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https://bryndole.com/
Bryn Dole is a veteran search engineer who built the search engine for the Open Directory Project, co-founded Blekko, and powered news search at Topix. The site features sections on biking, robotics, and photos alongside his impressive technical background as a programming mentor for FRC robotics team 2930.
https://recurse.greg.technology/
Greg's journal from a September-December 2023 batch at the Recurse Center documents a prolific sprint of side projects ranging from a Django starter kit and voice-AI demos to a restaurant memorial site and an interactive hub dashboard. The site doubles as a portfolio and blog, capturing the experimental, playful energy of a programmer pushing into new territory with tools like GitHub Actions, OCR, and speech recognition.
https://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House
House is a research project from Portland State University demonstrating a full operating system written in Haskell, showcasing how a high-level functional language can handle low-level system programming including device drivers, graphics, and networking. Developed by Thomas Hallgren, Andrew Tolmach, Iavor Diatchki, and others, it includes screenshots, downloadable source, and links to the accompanying ICFP 2005 paper for those interested in OS construction in functional languages.
https://tsk.bearblog.dev/
Tuan (known online as tsuki) runs this minimalist blog covering programming, pixel art, music, and personal reflections, with notable posts on note-taking workflows and WebTV history. The site doubles as a showcase of handcrafted web aesthetics, featuring a custom classless CSS framework called Subreply CSS that Tuan created and shares openly.
https://p83.nl/
Peter Stuifzand's personal development blog chronicles his work on Indieweb tools, including Ekster, a Microsub-compatible feed reader, and Wrimini. Posts dive into technical topics like microformats, Micropub, JSON feeds, and backend architecture using Postgres, making it a niche but valuable read for anyone following the Indieweb movement.
https://www.joshbeckman.org/
Josh Beckman's personal knowledge garden collects years of writing, notes, and reading highlights built and shared in the open. He writes primarily about software craft, open-source development, and tools like Claude Code, making it a thoughtful resource for developers interested in the intersection of building and reflection.
http://ratfactor.com/
Dave Gauer's personal site, ratfactor.com, has been running since 1997 and spans hundreds of pages covering programming languages, assembly, Forth, Linux, OpenBSD, and his own toy language Meow5. A true labor of love from a seasoned hacker, it includes code repositories, a personal wiki, book reviews, art projects, and reflections on decades of computing.
https://bearblog.stevedylan.dev/
Steve Dylan's personal Bear Blog serves as a hub for a DX engineer passionate about building developer tools and advocating for an open, secure, and free web. The site touches on sustainable web practices, writing, and art, with a minimalist aesthetic that embodies its open-web philosophy.
https://blog.yaxley.in/
Yaxley Peaks runs this personal tech blog covering Linux internals, Emacs Lisp, sysfs hacks, and quirky programming discoveries like strace printing an Arthur C. Clarke quote. The site also showcases small original projects including a VT browser for Emacs and a Polish notation calculator, all wrapped in a charming old-web aesthetic with webrings and retro buttons.
https://bneil.me/
Ben Neil's personal corner of the internet blends a prolific blogging challenge (50 posts in 50 days) with a programmer's perspective on coding, infrastructure, Rust, Go, WASM, and IndieWeb technologies. Alongside the technical content, Ben shares personal reflections, book reviews, and life musings, making it a well-rounded and genuinely readable developer's site.