like Joey’s Haskell projects. Good stuff.

Topgamer7
His fridge build is pretty great!
Pmop
I used to read Joel's Joel on Software a lot. Also, Graham's . Another hidden jewel is the Elias Daler's blog.

Edit: I have to add Steve Corona's blog to the list. He's more on the motivation and guidance side. Everyone gonna hear and read stories about people getting straight out of their college with a six-figure job, working for SV startups. But the truth is, you're more likely to struggle, a lot, specially if you live outside of the developed world. Instead of success, Steve's story is of one who dropped out of the college at 19 and had to sleep in his car for while.

shaklee3
For low-level software, these are great:

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/

https://travisdowns.github.io/

https://preshing.com/

huhtenberg
Good blogs, but I wouldn't call them focused on "low-level" software. The material is more of a conventional desktop software development.
shaklee3
Maybe I just don't read all the articles, but the ones I've seen on there are definitely for low-level programming. Things like release/acquire semantics, writing a game engine, and AVX512 penalties.
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Mojah
If you’re into Laravel and PHP, Freek is very open about all his code: https://freek.dev

I also blog about code and the financial side of running your own business: https://ma.ttias.be

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kamaal
Not exactly a blog but as fresher I used to read https://www.perlmonks.org/

PerlMonks. The Original StackOverflow.

I still at times discover cool programming ways. Its a treasure mine.

montyhallpy
What is a "fresher"? Freshman?
joeberon
Freshman are called fresher in other countries, at least in UK