1. Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org/ This is not really a blog, but a traditional website with links to the work of its author (who is probably one of the top programmers ever). It updates rarely, but when it does, it is to expose yet another monumental piece of computing work that will blow your universe.

2. Linus Akesson: https://www.linusakesson.net/ He's always onto some funny crazy things: obfuscated programming, underhanded programming, c64 emulation, chiptunes...

3. Uriel l'Étranger: http://cat-v.org/ The only self-described "philosopher of software" that I have ever seen. His website is of course not updated anymore, but you can re-read it many times and always learn something new.

4. Ted Unangst: https://flak.tedunangst.com/ Nice to follow some cool news about openbsd development

5. Andy Chu: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/ Who has embarked in an amazing quest to turn the unix shell into a cleaner tool

6. Jens Gustedt: https://gustedt.wordpress.com/ If you really want to be up to date about the evolution of the C language

they are quite informative and very enjoyable to read.

[1] https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/04/07/xdp-bpf-tutorial/

[2] https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/01/02/winning-the-bias-variance-tr...

[1] https://jvns.ca/perf-zine.pdf

Stumbled on this when his domain was hijacked accidentally due to an anti-botnet operation and his post about it came on HN (check the "Sinkholed" post). Since then I've subscribed to his blog, read the older posts and enjoyed the newer posts too.

He mostly posts about technology and mathematics. The reason why I got hooked to this blog is that they are mostly about offbeat topics that I wouldn't normally come across on my own. So there is something new to learn from every post. And they are very well written with great attention to detail.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21700139

Pretty scary stuff for domain buyers!

Also, 'transfer locks' are a good idea, but not supported by all TLDs.

http://glennengstrand.info

So far, I have covered clojure on ring, scala on finatra, java on dropwizard, javascript on node, python on flask, scala on scalatra, java on spring boot, go, and typescript on apollo (graphql).

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/

https://travisdowns.github.io/

https://preshing.com/

http://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/

A couple of recent posts I liked:

https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2019/12/16/stability-p...

https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2020/01/14/trying-to-a...

I specifically like reading posts by people who post regular retrospectives (weekly, monthly, or yearly).

So I started [0]. It only has three entries right now (including the one you mention above), but I would love to see contributions via pull requests.

[0] https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/blob/master/...

Lives out in the sticks and codes embedded stuff in Haskell, usually to automate his life in the backwoods of East Tennessee.

I also like Joey’s Haskell projects. Good stuff.

Might be some names you recognise or want to explore.

I also wrote a basic script to rank domains by HN upvotes if you want to distill the list a bit more: https://github.com/RhettTrickett/hacker-news-rank

Edit: I have to add Steve Corona's blog to the list. He's more on the motivation and guidance side. Everyone gonna hear and read stories about people getting straight out of their college with a six-figure job, working for SV startups. But the truth is, you're more likely to struggle, a lot, specially if you live outside of the developed world. Instead of success, Steve's story is of one who dropped out of the college at 19 and had to sleep in his car for while.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/

http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

A few more of my fav:

The grugq (NatSec, Tradecraft, OpSec): https://gru.gq/

Pinboard (aka Maciej Cegłowski): https://idlewords.com/

Adam Aelkus: https://aelkus.github.io/

Bert Hubert: https://berthub.eu/

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[1] https://blog.jessfraz.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jessfraz.com

And yes, also my favorite 101 explainer blog: https://arjunsreedharan.org

I was particularly influenced by this post.

https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...

https://bvckup2.com/wip covers mostly technical parts, but gives a good view into what's involved in making a software product from A to Z, especially in the parts further down the page.

Weeknotes archive here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/weeknotes/

I also blog about code and the financial side of running your own business: https://ma.ttias.be

I started a blog the middle of last year and have written mostly about topics related to Elixir. But have also covered topics like RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, and PostGIS. I find my own blog very useful as I often reference the associated GitHub tutorial projects to remind myself how I did something :D.

Next week's post is about using Loki for structured logging!

@mdo (Bootstrop) - http://markdotto.com/

Keith Cirkel - https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/

Coding – Corbin's Treehouse - https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog

Aaditya Purani – Ethical Hacker - https://aadityapurani.com/

Ben Balter - http://ben.balter.com/

fulldecent - https://privacylog.blogspot.com

Orange - http://blog.orange.tw/

Cocoa with Love - http://www.cocoawithlove.com/

Mark Otto - http://markdotto.com/

Moxie Marlinspike's Blog - http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/

hueniverse - http://hueniverse.com/

I'm Boobo and I have a dev blog: https://boobo94.xyz

Hope you subscribe there.

Thanks

https://tjcx.me/ https://blog.vjeux.com/ https://zachholman.com/ https://rsms.me/

My activity dropped off but I’ve recently committed to push forward again so plan to get back to blogged several times a week.

I’m working on a post right now to talk about my experience of having my game reach #2 here at HN at what that was like. Should have it out tomorrow.

Anyway, you might find it interesting: https://blog.spacefrigates.com

Alex Pakhunov (aka 'Not a kernel guy') is Sr. Software Engineer, Flight Software at SpaceX.

He born and graduated in Ukraine, but now is U.S. citizen.[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/alexeypa/status/958886120825081856

[1] https://blog.not-a-kernel-guy.com/about/

https://inessential.com/

(Netnewswire itself is not a solo project though)

[0] https://nfrechette.github.io/

https://www.theerlangelist.com/

http://pketh.org/archives/

It looks like this thread is turning into general blog recommendations. I like these, and they haven't been listed:

https://macwright.org/

https://tonsky.me/

https://nadiaeghbal.com/posts/

The Dolphin blog is good. https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/ It might have what you're looking for. Not single dev though, but very personal.

John Carmack on Twitter is good as well.

Here's my own: https://blog.winricklabs.com

I recently quit my job to become a solo dev and just started blogging about the process. If my content is of any value, please consider visiting.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

And here’s mine: https://jezenthomas.com/

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

https://mobile.twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack

The founder also runs a podcast.

http://brooker.co.za/blog/

https://rafaelcamargo.com/stories

I’m getting ready to start a new series about Core Bluetooth.

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany

PerlMonks. The Original StackOverflow.

I still at times discover cool programming ways. Its a treasure mine.

https://xxiivv.com/

It won't overflow you with content that you cannot keep up with, but you'll get good insights into how a stoic approach to life and development works

Here's the link to his classic "Drunken Blog Rants": https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/

Google really kill personal site like these

Specific to CSS, Chris Coyier's stuff is good https://css-tricks.com/author/chriscoyier/

Fairly sure he's solo enough and blogger enough to count.

His latest post for example explains that if you ask your boss what you should be working on next, you are a loser.

I would never call any of my employees a “loser”.

If your boss thinks of you as a loser, you should fire your boss.

This not how it works in our world.