Open source Blogs

11/29/2025 • EN

Cassidy Williams

Cassidoo.co is the personal blog of Cassidy Williams, a well known developer, speaker, and educator who writes about JavaScript, React, career growth, web development, dev tools, and learning in public. Her posts mix technical insights with approachable explanations, covering topics like UI patterns, coding tips, productivity workflows, and the human side of software engineering. Cassidy is known for her weekly newsletter, open-source work, and community involvement.

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Cassidy Williams

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11/29/2025 • EN

Sebastian Raschka

SebastianRaschka.com is the personal blog of Sebastian Raschka, PhD, an LLM research engineer whose work bridges academia and industry in AI and machine learning. On his blog and notes section he publishes deep, well-documented articles on topics such as LLMs (large language models), reasoning models, machine learning in Python, neural networks, data science workflows, and deep learning architecture. Recent posts explore advanced themes like “reasoning LLMs”, comparisons of modern open-weight transformer architectures, and guides for building, training, or analyzing neural networks and model internals.

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Sebastian Raschka

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11/17/2025 • EN

Mark Erikson

Blog.iSquaredSoftware.com is the personal blog of Mark „acemarke” Erikson, a software engineer and core maintainer of Redux, React-Redux, and Redux Toolkit. He writes deeply informative articles about React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, performance, library maintenance, and frontend architecture. Mark’s posts often take the form of long form essays where he answers questions from the React community, shows internal implementation details of Redux or React-Redux, and explains rendering, context behavior, selector optimization, package migration, and build tooling. His writing is practical, precise, and aimed at developers who want to understand how big frontend libraries and frameworks actually work beneath the surface.

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Mark Erikson

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11/17/2025 • EN

TkDodo Dominik Dorfmeister

tkdodo.eu is the personal blog of Dominik Dorfmeister, a web developer from Vienna with a strong focus on React and TypeScript. Dominik is a co-maintainer of TanStack Query, one of the most popular async state management libraries in the React ecosystem, where he focuses on education, support, and explaining complex concepts in an approachable way. On his blog he writes in depth articles about React, TypeScript, React Query, async state management, and practical frontend patterns. Many posts are based on real questions from the community on Twitter, Stack Overflow, and the TanStack Discord, which makes the content very close to what developers struggle with in day to day work. He also helps maintain remeda, a TypeScript focused utility library, and often shows how strong typing and good tooling can make React apps safer and easier to maintain.

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TkDodo Dominik Dorfmeister

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11/15/2025 • EN

Brendan Eich

Brendaneich.com is the personal blog of Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, co-founder of Mozilla, and founder of Brave Software. On the blog he writes long form essays about the history and future of JavaScript, ECMAScript standards, the open web, browser engines, WebAssembly, tokens and the metaverse economy, and why projects like Mozilla matter for the web’s independence. Many posts expand on his conference keynotes, such as the evolution from asm.js to WebAssembly or behind the scenes stories about Netscape, HTML5, and JavaScript’s early years. More recent entries touch on decentralized rendering, watermarking, and domain specific tokens like BAT and RNDR.

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Brendan Eich

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11/15/2025 • EN

Paul Irish

PaulIrish.com is the long running blog of Paul Irish, a front end engineer and developer advocate on the Google Chrome team. He is known for his work on HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, Yeoman, jQuery tooling, and Chrome DevTools, and his writing focuses on web performance, browser internals, frontend best practices, and developer tooling. On the blog you will find deep dives into topics such as DOM and CSS performance, requestAnimationFrame, Chrome’s rendering pipeline, DevTools workflows, and practical techniques for making real world sites faster and more robust.

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Paul Irish

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11/15/2025 • EN

Minko Gechev

Blog.mgechev.com is the personal blog of Minko Gechev, Lead for Web Frameworks at Google and a widely recognized engineer in the JavaScript and Angular ecosystem. Minko writes about Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, frontend architecture, web performance, and AI assisted development, mixing clear code examples with insights gained from building frameworks at scale. He is the creator of influential open source projects and has been awarded by Google and the President of Bulgaria for the impact of his contributions. His articles often explore advanced topics such as LLM powered development, predictive prefetching, reactive rendering, framework design, and large scale JavaScript tooling. Beyond engineering, he shares lessons from giving over a hundred conference talks and from leading major web initiatives at Google. Minko is also the co founder of Rhyme.com, an EdTech platform offering hands on technical training. He built the platform and engineering team starting in 2015. In 2018 Rhyme became Coursera’s first acquisition, marking a significant milestone in his career.

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Minko Gechev

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11/13/2025 • EN

Joel Spolsky

JoelOnSoftware.com is the personal blog of Joel Spolsky, a software engineer, entrepreneur and writer. He is known for founding companies like Fog Creek Software and co-founding Stack Overflow. His blog features influential essays on software development, management, architecture, user interface design, productivity, and hiring. Joel’s writing blends technical insight with business-savvy, covering topics such as the "Joel Test" for evaluating software teams, handling legacy codebases, and building software organizations that work well. Over the years his archives have become essential reading for software professionals who care about building quality systems and thriving teams.

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Joel Spolsky

10

11/13/2025 • EN

Simon Willison

SimonWillison.net is the long-running blog of Simon Willison, a software engineer, open-source creator, and co-author of the original Django framework. He writes about Python, Django, Datasette, AI tooling, prompt engineering, search, databases, APIs, data journalism, and practical software architecture. The blog includes detailed notes from experiments, conference talks, and real projects. Readers will find clear explanations of topics such as LLM workflows, SQL patterns, data publishing, scraping, deployment, caching, and modern developer tooling. Simon also publishes frequent micro-posts and TIL entries that document small discoveries and tricks from day-to-day engineering work. The tone is practical and research oriented, making the site a valuable resource for anyone interested in serious engineering and open data.

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Simon Willison

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11/10/2025 • EN

Tanner Dolby

TannerDolby.com is a personal blog by Tanner Dolby, a software engineer and mathematician who writes about modern web development and programming fundamentals. His articles explore topics such as JavaScript, Node.js, Eleventy, Sass, TypeScript, Python, and C++, offering clear, example-driven explanations of core concepts and real-world workflows. The blog covers everything from client-side rendering and DOM manipulation to creating custom Eleventy collections, setting up Node.js servers, and solving algorithmic challenges in different languages. Tanner also dives into accessibility, performance optimization, open-source collaboration with Git, and static site design, focusing on writing code that is both efficient and easy to understand. Each post is concise, practical, and written to help developers at all levels strengthen their problem-solving skills and coding foundations.

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Tanner Dolby

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11/10/2025 • EN

Melroy van den Berg

Melroy van den Berg writes hands-on articles about GNU/Linux, networking, security, DevOps, software engineering and embedded hardware. The blog mixes step-by-step guides and deep dives, from DNS fundamentals with command-line experiments to self-hosting, servers, tooling and practical troubleshooting. Clear categories cover levels from beginner to advanced, making it useful both for learning core concepts and refining day-to-day workflows.

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Melroy van den Berg

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11/9/2025 • EN

Arkadiusz Kondas

Arkadiusz Kondas - Software Architect and Data Scientist writing about PHP, machine learning and software architecture. On his blog you will find practical posts on design patterns, clean testing with PHPUnit, compiling and benchmarking PHP with JIT, data structures like binary heaps, and architectural thinking for scalable systems. He also shares talks and workshops on Event Storming and pragmatic development, and maintains open-source projects including PHP-ML, a machine-learning library for PHP, and PHP Grandmaster, a chess engine deployed on AWS Lambda.

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Arkadiusz Kondas

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11/9/2025 • EN

Lea Verou

Lea Verou is a web standards expert, developer, and designer with a PhD from MIT in Human-Computer Interaction. She has worked as Product Lead at Font Awesome, helped shape the web as a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group, and has been part of the CSS Working Group since 2012. Her open-source tools like PrismJS and Color.js are used by millions of developers worldwide. Lea is also the author of a bestselling CSS book, a frequent conference speaker, and an advocate for making technology simpler, more usable, and open for everyone.

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Lea Verou

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11/9/2025 • EN

Martin Schneider

Martin Schneider is a frontend developer from Germany who shares his experience building clean, fast and maintainable websites. On his blog he writes about Eleventy, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, testing with Cypress, accessibility and static site generation. His posts focus on practical workflows, explaining not only how to write better code but also why certain approaches make development more efficient and enjoyable. The blog is a valuable source of inspiration for frontend developers who care about performance, simplicity and good craftsmanship.

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Martin Schneider

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11/8/2025 • EN

Michael Lynch

Michael Lynch – Developer, Indie Founder and Technical Writer Michael Lynch shares honest and detailed stories from his journey as a software engineer and indie founder. His blog covers topics like building sustainable businesses, code reviews, software craftsmanship, and lessons learned from running and selling his own startup, TinyPilot. Each post reflects a mix of engineering precision and real-world experience, written with clarity and humor. Readers can find tutorials, retrospectives, and essays that go beyond code to explore motivation, productivity, and the human side of software development. This blog is a must-read for developers, indie hackers, and anyone who enjoys thoughtful writing about technology and entrepreneurship.

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Michael Lynch

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11/8/2025 • EN

Max Böck

Max Böck is a seasoned front-end web developer and designer based in Vienna, Austria, with over 16 years of experience in building engaging, accessible, and performant web interfaces. He co-founded the software studio Codista and writes regularly at mxb.dev, exploring modern web development topics such as buildless workflows, CSS container queries, the IndieWeb, and accessible digital products

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Max Böck

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11/7/2025 • EN

Yasoob Khalid

Yasoob Khalid is a developer and writer best known for the free, open-source book Intermediate Python and his project-driven follow-up, Practical Python Projects. His articles and books have reached 5+ million readers across 189+ countries, and his blog remains a go-to place for clear, practical Python insights. By day, Yasoob works on Azure Cloud Networking at Microsoft, and by night he continues to publish tutorials, notes, and experiments that demystify real-world Python for learners at every level. He’s also the author behind the long-running Python Tips site and newsletter, where he focuses on approachable explanations and hands-on examples.

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Yasoob Khalid

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11/3/2025 • EN

Matt Stauffer

mattstauffer.com is the personal blog of Matt Stauffer, a web developer, author, and educator specializing in Laravel, PHP, and full-stack web development. Matt shares tutorials, insights, and resources on modern web development, covering topics like backend development, JavaScript, and Laravel best practices. He is also the author of Laravel: Up & Running and a host of the Laravel Podcast. Through his blog, Matt provides practical advice for developers, project management tips, and insights into maintaining a productive development workflow. His content is designed to help developers of all levels improve their skills and stay updated with the latest trends in the web development industry.

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Matt Stauffer

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11/3/2025 • EN

Matt Layman

mattlayman.com is a blog by Matt Layman, a software engineer who focuses on building complex web applications, primarily using Django. He shares his expertise through regular live streams on YouTube, where he teaches others how to build advanced SaaS projects. Matt is also deeply involved in the tech community in Frederick, Maryland, where he founded Python Frederick and has helped organize local tech events. Currently, Matt is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Included Health, working to enhance the patient experience through technology. His blog offers insights into web development, community involvement, and his career journey.

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Matt Layman

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11/2/2025 • EN

David Walsh

David Walsh Blog is a long-standing hub for web developers who want to grow through real-world code and honest experience. It features hands-on tutorials, deep dives, and opinion pieces on modern web technologies - from JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5 to frameworks, APIs, and performance techniques. With a focus on practicality and clarity, the blog helps developers of all levels write cleaner, faster, and smarter code while staying in tune with the evolving web.

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David Walsh

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