Writer Websites

Zach is a human who enjoys computers and thinks the internet is neat. He likes to build things, mostly out of code. Sometimes he writes words, takes photos, and makes videos. He has a blog.

Edward Ross is a Data Scientist, Writer and Learner. He is the creator of Whatcar.xyz, a Deep Learning classifier for Australian cars, and a system for extracting and cleaning Australian job ads from Common Crawl. He writes articles on skeptric.com covering topics such as calculating Moving Averages in SQL, Searching Common Crawl with CDX and Athena, Finding near duplicates with Minhash, and Calculating the Centroid on a Spherical Polygon. He has also worked through tutorials and books such as Computational Exercises from All of Statistics by Larry Wasserman, Exercises from Regression and Other Stories, and Baking Pi Tutorial for building a Baremetal OS on Raspberry Pi.

This person enjoys eating and drinking in Austin, TX. They are interested in Austin restaurants, cookbooks, and recipes. They enjoy cooking and experimenting with ingredients like seitan and TVP. They are a fan of Kome restaurant and the Fishwife brand. They are also interested in local events like cookbook release parties at First Light bookstore. They have a partner who works from home.

Raoul Pop is a creator who has been running his website since August 7, 2000. His website contains his thoughts, reviews, photos, and videos on a variety of topics, including events, exercise, how-to guides, places, and technology. He also produces web shows and videos related to living a good life and a talk show called "De Vorba cu Ligia." His website has accumulated over 2 million views since January 2010, when he moved it to WordPress. He is also active on social media platforms such as YouTube, Flickr, and Instagram.

Suraj Chaudhary is a writer, developer, and founder who shares lessons and resources for living a fuller life. He publishes articles weekly, offering actionable tips for optimizing life and work. His work focuses on productivity, personal life, and business/careers. Suraj started his blog in 2021 as a collection of inspirations, ideas, realizations, and lessons he has accumulated. He was born in Nepal and moved to NYC for higher education. He is currently a Mathematics and Computer Science major (Honors) at St. Joseph’s University, Brooklyn, New York. He also runs a YouTube channel and sometimes hosts a podcast.

David Winter is a Software Engineer based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent in the United Kingdom. He has a passion for coding and writing about it. He has co-authored four books, including "Modernising Legacy Applications in the Public Sector," "User-centered Practices for Sustainable Technology," "Building High Performance Agile Teams," and "A Field Guide To Continuous Delivery." David is currently developing a keyboard driven note application called nimblenote, built with Electron and available for macOS, Linux and Windows.

JA Westenberg publishes a weekly column on technology, culture, philosophy and what it means to be a human being. Westenberg's goal is to think in public. They publish one to two essays a week, plus a monthly Q&A, quarterly builder memos, and other ideas.

Xavi Costafreda-Fu is a student at the University of Oxford studying Mathematics and Computer Science. In his free time, he reads and writes on Substack. He also posts on Twitter. On his website, you can see what he's up to and what he's about in general. He has one and a half years’ worth of monthly playlists available, as well as some art that he likes.

Olu Niyi-Awosusi is a developer in local government in the UK, with fullstack skills and a frontend leaning. Their pronouns are they/them. Olu is interested in writing and speaking opportunities, and has written for A List Apart and spoken at You Got This and FFConf. They are currently learning, building, and maintaining skills in web accessibility, CSS, computer science, electronics, social, environmental and disability justice, ethics of care, technology ethics, sewing clothes, movement and exercise, personal projects, and hyperlocal and online community. Olu believes that the internet should be available and accessible to everyone.

Neil Taylor is interested in exploring our relationship with technology. He consults with businesses to help them Scale with Confidence at Acumore Consulting, focusing on systems, processes, workflows, automation, and data. Neil is also interested in Leverage and building systems to take advantage of available technology. He shares book notes and reviews of things he finds interesting. In the past, he owned a float tank centre, worked in a big corporate, ran a digital agency, and was an award winning former accountant. He has lived in Sweden and Japan and travelled South America. Currently, he is a man of the family, husband, dad, and step dad.

Marc Littlemore is an Engineering Manager at n8n. He focuses on building diverse and inclusive software engineering teams. He helps teams to build quality software applications whilst not being in the same office. Marc is a veteran software engineer who started programming in the early 80s. He has worked in the video games industry for almost 20 years and later at the BBC, building their gaming APIs and BBC Account. He transitioned into technical leadership, focusing on creating a culture of inclusion and psychological safety. Marc writes about software development, JavaScript testing, remote working, and technical leadership. He also enjoys music and helps his wife with her writing career.

Cal McKim was born in Golden, Colorado, and later moved to Houston, TX, then Anchorage, AK. He attended the University of San Diego, where he earned a degree in Neuroscience. Cal then pursued an MSc in Marketing at Cass Business School in London, UK, where he currently resides. His interests include baseball, tennis, music, nutrition, and writing.

Ruth Carrick-Forrester has a corner of the internet where she shares details of her projects and other things. She can be contacted for collaborations or project discussions. Her passion project is Spark Edition, a bi-weekly newsletter featuring online finds. Ruth got into photography during her final year of her degree. She has a street photography portfolio. She uses a MacBook 13 inch, an Apple SE phone, and TaoTronics earphones. She uses a chrome extension from the original gmail designer to make her gmail user interface feel more zen. She uses Pocket to save articles online that she wants to read later. She also uses Facebook Newsfeed Eradicator. She is currently working on Spark Edition, photography projects, and freelance website and email work. She is a bookworm and is considering creating a site or blog to catalog her favorite books.

Andrew Chapman is a writer, editor, and book designer based in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, UK. He helps people publish non-fiction books. Andrew is the editor of Northern Earth, Discover Your Ancestors magazine, and the British Association for Local History’s Local History News journal. He co-writes Histories, a weekly newsletter, and publishes history books at Heritage Hunter. Andrew also walks a lot and is interested in history, landscape, and psychogeography. He has creative collaborations with Paul Lenz, including Histories, Who Should You Vote For?, and How Many Hippos?. He co-created and ran a book recommendation website from 2005 until it was sold in 2019.

Dan Bartlett is a founder, writer, coach and bodyworker. He has 20 years of coding experience and 10 years of building teams. He helped his last company grow to a $150m valuation. Today, he coaches nerds, leaders and founders. He supports startups in optimising their product and engineering processes. He was a cofounder and Head of Engineering at Almanac. He was also the founder of a meditation community called OpenSit which was acquired in 2017. He has worked as an EM at GoCardless. He has meditated for nearly 15 years. He ran 100km in a day and raised £1200 for the mental health charity, Mind.

Toska is someone who wears many hats. She is a scientist in training by day who tries to distance herself from science by night. This blog is an experiment to test if she can consistently write and hopefully improve along the way. She speaks English and German fluently and Russian fairly well and is trying to learn Turkish. She reads a lot and can be followed on StoryGraph. Aside from live music events, large gatherings overwhelm her. She enjoys spending time with her friends at a café or park. She believes people should send their friends more physical cards. She can be contacted at toska0@posteo.com.

Rose Rachel is the ethereal creator of the Roseiverse, a plane of existence. Fae is an artist, actor, and women/gender studies major, and also a web developer. Fae identifies as a transfemme anarchist system of six, and is autistic and ADHD. Fae built the website using only HTML and CSS. Rose can be reached on Tumblr or via email at rose@roseiverse.com.

Rachel is the creator of Rachel's Ruminations, a travel blog focused on independent travel with an emphasis on historical sites/sights. She also reviews hotels, resorts, cruises, and tours, and has published articles about life as an expatriate. Rachel also has a newer website about travel to UNESCO World Heritage sites. She lives in Groningen, in the northeast of the Netherlands, with her husband, Albert. Rachel is Dutch, but grew up in Connecticut in the US, so English is her first language. After a long career as a teacher and teacher-trainer, she has retired early to focus on her websites and on travel.

Ghastly, also known as ghastlymirror, is an amateur nature photographer, blogger, horror movie fan, and gamer. Ghastly's introduction to gaming began with 90s edutainment and racing games like Grand Prix 2. Ghastly enjoys exploring old games, especially those they were unable to play during childhood. When not exploring virtual worlds, Ghastly enjoys nature hikes and bird watching. Favorite genres include life simulation, RPGs, racing, and point and click adventure games. Ghastly uses Canon 500D, Xiaomi 10T Lite, and Canon R (Mirrorless) camera models. Ghastly started a blog in 2022 to get into long form blogging.

Wargaluk is ill at ease and not their usual self. They are Polish, male, and 37 years old. They work as a freelance book designer and typesetter. Wargaluk has a master’s degree in philosophy and dropped out of two other university programs, as well as a PhD program in philosophy. They are decidedly introverted and solitary but have deep and strong bonds with the few people who are important to them. Wargaluk lives a simple life on the margins, away from the main currents, and doesn’t pursue excitement, variety, luxury, or prestige. They are sensitive to beauty in nature and art and appreciate the aesthetic dimension of life.

Levelsi is a socio-cultural theorist and experiential design thinker. Describing themself as an ‘artist of psychology,’ their work explores the intersections of money, technology, art, and the human condition. They maintain a critical stance towards technological advancement and its societal impact. Levelsi aims to put their “whimsical lines of understanding” at the service of quality, beauty, resilience and fullness of life. They write and engage in conversations to confront paradigms with alternative worldviews. Levelsi studies living spaces and is willing to liberate mind-body practices from dogma and tradition. Emphasizing the role of play in navigating ambiguity, they keep away from competitive games. They can be contacted via email at “have” at “some” dot “lc,” or found on Bluesky Social.

Ankur Sethi is a writer, computer gremlin, and independent frontend developer. He lives in Bangalore and enjoys chai, cats, cold weather, spicy food, nice clothes, fiction, hip-hop, poetry, the World Wide Web, journaling, programming, local communities, and video games. He builds webapps using React but is also a believer in standards-compliant HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. He can be contacted via email at contact@ankursethi.com. He has accounts on GitHub, Goodreads, Telegram, Hacker News, and Lobsters.

Punkto is a computer monkey who has primarily worked as a sysadmin. They have earned professional certifications, but believe real-world skills are more important. Proof of their abilities can be found on their blog, in their talks, and in the services they run. Punkto has used various names online and in person, but is now consolidating everything under the punkto.org moniker. They enjoy writing, sometimes on technical topics, which can be found on their blog. They also enjoy public speaking, usually on technical topics, and speaking engagements can be found on their website.

Flowtwo is a product leader and engineer. He enjoys building products and companies. He is currently building something new. Previously, he was the co-founder and CTO of Snapdocs, a mortgage automation platform. He helped grow the company from zero to hundreds of employees and millions in revenue. Before Snapdocs, he was an early engineer at Palantir Technologies. He enjoys working on hard problems with smart people.