Archive

See btnews for my public feed aggregator; created in 2023H2, and haven't imported all the blogs I want to follow from my OPML feed

Not all of them may be active anymore...

General

• Idle words by Maciej Cegłowski - Wikipedia. My favourite post being - Argentina On Two Steaks A Day (Idle Words)
• Waiter Rant (I liked the pre-book version much better)
• Shit my dad says (again, the pre-book, tv-show! much better)
• boz.

Programming

• Steve Yegge - Stevey's blog rants - classic programming blog -- some good posts include -- Emacs, Lisp, Kotlin, "the amazon post"
• Paul Graham - not much about programming these days, but some vignettes back in the day, especially about "The Python Paradox", "Bayesian Spam Filters"
• 2023-10-12 technically a blog | nicole@web, especially see In Defense of the Midwest

Science, and Mathematics

• Cosma Shalizi's Three-Toed Sloth, mostly as an inspiration on reading. My notebooks is also heavily inspired by his notebooks, again nowhere as widely and deeply read as him.

Get Blogging! -- how to start blogging.

ooh.directory -- directory of blogs.

I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me

It's still worth blogging in the age of AI :: Giles' blog; Feb 2025

blogging isn't just about being read -- it's about learning and thinking, and having a durable proof that you can do both.

Long term blogging experiences

• Jonas Hietala: Why I still blog after 15 years; has nice visualization of the tech stack evolution as well as a scatter-plot of topics over time. The website is compiled using home-grown rust program