Writers with thoughts worth thinking.
WordPress
People writing in their own voice about the platform, rather than marketing it, including a few who have moved on to other pastures. Some are more Bad Sector-ish than others.
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Brian Coords
WordPress consultant and sometimes writer.
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Ryan Welcher
Developer Advocate
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Justin Tadlock
I am also a writer. A front-end developer. A gardener. A small-town Alabama kid just trying to figure out whatever it is that folks are supposed to figure out on this journey.
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Jeff Paul
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Malcolm Peralty
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Gutenberg Times
Birgit Pauli-Haack. Curating news and community voices about the WordPress Block Editor, codenamed Gutenberg, Playground and sometimes AI.
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Joost de Valk
Joost de Valk – internet entrepreneur, Group Head of AI & Growth at Your.Online, founder of Yoast
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Jono Alderson
I help brands to compete on technical SEO, performance, and structured data.
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Mika Epstein
Mika “ipstenu” Epstein is otherwise known as the WordPress Half-Elf Rogue.
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Mark Root-Wiley
MRW Web Design builds custom WordPress websites for nonprofits and other mission-driven organizations in Seattle, Washington.
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Peter Wilson
A front-end developer with a love for CSS based in Melbourne, Australia. Peter Wilson has worked with some of the country's largest and smallest companies.
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Ross Wintle
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Aaron Campbell
Aaron D. Campbell writes and speaks about open source, WordPress, website security, product leadership, and succeeding in technology as an introvert.
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Jonathan Desrosiers
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Nick Diego
Founder, developer, and WordPress Core Contributor sharing insights on building for the web.
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Chris Wiegman
Chris Wiegman is a tech leader, mentor, blogger, and open-source advocate with over 20 years of experience building humane, privacy-focused teams and technology.
- Heather Burns
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Morten Rand-Hendriksen
TEDx speaker, AI expert, and LinkedIn principal instructor.
Systems, security, and the commons
Reliably interesting and contrary insights about webcraft, society, and technology. Often relevant to themes like how things decay, who maintains them, and what happens when nobody cares.
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The Maintainers
Maintaining self and society through reflection, research, and advocacy.
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Strong Towns
The way we build our cities and towns is fundamentally broken. Strong Towns helps people understand the why and take local action to make their places stronger.
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Patrick Tanguay
Sentiers: a carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
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Mandy Brown
A working library is a project about work, reading & technology by mandy brown.
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Erin Kissane
Salvage
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Jason Gorman
Codemanship: musings and mutterings by Jason Gorman
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Ted Gioia
The Honest Broker: a trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture.
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Dana Gioia
Not directly relevant to this list, but I dig his poetry and formalism.
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Baldur Bjarnason
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Julia Evans
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Molly White
Citation Needed features critical coverage of the cryptocurrency industry and of issues in the broader technology world.
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Bruce Schneier
Schneier on Security
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Brian Krebs
Krebs on Security: in-depth security news and investigation
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison’s Weblog
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Ben Werdmuller
Writing at the intersection of technology, journalism, and community.
- Dan Luu
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick
The long-running and erratically updated blog of Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
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Nadia Asparouhova
Personal writing, links, and other things by Nadia Asparouhova.
- Filippo Valsorda
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Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Seth Larson
Python, open source, and the internet
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Josh Bressers
Open Source Security
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Dave Winer
Scripting News
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Jay Hoffmann
The History of the Web: a decade-long journey through web history.
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Richard MacManus
Cybercultural is a website covering internet history and the evolution of digital culture.
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Dan Davies
Back of Mind: a newsletter of quiet contrarianism, slow analysis and ambient ideas.
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Nolan Lawson
Read the Tea Leaves: software and other dark arts, by Nolan Lawson
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Lorin Hochstein
Surfing Complexity: Lorin Hochstein's ramblings about software, complex systems, and incidents.
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L. M. Sacasas
The Convivial Society: thinking about technology, culture, and the moral life.
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Deb Chachra
Metafoundry: the newsletter of Deb Chachra's work and ideas.
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Jarrett Walker
Human Transit
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Henry Farrell
Programmable Mutter: technology and politics in an interdependent world.
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tante
Smashing Frames
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Paris Marx
Disconnect: tech analysis without the boosterism
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Jeremy Keith
Adactio: the thoughts and ramblings of Jeremy Keith, a web developer living in Brighton in southern England.
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