title:Developers I Admire
date: 2021-02-26 11:25
tags: coding
summary: follow these programming blogs
---

I find it helpful to model other great developers.  If you can find other great
developers, then perhaps you can model their behavior.  These are some of the
software developers that I admire:

- Chris Lemmer Webber ([https://dustycloud.org](https://dustycloud.org)) helped
  write [ActivityPub](https://activitypub.rocks/), which is driving federated
  web applications like [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/), and
  [funkwhale](https://funkwhale.audio/), and
  [PeerTube](https://joinpeertube.org/).

- David Thompson  ([https://dthompson.us/](https://dthompson.us/)) is the author
  of Haunt, which is the static site generator that runs this blog.  He is also
  the author of chickadee, which is a game development tool kit for Guile
  scheme!  I've actually met David once at libreplanet.  He's a really down to
  earth bro!

- Leah Rowe is the author of the [https://libreboot.org/](libreboot.org)
  project!  Leah is in business to replace the proprietary BIOS of computers
  with a freedom respecting alternative!

- Andy Wingo ([https://www.wingolog.org](https://www.wingolog.org)) was
  instrumental in modernizing GNU Guile.  His blog is full of wisdom.

- Chris Wellon's ([https://nullprogram.com/](https://nullprogram.com/))
  blog is super engaging.  There's all sorts of Emacs and C nuggets of
  wisdom in his blog.

- Drew Devault's blog ([https://drewdevault.com/](https://drewdevault.com/)) is
  pretty fantastic.  I personally believe that a great way to help the free
  software movement is to create free software businesses, which Drew Devault is
  doing with [sourcehut](https://sourcehut.org/).  He also created the
  [sway](https://swaywm.org/) window manager, which I use on GNU Guix.  Sway
  works fantastically well by the way.
