I don’t follow any blogs particularly consistently/regularly, but the one that I find myself coming back to at intervals is Raymond Chen’s The Old New Thing. It’s got a pretty heavy programming focus, but also occasionally covers interesting little trivia from Windows history. I’m not a professional coder, and I no longer even do any coding as a hobby, so take it from me when I say that there’s content of interest to programmers and non-programmers alike.
This is going to be a pretty fast and loose definition of blog, but I like sharing cool stuff. Some of these links will link to a particular post on that blog — this is if there’s a particular post I really like there, or what first led me to that blog.
“A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry” by Historian Brett Devereux. https://acoup.blog/2019/05/10/collections-the-siege-of-gondor/ He’s especially good at military history, which is why I linked to his series on the Siege of Gondor from Lord of the Rings. I also enjoy his series on pop-culture misconceptions around Sparta
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/ It’s a blog by the Statistician Andrew Gelman (and others who guest write). This is one of the more academic ones, so only likely to be fun if you’re a particular kind of nerd
https://gsllcblog.com/2019/08/12/part1statblocks/ Tabletop roleplaying games and law crossover blog
https://scatter.wordpress.com/2022/01/30/sex-as-a-social-construct/ Sociology blog. Quite academic, but still fun. Found it through Andrew Gelman’s blog above
https://www.bookandsword.com/2022/04/16/science-as-verified-trust/
https://www.edwinwenink.xyz/etc/web_paleontology/ Unsure if this site is a blog, but certainly this post has many links to old-school web pages that are cool
https://gretzuni.com/ Dense philosophy stuff about technology. This person is an academic. N.b. I am a scientist, not a philosopher, so I am less good at vetting philosophy takes. I enjoy it though
https://explorationsofstyle.com/2011/02/09/reverse-outlines/ Blog by an academic who specialises in teaching writing to university students. I like her stuff.
https://www.bookandsword.com/2022/04/16/science-as-verified-trust/ I think this person is a historian too
https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-phony-comforts-of-useful-idiots Blog by economist Edward Ongweso Jr.
https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/ Blog about “the intersection of music and data”. Also has a podcast.
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ This post went viral last year. Some people don’t like this tone of writing, but I found it quite cathartic, and have enjoyed other posts from the blog
https://datacolada.org/ “Thinking about evidence, and vice versa”. These guys do a lot of cool stuff on science methodology, like meta-analyses. They were so good at their job that they got sued. I really like them
https://karl-voit.at/ Blog about personal computing information systems. This guy was the one who first piqued my interest about Emacs a bunch of years ago (Emacs is a very old text editor with an insane amount of customisability and an even more insane learning curve)
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/essays/ “Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland”
https://meaningness.com/ It’s kind of blog that some would call pretentious as hell, but I like its vibe
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler There’s not too many other posts on this blog, but I really enjoyed this one
https://theluddite.org/ “An anti-capitalist tech blog”
https://blog.thea.codes/winterblooms-tech-stack/ Cool resources on DIY music synthesisers
https://www.math3ma.com/blog/what-is-category-theory-anyway Maths! Especially category theory. The difficulty ranges from “pretty darn accessible” to stuff that’s way above my level. I like the pretty diagrams though.
Okay, that’s all that are coming to mind right now
Such an exhaustive list, thank you. These looks very interesting.
I like Ecosophia.net - an occultist writes about all kinds of stuff
craigmurray.org.uk - an ex ambassador explains domestic and international politics with an insiders view.
and the blog at disappointment.com - sadly he only posts once every couple of years nowadays, but it’s just… very silly, often very gay humour.
special mention to Richard Herring, who I think has the longest-running daily updated blog on the Internet - he’s written every day for like… 15+ years now. The blog has moved to substack recently though
I just realized that there’s the #blog hashtag on mastodon. There looks to be a lot over there.
https://mastodon.social/@_elena Elena Rossini is a journalist who’s big on the Fediverse.
Joan westenberg is another journalist i like. She has a blog as well https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan
News: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/feed
https://www.welcometohellworld.com/rss/ a bit pessimistic
https://www.theindex.media/rss/ more fediverse and anti capitalist types
There are others i follow but they’re a bit niche. I did find some public domain stuff as well, like books and such
Overall though, blogs have actually been harder to find, so I’m open to anything people have that they’d suggest!
