Just a handful of sites and people I like!

Caret-Dash-Caret

My partner Jenny’s delightful blog.

Overthinking Everything

Terrific short essays, observations, and words for things. See also the author’s more casual blog, DR MacIver’s Notebook.

The Weekly Weird

Mostly deeply technical esoterica.

Hundred Rabbits

A couple journeying around the world on a sailboat while developing software. #goals.

Shady Characters

Blog (now mostly defunct, sadly) about obscure typographical sigils.

Arts & Letters Daily

Article aggregator focusing on history and literature.

Metafilter

A collaborative blog dating back to the golden age of the Old Web.

ContraPoints

A series of thoroughly NSFW but beautifully crafted videos on mostly-but-not-exclusively gender politics.

EmacsNYC

My old meetup in New York!

Semi-Rad

Writing and occasional cartoons about the perils of going outside.

General Intellect Unit

“Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists.”

Bret Victor

Notable UI research and the presenter of perhaps my favorite technical talk.

Robin Sloan

Author with a newsletter full of charming bits and bobs.

Wesley Aptekar-Cassels’s Notebook

Another great notebook blog of assorted thoughts and ideas.

BLDGBLOG

An insightful architectural blog.

Swissmiss

The blog of a Swiss designer living in Brooklyn.

Trivium

A periodic collection of frequently intriguing technical projects and links.

Jamie Zawinski

Early Netscape employee and current SF nightclub proprietor gripes about technology.

Laws & Sausages

A Web comic about civics drawn by the artist behind Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

tiny robots cuddling with other tiny robots

The not-very-secret internal blog of thoughtbot, my charming former employer.

Roderick on the Line

A podcast in which indie musician and professional flâneur John Roderick and erstwhile productivity blogger Merlin Mann grouse about things.

Idle Words

The blog of Maciej Cegłowski, author and operator of Pinboard.

James Somers

Writer and programmer in NYC.

CalTopo

A great tool for creating topographical maps.

Revolutions Podcast

History podcast covering a series of revolutions in glorious and well-explained depth. Run by Mike Duncan, who formerly ran the similarly excellent History of Rome podcast.

Send More Paramedics

Posts on Lisps (esp. Clojure), plus often-obscure book recommendations and other tidbits.

Primitive Technology

Australian man makes compelling videos in which he rebuilds technology from scratch in the woods.

Dylan Holmes

Friend who’s recently finished a PhD in AI at MIT and is curious about all kinds of delightful things.

qntm

Writer and technical blogger with opinions about things.