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Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?

96 points by azhenley ↗ HN
Many of my favorite bloggers have stopped writing (or have drastically shifted topics). What are your favorite blogs?

I miss the 2009 era of blogging about personal projects or super niche factoids.

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idontwantthis
acoup.blog is the only blog I check individually.
bluefirebrand
My favorite blog for a long time was Shamus Young over at https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale

He passed away a couple of years ago unfortunately but there's a lot of stuff there that is pretty interesting. He has some awesome stuff about procedural generation

It's really more of an entertainment blog than an information one but there's still some really interesting stuff there.

Rest in Peace Shamus. You made a huge impact on a younger me

fraXis
Not a blog, but a podcast, but I love "The AI Daily Brief," and I listen to it daily because it keeps me up to date on almost everything happening in the AI universe.

https://aidailybrief.ai/

_caw
Inigo Quilez's (of demoscene fame, highly talented graphics engineer) blog is one of my favorites: https://iquilezles.org/blog/

It's a time capsule from that era.

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biztos
Marginal Revolution is nominally about economics, and it's not entirely not about AI, but AI is a fairly small part of what they cover:

https://marginalrevolution.com/

I follow a fair number of people who would, back in the day, have been classic bloggers, but are now doing Substack, and rarely even mention AI. Here's one I like enough that I actually pay for it:

https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/

fooqux
This is probably a bit niche, but this guy writes about developing and using Darktable and I wish I had a fifth of his knowledge.

https://avidandrew.com/

speak_plainly
Thanks for all the links, I love feeding my RSS reader.

I really like this: http://blog.beforemario.com updates are rare these days, but they cover Nintendo corporate history and products before the company got into video games.

zloy88
Honest question, is blogging even still a thing? I don't read any blogs honestly. I feel like blogging in 2026 is a very niche thing. Maybe I am wrong, it's just my impression. People are so "short-lived" that too much information at once seems not to be popular anymore. People want to get spoon fed all information they need, especially since AI - no?
EDM115
Well I do have a blog of my own [1], although I haven't posted a new article for a while, with 2 in preparation for way too long lol. There's also a Telegram section[2] which just mirrors the posts I make there, much more informal, and this one also haven't been updated in a while.

[1]: https://edm115.dev/blog

[2]: https://edm115.dev/blog/telegram