A selection of blogs and other websites that I find interesting enough to follow avidly.
- Fabrice Bellard's Home Page
by Fabrice Bellard
Creator of FFmpeg and QEMU and genius hacker who won the IOCCC twice. - The Old New
Thing by Raymond Chen
A veteran's struggle to keep Windows backwards compatible over the decades. - Dave's Archives by Dave Cooper
A software engineering lecturer with a keen sense for Australian politics. - Vi Hart by Vi Hart
Mathemusician illustrating everything from hexaflexagons to toothpaste usage. - The Slightly Disgruntled Scientist by Jason Heeris
Engineer, physicist and staunch advocate for the extinguishment of the sun. - ImperialViolet by Adam
Langley
TLS, cryptography, formal proofs, and more by a Chrome network developer. - xkcd by Randall Munroe
“A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” - Daemonic Dispatches
by Colin Percival
Computer scientist, creator of scrypt and the Tarsnap backup service. - Kye Russell by Kye Russell
Linux, Apple hardware and code plus a few transcripts with Richard Stallman. - Schneier on Security by
Bruce Schneier
Cryptography, system security and the illusory modern security theatre. - Ken Shirriff's blog by
Ken Shirriff
Electronics, chargers, more chargers and microprocessors in depth. - Joel on Software by
Joel Spolsky
Words by a master software engineer and co-creator of Stack Overflow. - Raw Thought by Aaron
Swartz
Uncensored and heterogeneous writing from a programmer and visionary activist.