Recently I discovered a couple blogs with interesting content and it reminded me of how the web used to be. So I ask what blogs do you follow and what topics do they cover?
https://hackaday.com/ is the only blog that has stood the test of time for me, been reading it for 15 years.
A couple more:
- BBC R&D. They don’t post very often, but what they do post is often extremely cool and high quality. E.g. Deploying the world’s first large scale temporary private 5g network for broadcasting UHD video of the King Charles’ coronation
- Project Perfect Mod - old school command and Conquer blog, Banshee that runs it is still posting on the daily, I don’t know how he does it.
- Cloudflare - interesting tech and case studies
- Google Cloud - same as above
- The Conversation - super interesting crowd-sourced blog written by scientists and researchers in all sorts of topics, generally very well written
Diary of an Autodidact — A California lawyer with a love for the great outdoors reviews both books and national parks… but mostly wrote a very insightful and incisive series of longform essays on the interactions between Evangelical Christianity and US politics. He’s gotten a bit bitter and grumpy recently, but remains worth reading, albeit with teaspoon of salt.
Sounds interesting, I’ll look into it.
https://pluralistic.net/ by Cory Doctorow, his insights on technology (especially what is going wrong with it) are eye-opening
One blog that inspired this post for me was https://www.ribbonfarm.com/. It is hard to pin down a single topic it covers, but I would say it tries to make sense of the ways people and ideas interact by breaking them down into different categories to understand how they think and view the world. Some topics include the social mechanics of the workplace and home, how people conceptually deal with the unknown, and conflict resolution.
Yea Rao is definitely someone I miss from Twitter, though last I checked they got off the platform to an extent too with this blog being their main home.
Not a blog, but a way of discovering new blogs. I subscribe to the unofficial best hacker news submissions RSS feed.
I found the blog on an IT guy that works in a research station in Antarctica.
That URL is just amazing.
Have been reading boingboing.net since before Reddit became the king of aggregated content platforms. Still do. But the quality of content are not what it once was. And the addition of their own gadget store has not made the experience better. Though there are still some good stuff to be found.
It has roots in what was a printed fanzine. Content is mostly tech, culture and politics.
Among the editors are maker Mark Faruenfelder. And privacy activist Cory Doctorow was once a big contributor, but I have not seen anything by him in a while.