Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?

[s-a-p]

Are there any new blogs you discovered that stood out?

[throwawaystress]

Simon Willison’s blog: https://simonwillison.net/.

How the heck does he have time to post all that amazing stuff, AND be coding open-source, AND have some kind of day job?

My god, I wish I were that productive.

[funksta]

He actually addressed this recently: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3leuuhotnpk2...

I will add a +1 to your recommendation as well, his blog has been my favourite way to keep up with the AI landscape over the last 18 months. Just the right level of detail and technical depth for me

[marojejian]

Let's not forget he's also discussing things on communities like HN, where I calculate 3 comments/day over the last month (based on a calc I just made, since I subscribe to his comments via https://hnrss.github.io/).

[punkspider]

Hope he sees this and writes a post about it. I've been wondering the same thing.

[DavidPiper]

The answer is almost always personal support / personal assistants.

There are for sure ways to increase your own personal productivity on its own, but the extra kick is usually from in-house cooks, cleaners, shoppers, schedulers, stylists, PAs, etc.

These people may or may not be spouses, family, friends and so on.

(This is a general response, I do not know Simon Willison or any of his work or life.)

[polishdude20]

I mean there could be other things in his life he's prioritizing less?

[guiambros]

Here's a few more, from my Feedly:

Julia Evans - https://jvns.ca/

Fabien Sanglard - https://fabiensanglard.net/

Rachel - http://rachelbythebay.com/w/

Bruce Eckel - https://bruceeckel.substack.com/ (old blog @ https://www.bruceeckel.com/)

Blobs in Games - https://simblob.blogspot.com/

Astrid dot tech - https://astrid.tech/

Brendan Gregg - https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/

Stargirl Flowers - https://blog.thea.codes/

[anotherevan]

https://brr.fyi/ - Blog posts from someone who spent over a year in the Antarctic. Lots of interesting details about how the infrastructure works and what life is like working there.

[Titan2189]

I recall the author identifying female somewhere in all of their posts, but couldn't find the source when I had a quick look. Might be misremembering...

[mminer]

I’m enjoying Citation Needed by Molly White for its coverage of the crypto world: https://www.citationneeded.news

[duxup]

Serious question, how do you follow crypto news and not get kinda depressed about it?

I find the concept(s) and tech interesting, but crypto news is so full of drama and horrible people / acts it's hard to enjoy for me.

[throw0101d]

For economics:

* Noah Smith: fhttps://www.noahpinion.blog

* Since he's retired from his NYT column after 25 years, Krugman: https://paulkrugman.substack.com

For personal finance / business:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com

[techtalksweekly]

Shameless plug: https://techtalksweekly.io/

I publish one post a week with all the recently uploaded talks from nearly all software engineering conferences to save my readers time from endlessly scrolling through messy YT subscriptions and to reduce FOMO.

On top of that, each week, I pick a few talks that I think are a must-watch and write a short narrative to give some context.

[mrcnkoba]

Being someone who endlessly scrolls through YC and have FOMO, I'm gonna give your mailing list a go!

[rvba]

https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

[rednafi]

Here are my favorites:

- Jacob Kaplan-Moss (https://jacobian.org/) [Engineering leadership, OSS]

- Anton Zhiyanov (https://antonz.org/) [SQL, Go, Python]

- Julia Evans (https://jvns.ca/) [SQL, Linux, Python, Go, Web]

- Brandur Leach (https://brandur.org/) [Postgres, Go, Ruby, Web]

- Brandon Rhodes (https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/) [Python, Astronomy, Linux]

- Nathanial J Smith (https://vorpus.org/blog/) [Python, Async, Linguistics]

I also write occasionally at https://rednafi.com.

[pelillian]

Easy! https://www.astralcodexten.com/

[xpil]

I follow over 200 blogs, but this one has remained my favorite for years: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/.

New posts are rare - just once or twice a year - but every single article is a gem.

[s-a-p]

Amazing recommendation, thanks! I've only just read one post but the quality (visuals, depth, topic) is outstanding

[Brajeshwar]

https://practicalbetterments.com A collection of one-off actions that improve your life continuously — however marginally.

https://stephango.com Steph Ango, CEO of Obsidian, writes about the simplicity and usefulness of plain-test, plain but powerful ideas. @kepano at HN.

https://marksblogg.com Mark Litwintschik on GeoSpatial, Satellites, Machine Learning. @marklit at HN.

https://simonwillison.net and of course, Simon Willison’s daily blog with high-quality content. @simonw at HN.

[matt_daemon]

Has to be Simon Willison’s blog

https://simonwillison.net/

[tinthedev]

Quite a fun read more often than not: https://dynomight.net/

Takes all kinds of lifestyle and tech topics and nerds out about them thoroughly. If you've ever wanted to see mundane things overanalyzed and backed with solid facts, I recommend.

I don't necessarily agree with all their views, but I've always enjoyed an article and it's rarely if ever confidently wrong.

[davepeck]

I always enjoy reading Maggie Appleton's blog posts: https://maggieappleton.com

And I always learn from the very deep signal processing fun on Absorptions: https://www.windytan.com

[yen223]

Maggie Appleton's blog design is very appealing

[vermilingua]

Definitely enjoying Ludicity - https://ludic.mataroa.blog/

[blazerunner]

Not new, but Josh W. Comeau's blog posts (https://www.joshwcomeau.com) on frontend and React are always next-level, you can tell there's passion in the details.

[wrongsahil]

+1. Love the interactive demos

[04rob]

Construction Physics:

https://www.construction-physics.com/

[MPSimmons]

I miss having a blog. I used to blog at https://standalone-sysadmin.com/ but it's been many years. I should get back into it.

[cglong]

I've started relying on Michael Tsai's blog for Apple-centric news and insights: https://mjtsai.com/blog/

[nejsjsjsbsb]

The one that says: "If you take nothing else from this blog: quantum computers won't solve hard problems instantly by just trying all solutions in parallel"