Blogroll

Blogs that I follow.

Top

• paulgraham.com
  • Y Combinator founder. Essays GOAT
• norvig.com
  • Peter Norvig, GOAT, AI and programming github.com/norvig/pytudes
• balajis.com
  • Balaji's substack, prompts
  • startup engineering: hn, balajianthology.com/startup-engineering, pdf
    • Balaji's Startup Engineering Full Course (long, but go through it. Linux part is awesome! - https://balajianthology.com/startup-engineering + files + video + lecture slides)
• gwern.net GOAT blog
• pmarchive.com
  • Paul Graham's writings
  • for some others a16z.com/its-time-to-build
• slatestarcodex.com Scott Alexander, GOAT blog
• www.catb.org/~esr/writings
  • Eric S. Raymond GOAT hacker, how to become a hacker
• swtch.com/~rsc
  • Russ Cox blog - co-creator of Go.
  • Worked on Plan 9, fellow of Rob Pike, second person thanked in the foreword of The Practice of Programming by Kernighan, refs: eksi
• cdixon.org
  • Chris Dixon, a16z crypto, very insigtful writings, Balaji-like"
  • chatgpt on cdixon essays
  • some of his best: toy, non-linearity of tech adoption, what's next in computing, idea maze, credentials trap, competition is overrated, builders vs extractors (value creation), seed investors, graphs, cdixon on network state, and here
  • cdixon.mirror.xyz
• gwern.net GOAT blog
• nav.al
  • Naval - nav.al/archive, nav.al/rich, nav.al/infinity, nav.al/specific-knowledge
• terrytao.wordpress.com Terence Tao, legend mathematician
• gowers.wordpress.com Timothy Gowers (Field medalist, and editor of Princeton Companion to Mathematics)
• ralphmerkle.com
  • Ralph Merkle - inventor of first public-key cryptography method (Merkle’s puzzle)
    • Secure communication over insecure channels
• world.hey.com/dhh
  • DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails, other places signalvnoise.com/svn3/the-majestic-monolith
• https://takenobu-hs.github.io/downloads/
  • Downloads by takenobu-hs (archived)
• patrickcollison.com Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe patrickcollison.com/links
• geohot.github.io/blog George Hotz, hacker, Comma AI
• neopythonic.blogspot.com
  • Guido van Rossum
• karpathy.ai Andrej Karpathy blog also see https://karpathy.github.io/
  • karpathy.github.io his blog cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html Doing well in your courses karpathy.ai/tweets.html www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy Youtube channel
  • good: biohacking, his sci-fi books
• https://haseebq.com/
  • The Hard Thing About Learning Hard Things (archived)
  • So you want to build a crypto startup? (archived)
• https://iamtrask.github.io/

  - very interesting and clear writings

  • A Neural Network in 11 lines of Python (Part 1) - i am trask (archived)
• Arnold Robbins's Home Page (archived)
• https://sirupsen.com/
  • Co-founder of turbopuffer
  • How to Use AI to Become a Learning Machine - Ep. 34 with Simon Eskildsen (archived)
  • Index Merges vs Composite Indexes in Postgres and MySQL (archived)
• https://mccormick.cx/
  • very creative independent software dev
  • https://chr15m.github.io/minimal-stylesheet/ -> minimal stylesheet
  • https://chr15m.github.io/DoodleCSS/
  • https://slingcode.net/ > PC on web
• https://jgthms.com/
  • Jeremy Thomas
  • https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/#images
• stephango.com Creator of Obsidian
  • stephango.com/file-over-app, stephango.com/40-questions, stephango.com/style, stephango.com/concise, stephango.com/understand, stephango.com/concise
• https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
  • On compilers. Insightful posts and awesome projects
• blog.eladgil.com Elad Gil
  • blog.eladgil.com/p/career-decisions and High Growth Handbook
• www.incompleteideas.net Richard Sutton, GOAT Computer Scientist
• levels.io/blog Solo founder building startups
• https://www.stallman.org/
  • Why Software Should Be Free (archived)
• https://sarahtavel.medium.com/
  • Sarah Tavel, Product
• https://avc.com/
  • from Fred Wilson

General

• darren.codes
  • Darren Burns, creator of textual and textual-web libraries, follows Unix philosophy
  • https://github.com/darrenburns
• martin.kleppmann.com Author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Distributed systems, local-first software
• stratechery.com Ben Thompson, tech analyst
• yoshuabengio.org Yoshua Bengio, top AI researcher
• substack.com/@graymirror Curtis Yarvin
• www.joelonsoftware.com
  • Stack Overflow co-founder. Software development wisdom, law of leaky abstractions
  • The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) (archived)

• simonwillison.net Django co-creator. Web dev, Python, data analysis

• notes.andymatuschak.org/Aboutthesenotes Andy Matuschak. Zettelkasten style notetaker

• michaelnotebook.com Quantum computing and overal very interesting

• mattherocklin.com Dask

• sharif.io Sharif Shameem. Nice blog posts.

• siboehm.com Machine learning

• beej.us

  • Has incredible guides at https://beej.us/guide/

• shariff.io Shariff Shameem

• neilkakkar.com Neil Kakkar

• danluu.com Dan Luu, deep technical analysis of systems and software engineering

• substack.com/@finbarrtimbers Analysis articles on AI and hardware trends

• jakewharton.com Android dev

• phrack.org Ezine for hackers

• gf_256's Calling All Hackers, gf_256

  • x.com/gf_256/status/1825631751802085865

• grantslatton.com Software development

• dbreunig.com Data analysis, visualization

• micro.webology.dev microblog on web development and tech

• nattuck.fogcloud.org Nat Tuck, a very good CS instructor. Also see https://www.youtube.com/@NatTuck

• dominicwalliman.com creator of The Map of X'es.

• blog.reyem.dev

  • LLM usage experimentations here and here
  • good projects gpu quicklist

• stevelosh.com/blog Steve Losh, Lisper

• meltingasphalt.com Naval recommended at https://www.navalmanack.com/navals-recommended-reading

• blog.samaltman.com Sam Altman

• www.reedbeta.com reedbeta

• steveblank.com interesting writings. e.g. https://steveblank.com/2022/09/20/mapping-the-unknown-the-ten-steps-to-map-any-industry/

• er4hn.info

  • nice blogpost from a software engineer. Has reading notes, and interesting ideas
  • some nice reads
    • Tacit Knowledge is Dangerous (archived)
    • (Suggested 📚) Elon Musk (archived)

• bcantrill.dtrace.org

  • software and startups. tasteful design.

• https://glyphack.com/

  • Compiler resources
  • https://glyphack.com/blog/doing-real-work/

• https://www.eugenewei.com

  • Status as a Service (StaaS) (archived)

• https://alexwlchan.net

  • https://alexwlchan.net/a-plumbers-guide-to-git/

Design

• https://brianlovin.com/
  • Omarchy first impressions (archived) ##### AI
• https://supaiku.com/
  • spike (archived)
  • attention is logarithmic, actually (archived)
  • from bits to intelligence (archived)
• https://www.dbreunig.com/
  • https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/05/07/claude-s-system-prompt-chatbots-are-more-than-just-models.html

Web

• darkcoding.net/
  • epoll - The API that powers the modern internet (archived)
  • Release It - Write software for production (archived)
• anthonynsimon (archived)
  • Deploying Django with Kamal (archived)
  • The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup (archived)
  • The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS (archived)
  • Stuff I would tell my younger self (archived) ##### Django
• https://wsvincent.com/
  • django
    • has three highly recommended django books - https://wsvincent.com/books/
  • see this mini django app to learn how to make django apps
• https://antoniomele.es/
  • Author of Django 5 by Example (book)
• https://adamj.eu/
  • wrote many django-extensions, seem helpful
    • e.g. https://adamj.eu/tech/2024/05/07/django-harlequin/
• https://daniel.feldroy.com/
  • Author of Two Scoops of Django (book)
• https://www.szotten.com/
  • inspired django-querycount
• coryzue.com
  • Deploying (Multiple) Django Apps to a Single Server with Kamal 2 (archived)

Vibe Coding, AI

• https://ghuntley.com/ #### Ruby & Rails
• https://radanskoric.com/
  • Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby (archived)
• https://tech.stonecharioteer.com
• https://tenderlovemaking.com/
• https://noelrappin.com/
• https://github.com/excid3
• https://justin.searls.co/
  • HotwireCombobox is pretty damn slick (archived)

Unix/Linux

• https://www.linusakesson.net/
  • The TTY demystified (archived)
  • Kernighan's lever (archived) ##### Build from scratch

• https://www.leshenko.net/

  • Git Internals - Learn by Building Your Own Git (archived).md

• https://ruslanspivak.com/

  • Book Notes - The Dark Art of Linear Algebra by Seth Braver — Chapter 1 Review (archived)
  • Let's Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 1. (archived)

Languages & Compilers

• nondot.org/~sabre/
  • Chris Lattner
• https://xania.org/
  • Matt Godbolt
    • maker of https://godbolt.org/ (compiler explorer)
• https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
  • Robert Nystrom—Author of Crafting Interpreters by Nystrom
  • also see https://stuffwithstuff.com/
    • game-dev writings
    • prog langs
• https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
  • On compilers. Insightful posts and awesome projects
• https://mcyoung.xyz/
  • good ones
    • weblink, A Gentle Introduction to LLVM IR · mcyoung (archived)
    • weblik , Understanding Assembly Part I RISC-V · mcyoung (archived)
• https://burntsushi.net/
  • Andrew Gallant
• wingolog.org
  • https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/08/missing-the-point-of-webassembly
  • missing the point of webassembly — wingolog (archived) ##### Game Devs
• http://number-none.com/blow/
  • Jonathan Blow

Databases

• https://brandur.org/
  • Stripe API builder, databases
  • Single dependency stacks (archived)
  • Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It (archived)
  • APIs as infrastructure future-proofing Stripe with versioning (archived)

Cryptography

• https://blog.cr.yp.to/
  • D. J. Bernstein
  • cr.yp.to 2014.02.05 Entropy Attacks! (archived)
  • cr.yp.to 2025.01.18 As expensive as a plane flight (archived)
    • Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work
• https://www.youtube.com/@BillBuchanan
  • World-leaders in Cryptography Ralph Merkle (archived)
  • The Magic of Shamir Secret Shares and Elliptic Curves (archived)
    • Shamir Secret Shares with Kryptology (archived)
• https://paulmillr.com/
  • Deterministic signatures are not your friends (archived)
  • Learning fast elliptic-curve cryptography (archived)
• - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/
  • KU Leuven Cryptography blog, nice explanations
  • Zero Knowledge Proofs An illustrated primer (archived)
  • Random number generation An illustrated primer (archived)
  • How to choose an Authenticated Encryption mode (archived)
  • CO6GC Introduction to Zero-Knowledge Proofs (Part 1) (archived)
• https://godspowereze.com/
  • https://github.com/barisozmen/learn-cryptography-and-zk Toy implementations of various cryptographic primitives and algoritms
• https://www.schneier.com/
  • a renowned cryptographer, is associated with two notable secure random number generators: Fortuna and Yarrow
  • Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity (archived)
• https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/
  • Co6GC Introduction to Lattice-based Cryptography (Part 1) (archived)
  • Co6GC Introduction to Garbled Circuit (archived)
• https://asecuritysite.com/
  • engaging content within the theoretical and practical applications of cryptography
  • The Rise and Rise of Homomorphic Encryption (archived)
• https://www.jeremykun.com/
  • math and programming
  • A High-Level Technical Overview of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (archived)
  • Fully Homomorphic Encryption in Production Systems (archived)
  • Introducing Elliptic Curves (archived)
  • Cryptography section in https://www.jeremykun.com/main-content/
  • Modulus Switching in LWE (archived)
• https://github.com/cryptosubtlety
  • intuitive-advanced-cryptographyadvancedcrypto.pdf at master · cryptosubtletyintuitive-advanced-cryptography (archived)
• https://blintzbase.com/
  • Why cryptography is not based on NP-complete problems (archived)
  • Private information retrieval using homomorphic encryption (explained from scratch) (archived) ##### Crypto/Blockchain
• https://vitalik.eth.limo/
  • Vitalik Buterin
  • https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin
    • The Meaning of Decentralization (archived)
• https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
  • Nick Szabo's blog
• kauri.io (archived)
  • Referenced by Gnutella - an Intro to Gossip (archived) of Haseeb Qureshi
• https://www.cryptologie.net/
  • great blog on everything cryptography and ZKPs and many other. A lot to learn from
  • The missing explanation of ZK-SNARKs Part 1 (archived)
• https://bit-ml.github.io/blog/
  • homomorphic encryption, LLMs
  • The BGV fully homomorphic encryption scheme Bitdefender Research (archived)
  • Homomorphic Encryption a Toy Implementation in Python Bitdefender Research (archived)
• https://danromero.org
  • Crypto Reading (archived)
• https://katelynsills.com/
• https://robertmcgrath.wordpress.com/
  • Fully homomorphic encryption on a chip? (archived)
• https://www.daniellowengrub.com/
  • Fully Homomorphic Encryption from Scratch - daniellowebgrub(archived)
• https://b10c.me/
  • BTC developer

Python

• www.dabeaz.com Author of Python Cookbook. Deep dives into language internals
  • https://github.com/dabeaz/blog/
• nedbatchelder.com Python expert and awesome teacher
• blog.miguelgrinberg.com Flask master
• kennethreitz.org Creator of requests and pipenv
  • www.reedbeta.com/blog/programmers-intro-to-unicode
• https://agileabstractions.com/
  • Very good articles and courses
  • https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelFoord
• https://snarky.ca/
  • core dev, good blogposts
  • How the heck does asyncawait work in Python 3.5? (archived)
• https://wizardzines.com/ + https://jvns.ca/
  • Julia Evans blog and zines
  • https://nginx-playground.wizardzines.com/
  • Notes on git's error messages (archived)
  • https://questions.wizardzines.com/git-commits
• davepeck.org/
  • https://davepeck.org/2025/09/22/introducing-tdom-html-templating-with-python-t-strings/ ##### Frontend
• paulirish.com Chrome DevTools developer. Lighthouse
• www.joshwcomeau.com Interactive tutorials and in-depth articles on React, CSS, and JavaScript
• piccalil.li Andy Bell's blog on modern CSS techniques, web design, and front-end development.
  • piccalil.li/category/css-fundamentals A series of articles on CSS fundamentals
• blog.isquaredsoftware.com Mark Erikson deep dives into React and Redux, with real-world best practices
• meyerweb.com Eric Meyer, CSS pioneer. Web standards, CSS history, and future of web design
• rachelandrew.co.uk CSS layout expert, focusing on Grid and Flexbox with clear explanations
  • codepen.io/rachelandrew smashingmagazine.com/2019/01/how-to-learn-css ##### Math
• Expository papers by K. Conrad (archived)
  • Why Groups - Keith Konrad
• terrytao.wordpress.com Terence Tao, legendary mathematician
• https://www.wwsawyer.org/work-by-sawyer.html
  • W. W. Sawyer's work
• gowers.wordpress.com Timothy Gowers (Field medalist, and editor of Princeton Companion to Mathematics)
• https://mattbaker.blog/
  • Quadratic reciprocity and Zolotarev’s Lemma (archived)
• jeremykun.com Math ∩ Programming, mathematics in computer science
• betterexplained.com
  • Intuitive Guide to Convolution – BetterExplained (archived)
• http://www.quadibloc.com/
  • Introduction to Cryptography (archived)
  • Groups, Rings, and Fields (archived)
• xorvoid.com
  • Learn you Galois Fields for Great Good (archived)
  • Learn you Galois Learn you Galois Fields for Great Good - Group Theory (archived)
• [c82.net][https://www.c82.net/]
  • https://www.c82.net/euclid/
  • https://www.c82.net/iconography/ ##### Visual Math
• https://www.laszlokorte.de/ + tools.laszlokorte.de
  • https://static.laszlokorte.de/stochastic/
  • https://static.laszlokorte.de/hypothesis/
  • https://static.laszlokorte.de/complex-plane/ ##### Category Theory
• bartoszmilewski.com/
  • https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/
    • Category Theory for Programmers The Preface (archived)
• abuseofnotation.github.io Category Theory, very interesting ideas on math, logic, philosophy
  • abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated Category Theory Illustrated (book)
• math.ucr.edu/home/baez Category Theory and general math. On the blogroll of https://abuseofnotation.github.io/
• philipzucker.com
  • Computational Category Theory in Python I Dictionaries for FinSet (archived)
  • Haskell, Python, general Math, compilers

Crypto

• https://www.righto.com
  • https://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bitcoin.html
  • https://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

FHE

• https://jakelazaroff.com/
  • Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs jakelazaroff.com (archived)
• https://www.ayoub-benaissa.com
  • Build an Homomorphic Encryption Scheme from Scratch with Python (archived)
• https://cryptographycaffe.sandboxaq.com/
  • Fully Homomorphic Encryption Introduction and Use-Cases (archived)

Web Tech

• baldurbjarnason.com
  • labour arbitrage theory of web dev tool populariy https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/
• herman.bearblog.dev Herman, creator of Bear, a minimalistic blogging builder

Security

• https://dankaminsky.com/
  • first heard in Asymetric The Crypto Plan for World Domination. An Interview with Balaji Srinivasan (archived)
    • goat security/hacker. tried hacking bitcoin, failed
      • https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/bitcoin-8776098/8776098

Old Internet Vibes

• https://1mb.club/
  • Collection of <1MB webpages

  - Found this there, very interesting https://32bit.cafe/cyowebsite/

  Tech

  • https://www.brendangregg.com/overview.html
  • Linux perf
  • https://pbanks.net/
  • Very interesting. Found in the list of https://1mb.club/
  • Pulling user data form Mastodon https://pbanks.net/blog/page1.html#pulling-user-data-from-fosstodon
  • paulbutler.org Karpathy referred his article in this tweet
  • piszek.com interesting
  • danwang.co Dan Wang, came across in https://sharif.io
  • https://www.antonsten.com/
  • discovered when searching about 'simple is hard' mental model on google
  • https://www.chidiwilliams.com/
  • nice designed blog
  • https://www.parthshandilya.com/
  • Python, text retrieval, ML, general CS
  • https://martinheinz.dev/
  • Python, general software
  • https://blog.nelhage.com/
  • Made of Bugs
  • https://loup-vaillant.fr/
  • The Source of Readability (archived)
  • Good, Fast, Cheap Pick 3 or Get None (archived)
  • https://florian.github.io/
  • That XOR Trick (archived)
  • LLMs Understand Base64 (archived)
  • Federated Learning (archived)
  • https://michaelbastos.com/
  • Self-Taught Engineers Often Outperform (archived)
  • https://www.reedbeta.com/
  • A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode – Nathan Reed’s coding blog (archived) #### Lisp
  • https://bernsteinbear.com/

Other

• existentialcomics.com Comics. On the blogroll of https://abuseofnotation.github.io/
• https://nealstephenson.com/ Personal blog of the author of Cryptonomicon and other great science-fiction
• https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/ Interesting post on what to work on
• near.blog (archived)
  • Productivity Tips near.blog (archived)
  • How to Twitter Successfully near.blog (archived)

Ones with simple or elegant design

• nav.al
• bcantrill.dtrace.org
• patrickcollison.com
• stephango.com
• stevelosh.com/blog
• neil.computer
• https://www.chidiwilliams.com/
• https://martinheinz.dev/

Weird / original

• https://taylor.town/

Blogrolls from others

• Jameson Lopp's Recommended Bitcoin Blogs (archived)
• Abuse of Notation - writings on math, logic, philosophy and art -
• fastai numerical linear algebra - course logistics (archived)#Excellent Technical Blogs

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