Excentric Blogs

After some time exploring the world of computer science, constantly diving deeper in search of knowledge; one finds himself a blog. Those blogs, mostly, revolve around one or two topics where the author of it spend most of his life studying those same topics; hence, they acquired exclusive abilities that can only be achieved through years of study. Share the blogs you finding through your years of net surfing. Here's my favorites: https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com https://greydanus.github.io https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org https://schiptsov.github.io https://danluu.com/about https://www.nearly42.org(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, You should always elaborate on your opinions rather than just spilling the soykaf.)

Nice list OP, these are I suppose related to -language design -machine learning -math ? Guess that's what you got the warning for, you explained everything and gave nice resources, but failed to say what they are lol. I agree with your sentiment, something similar I maintain is a directory called "people" where I make subdirectories like firstname-lastname (or pseudonym instead) with the structure like firstname-lastname ├── presented │   └── presentation-date-location-eventname.ppt ├── README.md ├── QUOTES.md └── wrote    ├── some-blogpost-or-something.epub └── some-book.epub most of this is self-explanatory. I didn't think of grouping them by category until now, thanks for the idea.

https://schiptsov.github.io <-- this dude I want to meet IRL. His attitude in programming inspires me to code further.

Well, we can't forget Xah Lee -> http://xahlee.info/

>>38842 >Guess that's what you got the warning for, you explained everything and gave nice resources, but failed to say what they are lol. Oh, that makes sense. I got very confused about being flagged. Well, about the blogs exhibited above: https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/ <-- A very complex blog that talks mostly about language theory https://greydanus.github.io/ <-- One of the most well elaborated and gorgeous blogs I ever read. The author not only expose unique topics, but combines it with a visual representation. He talks mostly about physics(he's a major on it) topics and neural networks. https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/ <-- Very active blog that talks about computational complexity https://schiptsov.github.io/ <-- Blog that talk about many, many topics in computer science. The most comprehensive and well-written blog I have ever come across https://danluu.com/ <-- Mostly compose of rants about the IT field and industry, with some niche topics here and there https://www.nearly42.org/ <-- This one is the template for the go-to blogs; plenty of topics about computer science. You're in for a surprise

>>38842 >Nice list OP, these are I suppose related to? Well, since we are in a programming board, I thought it was self-explanatory what the content of the blogs should be; although, explain my intentions while exposing more information is never too much. Apologies for my mistake

>>38842 It should related to anything that involves computer science and programming, that includes a new technology, the industry, some weird esolang that the blog author is creating. All things consider, something you found interesting or useful. About this "people" folder of yours. Would you like to share your favorites programmers or computer scientist from this folder? Honestly, I wouldn't mind you sharing the whole folder if you're ok with it. Seems like you did a extensive work on it.

>>38829 Other Blogs: https://brendangregg.com/overview.html <-- a computer performance analyst and software engineer known for his expertise in performance tuning and troubleshooting in the field of computing systems. Hosts a wealth of resources including articles, tools, and presentations related to performance analysis, systems performance, and software development. It's a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding and optimizing the performance of computer systems https://www.gingerbill.org/ <-- Involved in the creation of the Odin language. The blog primarily focuses on topics related to low-level systems programming, memory management, language design, and software engineering principles. https://www.dickgrune.com/ <-- Dick Grune blog. He is a computer scientist, known particularly for his work in the area of compilers, parsers, and programming language design. He has authored several influential books, including "Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide" and "Modern Compiler Design" which he co-authored. He also talks about literature from different speaking languages(he is a polyglot); there is also topics about software, being in his own words "nifty" or legacy. https://egtheory.wordpress.com/ <-- This one has a emphasis in evolution and game theory. He talks a lot about biology. Honestly very confusing, but never the less a fascinating blog.

>>38850 >The most comprehensive and well-written blog I have ever come across I disagree with the latter. The author of that blog has a poor grasp on the English language, to the point where it becomes intrusive. It's a shame, because there really are some interesting thoughts there, even though I don't agree with all of them. To address those thoughts, or at least, one of those thoughts, my main point of contention is his opposition to imperative programming. In practical reality, most of the problems we want to model are stateful in nature. Functional stuff is cool, but there's a reason most of them cheat and add imperative stuff (even if they're very clever about it like Haskell). >>38853 >Involved in the creation of the Odin language. Gross.

>>38856 >The author of that blog has a poor grasp on the English language. I find the language he uses simple to parse. >To address those thoughts, or at least, one of those thoughts, my main point of contention is his opposition to imperative programming. Not wanting to sound like a fanboy of his but besides the functional stuff I love how he bashes over-abstraction in tech language calling those people a narcissists who just want to sound smart. His main idea is to always reduce the complex to simple and see through any bullshit. Blog for the list: http://www.reactionary.software/

https://borretti.me/article/ ← PLT and other stuff https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/ ← Author of an indie search engine https://pixel-druid.com/ ← Scary math, useful advice, small notes

https://trinity.moe/blah is the website of (judging by the website) a schizo lainon from the middle of nowhere.

I recommend: sizeof.cat <- technical stuff, hacking paulgraham.com <- business/life advice.

Here's a few classic lisp/programming blogs that just occurred to me: Pascal Costanza: (1) https://p-cos.blogspot.com/ (2) https://blog.p-cos.net/archive/ Steve Yegge: (1) https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/blog-rants (2) https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ (3) https://steve-yegge.medium.com/ (4-ish) https://www.youtube.com/@SteveYegge Funcall: https://funcall.blogspot.com/ Tim Bradshaw: https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/index.html Loper-OS: http://www.loper-os.org/ Tom Van Vleck: https://multicians.org/thvv/tvvswe.html cat -v; Harmful stuff: https://harmful.cat-v.org/ Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ Brendan Eich: https://brendaneich.com/ SendMoreParamedics: https://blog.fogus.me/ Charles Petzold's articles: https://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/ Tomasz Nurkiewicz: https://nurkiewicz.com/articles Paul Graham: https://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html Lambda-The-Ultimate classic: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ And I might as well follow that with LispForum: https://www.lispforum.com/ Eric Normand: http://lispcast.com/ Defmacro: https://www.defmacro.org/ Andy Gavin: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/ The Old New Thing: https://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/index.htm Mark Tarver: https://www.marktarver.com/computing.html Zach Beane: (1) https://xach.livejournal.com/ (2) https://lispblog.xach.com/ Eric S Raymond: http://www.catb.org/~esr/ Warren Wilkinson: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://formlis.wordpress.com/* (doesn't seem to be live anywhere?) Alone in the Kitchen by Nino Ivanov: https://www.youtube.com/@ninoivanov (Do vlogs count? I've found his more obscure lisp book reviews interesting enough to think so.) The Cunningham & Cunningham Wiki is pretty eccentric: https://wiki.c2.com/ And who could forget our resident Verisimilitudes: http://verisimilitudes.net/lisp May as well tack on that most of John McCarthy's work has been formatted and rereleased by Stanford for free after including a few of these: http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/index.html Please respond with the many more I've forgotten! This could make for a great thread for binge re-reading or discovering missed classics. (Or just any modern blogs living up to the spirit of the age, of course.)

until now, i forgot blogs even exist. i should check my old tumblr...

>>39065 I cannot thank you enough for sharing such an extensive list of resources! Your compilation is an absolute goldmine. It’s evident that you’ve put a lot of time and effort into curating this collection, and it’s greatly appreciated. Also, your suggestion to explore further and add to the list is spot on. I’ll make sure to keep an eye out for any additional resources that complement your efforts; however, I don't think I'll be able to top your efforts. Once again, thank you for your generosity in sharing these invaluable resources. Vlogs are also welcomed and I'd be overjoyed to see what you found through the web. Some that can be added: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/(mostly about memory allocation) https://exo-science.com/(I honestly have no idea about this one, neither do I remember how I found it) https://www.rfleury.com/(An Absolute God-Among-Man figure in programming with shakesperian level of writing) https://www.davidpriver.com/( C ) http://ciphersbyritter.com/(I have yet to read a more thoroughly research resource about cryptography) http://0x80.pl(Notes about various topics)

>>39052 mornin trinity i like reading https://blog.netbsd.org/ and https://undeadly.org/, other blogs i like reading are linked here already. https://git.tebibyte.media/bonsai/coreutils/issues is interesting, if it counts. in my tabs i have https://evaparish.com/blog/how-i-edit open but i havent read it

Recently found Scott Locklin scottlocklin.wordpress.com This man has been blogging since 2009. He has a fascinating perspective on computing and engineering, and their histories. I originally found him from his post on slide rules, where he argues that widespread adoption of CAD software permits people without an intuitive understanding of the physical world to be engineers, leading to poor engineering work. It's a bizarre premise at face value (not uding slide rules causes end of civilization? yeah right pops) but it's not really just slide rules, but designing without a tactile medium.

>>38849 arguably xah lee is the opposite of what OP is looking for. that guy is interested in basically anything lol.

>>38849 >>39844 I can't tell whether Xah Lee is an eccentric genius with a very particular way of looking at the world, or a well-read midwit that stumbles his way into interesting thoughts on accident. I still feel compelled to read him, so I guess that says something.

>>39806 Locklin got me into topological data analysis, some online learning stuff ("prediction, learning, games"), and conformal prediction; I really enjoy his stuff.

>>39846 Every time I end up either on his blog or on his talk show most of the content is him either complaining about something or proving how little technical knowledge he has. Also he tends to be rather disingenuous.

>>39851 His early stuff is better. It's not always good, but at least it's the product of individual thought. Around 2016 he got addicted to social media and turned retarded.

>>39852 Ah good to know I'll check it out sometime.

>>39852 yea this is true honestly. i like xah but his older self was better, he became more shallow with the years

>>39852 like all of society did

Anti-Industry/Anti-Corporate/Anti-Ai Tech Blogs Post more if you have them. I love reading this stuff https://boehs.org/in/blog - Anti-AI/LLM posting, posts about other interesting stuff too. posted a run-down of the xz backdoor and also broke the npm package manager by installing everything at once https://www.wheresyoured.at/ - Lots of posting about scummy AI tech companies and the braindead executives ruining the world for everyone else. https://ludic.mataroa.blog/ - Australian tech blogger. Anti-AI posting, anti-corporate posting, anti-stupid posting. Started his own consultancy company recently designed to save bone-headed executives from making stupid decisions based on marketing schemes.

>>39908 Additionally https://hada-ionut.mataroa.blog/ - first blog post was this month, about how soykafty Microsoft more. nothing else yet but might be more https://bvisness.me/ - recently posted some tech angst stuff, otherwise random tech stuff https://jimmyhmiller.github.io/ugliest-beautiful-codebase - good article detailing some insane enterprise absurdity also can't forget https://blog.codinghorror.com/ my post is not flood spam please stop marking it as such kthx

>>39908 https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/posts - Anti-Tech posting from a feminist/leftist perspective. She hates DEI so not that type of leftist. Interesting stuff even if you dont agree with her.

>>38845 This guys writing is incomprehensible. What did you get from it?

I am surprised nobody posted this yet: https://countercomplex.blogspot.com/

some tech related ones https://100r.co/site/home.html https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/home.html https://www.tinaja.com/ https://arc.kill-9.rip/harmful/ https://suragu.net/blog/

>>39065 >Tim Bradshaw his guy's stuff is like kicking dead whales down the beach

>>41556 >https://arc.kill-9.rip/harmful/ Oh, it's back. I loved that site, when it was kill-9.xyz and thought it was gone forever.

>>38829 https://dustycloud.org/archive/

>>41558 I literally hate the way this guy literally types like a literal fuarrrking mongoloid

>>41590 He's a spaniard minimalism soykaflord. I wonder what qorg is up to these days

>>41558 This guy really hates OOP.

>>41558 These articles are devoid of anything worth saying. Better they didn't exist at all. The page about HTTP, a single complaint about User-Agent which is hardly a valid one. That's it? No other reason why HTTP is 'harmful'? Either say something or don't. This feels like reading someones Twatter page. This website is someone just LARPing as a hacker who actually thinks about software, but they don't actually have any interesting thoughts.

>>41616 The fact that the SSL certificate is expired is also pretty funny.

Just read moldbug lol https://graymirror.substack.com/