These are people whose websites serve as awe and inspiration. There’s something that resonates with me and I want to emulate or remix ideas from their websites. Some people I’ve met IRL, and I love their work. Others I might have met online. And the rest are people I’ve stumbled upon.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Alice Lee | ”Hi, I’m Alice! I’m an illustrator, muralist, ceramicist, and maker of delightful things.” |
| Amelia Wattenberger | Creative working on novel interfaces and empowering devs with AI. Author of “Fullstack D3 and Data Visualization”. Previous website |
| Andy Baio | Runs Waxy.org. Co-created XOXO Conference. So much more. |
| Andy Matuschak | ”Applied researcher, focused on creating user interfaces that expand what people can think and do” |
| Caroline Artz | Prolific Codepen human-being. Very keen at design |
| Chris Pennington | ”Coding in Public” YouTuber. Web developer with keen eye to design. Lots of Astro content. |
| Derek Sivers | ”I’ve been a musician, circus performer, entrepreneur, and speaker.” |
| Elizabeth Filips | A medical student and painter in London. |
| Erika 💐 | “Software engineer living in Sweden”. On the Astro team. |
| Geoffrey Litt | Researcher exploring malleable software. |
| Hristiyan Dodov | Each post has a really cool banner image that shows the time released |
| Ian Webster | Prolific developer. I know him from his space work. |
| Jamie Tanna | His “blogumentation” style has inspired week notes. Also, My Salary History has made me think if I should be this transparent. |
| Jenny Odell | Author of “How to do Nothing” and “Saving Time”. Oakland-based artist |
| Julie Zhuo | Author of “Making of a Manager” and runs a newsletter called “The Looking Glass”. |
| Leila Clark | Pieces on software engineering, progress, Asia, history and other topics. |
| Lin Clark | Runs “Code Cartoons” |
| Linus Lee | Prolific Developer and creative working on AI at Notion. |
| Lydia Hallie | Developer and teacher on Front-End Masters |
| Maggie Appleton | Creator of visual essays about programming, designer, and anthropologist. |
| Maria Popova | The Marginalian (former Brain Pickings) is a great dive into the search for meaning. Her research into the source material is always a great read. |
| Nadieh Bremer | Nadieh runs Visual Cinnamon, a data visualization studio. “Data made insightful, effective & beautiful through visualization” |
| Nikita Voloboev | Nikita’s digital garden, including a piece I like called Everything I Know |
| Peter Mekhaeil | ”Experienced web developer with a focus on optimizing performance and delivering a seamless user experience” |
| Philippe Rekacewicz | Runs Visionscarto. “Esquisses et réflexions cartographiques.” |
| Ramses Oudt | Creating life-changing email courses. Stoic PKM expert. |
| Robert Heaton | Researcher at Antropic |
| Rosemary Orchard | Co-Host of Automators, and iOS today. Treasure trove of content and automation. I’ve certainly taken some of her Alfred workflows in the past. |
| Samantha Ming | ”Front End Developer who shares programming goodness with the community” |
| Sara Hendren | Author of “What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World”. Writer, design researcher, artist, and cultural producer. |
| Sara Soueidan | Her blog is wonderful for approaching inclusive design and accessibility |
| Sarah Drasner | Author of “Engineering Management for the Rest of Us”. VP of Developer Experience at Netlify and Vue core team member. |
| Shawn “Swyx” Wang | Runs Latent.space and smol AI company |
| Shirley Wu | ”An award-winning creative focused on data-driven art and visualizations.” |
| Simon Willison | His weblog has been around for 20+ years and his content is rich |
| Sinead Bovell | Futurist, MBA, B.B.A Finance |
| Steph Smith | Podcast host of a16z podcast. Prolific creator |
| Toph Tucker | Data Visualization expert working at Observable. Must watch: 5000 Years of Graphics |
| Yiren Lu | NYC based writer and software engineer. |