Last played At the Drive-In - Mannequin Republic from Relationship of Command
I read a lot of blogs, and they are all brilliant. You can consider this my "blogroll", but "jasper tandy is blogroll" does not read nicely so I had to come up with something else.
Chris Glass' site has inspired quite a lot of what I do around here. Chris is an amazing autobiographical photographer and designer, and I consider this site to be the benchmark for personal blogging.
Aegir Hallmundur is an incredible designer and all-around creative powerhouse. His blog is just page after page of beautiful design and, more recently, case studies on his exploration of creating more physical products. Simultaneously inspiring and intimidating
Seth Werkheiser is fighting the good fight for grassroots PR and fan relationships, against a torrent of automation and corporate scale.
Daniel Pietzsch is a talented film photographer, musician, metalhead, film buff, developer, dad, probably a tonne of other things, based in Düsseldorf. He puts together these wonderful huge photo posts of his adventures with his family and friends throughout Europe
Luke Lanchester is a developer and blogger who is probably around as long-in-the-tooth as I am. He writes mostly about software development and has loads of interesting ideas around how software is and should be
David Otton is an enigma. I know David through other people, early in my career as a developer. In my head he's one of the smartest people to ever exist. Imagine being that for someone. I bet that feels nice.
Florian Ziegler is a photographer, developer, blogger. He's really good at it. If you follow him for a while you'll probably want to do those things too; it's infectious. I don't think I can say anything nicer about someone than they inspire me to do something I already do.
Bits about Money is a blog about finance, which might not immediately appeal, but if you liked The Big Short there's probably something for you to enjoy here. The essay on debanking is one of my favourite internet reads from recent memory.
Luke Harris writes a brilliant personal blog. If you like reading about strangers' lives, I recommend adding this to your list. The design is incredibly tactile, too. No idea what it is but something about it makes me want to touch it.
Chris Martin's blog is in a weeknotes format that is relatively new, but very appealing, to me. It reminds me a lot of Spencer Tweedy's Observations blog, which is now a book and I don't think it's a blog any more. Good format; I approve.
Declan Byrd is another weeknotes blogger you should read about. His site has a theme switcher which is based on basketball trainers, so you know it's going to be good.
Interconnected is difficult to describe. If you're interested in tech, and the things that tech people are interested in, it's worth a look. I find the writing style super irreverent and funny. And you can see cursors from other people looking at the post you're looking at.
Jason Santa Maria has started blogging again, and if you're into design and typography you're probably already following it.
Phil Gyford is another weeknotes blogger and link-sharer focussed on his personal life. I haven't been following for long, but it already gets very candid, which I admire and appreciate in a personal blogger. There's obviously a time to sugar-coat things, but I think you should always be a version of yourself.
Things I find in the garbage is not a clever/self-deprecating title of some kind. This is a blog about someone who makes money going through people's trash, finding things to sell. Some of the things they find/people throw out is kinda mind-blowing. If the saying "one man's trash" was a blog.
Useless Etymology combines two things I love: the etymology of words, and useless information. If that appeals to you at all, take a look.
Weakty is a personal blog I found because Ty followed me on Mastodon. He doesn't post a lot but when he does it's entertaining and engaging.