Hi rectangle friends. I love RSS. I have lots of wonderful blogs in my RSS feedcatcher. But! I have audited my subscriptions and confirmed my feeling that a high percentage of the people whose blogs I regularly read are white. Since I mostly subscribe to new blogs via links from existing subscriptions, I think I'm stuck in a bit of a bubble, and I'd like some help discovering technical blogs and feeds run or authored by non-white people!

If you or someone you know a) is non-white b) has a blog about Rust, Python, web tech, Linux, systems programming, tech and society, or other, related topics that c) can be subscribed to via RSS, please reply and I will check it out and boost it!

Those are the only requirements. If you don't feel like you're an "expert", have only written one blog post, haven't posted in a year, etc please still let me know and I will check it out. Everyone's voice is valuable.

Thank you 💜 Boosts are appreciated!

@noracodes

Hi. I think I qualify. I also haven’t posted in a while but I’m planning on moving my tweets/toots to my blog.

https://aijaz.net

@noracodes mind sharing your current subscriptions list?

@noracodes Hi!

https://www.harihareswara.net/rss/

@yuvipanda has a feed at https://words.yuvi.in/

@noracodes definitely subscribing! I want to hear your voices, too!

@noracodes Oh wow I have actually posted some things this year lol.

https://heat-shield.space/

@noracodes My blog is on hiatus because, well, I’m enjoying the shitposting here too much to write long-form, but here you go, because you asked:

https://monospacedmonologues.com/

@noracodes I've got an atom feed for my blog and general site updates! feed discoverable at https://lunabee.space but full link's https://lunabee.space/beespace.atom

@noracodes Why do you have to not be white? wtf

@noracodes https://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/

@noracodes @RadicalEdward

You'll be looking for the work of @vonExplaino then.

https://vonexplaino.com/journal/

@noracodes I think @thephd's blog is very high quality. You probably already follow it, but I haven't seen it mentioned in the replies yet.

@noracodes I can recommend the blogs of some of my friends:

Arun https://arunraghavan.net
Nirbheek https://blog.nirbheek.in
Ankur https://ankursethi.in
Yuvi https://words.yuvi.in
Kiran https://kirang.in
Vedang https://vedang.me

And my own blog https://abhinavsarkar.net

@remindme 1 week

@noracodes

👋 I'm a Latino cis male dev. I write about Linux, Go, Ruby and some non-tech

https://mauromorales.com/rss

@noracodes Do you think the posts of non-white bloggers are different or what is the reason behind it? It never occurred to me to pick blogs based on skin color...

@noracodes 👋🏾
here's my blog below. it's a mix of travel, queer life, data science, product, tech, and society. i'm getting back in the practice of writing so more content to come! :)

https://teonbrooks.com/blog

@noracodes
The first to come to mind is @BajoranEngineer
http://dawnwages.info/bajoran-engineer/

@noracodes

a few that come to mind:

* marco rogers https://marcorogers.com/ (he hasn't written about web tech on there yet but I hope he will)
* vaibhav sagar https://vaibhavsagar.com/ (loved this https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/)
* safia abdalla https://blog.safia.rocks/archive.html (some fun linux posts in her archive)
* vinayak mehta (developer of a cool python pdf scraping library called Camelot https://vinayak.io/)
* sumana's excellent blog https://www.harihareswara.net/ (which you've already been told about)

@noracodes Self plug: I'm a PhD student working on programming languages and often end up writing about experiences, opinions, and diatribes: https://rachit.pl/

@noracodes 2 fellow southern Africans come to mind - Vuyisile Ndlovu (https://vuyisile.com/blog/) and Mpho Mphego (https://blog.mphomphego.co.za/). Jay Miller also comes to mind: https://kjaymiller.com/

@noracodes
You might want to check
https://newsletter.chanda.science/
@chanda

@brainwane Awesome, thank you so much! I absolutely adore your site theme and your tagging scheme is super neat. @yuvipanda's site seems really interesting as well!

@nebulos thank you for sharing! I loved your post about .art and then promptly lost your feed before subscribing so I really appreciate it 💜

@noracodes I have an infrequently written blog on tech (usually AWS/Linux/CLI) https://sathyasays.com/

and my personal blog where I publish a weekly update on what I've been doing https://sathyabh.at/

@samir Sweet, following for the shitposts as well :) Thank you!

@LaurenCeleste Because I have never had a hard time discovering the blogs and writings of white people in tech, and want to balance out my feed and help break out of my bubble.

I spend a lot of time talking to, reading things from, and generally interacting with a lot of white people in tech. This particular post is about doing something other than that.

I might ask you in return: why do you react so strongly when someone seeks out writings by non-white people?

@noracodes I'm thinking of posting some shit on informatic entropy soon :3

@danbeeston @noracodes @RadicalEdward I appreciate the call out, but I fail at the non-white step

@gspeng Having your first post be about uranium in groundwater is a pretty fascinating first impression, omg. Thank you so much!

@stormhill117 Definitely a good one to mention! For readers of the thread, that's https://thephd.dev, feed at https://thephd.dev/feed.xml

@Qyriad Ok, I will remind you on Monday Sep 4, 2023 at 10:43 PM PDT.

@michal As discussed in the OP, I *already follow lots of white people*. This is not a case of me saying white people's contributions are bad or unwelcome. I personally have done a bad job of discovering non-white ppl's blogs and want to remedy that for myself. Especially given the unfair systemic barriers than many non-white people face in the tech industry, I think it's a worthwhile endeavor!

Can I ask why it seems like a problem for you?

@teon :o recurse blogs! Can't wait to dig in, thank you 💜

@shaib Neat, thank you!

@abnv all look super interesting, thank you! And Yuvi's has now been multiply recommended, which is awesome :)

@b0rk thank you so much!!

@b0rk @noracodes that popcount article is a banger.

@notypes "Dear Sir, You Have Built A Compiler" is one of the funniest, yet most accurate, things I've read in a while, thank you for the link :) I look forward to tackling the rest of your archive!

@ET oh *hell* yes. Thank you!

@noracodes Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

@lunabee oooooo i'm looking forward!!

@noracodes Awesome. I hope I don’t disappoint.

I would very much like to start blogging again but I seem to (write xor code) and recently I’ve been enjoying coding in the evenings a lot. Perhaps the blog will start up again. I hope it comes in useful and/or is entertaining when it does. 🙂

@vonExplaino @noracodes @RadicalEdward So you're just tanned?! That, is the most embarrassing mistake I may have ever made.

@noracodes it’s technically my last post 😉

@noracodes The problem for me is that if I said I wanted content from a non-black, non-yellow etc author, I would be branded a racist.
I don't suppose you are racist, but this kind of deliberate creation of social bubbles does not help to eliminate racism in society.

@noracodes thank you so much for asking this question!! followed a bunch and bookmarked so I can come back and follow more RSS feeds later :)

@noracodes Too kind! Hope you enjoy the rest!

@gspeng ehehe true

@b0rk I'm so glad it's been helpful! The response to this post has been awesome, though it may have backfired, as I now have waaaay too much interesting stuff to read 😅

@noracodes I haven't posted in years because reasons. But I'm sitting on a couple of interesting drafts and hope to get back to posting again soon. Please feel free to check: https://gaveen.me/posts/

@noracodes I do some writing about tech and a bit of Python stuff too (all about machine learning) and some other eclectic stuff on my blog. Haven’t updated in a while but probably will get around to it at some point?

https://write.farook.org/rss

@noracodes Kat has a blog

https://katexcellence.com/

@kat_kime