Blogs I enjoy and recommend: where your time and electricity might be better spent!
- Adrian Curry curates movie posters and writes about their design
- Bartosz Ciechanowski shares detailed breakdowns on how certain analog technologies work, alongside homemade interactive visuals
- BEAR'S ART PAGES from the 1990s is still up and running, created by Grateful Dead audio engineer and infamous LSD manufacturer Owsley "Bear" Stanley
- brr.fyi is a delightful blog about daily life and operations at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, written by a South Pole IT staff member
- Chris Arnade Walks the World logs observations made by a former Wall Street trader turned photographer traveling the world by foot
- eieio.games showcases a handful of creative web-based games alongside the inspiration and processes behind their development
- Herman Martinus is a developer from South Africa and the creator of Bear Blog, the blogging platform I use, that writes pleasantly inspiring essays on life and tech
- Ludicity rants about corporate culture with refreshingly honest and often hilarious commentary (in particular, I really enjoy the "compliments" page)
- Matthew Ball writes compelling essays on the future of computing and the entertainment industry
- Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe, hosts a thoughtful collection of notes and links to interesting articles, books, and people
- Postcard Past / Present Photo contrasts old postcards with present day photos, sharing insightful bits about the pictured towns' histories
- Prolost by Stu Maschwitz has incredible pieces on filmmaking software, visual effects, and post-production editing techniques
- Ryan Castellucci is a London-based hacker that writes about her misadventures in cybersecurity and cryptography
- Shreyans Bhansali built products at Google and Venmo and maintains a simply fun website to click around (featuring great photos!)
In addition to the bullets above, Hacker News is an excellent resource for high-quality blog discovery. Also, some more bookmarks that aren't quite blogs, but ones I think are still worth sharing:
- Big Data is Dead is a terrific article published in 2023 by Jordan Tigani, founding Google BigQuery engineer, about the misconceived state of the *big* data industry
- Fundamentals of Data Engineering is a technical book co-written by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, released in 2022, published by O'Reilly, and distributed freely as a PDF thanks to Redpanda, an Apache Kafka-based streaming data platform
- Radio Garden is a fun and unique way to explore cultures around the world