Blogs Which Inspire Me
Last updated: 2020-08-23
I like reading blogs in my free time.
Blogs are awesome because…
- Authors of blogs are often unbiased
- Authors can write their unfiltered thoughts if they aren’t paid to write it. If you’re writing for free, you know it’s got to be at least a little important to the author.
- It’s like a deep conversation with someone you may never meet in person
- Words are like crystallized experiences. Why not learn from other people’s hard-won lessons? No need to learn the hard way.
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Inspiring blogs
Here are some blogs which inspire me, either through their content or design. I list these in no particular order. There are many great blogs which deserve to be listed here, but I’m only one person and I can’t read everything.
- Minimal website. I love it.
- Tom is a web developer who has worked on Observable amd Mapbox. He’s done many other things too, as you can see from his about page
- Articles which stuck out to me:
- https://macwright.com/2016/05/03/the-featherweight-website.html
- Great insights for making webpages smaller and faster
- https://macwright.com/2017/10/28/blogs-i-read.html
- Blogs he reads
- https://macwright.com/2016/05/03/the-featherweight-website.html
- Talks about his experience with statistics, programming, and more. I stumbled across this from reading about what blogs Tom MacWright reads
- Articles which stuck out to me:
- https://www.evanmiller.org/small-data.html
- Talks about how big data is often overrated
- https://www.evanmiller.org/you-cant-dig-upwards.html
- If you’re curious about programming, this piece argues you why should learn C/C++ before Python. Also makes me want to drive stick shift.
- https://www.evanmiller.org/small-data.html
- Lot’s of great content, both technical and non-technical. Easy to understand.
- Articles which stuck out to me:
- I discovered her blog from reading a Hacker News post titled “I Don’t Want to Be a Founder”
- Super accomplished college freshman. I like how she presents information in her “Things I’ve Done” section.
- Articles which stuck out to me:
- https://carolchen.me/blog/founding-bad/
- Downsides of being a startup founder
- https://carolchen.me/blog/jits-impls/
- About JIT compilers
- https://carolchen.me/blog/some-thoughts-on-giving/
- Raises good points on why and how to donate
- https://carolchen.me/blog/founding-bad/
- Articles which stuck out to me:
Data Science blogs
- What I liked: pictures and video links to illustrate things he’s worked on
- Other things that stuck out:
- Probability cheatsheet
- List of 20+ data science books
- Good Quora answers. For example, how to prepare for data science interview
- Articles which stuck out to me:
- http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2017/11/09/exploring-line-lengths-in-python-packages/
- Very thorough analysis of line lengths in python packages. I strive for this level of quality.
- http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2017/11/09/exploring-line-lengths-in-python-packages/
- Articles which stuck out to me:
- http://iosband.github.io/2015/12/04/What-is-reinforcement-learning.html
- Cool intro to reinforcement learning
- http://iosband.github.io/2015/12/04/What-is-reinforcement-learning.html
Medium.com
- Shows NLP applications along with code. All for free, no paywall. Much respect.
- She’s head of descision intelligence at Google. Easy to understand - frequently uses pictures and metaphors.
- Articles which stuck out to me:
Web Dev blogs
- “The official Web Dev Simplified blog by Kyle Cook. Short and simple articles on web development.”
- I like the feature of filtering by radio buttons. Great feature for navigating through posts.
- Articles which stuck out to me: