Blog Roll

Some blogs to keep you Inspired

The blogs that made me hit ‘Publish’

I love blogging. It’s how I clarify my own ideas, and if I’m lucky, inspire someone else along the way. I’ve been reading blogs since I was a kid, but publishing my own always felt intimidating. The internet can be harsh! But I’ve learned to embrace the mantra: Ready, fire, aim!

I owe so much to the writers who pushed past their fears and hit "publish." Their work changed my career, my thinking, and even my daily habits. Now, I want to pay it forward. Below are some of the blogs and creators who’ve shaped me. Hopefully they’ll do the same for you.

favicon That Software Dude by Walter Guevara

Walter is a great programmer, with lots of tidbits of programming wisdom on his blog. We were co-workers yesteryear, we were co-founders after that, and now he is working on making the web a better place.

It's the current culture that we're sitting in. Just Google "Good interview questions" and you'll get back list after list of these questions, and that's the biggest problem. People aren't giving interviews based on their companies needs, they're doing it based off their laziness and the ease of just looking up what someone else thought to ask. This is the equivalent of hiring a doctor and asking them to name every bone in the body. It's unnatural and only manages to make people fresh out of college with no real work experience look like pros and it makes actual programmers who know how to problem solve look like they have no idea what they're doing.

favicon Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky

If Jeff Atwood was the pragmatist, Joel Spolsky was the bard. As co-founder of Stack Overflow (and Fog Creek Software, and Trello...), he didn’t just build tools—he explained them. His Joel Test became gospel for engineering teams, but what hooked me were his stories.

From tales of Microsoft’s early days to essays like "Things You Should Never Do" (still the best argument against rewrites), Joel made software feel like a human endeavor. His career—from programmer to entrepreneur to educator—became my unofficial blueprint. Reading him taught me that code is just the beginning; the real craft is in the why.

favicon Coding Horror by Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood didn’t just co-found StackOverflow and Discourse, two platforms that reshaped how developers learn and communicate. He also wrote one of the most influential programming blogs of the 2000s.

What stuck with me weren’t just the technical insights (though there were plenty). It was his philosophy: "Programming is not just about code, it’s about people." His posts mixed hard-won lessons with dry humor, demystifying everything from database design to Just in Time Nudges.

I binged his archives cover-to-cover before mustering the courage to start my own blog. If you’ve ever felt like an impostor, read Coding Horror, then go write something.