Who I'm following and why

This is my notes about people I follow on the web. This is an alternate index for people I follow so that I won't have to rely on Twitter to remember they exist, nor have to give them a prerequisite of having an rss feed to stay in my reading rotation.

Legend: I'm tagging links in this article with pound/number sign tips. Click on these tags to highlight all tagged links (Requires JS).

#rss: an RSS feed, auto-added into my reader.
#blog: a person's blog
#roll: a person's index of blogs they read/follow
#newsletter: a newsletter they may be curating

All feeds tagged with #rss on this page are automatically included in this reader:

Auto-Generated RSS Reader Link

Friends

Bora M. Alper

Bora is a friend of mine from many years ago. I've always enjoyed his writings and found myself sharing his interests.

https://boramalper.org/#blog

https://www.boramalper.org/blog/feed.xml#rss

Also the creator of magnetico, the decentralized torrent search utility!

The -I like what they write- people

Taylor Troesh

https://taylor.town/#blog

Writes about software and life. Likes to experiment with interesting new concepts. Passionate about their projects. Writes a lot.

Some example projects/posts to give an idea of what they do

Directory of small blogs blogs.hn
Scrapscript scrapscript.org (I still don't understand it but I will, hopefully)
Better spreadsheets taylor.town/better-spreadsheets
Your next two zeroes taylor.town/next-two-zeroes
taylor.town/harpsichord

Github: github.com/surprisetalk

RSS: taylor.town/feed.xml

Manuel Moreale

https://manuelmoreale.com/#blog

What they do: - People and blogs series https://peopleandblogs.com/#newsletter

Their index of blogs https://manuelmoreale.com/blogroll#roll

RSS: https://manuelmoreale.com/feed/rss#rss

Nolen Royalty

https://eieio.games/#blog

Creates games in unorthodox places & other fun projects.

Notable: - https://stranger.video (no-blink game) - Flappy Dird, flappy bird on macos finder - Google sheets adventure

Diamond Geezer

Extreme-blogger. London enthusiast. His blog is a holy encyplopedia of everything London. Old chap, legend. Blog is 22 yrs old and counting.

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/#blog

https://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/HcFb#--rss

Mitxela

Alex Tim (<- mitxela) has many interesting projects. Love that they're not limited to software but venture on hardware.

Loved their process of creating a thermal paper polaroid. I think he inspired the current generation of thermal paper toy cameras (one of which I immediately bought as soon as I knew they existed).

Another favourite of mine from their projects is the UV Protection amulet that inspires me to build a fantasy world where every phenomenon actually has a scientific explanation https://mitxela.com/projects/amulet.

https://mitxela.com/#blog

https://mitxela.com/feed.xml#rss

Jeff Atwood

Stackexchange cofounder. Seasoned dev, rarely writes anymore. Has some good gems on his blog (live since 2004).

https://blog.codinghorror.com/#blog

https://blog.codinghorror.com/rss/#rss

Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Mindfulness at work https://nesslabs.com/#blog

Stefan Bohacek

Botwiki founder, creator with high throughput.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog#blog

https://stefanbohacek.com/blogroll/#roll

https://stefanbohacek.com/feed/#rss

Ryan Barrett

Good work on tying the web together, including bridgy fed.

https://snarfed.org/#blog

https://snarfed.org/feed#rss

Sarah Wang

Sarah Wang's an influencer, at least she used to be. She was on our lazy-weekend-morning routine watchlist routine when we were having our coffees after breakfast. Hardware engineer by trade, I think she has a good balance (or rivalry!) of a technical and creative mind, which I liken to myself and people I like to keep myself close to.

She is apparently ditching short-form content creation and venturing into blogging. Love to see it!

She is on substack so I do expect paid content in the future.

https://swangxswang.substack.com/#blog

https://swangxswang.substack.com/feed#rss

Jim Nielsen

Experienced designer, coder, engineer. Posts frequently.

https://www.jim-nielsen.com/#blog

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/feed.xml#rss

The -their blog seems nice so I'm giving them a go- people

Tara Calishain

Absolutely passionate about search and organizing knowledge! She thinks very deeply about information retrieval. It is honestly so inspiring to me. I'm giving them a follow to watch their content more closely.

They are the creator of https://rssgizmos.com/ and https://mastogizmos.com/. With only 2 years of coding experience! Hell, they even have their own client-side RSS reader on their RSS gizmos blog, which is something I spent quite some time on this past year!

PS. Check mine out on https://rss-reader.dutl.uk. In my completely unbiased opinion, its great.

https://www.calishat.com/#blog

https://www.calishat.com/feed/#rss