| ▲ | deanputney 3 days ago |
| geerlingguy and simonw really amaze me at how well and consistently they cover their respective spaces of interest. Great content, easy to read, and thorough! I'm sure there are others doing deep reporting like this on their own subjects. I'd love to read them too. |
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| ▲ | simlevesque 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Jean-Louis Gassée's Monday Notes about tech and Apple. He's been in the business since the 60's, worked at Apple in the 80's, founded BeOS: https://mondaynote.com/ Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing. He's an engineer at Microsoft that has been blogging about maintaining legacy systems, Windows and MS-DOS for over 2 decades. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ Hackaday is a good blog too, there's many authors so it can be hit or miss but it's full of curious folks. https://hackaday.com/ |
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| ▲ | ChuckMcM 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I miss Gassée's the Monday Note, it seems he hasn't published one since 2023. | | |
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| ▲ | noughtme 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Who is simonw? |
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| ▲ | BrokenCogs 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | famous pelican enthusiast | |
| ▲ | victorbjorklund 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | https://simonwillison.net/about/ | |
| ▲ | wongogue 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | A Pelican fond of Cycling. | |
| ▲ | meindnoch 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | fragmede 3 days ago | parent [-] | | where is the grift from him? he's not a salesman pushing a particular product but is talking about his experience with them. That's a really unkind and unfair thing to say about him. | | |
| ▲ | RodgerTheGreat 3 days ago | parent [-] | | He's a salesman pushing an entire industry who regularly receives special treatment and access from LLM vendors. The fact that he's open about getting these favors and subtle enough to sprinkle his salesmanship with a thin veneer of skepticism and plausible deniability doesn't make it any less of a grift. | | |
| ▲ | sho_hn 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I'm obviously biased when it comes to FOSS foundations, but Simon is also a member of the board of the Python Software Foundation, which is not nothing in terms of looking after our craft. The LLM stuff feels minor in comparison, even if it may be what HN knows him for. It's certainly not the same level of achievement as your average bargain bin AI rambler in your LinkedIn feed. | | |
| ▲ | RodgerTheGreat 3 days ago | parent [-] | | If anything, Python programmers should be mortified that PSF leadership includes someone who seemingly spends all his free time and social capital trying to normalize slop and downplay the negative externalities of a bunch of companies that openly wish to undermine software authorship, depress programmer wages, and obliterate career opportunities for novice programmers. | | |
| ▲ | fn-mote 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The Industrial Revolution is coming again. Look at data center spend for massive companies like Microsoft. Love it or hate it, the AI you see today isn’t going away. It will only become more capable. Maybe the next generation can / will need to start the Butlerian Jihad but we’re stuck for now. | |
| ▲ | CamperBob2 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Other sites beckon. |
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