In the last couple of months, I’ve been reading Hacker News daily. It all started when I asked a question to a 10x engineer that I respect: "How do you always keep up to date with all the cool new tech-stuff like you always do? Do you have any secret, magical concoction of obscure RSS feeds that you can share?"
You can probably imagine the disappointment in my foolish, early-career engineer face when the "secret" turns out to just be one popular site that I didn't yet know of.
But boy are there tons of cool new tech-stuff in Hacker News! I used to watch videos from LTT's TechLinked channel to keep up to date with the general tech ecosystem, but now I get the latest news minutes or hours after they happen instead of days by doomscrolling HN. Yet another Cloudflare outage, Elon doing Elon things, some popular service's migration to Rust, another new JS reactivity framework, etc.
I do still watch TechLinked, since I sometimes miss some news simply because of the high volume of posts flowing through HN. Check the site 3 hours apart and the front page probably has 4-5 articles already replaced by some other articles.
And yet, in the barrage of posts flowing through HN, I find an abundance of something that I previously only very rarely find: good blog posts written by fellow devs!
Plenty of well written experiment reports, hate-posts about how certain technologies should probably never exist, unexpectedly good reads about lifestyle and mindfulness, people explaining how AI is bad, people explaining how AI is good, and many more!
It made me realize that there are a lot of devs out there, and most of them are living the same lifestyle and facing the same problems that I’m facing with a similar perspective.
And so began this personal experiment of mine. I probably won't be writing any HN-worthy articles anytime soon, but I do hope to improve my writing skills by starting this blog. No LLM slop, just 100% pure brain juice and beautiful English-is-not-my-first-language writing.
Anyways, if you're reading this, welcome to my blog! I hope you can find something useful here.