Slatestarcodex is half back, in that the archives are available again, but he has not made any recent posts.
A very good blog to go through the archives of, to anyone curious.
Oh wow, der Mouse! That's a name I haven't heard in decades. I remember giving him a bunch of old Sun hardware I'd "collected" (hoarded), when I left Montreal in the early 2000s. It was cool to see what he's been up to, thanks!
> In the interest of discussion and discoverability, I urge the commenters in this blog to write a synopsis to each blog instead of just dumping a list of blogs. Or worse, a list of XML feeds (!).
James' posts were very inspirational to me at the start of my career in games, I was very sad when he decided to stop but at the same time it seems like he covered a lot. I read them all again from time to time.
Don't understand anywhere near as much of what Ken writes as I would like to, but seeing the die shots he gets and his analysis of awesome old devices is super fun.
Thanks for sharing this. As someone who is transitioning from an IC to manager, I found several helpful posts. This transition is the most stressful thing I have experienced in my career. Do you have any other recommendations blogs/books ?
They don't go so much into the soft skills that are required and often the toughest part of the transition. That's where Alison Green's column (Ask A Manager) is great. (She's also written some books but I have not read them. I imagine they're great too.)
I'd recommend signing up for the newsletter and then simply reading it daily as a sort of game or quiz. Imagine you're confronting the situation described. How you would deal with it? Then compare your response with hers.
You'll soon identify some common fairly obvious techniques that will resolve 90% of problems. Probably the two most common ones:
- Did you clearly state your expectations?
- Did you communicate your concerns calmly and directly to this person?
Finally, this Hacker News thread from years ago addresses exactly your situation:
In the interest of discussion and discoverability, I urge the commenters in this blog to write a synopsis to each blog instead of just dumping a list of blogs. Or worse, a list of XML feeds (!).
Lots of the ones already mentioned here are great. One I don't see mentioned here is Eric Lippert's blog. He is just now concluding a 35-part series on Conway's Game of Life and in particular the Hashlife algorithm, which includes one of the most mind-blowing programming concepts I have had in years.
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https://idlewords.com/
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/
https://slatestarcodex.com <-- Currently unavailable
https://erasmatazz.com
https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
I don't think I was, until now.
I think I'll be adding this to my reading list
https://stopa.io/feed.rss
https://kliu.io/index.xml
https://waitbutwhy.com/feed
https://rsshub.app/blogs/paulgraham
https://danluu.com/atom.xml
https://lethain.com/feeds/
https://programmingisterrible.com/rss
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/index.xml
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/atom.xml
https://www.benkuhn.net/index.xml
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/rss.xml
http://www.sheshbabu.com/atom.xml
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/rss.xml
https://fasterthanli.me/index.xml
https://feeds.feedburner.com/sirupsen
https://drewdevault.com/blog/index.xml
https://www.stephendiehl.com/feed.rss
https://blog.acolyer.org/feed
EDIT: Added some more links which i found interesting from other comments.
I'm "using" Fraidycat, but it kind of stop working since the last update :/
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ -- An assortment of low/high tech cool things, with a bent towards environmental preservation.
https://100r.co/site/home.html -- A blog by indie software developers who live on a boat.
https://hackaday.com/ -- Self describes as "Fresh hacks every day". It's an accurate description.
https://drewdevault.com/ -- A blog about FL/OSS software and technology.
Edit: See 4ad's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24539935
> In the interest of discussion and discoverability, I urge the commenters in this blog to write a synopsis to each blog instead of just dumping a list of blogs. Or worse, a list of XML feeds (!).
It appears to be up now though.
https://www.iquilezles.org/
https://fabiensanglard.net/
https://rxi.github.io/
https://drewdevault.com/
https://raphlinus.github.io/
https://gafferongames.com/
https://www.gwern.net/
https://jvns.ca/
James' posts were very inspirational to me at the start of my career in games, I was very sad when he decided to stop but at the same time it seems like he covered a lot. I read them all again from time to time.
Don't understand anywhere near as much of what Ken writes as I would like to, but seeing the die shots he gets and his analysis of awesome old devices is super fun.
Intellectual Farnam Street, Shane Parrish [farnamstreetblog.com/blog] Less Wrong [http://lesswrong.com/] [lesserwrong.com] Raw Thought, Aaron Swartz [aaronsw.com/weblog] Slate Star Codex [slatestarcodex.com] Edge [http://edge.org/] Melting Asphalt, Kevin Simler [http://www.meltingasphalt.com/] Essays, Paul Graham [paulgraham.com/articles.html] Minding Our Way, Nate Soares [http://mindingourway.com/] Ribbonfarm, Venkatesh Rao [ribbonfarm.com] Overcoming Bias, Robin Hanson [overcomingbias.com] Shtetl-Optimized, Scott Aaronson [http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/] Raikoth, Scott Alexander [http://web.archive.org/web/20140220082152/http://raikoth.net...] Heterodox Academy [https://heterodoxacademy.org/]
Technology Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/] Worrydream, Bret Victor [http://worrydream.com/] Naval Ravikant [https://startupboy.com/] Unenumerated, Nick Szabo [http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/] Stratchery [http://stratchery.com/]
Statistics DataTau [http://www.datatau.com/] FiveThirtyEight [fivethirtyeight.com] Simply Statistics [https://simplystatistics.org/] Chris Olah [colah.github.io]
Economics Marginal Revolution [marginalrevolution.com] Project Syndicate [project-syndicate.org]
https://www.askamanager.org/
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27140043-high-output-man...
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67825.Peopleware
They don't go so much into the soft skills that are required and often the toughest part of the transition. That's where Alison Green's column (Ask A Manager) is great. (She's also written some books but I have not read them. I imagine they're great too.)
I'd recommend signing up for the newsletter and then simply reading it daily as a sort of game or quiz. Imagine you're confronting the situation described. How you would deal with it? Then compare your response with hers.
You'll soon identify some common fairly obvious techniques that will resolve 90% of problems. Probably the two most common ones:
- Did you clearly state your expectations?
- Did you communicate your concerns calmly and directly to this person?
Finally, this Hacker News thread from years ago addresses exactly your situation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407643
See in particular jbob24's comment.
Congratulations and good luck!
https://kottke.org/
https://seths.blog/
Beautiful design and excellent deep dives on technical topics that interest me personally (Postgres, web architecture, etc).
Http://marginalrevolution.com is great and has been mentioned at least once already.
https://ericlippert.com
And of my favourite posts: https://groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot.com/2015/08/meeresch...