Here are some of my favourite tech blogs. For each one I’ve linked to a specific blog post that I particularly liked. I also have a list of papers I like.

• Andy Baio’s waxy.org (every post is itself a single link)
• Andy Wingo (Fibs, lies, and benchmarks)
• Bonnie Eiseman (More than Coding: What is Exploratory Work?)
• Camille Fournier (How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer)
• Cathy O’Neil (IB’s grading algorithm is failing students)
• Chelsea Troy (Designing a Course 3: What will we do in a session?)
• CSS Tricks (Centering in CSS: A Complete Guide)
• Dan Luu (Files are hard)
• Gretchen McCulloch’s All Things Linguistic (not a tech blog but very fun)
• James Mickens (The Night Watch). Not a blog but his articles are amazing.
• Jeff Fowler (Wat is up with WebAssembly)
• Jessie Frazelle (LD_PRELOAD: The Hero We Need and Deserve)
• Kamal Marhubi (Segfaults are our friends and teachers)
• Kyle Kingsbury (Hexing the technical interview)
• Kyle Kingsbury (again)’s Jepsen analyses
• Lara Hogan (What does sponsorship look like?)
• Lindsey Kuper (An example run of the Chandy-Lamport snapshot algorithm)
• Marianne Bellotti (All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people)
• Mark Dominus (Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to)
• Mel Chua (Being deaf is: polled I/O instead of interrupt-driven)
• Monica Dinculescu (Emoji: how do you get from U+1F355 to 🍕?)
• Nadia Eghbal (Reimagining the PhD)
• Nelson Elhage (Computers can be understood)
• rachel by the bay (A mystery with memory leaks and a magic number)
• Raph Levien (xi-editor retrospective)
• Robert Heaton (How does a TCP Reset Attack work?)
• Safia Abdalla (Getting into git init)
• Amy Hoy & Alex Hillman’s Stacking the Bricks (The Fine Art of “Flintstoning”)
• Sumana Harihareswara (a review of “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges”)
• The Morning Paper (How bad can it git? Characterizing secret leakage in public GitHub repositories)
• Vicki Boykis’ Normcore Tech (Google Drive is Production)
• without boats (Not Explicit (on different things “explicit” can mean in Rust))

I wrote this list using some somewhat arbitrary constraints, to narrow it down from the maybe 150 blogs I have in my RSS reader:

1. the person has posted in the last 2 years (there are so many blogs I love that have mostly stopped posting!)
2. there are “a lot” of posts, for some arbitrary definition of “a lot” (there are so many blogs I love where the person has only written like 5 posts!)
3. I subscribe to it with RSS (there are so many blogs that I come across on Twitter and look extremely great and that I forget to subscribe to!)
4. (obviously) that I like reading the blog