Blogs

Experience

Bloggers

• Tom Critchlow

• Shawn Wang

• Simon Willison

• Eugene Yun

• Andy Matuschak

• Gwern Branwen

• Azlen Elza's Notes

• Buster's "Pile" of Notes

• Vin

• Lelouch Dev

• [Robb Knight](https://rknight.me/

My Favorite Blogs

• The fresh start effect - This article talks about the having a different perspective to a "new start" of a habit or goal. Admire people for going out of their way to make a change, while also reflecting on how you can improve your own strategy to maintaining a habit/goal. Hacker News 📰

• Ask HN: Experience Starting a Blog

• Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays Hacker News 📰

• Writing Documentation for Your House Hacker News 📰

• Bartosz Ciechanowski : Great visuals and deep dives into various topics

• My Business Card Runs Linux : Wacky side project that looks super cool

• Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

• Keyboards and web apps, my post/rant for the year

• Cool looking site from Antarctica

• Putting the "You" in CPU

• RSS-like Feed of Blogs Hacker News

• I Hate Jira

• It's okay to Make Something Nobody Wants Hacker News

• Compressing Codebase Collocates Hacker News 📰 I also like the way this site looks...

• Daily Driving FreeBSD Hacker News 📰 I like the way this site looks as well...

• What's that touchscreen in my room? Hacker News 📰

• About Ideas Now: List of personal blogs and sites Hacker News 📰

• A Brief History of the Digital Garden

• Do Hard Things Carefully Hacker News 📰

• The best programmers I know Hacker News 📰

Business

• My \(0->\)100M->$0 in 5 years story

• Growing a tiny SaaS to $1M/year in 2 years

Design

• Gorilla Sun Articles

• Cool Reference Manual on Software Hacker News 📰

Software Tooling

• How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages

• Articles on Go/Golang and web development

• An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools Hacker News 📰

• Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts

• Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated

• Is tech moving backwards (Twitter Thread)

• The 90s Developer Starter Pack

• The Heaviness of Maintaining Systems Hacker News 📰

• Open Source Supply Chain Security at Google Hacker News 📰

Software Development

• Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?

• The Programmer's Brain Hacker News 📰

• Choose Boring Technology

• Practising Programming Hacker News 📰

• An app can be a home-cooked meal Hacker News 📰

• Challenging projects every programmer should try Hacker News 📰

• The Web is Yours

• Coding is actually hard Hacker News 📰

• Archive Your Old Projects Hacker News 📰

• Writing Toy Software Is a Joy Hacker News 📰

• 10 hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineering jobs Hacker News 📰

• Write more "useless" software Hacker News 📰

• Ask HN: What boosted your confidence as a new programmer?

• Identity Crisis - A Tale of DevRel

• Developer Relations Career Ladders

• 20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer

• 10 Things I Wish I'd Learned Sooner After Being a Dev for 10 Years

• Why Do ML on the Erlang VM?

• Taking over a Dead IoT Company

• Do-nothing scripting

• How I Build

• Do things, tell people.

• A career ending mistake

• My guiding principles after 20 years of programming

• Maybe you should do less 'work'

• Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

• 1x Programming

• Is Dark Mode Good For Your Eyes?

• Just Say No (Jeff Geerling)

• We have used too many levels of abstractions... Hacker News 📰

• I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars Hacker News 📰

• How I pwned half of America's fast food chains, simultaneously Hacker News 📰

• Things they didn't teach you about Software Engineering

• Is it Dry Yet? Hacker News 📰

• From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate Hacker News 📰

• After 14 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult Hacker News 📰

• Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 10 years Hacker News 📰

• How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps Hacker News 📰

• How I build software quickly Hacker News 📰

Life

• You are NOT dumb, you just lack the prerequisites Hacker News 📰

• The Pleasure of Pattern Hacker News 📰

• Why you need a "WTF Notebook" Hacker News 📰

• I quit my job to work full time on my open source project Hacker News 📰

• 2024: one pull up

• Programming Your Hands

• 10 Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning Hacker News 📰

• Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom Hacker News 📰

• 10 Years of Logging My Life

• Unlearning Perfectionism

• Why You're Not Doing Creative Work

• Career advancement (Louis Rossmann)

• Ask HN: Advice that changed your life?

• What to blog about

• Advice That Actually Worked For Me

• Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

• Show HN: I built a transit travel time map

• The PARA Method: A Simple System for Organizing your Digital Life

• Unauthoritative Pronouncements Hacker News 📰

• I hacked the Magic Mouse Hacker News 📰

• My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her a Radar Hacker News 📰

• I Bricked My Christmas Lights Hacker News 📰

• Fixing Macs Door to Door Hacker News 📰

• Obituary for a Quiet Life Hacker News 📰

• Men over 30: What do you wish you knew at 21?

• Why time seems to pass faster as we age Hacker News 📰

• Thread: How do you fit a whole life in a routine?

• Stop Acting Like You're Famous Hacker News 📰

• Thread: How do you typically stay motivated on a project?

• Thread: LPT - You can become reasonably proficient in just about anything in six months

• Thread: Which real life cheat codes do yo know?

Productivity

• Ask HN: What are you working on? July 2025

• How is it that I'm making more money while doing less...?

• Extreme Brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas

• LPT: If you find a way to do your job faster and are satisfied with your current level of responsibility, keep it to yourself

• Ask HN: How do I develop focus?

• Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project management?

• A dev's thoughts on developer productivity

• Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

• Everything is a Practice

• Finish your projects

• Tweet: Finish Your Projects

• Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

• Just paying Figma because nothing else works Hacker News 📰

• How I make OKRs more playful for my team using Hill-Charts Hacker News 📰

• When should you give up on a project that doesn't work? Hacker News 📰

• My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file Hacker News 📰

• Stop postponing things by embracing the mess Hacker News 📰

• Focus By Automation Hacker News 📰

• Use a Work Journal Hacker News 📰

• How To Learn

Game Development

• Develop Games

• Joys of Small Game Development Hacker News 📰

• Good times create weak men Hacker News 📰

• How the Creator of Alone in the Dark Came Back to Games Hacker News 📰

• How to colorize Game Boy games Hacker News 📰

• Coding the anime "woosh" screen on Amiga Hacker News 📰

• Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam

Self-Host & Explroing Tech

• How I forked SteamOS for my living room PC Hacker News 📰

• Local first, forever Hacker News 📰

Miscellaneous Tech Topics

• Covers as a way of learning music and code Hacker News 📰

• Microfeatures I love in Blogs Hacker News 📰

• Reading QR Codes Without a Computer Hacker News 📰

• If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing Hacker News 📰

• It's weird how design systems are so rote, yet so difficult Hacker News 📰

• My favorite animation trick: exponential smoothing Hacker News 📰

• Leadership is a Hell of a Drug Hacker News 📰

• Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?

• Woodworking as an excape from the absurdity of software Hacker News 📰

• Coding my Handwriting Hacker News 📰

• JUST USE HTML

Entertainment

• Anime: A Slave Industry Hacker News 📰

Job Market

• How to hire low experience, high potential people Hacker News 📰

• When New Hires Get Paid More, Top Performers Resign First Hacker News 📰