Blogs that I follow.
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- Y Combinator founder. Essays GOAT
- Y Combinator founder. Essays GOAT
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- Peter Norvig, GOAT, AI and programming github.com/norvig/pytudes
- Peter Norvig, GOAT, AI and programming github.com/norvig/pytudes
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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)
- Balaji's Startup Engineering Full Course (long, but go through it. Linux part is awesome! - https://balajianthology.com/startup-engineering + files + video + lecture slides)
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GOAT blog
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Paul Graham's writings
for some others a16z.com/its-time-to-build
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Scott Alexander, GOAT blog
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- Eric S. Raymond GOAT hacker, how to become a hacker
- Eric S. Raymond GOAT hacker, how to become a hacker
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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
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Chris Dixon, a16z crypto, very insigtful writings, Balaji-like"
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
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GOAT blog
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Terence Tao, legend mathematician
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Timothy Gowers (Field medalist, and editor of Princeton Companion to Mathematics)
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- DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails, other places signalvnoise.com/svn3/the-majestic-monolith
- DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails, other places signalvnoise.com/svn3/the-majestic-monolith
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Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe patrickcollison.com/links
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George Hotz, hacker, Comma AI
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- Guido van Rossum
- Guido van Rossum
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Andrej Karpathy blog also see https://karpathy.github.io/
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his blog
cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html
Doing well in your courses
www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy
Youtube channel
good: biohacking, his sci-fi books
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Creator of Obsidian
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
- On compilers. Insightful posts and awesome projects
- On compilers. Insightful posts and awesome projects
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Elad Gil
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Richard Sutton, GOAT Computer Scientist
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Solo founder building startups
General
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Darren Burns, creator of textual and textual-web libraries, follows Unix philosophy
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Author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Distributed systems, local-first software
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Ben Thompson, tech analyst
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Yoshua Bengio, top AI researcher
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Curtis Yarvin
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Stack Overflow co-founder. Software development wisdom, law of leaky abstractions
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Django co-creator. Web dev, Python, data analysis
notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes
Andy Matuschak. Zettelkasten style notetaker
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Quantum computing and overal very interesting
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Dask
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Sharif Shameem. Nice blog posts.
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Machine learning
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- Has incredible guides at https://beej.us/guide/
- Has incredible guides at https://beej.us/guide/
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Shariff Shameem
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Neil Kakkar
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Dan Luu, deep technical analysis of systems and software engineering
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Analysis articles on AI and hardware trends
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Android dev
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Ezine for hackers
gf_256's Calling All Hackers, gf_256
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Software development
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Data analysis, visualization
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microblog on web development and tech
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Nat Tuck, a very good CS instructor. Also see https://www.youtube.com/@NatTuck
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creator of The Map of X'es.
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good projects gpu quicklist
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Steve Losh, Lisper
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Naval recommended at https://www.navalmanack.com/navals-recommended-reading
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Sam Altman
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reedbeta
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interesting writings. e.g. https://steveblank.com/2022/09/20/mapping-the-unknown-the-ten-steps-to-map-any-industry/
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nice blogpost from a software engineer. Has reading notes, and interesting ideas
some nice reads
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- software and startups. tasteful design.
- software and startups. tasteful design.
https://glyphack.com/
https://glyphack.com/blog/doing-real-work/
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AI
https://supaiku.com/
Languages & Compilers
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- Chris Lattner
- Chris Lattner
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
also see https://stuffwithstuff.com/
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
- On compilers. Insightful posts and awesome projects
- On compilers. Insightful posts and awesome projects
https://mcyoung.xyz/
https://burntsushi.net/
- Andrew Gallant
- Andrew Gallant
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https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/08/missing-the-point-of-webassembly
Game Devs
http://number-none.com/blow/
- Jonathan Blow
- Jonathan Blow
Python
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Author of Python Cookbook. Deep dives into language internals
- https://github.com/dabeaz/blog/
- https://github.com/dabeaz/blog/
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Python expert and awesome teacher
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Flask master
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Creator of requests and pipenv
https://agileabstractions.com/
Very good articles and courses
https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelFoord
Frontend
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Chrome DevTools developer. Lighthouse
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Interactive tutorials and in-depth articles on React, CSS, and JavaScript
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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
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Mark Erikson deep dives into React and Redux, with real-world best practices
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Eric Meyer, CSS pioneer. Web standards, CSS history, and future of web design
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CSS layout expert, focusing on Grid and Flexbox with clear explanations
Math
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Terence Tao, legend mathematician
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Timothy Gowers (Field medalist, and editor of Princeton Companion to Mathematics)
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Math ∩ Programming, mathematics in computer science
Category Theory
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https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/
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Category Theory, very interesting ideas on math, logic, philosophy
abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated
Category Theory Illustrated (book)
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Category Theory and general math. On the blogroll of https://abuseofnotation.github.io/
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Computational Category Theory in Python I Dictionaries for FinSet (archived)
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
Web Tech
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- labour arbitrage theory of web dev tool populariy https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/
- labour arbitrage theory of web dev tool populariy https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/
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Herman, creator of Bear, a minimalistic blogging builder
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
- 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
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Karpathy referred his article in this tweet
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interesting
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Dan Wang, came across in https://sharif.io
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- discovered when searching about 'simple is hard' mental model on google
- discovered when searching about 'simple is hard' mental model on google
https://www.chidiwilliams.com/
- nice designed blog
- nice designed blog
https://www.parthshandilya.com/
- Python, text retrieval, ML, general CS
- Python, text retrieval, ML, general CS
https://martinheinz.dev/
- Python, general software
- Python, general software
https://blog.nelhage.com/
- Made of Bugs
- Made of Bugs
Lisp
- https://bernsteinbear.com/
Other
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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
Ones with simple or elegant design
https://www.chidiwilliams.com/
https://martinheinz.dev/
Weird / original
- https://taylor.town/
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- [swtch.com/~rsc](https://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](https://eksisozluk.com/russ-cox--4056566) -
- [[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](https://eksisozluk.com/russ-cox--4056566)
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- [[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](https://eksisozluk.com/russ-cox--4056566)
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- [[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](https://eksisozluk.com/russ-cox--4056566)
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- some nice reads
- [[Tacit Knowledge is Dangerous (archived)]]
- [[(Suggested 📚) Elon Musk (archived)]] -
- [[Tacit Knowledge is Dangerous (archived)]]
- [[(Suggested 📚) Elon Musk (archived)]]
- [bcantrill.dtrace.org](https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/) -
- https://supaiku.com/
- [[spike (archived)]]
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- [[spike (archived)]]
- [[attention is logarithmic, actually (archived)]]
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- [[attention is logarithmic, actually (archived)]]
- [[from bits to intelligence (archived)]]
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- https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
- [[Robert Nystrom]]—Author of [[Crafting Interpreters by Nystrom]]
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- https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
- [[Robert Nystrom]]—Author of [[Crafting Interpreters by Nystrom]]
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- good ones
- [weblink](https://mcyoung.xyz/2023/08/01/llvm-ir/), [[A Gentle Introduction to LLVM IR · mcyoung (archived)]]
- [weblik](https://mcyoung.xyz/2021/11/29/assembly-1/) , [[Understanding Assembly Part I RISC-V · mcyoung (archived)]] -
- [weblink](https://mcyoung.xyz/2023/08/01/llvm-ir/), [[A Gentle Introduction to LLVM IR · mcyoung (archived)]]
- [weblik](https://mcyoung.xyz/2021/11/29/assembly-1/) , [[Understanding Assembly Part I RISC-V · mcyoung (archived)]]
- https://burntsushi.net/ -
- https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/08/missing-the-point-of-webassembly
- [[missing the point of webassembly — wingolog (archived)]]
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- https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/
- [[Category Theory for Programmers The Preface (archived)]]
- [abuseofnotation.github.io](https://abuseofnotation.github.io/) -
- [philipzucker.com](https://philipzucker.com)
- [[Computational Category Theory in Python I Dictionaries for FinSet (archived)]]
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- https://nealstephenson.com/
Personal blog of the author of [[Cryptonomicon by Stephenson|Cryptonomicon]] and other great science-fiction
- https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/ -
Interesting post on [what to work on](https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/how-to-choose-what-to-work-on)
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