Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?
I have noticed that many of my favorite bloggers have either stopped writing or drastically shifted their topics. I miss the 2009 era of blogging about personal projects or super niche factoids. What are your favorite blogs that are not about AI?
- geekman7473
Raymond Chen often makes it to the front page here, but in case you haven't seen it: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
This is my favorite from him: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220426-00/?p=10...
- fooqux
This is probably a bit niche, but this guy writes about developing and using Darktable and I wish I had a fifth of his knowledge.
- dado3212
I write a blog that’s not about AI, though is very technical.[1] For non-self promotion I’m a big fan of Jenn’s, who I got introduced by the first Inkhaven cohort.[2]
[1]. https://blog.alexbeals.com/
[2]. https://jenn.site/
- matheusmoreira
My favorites are:
https://www.journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
> I miss the 2009 era of blogging about personal projects
I've been doing that. Not sure if I've made it into anyone's favorites yet.
- biztos
Marginal Revolution is nominally about economics, and it's not entirely not about AI, but AI is a fairly small part of what they cover:
https://marginalrevolution.com/
I follow a fair number of people who would, back in the day, have been classic bloggers, but are now doing Substack, and rarely even mention AI. Here's one I like enough that I actually pay for it: