Blogs
It is really hard do find good blogs, especially the ones I like, which are mostly hidden treasures in a sea of AI garbage content. Here is a curated list of my favorite blogs:
- Protesilaos Stavrou https://protesilaos.com/feeds/: Prot is a well known member of the emacs community, he is also a very unique person. He lives alone in a poor area in the mountains, with just a few hours of electricity if there is sun. He has an education in philosophy and a youtube channel where he mainly talks about emacs, philosophy and him building his modest house. There is really a lot to learn from a person like him.
- Sacha chua https://sachachua.com/blog/feed/: Very frequent writer and another famous face in the emacs community. I read her posts basically everyday, lots of interesting stuff especially if you are interested in emacs and random trivias about packages.
- Julio Merino https://blogsystem5.substack.com/feed: I found him on hackernews and It really fitted my interests. The guy talks about low level programming / hardware and he is very knowledgeable about it, one of the true OGs. I find all of his blogs really interesting and with an old school feel.
- Salvatore Sanfilippo https://www.antirez.com/rss: Finally some Italian here! Salvatore is an exceptional programmer and the founder of Redis. He is always very interesting to listen to, he has a youtube channel and often has strong opinions about software and work life, which I admire.
- LWN https://lwn.net/: The main medium for talking about the linux kernel other than the mailing lists, LWN is a very important website in the history and development of the linux community.
- Eli Bendersky https://eli.thegreenplace.net/feeds/all.atom.xml: Very interesting, he often delves into math which I really enjoy.
- Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/: The best news site for linux kernel related things, after LWN. I noticed that whenever I was looking for benchmarks, the best were always from a certain Michael Larabel, so I dig deeper and discovered his website and his software to do benchmarking, which is totally awesome.
- Vaxry https://blog.vaxry.net/feed: This is the blog of the creator of Hyprland. Even if I don't use hyprland anymore, he is a true gigachad and most of the development of Hyprland was carried by him alone.
- Arxiv https://arxiv.org/: This isn't really a blog, but Its a scientific publications website. I am subscribed to some subjects and I regularly read It. It's my main source of catching up with the state of the art.
And many many more, those are only a few honorable mentions. I will try to keep this list up to date.
To discover blogs, what I usually do is:
- browse hackernews daily
- stalker people in mailing lists / open source projects that I follow
- look at indieblog sometimes
- in general, be curious about the people behind the code, and assume that every decent programmer has a blog
I use gnus as my feeds aggregator.