Blogroll

Where do I get most of my news these days? Well, I tend to rely on all of these blogs piped into an RSS reader app. I’d rather just get a raw stream of posts than some dubiously curated, rage-fueled, monetized, algorithmic garbage from Facebook.

There’s a mixture here of Apple-centric indie dev blogs, tech news websites, and reputable news sources (mostly located outside of the United States) reporting on geopolitics.

• iFixit News
  Great teardowns and tools!
• A List Apart
  Great web dev articles and books.
• Windows Central
  It's Windows. What do you want from me? 🤷‍♂️
• Thurrott.com
  See what the folks in the Windows world are talking about.
• Lisa Melton
  Created Safari. I used to listen to her epic rants on the Debug podcast back in the day.
• The Needling
  Satirical reporting from Seattle.
• Bret Victor
  Inventing on Principle is one of those tech demos that really changed me.
• Brent Simmons
  Mac and iOS dev blog.
• Om Malik
  Tech journalism.
• Stratechery by Ben Thompson
  General tech news.
• Democratic Socialists of America
  We need to do better than the Democratic Party. 🌹
• Industrial Workers of the World
  Go join a labor union! ✊
• American Civil Liberties Union
  The classic guardian of American civil rights.
• RNZ Pacific
  I've picked up Radio New Zealand Pacific on my shortwave radio many times.
• Write Only Memory
  Aaron Priven created a DOS app called Muzak Tunes I used to play with in the early 90s.
• Andreas Kling
  The creator of SerenityOS. Has great YouTube videos as well.
• NCommander's Tech Corner
  Asks the hard questions like WTF happened to 3D Pinball on Windows on Itanium.
• Der Schepp
  Fun blog, including posts like Running WebKit on Windows. (Seriously. Bring it back, Apple!)
• Josh Comeau's blog
  Web dev articles and courses.
• Pádraig Brady
  Hacking and projects.
• Brazil's Blog
  Music and hacking.
• Jeff Geerling
  One of my favorite YouTubers. He's always doing wacky projects.
• Susam Pal
  Projects and hacking.
• Ruud van Asseldonk
  This guy's website is written in Haskell. Let that sink in.
• Konrad Dybcio
  Linux kernel contributor.
• brandur.org
  Musings on tech, web dev, and photography.
• Tobias Ahlin
  One day I aspire to be as hipster as this guy.
• kimmo.blog
  Web dev and home tech projects.
• Jim Nielsen’s Blog
  This guy maintains a bunch of icon galleries for macOS & iOS.
• Joel on Software
  Been following this guy forever since his post about Mac font rendering.
• SLYNYRD
  Badass pixel art! 🎨
• Hypersphere
  For such fun as implementing quad trees in TypeScript.
• Spyglass
  M.G. Siegler's tech blog.
• Coding Horror
  Programming and leftist politics.
• Daring Fireball
  Heart of the Apple faithful.
• Six Colors
  Jason Snell's Apple news site.
• High Caffeine Content
  Steve Troughton-Smith's epic blog. Check out: MPW, Carbon and building Classic Mac OS apps in OS X.
• Marco.org
  Marco is one of my favorites. Listen to him all the time on ATP through Overcast!
• Hypercritical
  John Siracusa's reviews of Mac OS X on Ars Technica, particularly the early ones about the Developer Previews, occupy significant brain space at all times for me. Another ATP favorite.
• Folklore.org
  Andy Hertzfeld chronicles anecdotes from the original Macintosh team.
• Panic Blog
  Longtime Mac software developer, and – more recently – game publisher and creator of the Playdate handheld.
• Mr. Macintosh
  Running the latest macOS on unsupported hardware. This entire effort will stall out when Apple ceases shipping Intel binaries.
• Red Sweater Blog
  Daniel Jalkut's dev blog.
• Liss is More
  Casey Liss! He's the glue holding ATP together. 😆
• Swift by Sundell
  Built a whole blogging system in Swift.
• NSHipster
  Apple programming.
• Basic Apple Guy
  He is usually making some really cool wallpapers and stickers.
• The 8-Bit Guy
  Retro YouTuber.
• _DavidSmith
  Apple dev and great apps.
• Under the Microscope
  Rogue Amoeba's blog.
• The Omni Group
  Longtime developer of Apple software.
• FCP
  Final Cut Pro tutorials, templates, and plugins.
• Guy Kawasaki
  Apple's chief evangelist.
• furbo.org
  Craig Hockenberry's website about apps and websites.
• Nate Thompson
  Mac app dev and projects.
• Michael Tsai
  Apple reporting.
• Indie Stack
  Daniel Jalkut's newer blog.
• Acko.net
  Usually some batshit crazy CSS or math I can't understand.
• Yet Another Swift Blog
  Swift articles and tutorials.
• 512 Pixels
  Stephen Hackett's Apple blog.
• Manton Reece
  Creator of Micro.blog. I miss hearing him on Core Intuition.
• The Eclectic Light Company
  Mac blogging and painting.
• The Happy Programmer
  Swift articles.
• kean.blog
  Swift, iOS development.
• Hacking with Swift
  Swift articles and tutorials.
• SerialCoder.dev
  SwiftUI.
• objc.io
  Swift programming.
• Better Programming
  Programming in various languages.
• Sound of Silence
  iOS/macOS game dev and SpriteKit.
• SwiftLee
  Swift courses.
• Advanced Swift
  Swift tutorials.
• Bitsplitting.org
  Another Daniel Jalkut blog!
• Timac
  Swift dev blog.
• joshua stein
  This guy is building modern apps for Mac OS System 6 (from 1988), like a version control system, a Wikipedia reader and an IRC client.
• #haymanSplaining
  Blog from a former employee of the fruit company.
• Fernando Bunn
  Apple blog.
• Nil Coalescing
  SwiftUI.
• Orange Juice Liberation Front
  Various Apple programming topics.
• GBH News
  WGBH Boston is a PBS public broadcaster.
• BBC News - Politics
  Political reporting from the BBC.
• Democracy Now!
  Actual leftist news reporting.
• BBC News
  Public broadcasting from the UK.
• CBC | Politics News
  Political reporting from Canada's public broadcaster.
• Al Jazeera
  World news as covered from the perspective of a Middle East broadcaster.
• CBC | Canada News
  Canada-centric news from Canada's public broadcaster.
• CBC | World News
  World news from Canada's public broadcaster.
• The Globe and Mail
  Canadian news reporting, but mostly behind a paywall.
• CBC | Top Stories
  Curated top stories from Canada's public broadcaster.
• ProPublica
  In-depth investigative reporting.
• DW - World
  World news from Deutsche Welle, Germany's public broadcaster.
• DW - EU
  European news from Deutsche Welle, Germany's public broadcaster.
• DW
  General news from Deutsche Welle, Germany's public broadcaster.
• WBUR News
  A Boston-based NPR public broadcaster.
• Le Monde.fr
  News from France.
• Le Monde.fr (International)
  International news from France.
• RFI
  Radio France Internationale is France's public broadcaster.
• Jacobin
  Socialist news!
• Le Monde.fr (United States)
  US news from France.
• NPR News
  US public radio broadcaster. Though generally reputable, I take their reporting with a grain of salt these days in fear that it's been co-opted by right-wing goons.
• The Stranger
  Reporting on Seattle's culture from a generally leftest point of view.
• The Guardian
  Center-left news reporting from the UK.
• FRONTLINE
  Investigative reporting from WGBH, a Boston-based PBS affiliate.
• PBS NewsHour
  News from PBS.
• 9to5Mac
  Apple news.
• Engadget
  Tech news.
• Gizmodo
  More tech news.
• MacRumors
  More Apple news!
• TechCrunch
  Generally good tech reporting.
• The Verge
  I used to love The Verge, but... these days they just seem to heckle the whole tech industry. How about you guys learn how to make your website work in light mode before you lecture other people on how to make software?
• Cult of Mac
  Leander Kahney's Apple news website. Read his book, and watch Welcome to Macintosh while you're at it.
• AppleInsider
  Do you have enough Apple sites yet?
• OS X Daily
  No? How about this one!
• Ars Technica
  The gold standard of tech news websites as far as I'm concerned.
• AnandTech
  Used to be some great technical reporting here, but now there's just forums. I think the guy who ran it went to work for Apple.
• CNET
  Mainstream tech news since the 90s.
• WIRED
  More mainstream tech news.
• Macworld
  These guys were basically Daring Fireball before there was a Daring Fireball.
• The Mac Observer
  Could this be MORE Mac news?
• iMore
  Well, yes. And this is iMore Mac news, because you can never really have enough, can you?
• Recode
  This used to be a separate site, but it's gotten merged into Vox's technology reporting.
• MacDailyNews
  More Mac news.
• Low End Mac
  Squeezing every last CPU cycle out of your old hardware.

You can download an OPML of all of these recommendations and import it into your RSS reader of choice.