The inspirations for this website that I’ve used to continue to push the bounds of this website and its creativity. Including other blogs, companies, marketing sites, and more.
Curation / Inspirations
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Invididuals' Websites
These are people whose websites serve as awe and inspiration. There’s something that resonates with me and I want to emulate or remix ideas from their websites. Some people I’ve met IRL, and I love their work. Others I might have met online. And the rest are people I’ve stumbled upon.
Name Description Alice Lee ”Hi, I’m Alice! I’m an illustrator, muralist, ceramicist, and maker of delightful things.” Amelia Wattenberger Creative working on novel interfaces and empowering devs with AI. Author of “Fullstack D3 and Data Visualization”. Previous website Andy Baio Runs Waxy.org. Co-created XOXO Conference. So much more. Andy Matuschak ”Applied researcher, focused on creating user interfaces that expand what people can think and do” Caroline Artz Prolific Codepen human-being. Very keen at design Chris Pennington ”Coding in Public” YouTuber. Web developer with keen eye to design. Lots of Astro content. Derek Sivers ”I’ve been a musician, circus performer, entrepreneur, and speaker.” Elizabeth Filips A medical student and painter in London. Erika 💐 “Software engineer living in Sweden”. On the Astro team. Geoffrey Litt Researcher exploring malleable software. Hristiyan Dodov Each post has a really cool banner image that shows the time released Ian Webster Prolific developer. I know him from his space work. Jamie Tanna His “blogumentation” style has inspired week notes. Also, My Salary History has made me think if I should be this transparent. Jenny Odell Author of “How to do Nothing” and “Saving Time”. Oakland-based artist Julie Zhuo Author of “Making of a Manager” and runs a newsletter called “The Looking Glass”. Leila Clark Pieces on software engineering, progress, Asia, history and other topics. Lin Clark Runs “Code Cartoons” Linus Lee Prolific Developer and creative working on AI at Notion. Lydia Hallie Developer and teacher on Front-End Masters Maggie Appleton Creator of visual essays about programming, designer, and anthropologist. Maria Popova The Marginalian (former Brain Pickings) is a great dive into the search for meaning. Her research into the source material is always a great read. Nadieh Bremer Nadieh runs Visual Cinnamon, a data visualization studio. “Data made insightful, effective & beautiful through visualization” Nikita Voloboev Nikita’s digital garden, including a piece I like called Everything I Know Peter Mekhaeil ”Experienced web developer with a focus on optimizing performance and delivering a seamless user experience” Philippe Rekacewicz Runs Visionscarto. “Esquisses et réflexions cartographiques.” Ramses Oudt Creating life-changing email courses. Stoic PKM expert. Robert Heaton Researcher at Antropic Rosemary Orchard Co-Host of Automators, and iOS today. Treasure trove of content and automation. I’ve certainly taken some of her Alfred workflows in the past. Samantha Ming ”Front End Developer who shares programming goodness with the community” Sara Hendren Author of “What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World”. Writer, design researcher, artist, and cultural producer. Sara Soueidan Her blog is wonderful for approaching inclusive design and accessibility Sarah Drasner Author of “Engineering Management for the Rest of Us”. VP of Developer Experience at Netlify and Vue core team member. Shawn “Swyx” Wang Runs Latent.space and smol AI company Shirley Wu ”An award-winning creative focused on data-driven art and visualizations.” Simon Willison His weblog has been around for 20+ years and his content is rich Sinead Bovell Futurist, MBA, B.B.A Finance Steph Smith Podcast host of a16z podcast. Prolific creator Toph Tucker Data Visualization expert working at Observable. Must watch: 5000 Years of Graphics Yiren Lu NYC based writer and software engineer.