Learn from the people I follow: 8 free resources

The builders and thinkers I read and listen to most, and where they teach for free.

I keep a directory of free ways to learn at brianpfeil.com/learn, sorted by goal, and every link opens without signing in. This is one of its paths: 8 resources, with the ones I'd start with marked ⭐.

Simon Willison

• Simon Willison's Weblog ⭐: Daily, hands-on notes on using LLMs to build software. The best single place to keep up with AI as an engineer.
• LLM: A command-line tool for talking to almost any model, local or hosted. Its docs double as a tutorial.

Lex Fridman

• Lex Fridman Podcast: Long-form conversations with AI researchers, engineers and scientists. Full episodes with transcripts.

Andrew Huberman

• Huberman Lab: How the brain and body work, and science-based habits for sleep, focus and learning.

Addy Osmani

• Patterns.dev ⭐: Design, rendering and performance patterns for modern web apps, free, including his JavaScript design patterns book.
• AddyOsmani.com: Essays from a Google engineering lead on AI-assisted coding, working with agents and web performance.

Mitchell Hashimoto

• Writing: The HashiCorp co-founder on building Ghostty, systems programming in Zig and how he works with AI agents.

Pieter Levels (@levelsio)

• levels.io: How one person ships and runs profitable products alone: building in public, keeping the stack simple, launching fast.

The up-to-date list, and the other paths (code, cloud, AI, kids and more), is at brianpfeil.com/learn/people/.