Blogs 12 sites

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Simon Willison

Multiple posts per day on LLMs, coding agents, Datasette, Python. Essential for AI/agent-era tracking.

simonwillison.net
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Julia Evans

Gold standard for accessible systems writing. Monthly cadence.

jvns.ca
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Dan Abramov / overreacted.io

Thoughtful and idiosyncratic. Active 2026.

overreacted.io
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Rachel by the Bay

Terse, HN-front-page regular. Pairs with Dan Luu archive.

rachelbythebay.com/w/
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Fabien Sanglard

Meticulous, illustrated. Irreplaceable for game engine internals.

fabiensanglard.net
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Xe Iaso

Essential for modern anti-scraping and Go infra.

xeiaso.net/blog/
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Oxide Computer blog

Corporate but individual-authored. Rare production+rigor combo.

oxide.computer/blog
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Marc Brooker

Production scale + formal rigor + clear prose. Essential.

brooker.co.za/blog/
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Josh Comeau

Low volume, reference-quality. Subgrid, linear(), animation-timeline API deep dives.

joshwcomeau.com
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Drew DeVault

Opinionated but technically substantive. FOSS politics + systems.

drewdevault.com
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Nikita Prokopov / Tonsky

Consistently high-signal, visual craft.

tonsky.me
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Cassidy Williams

Regular cadence, strong newsletter tie-in.

cassidoo.co