Personal blogs (that aren’t AI written) are the window to a nerd’s soul.
Also a sort of collection of ‘hacker culture’ lore and wrinkly-brained people ranting.
CS Blogs
My collection of CS/Math blogs. IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:
- diff.blog aggregator
- Steve Yegge and the old version
- Scott Aaronson - the quantum computing guy
- Eric S Raymond
- the OG hacker; see: jargon file
- how to become a hacker
- Paul Graham the ycombinator guy
- idleword more space stuff
- dabblers & blowhards a critique of hackers & painters
- rachelbythebay sysadmin chronicler
- kalzumeus he is like the greatest pm i never had
- artemis.sh lovely tech blog
- j3s.sh lovely tech blog
- ntietz.com nicole@web lovely tech blog
- jamie brandon
- linus knowledge representation researcher
- tom scott’s newsletter defunct as of 2026
- some pytorch guy
- scott jenson ui guy
- sussman
- julia evans the tech lead i never had
- Emil Kowalski lovely uiux blog
- amelia wattenberger lovely uiux blog
Journals, Lore, Professional Feeds & Makerspaces
hacker folklore
> hacker koans
8.4 Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said: “You are Yin and I am Yang. If we travel together we will become famous and earn vast sums of money.” And so the set forth together, thinking to conquer the world.
Presently they met Firmware, who was dressed in tattered rags and hobbled along propped on a thorny stick. Firmware said to them: “The Tao lies beyond Yin and Yang. It is silent and still as a pool of water. It does not seek fame, therefore nobody knows its presence. It does not seek fortune, for it is complete within itself. It exists beyond space and time.”
Software and Hardware , ashamed, returned to their homes.
communications of the acm
> prof Cristina made me realise that this is THE magazine to get to decorate coffee tables with
cs research index as if i will ever use this
obligatory xkcd
Philosophy
I’m sorry for being a philo larper.
zizek writes very nice shitposts