Vicki Boykis is a data and machine learning engineer who writes a newsletter on tech, the internet, and data engineering.
HN links it for her posts on Russia's internet, Saudi money in Silicon Valley, Keybase, and the argument that many projects don't need Kafka.
This is actually a very interesting point that I've come across on a few different platforms recently (Patreon, for example, [also targets their homepage to creators, not consumers](https://www.patreon.com/)). I wonder if Substack just doesn't want to deal with opening the door to some newsletters getting "free promotion" by being features on their homepage? Nonetheless, I'd love to see "trending" or "editors picks" or something.
Nonetheless, here are some I subscribe to:
Big, by Matt Stoller (about monopolies): https://mattstoller.substack.com/
Margins (about business and tech): https://themargins.substack.com/
Flow State (music): https://flowstate.substack.com/
Normcore tech (tech, data science): https://vicki.substack.com/
The Passion Economy (business): https://passion.substack.com/
More in this post too:
https://vicki.substack.com/p/keybase-and-the-chaos-of-crypto
> All of a sudden, I started receiving lots of random messages from people without profile pictures.
> These were people I didn’t know contacting me on a pretty frequent basis, and I had no way to opt-in to their messages. Pretty ironic for a platform built on privacy.
> I wasn’t the only one. After asking around, it seems that everyone I knew on Keybase was getting these. But of course, women with female names and profile pictures got a lot more than most men I knew. Other women online were experiencing it, too.
According to [0], apparently at least some of them are involved with exploring fancy over-engineered tech-stacks
[0](https://vicki.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-kafka)
Further reading on Russia and its beloved Internet: https://vicki.substack.com/p/whats-up-with-russias-internet
The saddest part is that SV runs on Saudi cash.
https://vicki.substack.com/p/silicon-valley-runs-on-saudi