Ask HN: What are some high signal blogs?

Part of me wants to like Astral Codex (Bayes theorem is dear to my heart and my head) but I find it too rambling and too tied to the cringeworthy &quot;rationalist&quot; scene. (e.g. some of those people think the &#x27;woke&#x27; folks are groupthinkers, but some of their circles would drive people out if they expressed disbelief in quasireligious concepts such as superhuman a.i., cryonics, etc.)<p>For people who want to understand &quot;how to successfully promote a blog&quot; my favorite is<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.righto.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.righto.com&#x2F;</a><p>which I think is captivating to people even if favors nostalgia vs timeliness (never news) and few people would find it useful (for my electronics hobby I expect to build increasing powerful illusion projectors and I find some of his talk on electronics inspirational and educational but I never expect to decap a chip or make discrete versions of things like current mirrors and op amps that are impractical to make on an artisan scale.)

<i>Lines and Colors</i> is a great blog to dip in to find some visual inspiration. This blog has been going since 2005 - impressive longevity for a personal blog.<p>Description:<p>&gt; <i>Lines and Colors</i> is a blog about painting, drawing, sketching, illustration, comics, cartoons, webcomics, art history, concept art, gallery art, digital art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics and anything else I find visually interesting. If it has lines and&#x2F;or colors, it&#x27;s fair game.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;linesandcolors.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;linesandcolors.com&#x2F;</a>

The problem with high-signal blogs is that they tend to be low-frequency…

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gwern.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gwern.net&#x2F;</a> is all you need! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fantasticanachronism.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fantasticanachronism.com&#x2F;</a> is also good!

<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;electoral-vote.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;electoral-vote.com</a> from 2 political scientests summarizes US political news, high signal AND high frequency, several articles each weekday morning.

What domain? I follow tech blogs, finance blogs, real estate blogs, cloud computing vendor blogs. Different domains have different strong players.

Political Calculations : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;politicalcalculations.blogspot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;politicalcalculations.blogspot.com&#x2F;</a><p>Capital Spectator : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.capitalspectator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.capitalspectator.com&#x2F;</a>

web.dev[0] is full of great articles if you like web development<p>CSS Tricks[1] is also full of handy snippets of code you can use when developing a website. I&#x27;ve noted many handy (somewhat overlooked) pieces of code on there. Feel free to skip some &#x27;noisy&#x27; articles that have code you will never use. I tend to focus on stuff that will work everywhere, regardless of browser.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;css-tricks.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;css-tricks.com&#x2F;</a>

Lyn Alden - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lynalden.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lynalden.com&#x2F;</a> (finance)<p>Mr Money Mustache - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mrmoneymustache.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mrmoneymustache.com&#x2F;</a> (unusual approach to minimalism and FIRE)

fedguy.com, if you are interested in monetary policy or economics. I also recommend the book by the same author (Central Banking 101).

Money Stuff by Matt Levine - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;account&#x2F;newsletters&#x2F;money-stuff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;account&#x2F;newsletters&#x2F;money-stuff</a>