Blogs that I follow.

Top

• paulgraham.com
  

  • Y Combinator founder. Essays GOAT
    

• norvig.com
  

  • Peter Norvig, GOAT, AI and programming github.com/norvig/pytudes
    

• balajis.com
  

  • Balaji's substack, prompts
    

  • startup engineering: hn, balajianthology.com/startup-engineering, pdf
    

    • Balaji's Startup Engineering Full Course (long, but go through it. Linux part is awesome! - https://balajianthology.com/startup-engineering + files + video + lecture slides)
      

• gwern.net
  

  GOAT blog
  

• pmarchive.com
  

  • Paul Graham's writings
    

  • for some others a16z.com/its-time-to-build
    

• slatestarcodex.com
  

  Scott Alexander, GOAT blog
  

• www.catb.org/~esr/writings
  

  • Eric S. Raymond GOAT hacker, how to become a hacker
    

• swtch.com/~rsc
  

  • Russ Cox blog - co-creator of Go.
    

  • Worked on Plan 9, fellow of Rob Pike, second person thanked in the foreword of The Practice of Programming by Kernighan, refs: eksi
    

• cdixon.org
  

  • Chris Dixon, a16z crypto, very insigtful writings, Balaji-like"
    

  • chatgpt on cdixon essays
    

  • some of his best: toy, non-linearity of tech adoption, what's next in computing, idea maze, credentials trap, competition is overrated, builders vs extractors (value creation), seed investors, graphs, cdixon on network state, and here
    

  • cdixon.mirror.xyz
    

• gwern.net
  

  GOAT blog
  

• nav.al
  

  • Naval - nav.al/archive, nav.al/rich, nav.al/infinity, nav.al/specific-knowledge
    

• terrytao.wordpress.com
  

  Terence Tao, legend mathematician
  

• gowers.wordpress.com
  

  Timothy Gowers (Field medalist, and editor of Princeton Companion to Mathematics)
  

• ralphmerkle.com
  

  • Ralph Merkle - inventor of first public-key cryptography method (Merkle’s puzzle)
    

    • Secure communication over insecure channels
      

• world.hey.com/dhh
  

  • DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails, other places signalvnoise.com/svn3/the-majestic-monolith
    

• https://takenobu-hs.github.io/downloads/
  

  • Downloads by takenobu-hs
    

• patrickcollison.com
  

  Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe patrickcollison.com/links
  

• geohot.github.io/blog
  

  George Hotz, hacker, Comma AI
  

• neopythonic.blogspot.com
  

  • Guido van Rossum
    

• karpathy.ai
  

  Andrej Karpathy blog also see https://karpathy.github.io/
  

  • karpathy.github.io
    

    his blog
    

    cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html
    

    Doing well in your courses
    

    karpathy.ai/tweets.html
    

    www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy
    

    Youtube channel
    

  • good: biohacking, his sci-fi books
    

• https://haseebq.com/
  

  • The Hard Thing About Learning Hard Things
    

  • So you want to build a crypto startup?
    

• https://iamtrask.github.io/
  

  • very interesting and clear writings
    

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  • A Neural Network in 11 lines of Python (Part 1) - i am trask
    

• https://sirupsen.com/
  

  • Co-founder of turbopuffer
    

  • How to Use AI to Become a Learning Machine - Ep. 34 with Simon Eskildsen
    

  • Index Merges vs Composite Indexes in Postgres and MySQL
    

• https://mccormick.cx/
  

  • very creative independent software dev
    

  • https://chr15m.github.io/minimal-stylesheet/ -> minimal stylesheet
    

  • https://chr15m.github.io/DoodleCSS/
    

  • https://slingcode.net/ > PC on web
    

• https://jgthms.com/
  

  • Jeremy Thomas
    

  • https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/#images
    

• stephango.com
  

  Creator of Obsidian
  

  • stephango.com/file-over-app, stephango.com/40-questions, stephango.com/style, stephango.com/concise, stephango.com/understand, stephango.com/concise
    

• https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
  

  • On compilers. Insightful posts and awesome projects
    

• blog.eladgil.com
  

  Elad Gil
  

  • blog.eladgil.com/p/career-decisions and High Growth Handbook
    

• www.incompleteideas.net
  

  Richard Sutton, GOAT Computer Scientist
  

• levels.io/blog
  

  Solo founder building startups
  

• https://www.stallman.org/
  

  • Why Software Should Be Free
    

General

• darren.codes
  

  • Darren Burns, creator of textual and textual-web libraries, follows Unix philosophy
    

  • https://github.com/darrenburns
    

• martin.kleppmann.com
  

  Author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Distributed systems, local-first software
  

• stratechery.com
  

  Ben Thompson, tech analyst
  

• yoshuabengio.org
  

  Yoshua Bengio, top AI researcher
  

• substack.com/@graymirror
  

  Curtis Yarvin
  

• www.joelonsoftware.com
  

  • Stack Overflow co-founder. Software development wisdom, law of leaky abstractions
    

  • The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
    

• simonwillison.net
  

  Django co-creator. Web dev, Python, data analysis
  

• notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes
  

  Andy Matuschak. Zettelkasten style notetaker
  

• michaelnotebook.com
  

  Quantum computing and overal very interesting
  

• mattherocklin.com
  

  Dask
  

• sharif.io
  

  Sharif Shameem. Nice blog posts.
  

• siboehm.com
  

  Machine learning
  

• beej.us
  

  • Has incredible guides at https://beej.us/guide/
    

• shariff.io
  

  Shariff Shameem
  

• neilkakkar.com
  

  Neil Kakkar
  

• danluu.com
  

  Dan Luu, deep technical analysis of systems and software engineering
  

• substack.com/@finbarrtimbers
  

  Analysis articles on AI and hardware trends
  

• jakewharton.com
  

  Android dev
  

• phrack.org
  

  Ezine for hackers
  

• gf_256's Calling All Hackers, gf_256
  

  • x.com/gf_256/status/1825631751802085865
    

• grantslatton.com
  

  Software development
  

• dbreunig.com
  

  Data analysis, visualization
  

• micro.webology.dev
  

  microblog on web development and tech
  

• nattuck.fogcloud.org
  

  Nat Tuck, a very good CS instructor. Also see https://www.youtube.com/@NatTuck
  

• dominicwalliman.com
  

  creator of The Map of X'es.
  

• blog.reyem.dev
  

  • LLM usage experimentations here and here
    

  • good projects gpu quicklist
    

• stevelosh.com/blog
  

  Steve Losh, Lisper
  

• meltingasphalt.com
  

  Naval recommended at https://www.navalmanack.com/navals-recommended-reading
  

• blog.samaltman.com
  

  Sam Altman
  

• www.reedbeta.com
  

  reedbeta
  

• steveblank.com
  

  interesting writings. e.g. https://steveblank.com/2022/09/20/mapping-the-unknown-the-ten-steps-to-map-any-industry/
  

• er4hn.info
  

  • nice blogpost from a software engineer. Has reading notes, and interesting ideas
    

  • some nice reads
    

    • Tacit Knowledge is Dangerous
      

    • Suggested 📚) Elon Musk
      

• bcantrill.dtrace.org
  

  • software and startups. tasteful design.
    

• https://glyphack.com/
  

  • Compiler resources
    

  • https://glyphack.com/blog/doing-real-work/
    

• https://www.eugenewei.com
  

  • Status as a Service (StaaS)
    

AI

• https://supaiku.com/
  

  • spike
    

  • ttention is logarithmic, actually
    

  • from bits to intelligence
    

• https://www.dbreunig.com/
  

  • https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/05/07/claude-s-system-prompt-chatbots-are-more-than-just-models.html
    

Build from scratch

• https://www.leshenko.net/
  

  • Git Internals - Learn by Building Your Own Git (archived).md
    

• https://ruslanspivak.com/
  

  • Book Notes - The Dark Art of Linear Algebra by Seth Braver — Chapter 1 Review
    

  • Let's Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 1. (archived)
    

Languages & Compilers

• nondot.org/~sabre/
  

  • Chris Lattner
    

• https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
  

  • Robert Nystrom—Author of Crafting Interpreters by Nystrom
    

  • also see https://stuffwithstuff.com/
    

    • game-dev writings
      

    • prog langs
      

• https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
  

  • On compilers. Insightful posts and awesome projects
    

• https://mcyoung.xyz/
  

  • good ones
    

    • weblink, A Gentle Introduction to LLVM IR · mcyoung
      

    • weblik , Understanding Assembly Part I RISC-V · mcyoung
      

• https://burntsushi.net/
  

  • Andrew Gallant
    

• wingolog.org
  

  • https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/08/missing-the-point-of-webassembly
    

  • missing the point of webassembly — wingolog
    

Game Devs

• http://number-none.com/blow/
  

  • Jonathan Blow
    

Cryptography

• https://blog.cr.yp.to/
  

  • D. J. Bernstein
    

  • .yp.to 2014.02.05 Entropy Attacks!
    

  • .yp.to 2025.01.18 As expensive as a plane flight
    

    • Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work
      

• https://www.youtube.com/@BillBuchanan
  

  • World-leaders in Cryptography Ralph Merkle
    

  • The Magic of Shamir Secret Shares and Elliptic Curves
    

    • Shamir Secret Shares with Kryptology
      

• https://paulmillr.com/
  

  • Deterministic signatures are not your friends
    

  • Learning fast elliptic-curve cryptography
    

• • https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/
    

    • KU Leuven Cryptography blog, nice explanations
      

    • Zero Knowledge Proofs An illustrated primer
      

    • Random number generation An illustrated primer
      

    • How to choose an Authenticated Encryption mode
      

    • CO6GC Introduction to Zero-Knowledge Proofs (Part 1)
      

• https://godspowereze.com/
  

  • https://github.com/barisozmen/learn-cryptography-and-zk Toy implementations of various cryptographic primitives and algoritms
    

• https://www.schneier.com/
  

  • a renowned cryptographer, is associated with two notable secure random number generators: Fortuna and Yarrow
    

  • Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity
    

• https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/
  

  • Co6GC Introduction to Lattice-based Cryptography (Part 1)
    

  • Co6GC Introduction to Garbled Circuit
    

• https://asecuritysite.com/
  

  • engaging content within the theoretical and practical applications of cryptography
    

  • The Rise and Rise of Homomorphic Encryption
    

• https://www.jeremykun.com/
  

  • math and programming
    

  • A High-Level Technical Overview of Fully Homomorphic Encryption
    

  • Fully Homomorphic Encryption in Production Systems
    

  • Introducing Elliptic Curves
    

  • Cryptography section in https://www.jeremykun.com/main-content/
    

  • Modulus Switching in LWE
    

• https://github.com/cryptosubtlety
  

  • ntuitive-advanced-cryptographyadvancedcrypto.pdf at master · cryptosubtletyintuitive-advanced-cryptography
    

• https://blintzbase.com/
  

  • Why cryptography is not based on NP-complete problems
    

  • Private information retrieval using homomorphic encryption (explained from scratch)
    

Crypto/Blockchain

• https://vitalik.eth.limo/
  

  • Vitalik Buterin
    

  • https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin
    

    • The Meaning of Decentralization
      

• https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
  

  • Nick Szabo's blog
    

• kauri.io
  

  • Referenced by Gnutella - an Intro to Gossip of Haseeb Qureshi
    

• https://www.cryptologie.net/
  

  • great blog on everything cryptography and ZKPs and many other. A lot to learn from
    

  • The missing explanation of ZK-SNARKs Part 1
    

• https://bit-ml.github.io/blog/
  

  • homomorphic encryption, LLMs
    

  • The BGV fully homomorphic encryption scheme Bitdefender Research
    

  • Homomorphic Encryption a Toy Implementation in Python Bitdefender Research
    

• https://danromero.org
  

  • Crypto Reading
    

• https://katelynsills.com/
  

• https://robertmcgrath.wordpress.com/
  

  • Fully homomorphic encryption on a chip?
    

• https://www.daniellowengrub.com/
  

  • Fully Homomorphic Encryption from Scratch - daniellowebgrub
    

• https://b10c.me/
  

  • BTC developer
    

Python

• www.dabeaz.com
  

  Author of Python Cookbook. Deep dives into language internals
  

  • https://github.com/dabeaz/blog/
    

• nedbatchelder.com
  

  Python expert and awesome teacher
  

• blog.miguelgrinberg.com
  

  Flask master
  

• kennethreitz.org
  

  Creator of requests and pipenv
  

  • www.reedbeta.com/blog/programmers-intro-to-unicode
    

• https://agileabstractions.com/
  

  • Very good articles and courses
    

  • https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelFoord
    

Frontend

• paulirish.com
  

  Chrome DevTools developer. Lighthouse
  

• www.joshwcomeau.com
  

  Interactive tutorials and in-depth articles on React, CSS, and JavaScript
  

• piccalil.li
  

  Andy Bell's blog on modern CSS techniques, web design, and front-end development.
  

  • piccalil.li/category/css-fundamentals
    

    A series of articles on CSS fundamentals
    

• blog.isquaredsoftware.com
  

  Mark Erikson deep dives into React and Redux, with real-world best practices
  

• meyerweb.com
  

  Eric Meyer, CSS pioneer. Web standards, CSS history, and future of web design
  

• rachelandrew.co.uk
  

  CSS layout expert, focusing on Grid and Flexbox with clear explanations
  

  • codepen.io/rachelandrew
    

    smashingmagazine.com/2019/01/how-to-learn-css
    

Math

• Expository papers by K. Conrad
  

  • Why Groups - Keith Konrad
    

• terrytao.wordpress.com
  

  Terence Tao, legendary mathematician
  

• https://www.wwsawyer.org/work-by-sawyer.html
  

  • W. W. Sawyer's work
    

• gowers.wordpress.com
  

  Timothy Gowers (Field medalist, and editor of Princeton Companion to Mathematics)
  

• https://mattbaker.blog/
  

  • Quadratic reciprocity and Zolotarev’s Lemma
    

• jeremykun.com
  

  Math ∩ Programming, mathematics in computer science
  

• betterexplained.com
  

  • Intuitive Guide to Convolution – BetterExplained
    

• http://www.quadibloc.com/
  

  • Introduction to Cryptography
    

  • Groups, Rings, and Fields
    

• xorvoid.com
  

  • Learn you Galois Fields for Great Good
    

  • Learn you Galois Learn you Galois Fields for Great Good - Group Theory
    

• [c82.net][https://www.c82.net/]
  

  • https://www.c82.net/euclid/
    

  • https://www.c82.net/iconography/
    

Visual Math

• https://www.laszlokorte.de/ + tools.laszlokorte.de
  

  • https://static.laszlokorte.de/stochastic/
    

  • https://static.laszlokorte.de/hypothesis/
    

  • https://static.laszlokorte.de/complex-plane/
    

Category Theory

• bartoszmilewski.com/
  

  • https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/
    

    • Category Theory for Programmers The Preface
      

• abuseofnotation.github.io
  

  Category Theory, very interesting ideas on math, logic, philosophy
  

  • abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated
    

    Category Theory Illustrated (book)
    

• math.ucr.edu/home/baez
  

  Category Theory and general math. On the blogroll of https://abuseofnotation.github.io/
  

• philipzucker.com
  

  • Computational Category Theory in Python I Dictionaries for FinSet
    

  • Haskell, Python, general Math, compilers
    

Crypto

• https://www.righto.com
  

  • https://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bitcoin.html
    

  • https://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html
    

FHE

• https://jakelazaroff.com/
  

  • Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs jakelazaroff.com
    

• https://www.ayoub-benaissa.com
  

  • Build an Homomorphic Encryption Scheme from Scratch with Python
    

• https://cryptographycaffe.sandboxaq.com/
  

  • Fully Homomorphic Encryption Introduction and Use-Cases
    

Web Tech

• baldurbjarnason.com
  

  • labour arbitrage theory of web dev tool populariy https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/
    

• herman.bearblog.dev
  

  Herman, creator of Bear, a minimalistic blogging builder
  

Security

• https://dankaminsky.com/
  

  • first heard in Asymetric The Crypto Plan for World Domination. An Interview with Balaji Srinivasan
    

    • goat security/hacker. tried hacking bitcoin, failed
      

      • https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/bitcoin-8776098/8776098
        

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Old Internet Vibes

• https://1mb.club/
  

  • Collection of <1MB webpages
    

  • Found this there, very interesting https://32bit.cafe/cyowebsite/
    

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Tech

• https://www.brendangregg.com/overview.html
  

  • Linux perf
    

• https://pbanks.net/
  

  • Very interesting. Found in the list of https://1mb.club/
    

  • Pulling user data form Mastodon https://pbanks.net/blog/page1.html#pulling-user-data-from-fosstodon
    

• paulbutler.org
  

  Karpathy referred his article in this tweet
  

• piszek.com
  

  interesting
  

• danwang.co
  

  Dan Wang, came across in https://sharif.io
  

• https://www.antonsten.com/
  

  • discovered when searching about 'simple is hard' mental model on google
    

• https://www.chidiwilliams.com/
  

  • nice designed blog
    

• https://www.parthshandilya.com/
  

  • Python, text retrieval, ML, general CS
    

• https://martinheinz.dev/
  

  • Python, general software
    

• https://blog.nelhage.com/
  

  • Made of Bugs
    

• https://loup-vaillant.fr/
  

  • The Source of Readability
    

  • Good, Fast, Cheap Pick 3 or Get None
    

• https://florian.github.io/
  

  • That XOR Trick
    

  • LLMs Understand Base64
    

  • Federated Learning
    

• https://michaelbastos.com/
  

  • Self-Taught Engineers Often Outperform
    

• https://www.reedbeta.com/
  

  • A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode – Nathan Reed’s coding blog
    

Lisp

• https://bernsteinbear.com/
  

Other

• existentialcomics.com
  

  Comics. On the blogroll of https://abuseofnotation.github.io/
  

• https://nealstephenson.com/
  

  Personal blog of the author of Cryptonomicon and other great science-fiction
  

• https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/
  

  Interesting post on what to work on
  

• near.blog
  

  • Productivity Tips near.blog
    

  • How to Twitter Successfully near.blog
    

Ones with simple or elegant design

• nav.al
  

• bcantrill.dtrace.org
  

• patrickcollison.com
  

• stephango.com
  

• stevelosh.com/blog
  

• neil.computer
  

• https://www.chidiwilliams.com/
  

• https://martinheinz.dev/
  

Weird / original

• https://taylor.town/
  

Blogrolls from others

• Jameson Lopp's Recommended Bitcoin Blogs
  

• Abuse of Notation - writings on math, logic, philosophy and art -
  

• fastai numerical linear algebra - course logistics (archived)#Excellent Technical Blogs
  

What is a blogroll?