Blogs I love

29 Jul 2022

I spend a lot of my time seeking out and reading through technical blogs. I realized today, that my list of go-to blogs only exists mentally. I thought I should write them down somewhere, which is what this post is. I’ll likely be updating this page in the future.

Functional programming

• https://bartoszmilewski.com/
  Chad category theorist writes about chad category theorist things.

• https://amelia.how/
  Amazing blog about category theory and functional programming from the main author of 1lab, a category theory knowledge database.

• https://las.rs/
  A great friend of mine and all around smart guy. Interested in Haskell and Unix in particular.

• https://nliu.net/
  Haskell blog from biologist turned functional programmer. Some real gems on here.

• https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/
  A fantastic blog and learning resource for the F# language.

• https://www.haskellforall.com/
  Another fantastic Haskell blog from Gabriella Gonzales, author of the Dhall language.

• https://plover.com/
  Blog from the guy who wrote about monads being burritos.

• https://sigkill.dk/blog/
  Functional programming and PLT nut. Also my advisor during my thesis work.

• https://futhark-lang.org/blog.html
  Development blog for the Futhark language, a data-parallel functional language targeting GPUs.

• http://blog.vmchale.com/
  Array languages and functional programming galore.

Unity stuff

• https://bgolus.medium.com/
  The KING of the Unity forums.

• http://jbooth.blogspot.com/
  The KING of the Unity asset store.

• https://blog.orels.sh/
  Friend of mine. I like what they’ve written so far. Mostly about Unity-specific shader stuff.

General tech

• https://mtlynch.io/
  General tech blog I found recently. Writes a lot about entrepreneurship.

• https://overreacted.io/
  General tech, loosely JavaScript focus blog. Articles read nicely, and have great design.

• https://blog.codinghorror.com/
  The famous codinghorror blog. Everyone should know this one.

• https://acko.net/
  Great, long-form, in-depth articles about everything from GPU programming to pure mathematics. Also, the website design is impeccable.

• https://drewdevault.com/
  Don’t know this one too well yet, but read a few articles and found them interesting.

• http://cnlohr.blogspot.com/
  Friend of mine and certified C-boomer. Doesn’t post very often.

• https://boxcat.site/
  Only contains one post so far about speeding up the VRChat Udon virtual machine. It’s neat.

Techno wizardry

• https://wunkolo.github.io/
  SIMD and graphics chad. Writes great articles about some seriously specific technical stuff. Juicy details.

• https://blog.demofox.org/
  The blog of Alan Wolfe. Another one every programmer should know. Writes about a large range of complex technical topics, with great attention to detail.

• https://justine.lol/
  Lots of super low-level juice details and technofuckery.

• https://gankra.github.io/blah/
  Technical crimes committed by the author of the Rustonomicon.

• https://fasterthanli.me/
  Very long form exploratory style articles, mostly about Rust.

• https://aphyr.com/posts
  Person behind the great “(adjective) the coding interview” series of blog posts. Funny stuff.

• https://mort.coffee/
  Don’t know too much about this guy, but they mostly write about C.

• http://paulbourke.net/
  Website of the legendary Paul Bourke. Not really a blog, but great technical pages and documentation on stuff you’ve probably never heard about.

• https://psychopath.io/
  Blog about a path tracer. Lots of great in-depth articles on here.

• http://timjones.io/
  Shader and graphics guru.