43 stories tagged personal-blog, newest first.
62 points by wvez22 | 53 comments
A personal blog post by a recent finance graduate reflecting on six months of teaching himself n8n workflow automation and embracing feeling stupid while learning.
665 points by goostavos | 578 comments
A personal blog essay by Chris Kiehl titled "It's still OK to enjoy programming," about taking joy in the craft of programming.
5 points by djnaraps | 2 comments
A personal blog post recounting a week spent on a farm with Dylan Araps, the open-source developer known for neofetch and KISS Linux.
19 points by skiwithuge | 6 comments
A personal blog post by an SRE recounting unexpectedly meeting Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) in his Sicilian hometown.
86 points by vaughands | 44 comments
Personal blog post by Vaughan Hilts describing how using LLMs reduced his typing and appears to have eased his long-standing repetitive strain injury.
67 points by jgx0 | 95 comments
A personal blog post about the author's search for an affordable custom-domain email service with unlimited addresses, verified sending, and Apple Mail integration.
43 points by evakhoury | 18 comments
A personal blog post describing assigning friends custom phone vibration patterns for text messages based on Morse code, to identify who is texting.
18 points by JumpCrisscross | 8 comments
A personal blog post by Jake Goldsborough titled "Goodbye to the Hard Parts That Never Mattered," reflecting on software development work.
37 points by trwhite | 18 comments
Personal blog post by Tim White describing his return to woodworking, starting with building a dog gate, after a bad school experience.
114 points by bingden | 38 comments
A personal blog post recounting a summer at Recurse Center, covering study groups on LLM agents, deep learning, math, and a board game AI.
165 points by Murmuring9087 | 175 comments
Personal blog post by Robert O'Callahan titled "Goodbye Google", apparently announcing his departure from Google.
78 points by gmays | 34 comments
Gabe Mays' blog post reflecting on reaching a 1,000-day streak of studying math daily, with a habit-tracker heatmap.
727 points by Brajeshwar | 436 comments
A blog post by Jim Nielsen reacting to a Tyler Gaw Bluesky post about finally using old cables from his big box of cables, and deciding to act on it.
437 points by DanielVZ | 176 comments
A personal blog post about spending a vacation trying to recover from "brainrot" caused by excessive screen and internet use.
562 points by sarreph | 152 comments
A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.
365 points by rdl | 175 comments
Blog post by Sean Byrne about a namesake listed on the US BIS Entity List, an export-control entry tied to an address in County Sligo, Ireland.
338 points by surprisetalk | 153 comments
A personal blog post on The Universe of Discourse describing the seven books the author keeps on the shelf by his elbow and why he loves them.
505 points by silcoon | 266 comments
A personal blog post by Elia Scotto explaining how he went from reading under ten books a year to about one a week, with tips for becoming a prolific reader.
833 points by MrVandemar | 500 comments
Dan Q's blog post arguing that a travel company's mobile app for a school Disneyland trip should have been a webpage, and describing how he rebuilt it as one.
407 points by Eighth | 247 comments
A personal blog post in which a software developer argues that relying on AI for writing code, articles, and documents is eroding his own writing and programming skills.
662 points by aselimov3 | 305 comments
Personal blog post by Alex Selimov about staring at walls as a practice to improve focus and productivity.
338 points by surprisetalk | 168 comments
A personal blog post recounting the author's experience helping on his wife's family rice farm near Shuzenji, Shizuoka, Japan, in 2025.
324 points by domysee | 349 comments
David Bushell's blog post responding to peers who say blogging and coding are over due to AI, arguing against losing faith in sharing expertise.
345 points by syx | 329 comments
Personal blog post by Andre Garzia explaining why he is leaving Apple and plans to migrate away from its devices.
576 points by jakelsaunders94 | 401 comments
Personal blog post by Jake Saunders expressing fatigue with the constant discussion of AI in software and tech circles.
440 points by indigodaddy | 423 comments
A personal blog post by Stavros describing how he uses LLMs to write software and why he values making things over programming itself.
1416 points by npilk | 777 comments
A personal blog post arguing that Facebook is now dominated by AI-generated slop content and has been abandoned by younger users.
376 points by todsacerdoti | 148 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author switched to FreeBSD to make self-hosting enjoyable again after feeling burned out on their previous setup.
419 points by jxmorris12 | 311 comments
A short personal blog post arguing that tinkering—making small changes to tools and things—is how people develop good taste.
389 points by articsputnik | 236 comments
Herman's blog post reflecting on average daily smartphone use statistics and his desire to avoid carrying the internet in his pocket to stay present.
348 points by colinprince | 179 comments
Personal blog post by Adam Aaronson about drinking every cocktail on the International Bartenders Association's official cocktail list.
384 points by mbastos | 296 comments
A personal blog post by Michael Bastos arguing that self-taught engineers often outperform peers; the screenshot shows his interactive resume homepage.
468 points by articsputnik | 216 comments
A personal blog post by Simon Späti about self-hosting his blog, second brain, newsletter and other tools to gain independence from tech platforms.
335 points by surprisetalk | 133 comments
A personal blog post describing building a simple chair from a single 8-foot 2x12 board using basic cuts, based on an Instructable.
836 points by namukang | 747 comments
Personal blog post by Adam Argyle announcing his role at Google was eliminated and sharing his sadness and anger about the layoff.
461 points by NotInOurNames | 332 comments
A short personal blog post by Paul Robert Lloyd expressing weariness with the pervasiveness and dehumanising consequences of AI.
1641 points by wirtzdan | 530 comments
Personal blog post by Daniel Wirtz about learning to quickly spot differences between two similar images, inspired by a German TV show video of a 9-year-old girl.
623 points by true_pk | 869 comments
Personal blog post reflecting on the author's second year after quitting their job, covering finances, divorce, and life without employment.
528 points by swapxstar | 220 comments
A personal blog post by Swapnil Chauhan reflecting on how procrastination with reading and writing stems from fear of not being good enough.
378 points by mjaniczek | 269 comments
Personal blog post by Martin Janiczek about building an insulin dosing simulator to optimize his own diabetes treatment.
585 points by varun_ch | 540 comments
A personal blog post by a 16-year-old describing the rack-mounted server he set up and runs in his bedroom.
370 points by mooreds | 244 comments
A personal blog post by Elise Shaffer, dated December 18, 2023, explaining her love for the Ruby programming language.
869 points by kevincox | 137 comments
Blog post by the Marginalia Search developer announcing they have left their job to work on the independent search engine full time.