I realized that I never really wrote down a list of all the different creators / people in the tech scene that I follow, so this is it.

People#

Starting with one of the goats: Neetcode. He is mostly known for his videos on leetcode problems, but he also has many great videos on other topics like AI and system design. He can explain leetcode solutions really well. Recommended if you are interested in learning about actual programming, data structures and algorithms.

  • Phuong Le writes blog posts about Go and dives very deep into the actual technical details. He is writing a book called “Anatomy of Go”. He has his own blog at blog.devtrovert.com and he writes some of the posts in the VictoriaMetrics blog.

  • Mitchell Hashimoto is one of the co-founders of Hashicorp, also the creator of Ghostty (the terminal). He is now regularly posting devlogs on Twitter, where he thoroughly explains some of the interesting decisions that he has to make as a maintainer of Ghostty. I learned a lot about how to think about feature design from him. He also has a blog at mitchellh.com/writing and gave a nice talk about testing: Can we test it? Yes We can!.

  • Wes Bos from SyntaxFM podcast. They host a very fun YouTube channel @syntaxfm about webdev, so mostly JS, CSS, HTML, browsers. They have a cool series where they play CSSBattles, a game where they have to recreate some geometrical image using only CSS.

Blogs / Blog Posts#

  • ngrok post about prompt caching: This one about LLMs has some incredible visualizations and helped me understand so much more about them. Read it here

  • Anton Zhiyanov’s blog - His blog posts about Go and Go proposals are super well-written and he has an interactive Go code runner which is really cool. He also has a series called “Gist of go: concurrency” filled with code examples and explanations about how to correctly implement concurrent code in Go.

  • VictoriaMetrics blog - VictoriaMetrics is a replacement for Prometheus, also implemented in Go, that looks promising.

  • 1 million nodes in k8s: bchess.github.io/k8s-1m/

Podcasts#

  • Cup o’ Go by Jonathan Hall and Shay Nehmad. Really nice if you like Go and want to be informed about latest proposals, conferences and interesting blog posts about things in the Go ecosystem.

  • Dwarkesh Patel hosts famous researchers and business people in his podcast. He is actually deeply informed about everything he asks. The podcasts about AI are especially good, like the one with Andrej Karpathy.