The best creative works can be difficult to come across, especially when the author’s motivation does not include having the largest audience or biggest share of the market.
This is a page for those creative works.
Blogs
well-written, insightful, underappreciated.
- マリウス
- benkuhn.net
- danluu.com
- fasterthanli.me
- Frank Chimero
- hex22.org
- Manu
- Micropreneur Life
- Miris Whispers
- neil.computer
- Proper Fixation
- Thesephist
- tonsky.me
Essays
which all meet one criteria: they flipped my perspective.
- Cool URIs don’t change
- Default to tabs instead of spaces for an ‘accessible first’ environment
- effort
- Productivity advice
- Why I’m Glad I Lack Passion to BE a Programmer
- Why I’m unreachable and maybe you should be too
- “Write short sentences” is bad advice
- You don’t need to work on hard problems
Essays
worth reading.
- PHP: a fractal of bad design
- Rewriting the Technical Interview
- The Hiring Post
- The infinite-pixel screen
Talks
worth watching.
Podcasts
about making and marketing.
- Above Board
- Bootstrapped.fm
- Changelog
- CoRecursive
- Developer Tea
- Full Stack Radio
- Product Journey
- REWORK
- Software Engineering Daily
- The Art of Product
Typography
matters because it helps conserve the most valuable resource you have as a writer—reader attention.
Programming & human language
- Breaking Our Latin-1 Assumptions
- Dark corners of Unicode
- Let’s Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points
- Project Fluent
Product management
- Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
- How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum
Software products
with a common theme.
Studios
staying small, staying curious.
Design tools
Linux
Want to see more?
For a more frequently updated curation of content like this, check out my Are.na.
If you just want code, my GitHub stars are for fonts, programming languages, and tools that I can’t live without.