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    Creative Good

    creativegood.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2013

    Creative Good's blog, with essays by Mark Hurst on technology, user experience, privacy, and criticism of Google, Apple, and Meta.

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    What HN says

    HN links it for essays like the Google Glass piece, and a commenter lists it among favorite blogs. No detailed opinions are given.

    Stats for nerds
    17HN people shared it
    38linked in comments
    842story points
    May 2021last shared
    2013people per year2021

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    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • andredzMay 2021

      This is such a great thread, I'm excited to begin reading quite a few of the linked blogs (such as this one: https://acoup.blog/).

      These ones are some of my favorites:
      - www.wall.org/~aron/blog/ (physics, theology, history, philosophy)

      - http://xahlee.info/ (math, emacs, keyboards, etc.)

      - https://matt.might.net/articles/ (academy, compsci, etc.)

      - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ (programming, companies, etc.)

      - https://danluu.com/ (technical topics)

      - Mailing list in https://practicaltypography.com/

      - http://paulgraham.com/

      - https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ (math, physics)

      - https://www.gwern.net/index (interesting articles)

      - https://slatestarcodex.com/ and https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ (science, psychiatry, philosophy, rationality, etc.)

      - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ (programming)

      - https://creativegood.com/blog/ (UX, and more)

      - https://daringfireball.net/ (Apple)

      - https://backreaction.blogspot.com/ (physics)

      - https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/

      - https://historyforatheists.com/ (historical myths)

      - http://funcall.blogspot.com/ (programming, compsci)

      - https://blog.fawny.org/ (accessibility, design)

      - https://blog.jessfraz.com/ (technology)

      - https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog (databases)

      - https://weekendfisher.blogspot.com/ (God, love)

      I can list some of my favorite articles from one of these blogs if anyone is interested.

    • damncabbageMar 2013

      Relevant article ("The Google Glass feature no one is talking about"): http://creativegood.com/blog/the-google-glass-feature-no-one-is-talking-about/

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