An old-school blogroll, a list of sites I read and recommend. It's also published as an OPML file that you can drop into your feed reader to subscribe to everything here in one go.
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A Smart Bear
Jason Cohen on bootstrapping, SaaS, and startup strategy.
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Andrej Karpathy
Neural nets, AI, and learning in public.
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Armin Ronacher
Creator of Flask, on programming and open source.
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Ben Hoyt
Programming, open source, and the small web.
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Ben Shoemaker
Product, technical depth, and building with AI.
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Chip Huyen
Machine-learning systems and building with AI.
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Daring Fireball
John Gruber's long-running blog on Apple, design, and the tech industry.
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Derek Sivers
Living deliberately, business, and owning your own corner of the web.
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Hardcore Software
Steven Sinofsky's insider history of the PC revolution.
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Steven Sinofsky
His standalone Medium essays on strategy and management. Yes, the only person here to get two entries.
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Herman Martinus
Maker of Bear Blog, on the small, fast, indie web.
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jola.dev
Johanna Larsson on software engineering, leadership, and the Elixir ecosystem.
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Julia Evans
Debugging, systems, and making hard things approachable.
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Laura Tacho
Engineering leadership and developer experience.
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On my Om
Om Malik on technology, venture, and photography. Sadly, Om passed away in 2026. John Gruber wrote a lovely piece remembering his friend.
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Paul Graham
Essays on startups, work, and life. His site has no feed of its own, so this RSS is a community-maintained mirror.
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Simon Willison
AI, LLMs, and building tools in the open.
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Terry Godier
Bootstrapping and building indie software businesses.
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The Write-Ahead Blog
Michael Ovies on engineering culture and craft.
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Unsung
Marcin Wichary on design, typography, and keyboards.
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Wasabhi
Abhinav Keswani on software, side projects, and the personal web.
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Zhengdong Wang
AI research and wide-ranging essays.