Paul Biggar's blog mixes technical posts, such as his account of building an optimizing compiler for the Darklang language with AI coding assistance and benchmark comparisons, with political writing on Palestine, Ireland's role, and Meta's data practices. Readers get concrete engineering detail alongside advocacy pieces that take a clear, critical stance.
Website: https://blog.paulbiggar.com/
Weekly updates from the creator of Have I Been Pwned covering data breaches, cybercrime arrests, and his own development work on the service. Readers get a first-hand, opinionated view of the security landscape, including commentary on AI hype versus real-world breach evidence.
Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, writes personal essays on programming, online communities and the human side of technology. Recent issues cover Stack Overflow's legacy in the age of LLMs, a conference talk, and his new TWiT show.
Ryan Singer, author of Shape Up, shares practical guidance on defining software before hiring developers, separating framing (choosing work and getting buy-in) from shaping (specifying mechanics for building). Issues include a primer on documenting business logic and a real-world end-to-end Shape Up case study.
Felix Geisendörfer writes technical posts about Go runtime internals, profiling, and performance tooling, drawn from his work on Datadog's profiler. Readers get deep dives into stack trace capture, practical guides such as making tech videos, and walkthroughs of profiling features for debugging request latency.
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