Indie bloggers I like

• Jeremy Felt – WordPress, indieweb, baking, the Palouse, and family. Weekly life updates.
• Chris Aldrich – Biomedical, indieweb, mathematics, zettlekasten, tools for thought
• Maggie Appleton – Visual essays, design, programming, tools for thought, digital garden
• Tom Critchlow – Indieweb, blogging, wiki, quotebacks
• Jackson Bierfeldt – Motorcycles, travel, polyglot, indie games, programming
• Rich Tabor – WordPress, block and theme development
• Marco Arment – iOS development, podcasting, coffee
• Zach Caceres – Software, learning, startup cities
• Anne McCarthy – Nomadic lifestyle, mental health, and making one’s way in life
• Rob Felty – Programming, linguistics, German, Elastic Search. Has a family blog with great annual reports.
• Matt Mullenweg – WordPress, open source, Automattic
• Artur Piszek – Programming, remote work, psychology
• David Bisset – WordPress, BuddyPress, Post Status
• Ton Zijlstra – Indieweb, knowledge work, networks
• Chris Hardie – WordPress, local journalism
• Kimberly Hirsh – Indieweb, connected learning, parenting
• Alexey Guzey – Science, machine learning, blogging
• Julien Desrosiers – Front-end programming, indieweb, Montréal
• Alan Charlesworth – Programming and weekly life updates
• Jamie Tanna – Indieweb, blogging, software engineering, weekly life updates
• Ben Werdmuller – Indieweb, blogging, online communities, building software
• Tiffany Bridge – WordPress, cooking, recommendations
• Brandon Kraft – Musings on life and technology from a Jetpacker/A12
• Chris Glass – Photos and links, indieweb
• Danny Guo – Tech, startups
• Anne-Laure Le Cunff – Neuroscience, creativity, and productivity
• Chris Johnson – Web and iOS development, movies
• Frank Chimero – Design, blogging
• Gwern – Psychology, statistics, and technology
• Idle Words – Maciej Cegłowski’s blog, the pinboard guy
• Ilya Radchenko – Front-end programming, family
• Interconnected – Matt Webb on technology, since 2000
• Om Malik – Om on tech and photography
• Irrational Exuberance – Will Larson on software engineering leadership and tech
• Jim Nielson – Programming, design, tech in general, readlists
• Kevin Marks – Microformats, indieweb
• Daring Fireball – John Gruber. Tech commentary, occasional link posts
• Marty McGuire – Indieweb, tech
• Simon Willison – Datasette, data science, indieweb
• Bradley Taunt – UX, design, technology
• Mitchell Sipus – creating companies, products, infrastructure
• Paul Ford – Ftrain. Programming, building, tech
• Darius Kazemi – Bots, generators, weird internet stuff
• Kottke – Cool stuff from around the web and commentary
• Fab Fridays – On education and learning by Ana Lorena Fabrega
• Hannah Frankman – Education, learning, coaching
• MidAtlantic Daytrips – Traveling in the midatlantic region of the US
• Art of Noticing – Rob Walker on ideas, creativity, and humanity
• Cal Newport – Thinking, productivity, work
• CMT blog – Dan Knauss on CMT, living with disability
• Eric Meyer – CSS, technology, web standards
• Ali Spittel – Teaching people how to code, career advice in tech
• Jean-Baptiste Audras – WordPress core committer in France
• Erica Sadun – Programmer, author of lots of programming books
• Helen Hou-Sandí – WordPress lead developer. UX, music, software
• Inessential – Brent Simmons on NewNetsWire, software development
• Julia Evans – Technology, programming, zines
• Justin Tadlock – Front-end dev, WordPress, writer, gardener
• Patrick McKenzie – aka patio11 on marketing, engineering, business
• Manton Reece – Software development, micro.blog, feeds, IndieWeb, life, books
• Nadia Asparouhova – How people work and live online. Open source software.
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands – Editor of Longreads
• Bruce Schneier – All things security
• Phil Glyford – Maker of ooh.directory, great weekly blog posts
• anhvn – Designer with a digital garden, sketchbook, media library, project library, and journal/blog. Love the Meta section, too.

Digital Gardens

• Maggie Appleton’s digital garden
• Tom Critchlow’s wiki
• Jeremy Felt’s foggy garden
• Ton Zijlstra’s wiki
• Chris Johnson’s knowledgebase
• Michael Nielson’s notebook
• Chris Aldrich’s wiki-based commonplace book
• Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Mental Nodes
• Chuck Grimmett’s Notes – my digital garden

Art & Design

• Ahmad Moussa/Gorilla Sun – Creative Coding, algorithms, p5.js
• Amy Goodchild – Generative art techniques and algorithms
• Tyler Hobbs – Essays on generative art and algorithms
• Austin Kleon – A writer who draws
• Chris Ried / Generative Collective – Creative coding news
• Flashy Programming – Nat Sarkissian on generative art, with his distinct natural style
• Inconvergent – Generative art and techniques by Anders Hoff
• George Francis – Generative art and programming
• Ben Kovach – Generative art and algorithms
• Immutable Collective – Creative coding news from a French generative art collective, founded by Camille Roux and Matthieu Segret
• Disquiet – Sound, art, and technology since 1996
• Hicks Design Journal – Design, art, tech
• Jeff Palmer – Generative art and data visualization
• Andy Kirk – Data visualization
• The Pudding – Visual essays
• Anders Norén – Designer of beautiful WordPress themes

Food & Drink

• Jeffrey Morganthaler – Bartending and cocktails since 2004
• Rum Wonk and Cocktail Wonk – Matt Pietrek on rum and cocktails. Also a good tiki book.
• Enid Wine Guy – Mitchell Earl on wine
• Alcademics – The Study of Booze by Camper English
• Alison Roman – Newsletter with great recipes
• A Piece of Cake – Recipes from Bill Clark. Cakes and desserts, occasional meals
• Drinking & Knowing Things – A newsletter to teach you about wine.
• Good Drinks – Alcohol-free cocktails from Julia Bainbridge
• Michael Ruhlman – Recipes, cocktails, and the like. Clevelander ex-pat.
• Modern Tiki – Nicole Weston and Robert Sharp on tropical cocktails
• David Lebovitz – French desserts and cocktails
• Rancho Gordo Blog – On beans and how to cook them
• The Woks of Life – Chinese family exploring their heritage through cooking
• Tiki with Ray – Tiki bar reviews and cocktails

Books, Literature, and Writing

• The Literary Saloon – M.A.Orthofer daily on literature since 2002
• Lost Art Press – Woodworking
• Transom Bookshop – Blog by Chris Steib at Transom Bookshop in Tarrytown, NY
• Books Read By – What interesting people are reading
• Summer Brennan – Essays, writing, cultural criticism
• Austin Kleon – A writer who draws. Frequent book recommendations
• Epic Magazine – Great true stores
• Longreads – Collections of the best longform writing
• Subtle Maneuvers – Mason Currey on routines, rituals, and wriggling through a creative life
• A Working Library – A blog about work, reading, and tech by Mandy Brown
• Andrew Spittle – Reading notes, thoughts on customer service
• Close Reading – The Slant Books blog
• David Perell – Writing, essays
• Eliot Peper – Book recommendations, writing sci-fi
• Word Hoard – Jane Scharl on writing and the written word
• James Somers – Programmer on writing, technology
• jcreviewsbooks – Jamie Palatnik reviews books and recommends indie bookstores
• Locus Magazine – All things sci-fi
• Claudia Dawson – Poetry, writing, and editing
• Robin Sloan – Writing, novels, short stories

Econ & Commentary

• Marginal Revolution – Updated daily since 2003. Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabbarok. A treasure.
• Carl Oberg – Alaska, accounting, history, Freemasonry
• ParentData – Emily Oster, evidence-based pregnancy and parenting
• Vitalik Buterin – Crypto, technology, economics
• Ben Casnocha – Entrepreneurship, commentary, often good book recommendations
• Paul Graham – Startups, commentary, working
• Isaac Morehouse – Entrepreneurship, education, freedom
• Julie Fredrickson – Startups, ecommerce, general commentary
• The Technium – Kevin Kelly on life, tech, and trends
• Mitchell Earl – Working, careers, marketing
• Works in Progress – Ideas for improving the world. Science, tech, politics.
• Zak Slayback – Society (progress & regress), technology (deep and light), and exploration

Woodworking, Cræft, Gardening

• Lost Art Press blog – Woodworking, hand tools, books
• Aspiring Peasant – Dave on gardening, homesteading, and parenting
• Alex Langlands – Craft, history, and archaeology
• Giant Cypress – Wilbur Pan on Japanese woodworking and wooddorking
• Growing with the Shumans – Sarah Shuman on homesteading, family, and sustainable living
• Simon Sarris – anecdotes, fables, tales, family, gardening, building
• Modern Farmer – Farm, food, the industry
• Peter Galbert – Notes on chairmaking
• David Fisher – Greenwood carving
• Elia Bizzarri – Hand tool woodworking
• Gareth Branwyn – Tool tips and shop tales
• Paul Sellers – Woodworking, primarily hand tools
• Peter Follansbee – seventeenth-century joined furniture; green wood, hand tools
• Megan Fitzpatrick – Woodworking, editing, publishing

Product Recommendations

• Cool Tools – Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder, excellent recommendations
• Caroline Finds It – Caroline Weaver, pencil queen, finds things people ask her about
• The Pen Addict – All about pens and stationary, Brad Dowdy
• Uses This – Interviews with people about the tools they use to do their work

Other Blogrolls & Linkblogs

• https://blogroll.org/
• https://ooh.directory/
• https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners
• Longreads – Collections of the best longform writing
• This Week in the IndieWeb
• IndieNews – Aggregator of IndieWeb stuff
• BringBack.blog directory – Indie bloggers who are participating in the Bring Back Blogging challenge