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

anhvn – Designer with a digital garden, sketchbook, media library, project library, and journal/blog. Love the Meta section, too.

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 woodworking

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

BringBack.blog directory – Indie bloggers who are participating in the Bring Back Blogging challenge

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