33 Developers you MUST Subscribe to as a JavaScript Junkie

As JavaScript developers, we have quite crazy requirements. The playing field is in a state of constant flux and one of the best ways to keep up is interacting with other developers and reading their code. Blogs, such as the one you’re reading, are a perfect amalgamation of these two activities.

Today, I’d like to bring your attention to a number of blogs written by pretty well versed developers, focusing on JavaScript development, that you owe yourselves to bookmark.

A Quick Word on my Choices

Even though these blogs aren’t updated often, in fact a lot of them get updated maybe thrice a year, the content they do have are worth their weight in, well, smartly written JavaScript. The developers below vary from wildly popular to almost obscure but they have one thing in common — their passion for JavaScript.

I’ve limited myself to a cliff notes version of each dev to keep it short. Don’t loiter around — click on those links and get reading!

John Resig

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Creator of the jQuery library, Sizzle selector engine and the JavaScript port of Processing.
• Author of Pro JavaScript Techniques and JavaScript Secrets.
• Works at Mozilla.
• Tweets at @jeresig

Douglas Crockford

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of JavaScript: The Good Parts
• Popularized JSON.
• Works at Yahoo.
• Lectures on JavaScript

Dean Edwards

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Creator of IE7.js and cssQuery.
• Creator of the incredibly useful Packer script

Nicholas C. Zakas

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of a multitude of books including High Performance JavaScript, Professional JavaScript and Professional AJAX.
• Contributor to the YUI library.
• Works at Yahoo.
• Tweets at @slicknet

Dustin Diaz

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of Pro JavaScript Design Patterns.
• Works at Twitter.
• Tweets at @ded

Brendan Eich

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Inventor of the JavaScript language.
• Works at Mozilla.
• Remember to check out his podcast, as well.
• Tweets at @BrendanEich

David Flanagan

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, jQuery Pocket Reference and Canvas Pocket Reference.
• Tweets at @__DavidFlanagan

Thomas Fuchs

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Core team member of the Prototype library.
• Author of the script.aculo.us library.
• Ruby on Rails core alumnus.
• Tweets at @thomasfuchs

Paul Irish

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Lead developer of HTML5 Boilerplate and Modernizr.
• jQuery core team member.
• Works at Google.
• Tweets at @paul_irish

Yehuda Katz

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Core team member at Ruby on Rails.
• jQuery core team member.
• Co-author of jQuery in Action.
• Tweets at @wycats

Juriy Zaytsev

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Prototype core team member.
• Github repos here.
• Tweets at @kangax

Peter van der Zee

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Creator of the JS1K competition
• Tweets at @kuvos

Stoyan Stefanov

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of the book JavaScript Patterns.
• Creator of smush.it.
• Works at Facebook.
• Tweets at @stoyanstefanov

Dmitry Baranovskiy

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of the Raphaël library.
• Tweets at @DmitryBaranovsk

Lucas Smith

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• YUI team member
• Tweets at @ls_n

Ben Alman

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Contributor to the jQuery and Modernizr projects.
• Creator of so many jQuery plugins that we’re ethically obligated to use the word buttload.
• Tweets at @cowboy

Rey Bango

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• jQuery team member.
• Works at Microsoft.
• Tweets at @reybango

Remy Sharp

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of Introducing HTML5
• Runs jQuery for Designers.
• Tweets at @rem

Cody Lindley

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of jQuery Enlightenment and co author of jQuery Cookbook.
• Tweets at @codylindley

James Padolsey

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Co-author of jQuery Cookbook.
• Creator of jQuery Lint.
• Tweets at @padolsey

Oliver Steele

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Creator of the Functional library.
• Github repos here.
• Tweets at @osteele.

Ben Cherry

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Works at Twitter.
• Github repos here.
• Tweets at @bcherry

Michael Bolin

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of Closure: The Definitive Guide.
• Tweets at @bolinfest

James Coglan

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of the Faye and Sylvester libraries.
• Github repos here.
• Tweets at @jcoglan

Angus Croll

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Works at Twitter.
• Tweets at @angusTweets

John-David Dalton

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of the FuseJS library.
• Github repos here.
• Tweets at @jdalton

Andrea Giammarchi

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Works at Nokia.
• Tweets at @WebReflection

Peter Michaux

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Dude is a darn enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in mystery. The articles are pretty much one of the best you’ll get to read so don’t miss out.

Christian Heilmann

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Author of Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax and Web Development Solutions: Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made Easy.
• Works at Mozilla.
• Tweets at @codepo8

Dion Almaer

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Founder of Ajaxian.
• Tweets at @dalmaer

Rebecca Murphey

• Find her musings on JavaScript at her blog.
• Author of jQuery fundamentals.
• Co-author of jQuery Cookbook.
• Tweets at @rmurphey

David Walsh

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Member of the MooTools team.
• Tweets at @davidwalshblog

Addy Osmani

• Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.
• Member of the jQuery team [bug triage and API docs].
• Tweets at @addyosmani

That’s a Wrap!

I’m sure a lot of you are frothing at the mouth by this list not including someone. Fret not! Chime in below and I’ll make sure to keep this list periodically updated.