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Personal blogs: one person writing, no marketing layer, no editorial calendar. Most of what this site knows about method came from somewhere on this list.
The list started as the set this site was measured against before its feed and archive changed. Every link here was opened and checked on 2026-10-11, and so was the depth of each feed: 7 of the 16 hand you the whole post in the feed rather than a teaser. That measurement is why this site now ships the whole post too — and why it has a notes stream, since several of the sites that write the least still stay alive by pointing at things.
- Paul Graham no feed found
Not a technical blog — essays on startups, and on how an engineer argues. The archive is a week of reading on its own.
- Simon Willison full text in its feed
Django's author, now writing about models and tools almost daily. His feed mixes one-line links with long posts, which is where the idea for /notes/ came from.
- David Heinemeier Hansson full text in its feed
Rails and Basecamp. Opinionated about AI coding, and has changed his mind in public more than once.
- Armin Ronacher full text in its feed
Flask and Jinja2. The most technical writer here — expect to read a post twice.
- Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) full text in its feed
Redis. Long, personal posts about software and now about AI; his feed carries the whole archive.
- Ryan Dahl summary feed
Node.js, now Deno. Writes rarely — two posts in the last year — which is part of the appeal.
- Mitchell Hashimoto summary feed
HashiCorp, now Ghostty. The clearest writing anywhere on how a working engineer actually adopts agents.
- Gergely Orosz summary feed
The industry's best reporting on how software teams actually work. Much of it is behind a subscription.
- Dan Abramov summary feed
React. Long gaps between posts, and still the explanation I send people first.
- Boris Cherny full text in its feed
Wrote the book on TypeScript; works on Claude Code. Posts are infrequent and technical.
- Mario Zechner summary feed
Independent developer. Writes about coding agents in more depth than the vendors do.
- Sean Goedecke full text in its feed
Frequent, short, argumentative posts on engineering practice — thirty in the last two months.
- Philipp Schmid summary feed
Developer relations at Google DeepMind. Model releases and evaluation, usually the same day.
- Matt Shumer no feed found
The product side of AI. Posts are rare and occasionally travel a very long way.
- Xe Iaso no feed found
Infrastructure, and Anubis — the tool that keeps AI crawlers off a small site. Worth reading if you run one.
- Herman Martinus full text in its feed
Runs Bearblog, the platform that hosts his own site. Writes about small software and plain HTML.
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