Blogs and personal sites that inspired the creation of this.
Personal Sites
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Brian Lovin
Slick and polished with substance - check out the hacker news reader (huge improvement vs squinting at tiny monospace) and the app dissections.
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Lee Robinson
Shockingly minimalist. Anti-navigation navigation that somehow works.
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Maggie Appleton
Responsible for bringing the [Digital Garden](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history) concept into the interweb consciousness. Love the organic feel, non-linear nature and the detail in the microinteractions - morphing SVG totems included.
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Chester How
Very digital-garden-esque. Incorporates images without feeling cluttered. Singaporean. keyboards, coffee, climbing, plants.
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Jackson Dahl
Discovered from Steph Ango's site linking to a Dialectic podcast. Collection of podcast transcripts with links and personal thoughts.
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Lachlan Campbell
Great collection of notes and links that is linked from a more polished portfolio site. Clear layout on both with a distinctive style.
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Steph Ango
Founder & CEO of Obsidian, really interesting and diverse [projects](https://stephango.com/projects). Authors the site using Obsidian, detailed in this [post](https://stephango.com/vault) describing how he uses his product.
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Tania Rascia
Easy-to-understand technical writing. Taught herself software development after career switch.
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Bunnie's Blog
First came across this when some colleagues mentioned his Formlabs 3D printer teardowns. Eye-opening blog with a treasure trove of esoteric hardware from an engineer's perspective.
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Jeff Geerling
Massive blog with posts going back to 2009. Also a youtube creator [@JeffGeerling](https://www.youtube.com/jeffgeerling) on hardware topics. Detailed his blog migrations from Drupal to Hugo (incl. 13k comments).
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Ephraim Duncan
clean, monochromatic site with a cool guestbook feature.