A curated list of who I follow, with a focus on indie sites.

Last Updated 2022-12-03

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Indie bloggers I likeDigital GardensArt & DesignFood & DrinkBooks, Literature, and WritingEcon & CommentaryWoodworking, Cræft, GardeningProduct RecommendationsOther Blogrolls & Linkblogs

Indie bloggers I like

Jeremy Felt – WordPress, indieweb, baking, the Palouse, and family. Weekly life updates.

Chris Aldrich – Biomedical, indieweb, mathematics, zettlekasten, tools for thought

Maggie Appleton – Visual essays, design, programming, tools for thought, digital garden

Tom Critchlow – Indieweb, blogging, wiki, quotebacks

Jackson Bierfeldt – Motorcycles, travel, polyglot, indie games, programming

Rich Tabor – WordPress, block and theme development

Marco Arment – iOS development, podcasting, coffee

Zach Caceres – Software, learning, startup cities

Anne McCarthy – Nomadic lifestyle, mental health, and making one’s way in life

Rob Felty – Programming, linguistics, German, Elastic Search. Has a family blog with great annual reports.

Matt Mullenweg – WordPress, open source, Automattic

Artur Piszek – Programming, remote work, psychology

David Bisset – WordPress, BuddyPress, Post Status

Ton Zĳlstra – Indieweb, knowledge work, networks

Chris Hardie – WordPress, local journalism

Kimberly Hirsh – Indieweb, connected learning, parenting

Alexey Guzey – Science, machine learning, blogging

Julien Desrosiers – Front-end programming, indieweb, Montréal

Alan Charlesworth – Programming and weekly life updates

Jamie Tanna – Indieweb, blogging, software engineering, weekly life updates

Ben Werdmuller – Indieweb, blogging, online communities, building software

Tiffany Bridge – WordPress, cooking, recommendations

Brandon Kraft – Musings on life and technology from a Jetpacker/A12

Chris Glass – Photos and links, indieweb

Danny Guo – Tech, startups

Anne-Laure Le Cunff – Neuroscience, creativity, and productivity

Chris Johnson – Web and iOS development, movies

Frank Chimero – Design, blogging

Gwern – Psychology, statistics, and technology

Idle Words – Maciej Cegłowski’s blog, the pinboard guy

Ilya Radchenko – Front-end programming, family

Interconnected – Matt Webb on technology, since 2000

Om Malik – Om on tech and photography

Irrational Exuberance – Will Larson on software engineering leadership and tech

Jim Nielson – Programming, design, tech in general, readlists

Kevin Marks – Microformats, indieweb

Daring Fireball – John Gruber. Tech commentary, occasional link posts

Marty McGuire – Indieweb, tech

Simon Willison – Datasette, data science, indieweb

Bradley Taunt – UX, design, technology

Mitchell Sipus – creating companies, products, infrastructure

Paul Ford – Ftrain. Programming, building, tech

Darius Kazemi – Bots, generators, weird internet stuff

Kottke – Cool stuff from around the web and commentary

Fab Fridays – On education and learning by Ana Lorena Fabrega

Hannah Frankman – Education, learning, coaching

MidAtlantic Daytrips – Traveling in the midatlantic region of the US

Art of Noticing – Rob Walker on ideas, creativity, and humanity

Cal Newport – Thinking, productivity, work

CMT blog – Dan Knauss on CMT, living with disability

Eric Meyer – CSS, technology, web standards

Ali Spittel – Teaching people how to code, career advice in tech

Jean-Baptiste Audras – WordPress core committer in France

Erica Sadun – Programmer, author of lots of programming books

Helen Hou-Sandí – WordPress lead developer. UX, music, software

Inessential – Brent Simmons on NewNetsWire, software development

Julia Evans – Technology, programming, zines

Justin Tadlock – Front-end dev, WordPress, writer, gardener

Patrick McKenzie – aka patio11 on marketing, engineering, business

Manton Reece – Software development, micro.blog, feeds, IndieWeb, life, books

Nadia Asparouhova – How people work and live online. Open source software.

Cheri Lucas Rowlands – Editor of Longreads

Bruce Schneier – All things security

Phil Glyford – Maker of ooh.directory, great weekly blog posts

Digital Gardens

Maggie Appleton’s digital garden

Tom Critchlow’s wiki

Jeremy Felt’s foggy garden

Ton Zĳlstra’s wiki

Chris Johnson’s knowledgebase

Michael Nielson’s notebook

Chris Aldrich’s wiki-based commonplace book

Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Mental Nodes

Chuck Grimmett’s Notes – my digital garden

Art & Design

Ahmad Moussa/Gorilla Sun – Creative Coding, algorithms, p5.js

Amy Goodchild – Generative art techniques and algorithms

Tyler Hobbs – Essays on generative art and algorithms

Austin Kleon – A writer who draws

Chris Ried / Generative Collective – Creative coding news

Flashy Programming – Nat Sarkissian on generative art, with his distinct natural style

Inconvergent – Generative art and techniques by Anders Hoff

George Francis – Generative art and programming

Ben Kovach – Generative art and algorithms

Immutable Collective – Creative coding news from a French generative art collective, founded by Camille Roux and Matthieu Segret

Disquiet – Sound, art, and technology since 1996

Hicks Design Journal – Design, art, tech

Jeff Palmer – Generative art and data visualization

Andy Kirk – Data visualization

The Pudding – Visual essays

Anders Norén – Designer of beautiful WordPress themes

Food & Drink

Jeffrey Morganthaler – Bartending and cocktails since 2004

Rum Wonk and Cocktail Wonk – Matt Pietrek on rum and cocktails. Also a good tiki book.

Enid Wine Guy – Mitchell Earl on wine

Alcademics – The Study of Booze by Camper English

Alison Roman – Newsletter with great recipes

A Piece of Cake – Recipes from Bill Clark. Cakes and desserts, occasional meals

Drinking & Knowing Things – A newsletter to teach you about wine.

Good Drinks – Alcohol-free cocktails from Julia Bainbridge

Michael Ruhlman – Recipes, cocktails, and the like. Clevelander ex-pat.

Modern Tiki – Nicole Weston and Robert Sharp on tropical cocktails

David Lebovitz – French desserts and cocktails

Rancho Gordo Blog – On beans and how to cook them

The Woks of Life – Chinese family exploring their heritage through cooking

Tiki with Ray – Tiki bar reviews and cocktails

Books, Literature, and Writing

The Literary Saloon – M.A.Orthofer daily on literature since 2002

Lost Art Press – Woodworking

Transom Bookshop – Blog by Chris Steib at Transom Bookshop in Tarrytown, NY

Books Read By – What interesting people are reading

Summer Brennan – Essays, writing, cultural criticism

Austin Kleon – A writer who draws. Frequent book recommendations

Epic Magazine – Great true stores

Longreads – Collections of the best longform writing

Subtle Maneuvers – Mason Currey on routines, rituals, and wriggling through a creative life

A Working Library – A blog about work, reading, and tech by Mandy Brown

Andrew Spittle – Reading notes, thoughts on customer service

Close Reading – The Slant Books blog

David Perell – Writing, essays

Eliot Peper – Book recommendations, writing sci-fi

Word Hoard – Jane Scharl on writing and the written word

James Somers – Programmer on writing, technology

jcreviewsbooks – Jamie Palatnik reviews books and recommends indie bookstores

Locus Magazine – All things sci-fi

Claudia Dawson – Poetry, writing, and editing

Robin Sloan – Writing, novels, short stories

Econ & Commentary

Marginal Revolution – Updated daily since 2003. Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabbarok. A treasure.

Carl Oberg – Alaska, accounting, history, Freemasonry

ParentData – Emily Oster, evidence-based pregnancy and parenting

Vitalik Buterin – Crypto, technology, economics

Ben Casnocha – Entrepreneurship, commentary, often good book recommendations

Paul Graham – Startups, commentary, working

Isaac Morehouse – Entrepreneurship, education, freedom

Julie Fredrickson – Startups, ecommerce, general commentary

The Technium – Kevin Kelly on life, tech, and trends

Mitchell Earl – Working, careers, marketing

Works in Progress – Ideas for improving the world. Science, tech, politics.

Zak Slayback – Society (progress & regress), technology (deep and light), and exploration

Woodworking, Cræft, Gardening

Lost Art Press blog – Woodworking, hand tools, books

Aspiring Peasant – Dave on gardening, homesteading, and parenting

Alex Langlands – Craft, history, and archaeology

Giant Cypress – Wilbur Pan on Japanese woodworking and wooddorking

Growing with the Shumans – Sarah Shuman on homesteading, family, and sustainable living

Simon Sarris – anecdotes, fables, tales, family, gardening, building

Modern Farmer – Farm, food, the industry

Peter Galbert – Notes on chairmaking

David Fisher – Greenwood carving

Elia Bizzarri – Hand tool woodworking

Gareth Branwyn – Tool tips and shop tales

Paul Sellers – Woodworking, primarily hand tools

Peter Follansbee – seventeenth-century joined furniture; green wood, hand tools

Megan Fitzpatrick – Woodworking, editing, publishing

Product Recommendations

Cool Tools – Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder, excellent recommendations

Caroline Finds It – Caroline Weaver, pencil queen, finds things people ask her about

The Pen Addict – All about pens and stationary, Brad Dowdy

Uses This – Interviews with people about the tools they use to do their work

Other Blogrolls & Linkblogs

https://blogroll.org/

https://ooh.directory/

https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners

Longreads – Collections of the best longform writing

This Week in the IndieWeb

IndieNews – Aggregator of IndieWeb stuff

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