🎁☕️👓 My Holiday Reading List

List of Lovely Tech Blogs

Franziska Hinkelmann
Fhinkel
3 min readDec 13, 2017

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Nothing to do over the holidays? Read these inspiring blogs about software development. Listed in alphabetical order.

Amy Nguyen

Amy Nguyen writes about software engineering, e.g., how she hacked Ticketmaster with DevTools to get Taylor Swift tickets, interviewing, and speaking at tech conferences: blog.amynguyen.net

Erica Sadun

Author of Swift Style, Erica Sadun writes about Swift and news from the Apple ecosystem. Check her out at ericasadun.com.

Jessie Frazelle

Jessie Frazelle writes about containers and Linux and anything cool. Have a look at her blog at blog.jessfraz.com.

Julia Evans

Julia Evans writes about Linux and How to teach technical concepts with cartoons. If anybody knows how to do that, it’s her, because she has published eight zines about systems and debugging tools. Read her posts at jvns.ca.

Kara Carrell

Kara Carrell is a web developer who makes the prettiest slides. She has a series of Today I Learned posts on her blog https://kara.codes with topics ranging from hexadecimal to REST to chown. Totally fun to read.

Preethi Kasireddy

Preethi Kasireddy is a Blockchain Engineer and her writing is entertaining and so personal. Check out her Medium posts about the blockchain and career advice.

Sarah Drasner

Sarah Drasner is an authority on all things Vue.js and SVG. She’s a member of the Vue.js core team and author of SVG Animations. Check out the posts under Writing on her website that link to her articles in CSS-Tricks and other publications.

Shirley Wu

Shirley Wu makes the prettiest data visualizations. Just have a look at her beautiful Film Flowers. Oh, and do you know her #shirleychats on YouTube?

Suz Hinton

Suz Hinton aka Noopkat writes about hardware hacking with Node.js and she is so kind to share some of her work setup. Confession: I just ordered something she recommends on Amazon. I adore her live coding stream on Twitch.

Vaidehi Joshi

Vaidehi Joshi started her journey as a software engineer three years ago. She writes the series BaseCS where she explains computer science concepts in a very approachable way. If you want to brush up on trees, dynamics programming, or Dijkstra, you should definitely check out her blog www.vaidehi.com.

Enjoy reading and Happy Holidays! ⛄️

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Franziska Hinkelmann
Fhinkel

Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft. Node.js Monkey Patcher.