Asklemmy

I don't follow any blogs particularly consistently/regularly, but the one that I find myself coming back to at intervals is Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing. It's got a pretty heavy programming focus, but also occasionally covers interesting little trivia from Windows history. I'm not a professional coder, and I no longer even do any coding as a hobby, so take it from me when I say that there's content of interest to programmers and non-programmers alike.

This is going to be a pretty fast and loose definition of blog, but I like sharing cool stuff. Some of these links will link to a particular post on that blog — this is if there's a particular post I really like there, or what first led me to that blog.

"A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry" by Historian Brett Devereux. https://acoup.blog/2019/05/10/collections-the-siege-of-gondor/ He's especially good at military history, which is why I linked to his series on the Siege of Gondor from Lord of the Rings. I also enjoy his series on pop-culture misconceptions around Sparta

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/ It's a blog by the Statistician Andrew Gelman (and others who guest write). This is one of the more academic ones, so only likely to be fun if you're a particular kind of nerd

https://gsllcblog.com/2019/08/12/part1statblocks/ Tabletop roleplaying games and law crossover blog

https://scatter.wordpress.com/2022/01/30/sex-as-a-social-construct/ Sociology blog. Quite academic, but still fun. Found it through Andrew Gelman's blog above

https://www.bookandsword.com/2022/04/16/science-as-verified-trust/

https://www.edwinwenink.xyz/etc/web_paleontology/ Unsure if this site is a blog, but certainly this post has many links to old-school web pages that are cool

https://gretzuni.com/ Dense philosophy stuff about technology. This person is an academic. N.b. I am a scientist, not a philosopher, so I am less good at vetting philosophy takes. I enjoy it though

https://explorationsofstyle.com/2011/02/09/reverse-outlines/ Blog by an academic who specialises in teaching writing to university students. I like her stuff.

https://www.bookandsword.com/2022/04/16/science-as-verified-trust/ I think this person is a historian too

https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-phony-comforts-of-useful-idiots Blog by economist Edward Ongweso Jr.

https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/ Blog about "the intersection of music and data". Also has a podcast.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ This post went viral last year. Some people don't like this tone of writing, but I found it quite cathartic, and have enjoyed other posts from the blog

https://datacolada.org/ "Thinking about evidence, and vice versa". These guys do a lot of cool stuff on science methodology, like meta-analyses. They were so good at their job that they got sued. I really like them

https://karl-voit.at/ Blog about personal computing information systems. This guy was the one who first piqued my interest about Emacs a bunch of years ago (Emacs is a very old text editor with an insane amount of customisability and an even more insane learning curve)

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/essays/ "Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland"

https://meaningness.com/ It's kind of blog that some would call pretentious as hell, but I like its vibe

https://wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler There's not too many other posts on this blog, but I really enjoyed this one

https://theluddite.org/ "An anti-capitalist tech blog"

https://blog.thea.codes/winterblooms-tech-stack/ Cool resources on DIY music synthesisers

https://www.math3ma.com/blog/what-is-category-theory-anyway Maths! Especially category theory. The difficulty ranges from "pretty darn accessible" to stuff that's way above my level. I like the pretty diagrams though.

Okay, that's all that are coming to mind right now

I like Ecosophia.net - an occultist writes about all kinds of stuff

craigmurray.org.uk - an ex ambassador explains domestic and international politics with an insiders view.

and the blog at disappointment.com - sadly he only posts once every couple of years nowadays, but it's just... very silly, often very gay humour.

I just realized that there's the #blog hashtag on mastodon. There looks to be a lot over there.

https://mastodon.social/@_elena Elena Rossini is a journalist who's big on the Fediverse.

Joan westenberg is another journalist i like. She has a blog as well https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan

News: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/feed

https://www.welcometohellworld.com/rss/ a bit pessimistic

https://www.theindex.media/rss/ more fediverse and anti capitalist types

There are others i follow but they're a bit niche. I did find some public domain stuff as well, like books and such