Recently I discovered a couple blogs with interesting content and it reminded me of how the web used to be. So I ask what blogs do you follow and what topics do they cover?
Diary of an Autodidact — A California lawyer with a love for the great outdoors reviews both books and national parks... but mostly wrote a very insightful and incisive series of longform essays on the interactions between Evangelical Christianity and US politics. He's gotten a bit bitter and grumpy recently, but remains worth reading, albeit with teaspoon of salt.
Not a blog, but a way of discovering new blogs. I subscribe to the unofficial best hacker news submissions RSS feed.
https://hnrss.github.io/
I found the blog on an IT guy that works in a research station in Antarctica.
https://brr.fyi
One blog that inspired this post for me was https://www.ribbonfarm.com/. It is hard to pin down a single topic it covers, but I would say it tries to make sense of the ways people and ideas interact by breaking them down into different categories to understand how they think and view the world. Some topics include the social mechanics of the workplace and home, how people conceptually deal with the unknown, and conflict resolution.
Yea Rao is definitely someone I miss from Twitter, though last I checked they got off the platform to an extent too with this blog being their main home.
https://pluralistic.net/ by Cory Doctorow, his insights on technology (especially what is going wrong with it) are eye-opening
