Sebastian Neef’s security blog, containing technically detailed explanations of security vulnerabilities he finds in different software. I first discovered it through this post, which is relevant to a couple of my interests.

Adam Cadre is the author of Phototopia. If you only play one text adventure in your life, make it that one. Aside from that, he’s kept a blog about various subjects (mostly media) since before the word blog was invented and has some other text adventures and prose stories on his site, all of which are well-written. For a taste, visit his archive of posts on books and movies and look for something you’ve read or watched.

A blog all about Vim, my favourite text editor. Vim Koans is a particular highlight, and I also really like Vim misconceptions.

Scott Alexander is the only writer in the LessWrong rationality crowd I enjoy reading (I don’t think I’ve ever finished an Eliezer Yudkowsky article). He writes intelligently and at great length on human rationality, economics and culture. The Toxoplasma of Rage, I Can Tolerate Anyone Except the Outgroup and Right is the New Left are probably my favourite essays, but it’s a close race between those and every other post on both sites.

Troy Steele has written bitingly funny posts about most of the books RL Stine’s written, which I grew up reading.

I first came across Bret Victor through his excellent talk, “The Future of Programming”, in which he pretends to be a 70s-era computer scientist (complete with pocket protector & overhead projector) to highlight a future that never came to be. Besides having an awesome anti-minimalist design, his site is full of interesting essays and projects.

Matthew Butterick is a lawyer, typographer and big Lisp fan. His site (or web-based book, as he calls it) is an invaluable source of practical advice about making writing look good (this is a good place to start) and is occasionally updated with essays about typography, Lisp and the economics of providing a web-based book.

This a fairly large collection of illustrated short software development koans/parables, all involving various characters living in a monastery of programmer monks. Individual pieces are tagged by the characters in them and geekiness rating. Sadly, it seems to no longer be updating. The final case is an appropriate conclusion.

Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow/Exchange and Discourse, doesn’t update this blog as much as he used to, but there’s a massive archive of interesting posts about technology and programming. Also see Joel on Software and particularly this post.

Every day, Joe Jennet posts three links, taken from his every expanding collection of interesting websites. These range from personal blogs to small applications to niche online magazines to that which defies simple categorisation. You never know quite what you’re going to get.

A long-running blog full of well-researched articles by different authors about subjects that are damn interesting. Personal favourites include Nineteen Seventy-Three, Colonels of Truth, The King’s Letters, Up in the Air, Three Thrown Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana.

I first came across Jimmy Maher through his online book about the history of interactive fiction/text adventures, Let’s Tell a Story Together. In the years since releasing that book, he’s gone on to massively expand and augment its contents in the form of blogposts covering the history of computer games from the late 70s to the early 90s (as of this writing). Every one of his articles are absorbing reads that put the story in history.

Fortunately for those not interested in the history of computer gaming, Jimmy Maher has lately been channeling his fondness for digression into a separate blog which chronicles the history of worldy wonders, starting with a series about the evolution of archaeological knowledge about the Pyramids of Giza since Herodotus. It’s exactly as well researched and written as his other blog and deserves a wider audience.

Emily Short is a major figure in interactive fiction, and has been writing about the craft on her very regularly updated blog for a long time.

Evan Miller is a MacOS developer. He writes about applied maths, programming and business. I particularly enjoy his reviews of programming languages and this essay.

Frank is the author of The Shape of Design, a web-based book similar to Practical Typography. He writes about web design; this is my favourite piece. I also enjoyed the in-depth series about redesigning his website from scratch, which starts here.

Eevee is most known for the post PHP: a fractal of bad design, the most famous and comprehensive takedown of the web’s favourite least favourite programming language. They have also written a number of other interesting and detailed posts about other programming lanugages and looking about subjects from copyright and attribution to music theory.

A gaming review site which uses the term “hardcore gamer” to mean “game enthusiast analogous to a film buff or audiophile” rather than “person who plays a couple of mainstream shooters a lot”. HG reviews mostly indie games, covering a wide range of genre and subject matter.

I discovered joepie91 (Sven Slootweg) through his two part rant about using JWT tokens for sessions. He has a number of articles expressing strong opinions about tech, privacy and cryptocurrencies. This is a particularly interesting insight.

Cameron Suey wrote a lot of creepypasta under the name Josef K some years ago, and is easily the single greatest writer to attach himself to the form. That may sound like damning with faint praise, but he really is an excellent horror writer well worth your time to read.

James Hague wrote brief, insightful posts about Erlang, software development and the importance of not seeing programming as an end unto itself and spending your life arguing about language features on forums – programming should be an enabler for building things and solving problems. This post about proposed computer science courses is my favourite.

Well-written blog by a software engineer with a healthy mixture of technical and general content, much like this one. Check out his best posts.

Stay away from memes - they’re just cliches propagated at the speed of Twitter. Never do anything to “all the things”.

Robert Heaton, A blogging style guide

Steve got me into Vim and it’s been years since I’ve voluntarily written anything in another editor. I also enjoy his Git Koans – I come back to the post every other year and understand one or two of them a little better.

Sam Ashwell reviews IFComp entries every year and occasionally other narrative games. He also has an excellent series on the structure of various Choose Your Own Adventure-style books.

Troy runs Have I Been Pwned?, the internet’s foremost interface to compromised web application databases. He blogs about web security and sometimes other subjects.

I discovered this blog from The Rise and Demise of RSS. Sinclair Target writes about computing and software development history. His subject matter occasionally overlaps with The Digital Antiquarian’s, but he has a very different perspective and style.

Tim Urban writes massive posts illustrated with crude stick figures about social media, life, and odd topics like artificial intelligence and cryogenics. This sobering post about time is a particular highlight.

YAL is one of the most skilled programmers working with GameMaker Studio and has done some jaw-dropping stuff to extend the platform, including creating a GML to JS transpiler, an alternative GM editor and a tool for editing code in GM games while they’re running. He’s also written a number of advanced GM tutorials.

A horror webcomic about a nervous encyclopedia salesman, written by Kris Straub, serial internet content creator. It’s been on hiatus for a long time and may never be finished, but the first two chapters are complete and a good read. I reviewed it here.

Straub also wrote Candle Cove and other short horror stories.

A light and amusing prehistoric adventure-comedy about a cavewoman and her triceratops friend. Takes an unexpected turn near the end.

Standalone horror comics in different formats, released a few times a year. No list of favourites here – just read all of them.

Antimony Carver attends a Gunnerkrigg Court, a British boarding school full of robots. Bordering the school is a mysterious forest inhabited by magical creatures and demigods. In a just world, this would be multi-million dollar media franchise to rival Harry Potter.

You’ve definitely seen KC Green’s comics in memes: he is the brain behind This is Fine, Stare Dad and many more. Gunshow is his largest and most varied webcomic – it’s mostly standalone gag strips, but there are a couple of series (including the excellent Anime Club) and some strips that aren’t just for laughs.

Kate Beaton’s historical gag comics. Learn and laugh at the same time!

Gag strips about a bird named Reginald and beartato named Beartato. The haphazard update schedule means that author Anthony Clark only posts a comic when he has a genuinely funny idea for one, so the archives are incredibly high quality.

Some years after the death of the last human, two robots go on a road trip through the solar system. Each chapter is presented as a draggable left-to-right string of images, a unique and memorable format.

Like Nedroid’s Anthony Clark, Nicholas Gurewitch posts infrequently, making PBF a goldmine of quality comics written and drawn over two decades. Gurewitch uses radically different styles for most individual strips – everything from superhero comic style to stick figures to pixel art to colourful fairytale illustration.

Evan Dahm started writing Rice Boy in 2006, and it has since become only the first in a series of comics set in a shared world. These are fantasy stories that eschew the traditional ersatz Lord of the Rings setting for the more original and imaginative world of Overside, populated by all manner of funny-looking creatures, including frog people and machine men.

Juan Santapau draws a comic about strange peole, places, television shows, films, plays and videogames. These stories are linked only by the loose artstyle and an airy, mystical atmosphere.

For the last decade, Daniel Lieske has been writing an epic adventure story about a young boy who visits a fantasy world at a rate of about one chapter per year. The art is breath-taking and the story full of wonder and pathos.

Famous interesting YouTube guy makes stick figure cartoons about a variety of subjects. I particularly enjoy his series about voting systems and his videos about strange geography, like The (Secret) City of London and How Many Countries are There?.

Fredrik Knudsen produced lengthy documentary-style videos about odd people, groups and events. There’s a healthy balance between very recent internet-based subjects, like TempleOS and Time Cube, and subjects from history, like plague doctors and the Collyer brothers. Knudsen strives to present subjects without too much editorialising, and has the remarkable ability to speak entirely seriously about the most outré content.

Hilarious videos about happenings in internet culture by the old man from stock photography (not really). Essentially a zany version of Down the Rabbit Hole.

A hilarious highschool comedy told with stop-motion Barbie dolls. Five seasons’ worth of ~10 minute episodes as of this writing.

A number of animated and semi-animated episodes of a comedy cartoon about a manchild and his robot having adventures in outer space. Predates the Netflix show Final Space. Will it ever get picked up? Fingers crossed.