Links to blogs and other things I enjoy and recommend: where your time and battery life might be better spent!
- Andy Pavlo is a professor at Carnegie Mellon teching the very best courses on DB systems (not exactly a blog!)
- Chris Arnade Walks the World details observations made by a former Wall Street trader turned photojournalist traveling the world by foot
- Fundamentals of Data Engineering (authors Joe Reis and Matt Housley, O'Reilly Media 2022) is available for free thanks to Redpanda, an Apache Kafka-based streaming data platform
- Grant Slatton is a startup founder and former AWS engineer that writes very digestible blog posts
- Herman Martinus is a developer from South Africa and the creator of Bear Blog, the wonderful platform hosting these very words
- Hickman's Hinterlands is "a ledger of obscure travels" -- while I don't agree with all his points, I'd be lying if I said I didn't find the lifestyle interesting and the writing beautiful
- 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
- Ned Donovan has supported work in the Middle East, Caribbean, Asia, and now publishes "stories and travel writing about some of the world's most remarkable places, their history, and the people who make them"
- Ram Samudrala hosts one of the very first sites on the web -- a shining example of what every tech bro blog should aspire to be... I could click around for hours
- Riley Walz ships clever projects and writes great bite-sized blog posts