Continuing the blogchain
After contemplating this for some time, I’m finally getting into writing and publishing things on the internet. I won’t go down very far into the why yet, but let’s say it’s been itching for a while. Instead, I rather want to start by highlighting other people who wrote thoughtful and interesting pieces, published them, in turn becoming part of the reason I want to embark this. I’ll keep an updated list of these permanently, so I won’t list all of them here, but rather focus on a handful that I’ve really enjoyed and found interesting.
Here they are, with a selection of articles I’ve really liked.
Ben Kuhn
Ben Kuhn is probably one of the main reason I’ve finally started writing. An enginering manager and former CTO, his blog touches on many topics ranging from startups, engineering and technology, and more generally on important life skills and methods, for a lack of a better way to put it.
Selection:
- You don’t need to work on hard problems
- Staring into the abyss as a core life skill
- Why and how to write things on the internet
Dan Luu
Dan Luu’s writing is brutally efficient and thoughtful. You’re always greeted by a raw, non CSS-d wall of text about technology that’s very well researched and structured, which always makes you think. I’m impressed with the depth he’s really going into when exploring his topics and ideas.
Selection:
Rachel by the bay
A veteran sysadmin, she writes sometimes about sysadmin anecdotes and tales from the trenches that make for a great story time with a nice (and sometimes cheeky) lesson eventually but also about software engineering in the broader sense.
Selection:
- Optimizing your talking points or as I like to put it: “That post about THE ONE”
- The Honest Troubleshooting Code of Conduct
- HTTP/HTTPS not working inside your VM? Wait for it
Others
These are three writers that really shaped my reading habits on the internet, but there’s many more, which I’ll keep listed here.