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Ask HN: Good tech blogs to read

79 points by dhruvrrp 10y ago

I recently started reading again and I was looking for some good tech blogs to read. I tried Mashable/Gizmodo/zdnet but their junk to good read ratio is really high. I'm looking for something more like the old new thing [1], but I've come to really enjoy. [1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

kilimchoi 10y ago
Here you go, https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
sumodirjo 10y ago
Also this one : https://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs https://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs
thaiphanvevo 10y ago
I'm a pretty big fan of Scott Hanselman! http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ http://www.hanselman.com/blog/
Analemma_ 10y ago
It would help to clarify what you mean by "tech blog". "Tech" encompasses a lot, and most blogs (aggregators aside) are single-issue or few-issue because most people are knowledgeable about only a few things. What specifically are you looking for?
santoshmaharshi 10y ago
It's a community blog, news for nerds, stuff that matters :). http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org http://techdirt.com http://techdirt.com - for techno legal matters. http://techmmeme.com http://techmmeme.com - aggregator of blogs & news sits.
- mcrump 10y ago
  It's http://techmeme.com/ http://techmeme.com/
roryisok 10y ago
Jeff Atwoods codinghorror.com is good. Rarely updated though.
testingalert 10y ago
http://testingalert.com/api-testing/api-manual/ http://testingalert.com/api-testing/api-manual/
animeshk 10y ago
Kilimchoi's link is a great repository! If you want some more good blogs and you tube channels to follow, take a look at my collection here.. http://searchtrack.co/viewproject/203/good-tech-blogs-to-follow?rc=120594565rcXCEQyvinJylCn%26source=socialquo http://searchtrack.co/viewproject/203/good-tech-blogs-to-fol...
icebraining 10y ago
I don't know any blog quite like Raymond's, but the more technical ones I like are: Jan-Piet Mens (mostly protocols and IoT) - http://jpmens.net/ http://jpmens.net/ Absorptions (Oona Räisänen's excellent hacking around signals of all kinds) - http://www.windytan.com/ http://www.windytan.com/
marmot777 10y ago
Here's some good ones: * http://joelonsoftware.com/ http://joelonsoftware.com/ * https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/ * http://joelonsoftware.com/ http://joelonsoftware.com/ * http://martinfowler.com/ http://martinfowler.com/ * http://www.hanselman.com/ http://www.hanselman.com/ * https://www.grahamcluley.com/ https://www.grahamcluley.com/
- fazkan 10y ago
  You added joelonsoftware twice, if I were you I would add it one more time, just to show how important it is....
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  - marmot777 10y ago
    sorry i copied and pasted those from a text file. It was a mistake.
- usernamebias 10y ago
  Those are all great! One thing I've never understood is the ironic shitty web design of these blogs. I understand some of these websites are as they were way back when it was started, I can see the nostalgia effect there. Can someone add to the reasons?
stacktips 10y ago
http://stacktips.com/ http://stacktips.com/
archagon 10y ago
The Procedural World blog — about the development of a complex procedural-generation-centric engine and development tool — is quite a read: http://procworld.blogspot.com http://procworld.blogspot.com
afarrell 10y ago
I've never seen a Julia Evans post that wasn't super informative. http://jvns.ca/ http://jvns.ca/
HealthyTree 10y ago
A few that I follow on a semi-regular basis: https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com http://highscalability.com http://highscalability.com http://techblog.netflix.com http://techblog.netflix.com http://www.natpryce.com http://www.natpryce.com https://8thlight.com/blog/ https://8thlight.com/blog/ https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com https://www.smashingmagazine.com http://blog.crisp.se/author/henrikkniberg http://blog.crisp.se/author/henrikkniberg https://m.signalvnoise.com https://m.signalvnoise.com https://dannorth.net/blog/ https://dannorth.net/blog/ https://codeascraft.com https://codeascraft.com
bbotond 10y ago
A very good one if you are interested in (mostly .NET-based) application architecture is Jimmy Bogard's blog on Los Techies: https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/ https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/ Some great posts: https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2016/06/13/10-lessons-from-a-long-running-ddd-project-part-1/ https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2016/06/13/10-lessons-fro... https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2016/06/20/10-lessons-from-a-long-running-ddd-project-part-2/ https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2016/06/20/10-lessons-fro... https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/10/08/favor-query-objects-over-repositories/ https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/10/08/favor-query-ob...
akulbe 10y ago
It surprises me that no one has suggested Patrick McKenzie's (patio11 here on HN) blog. So much value there. http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/
- akulbe 10y ago
  For that matter, there is a lot of great stuff in just reading his comments on the threads here on HN.
probinso 10y ago
Jeremy Kun's blog is exceptional
qwertyuiop924 10y ago
The man, the myth, the legend Steve Yegge's blog(s) are worth reading if you haven't yet: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/blog-rants https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/blog-rants http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ Armin Ronacher's blog is also excellent: http://lucumr.pocoo.org http://lucumr.pocoo.org For the Schemer, or the compiler hacker, Andy Wingo's blog is fantastic http://wingolog.org http://wingolog.org For insights into debugging, kernels, and debugging kernels, Bredan Gregg's blog is fantastic. http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/index.html http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/index.html Finally, I wish to list a non-blog: and unblog, or perhaps the remnants of a blog once passed. This is an archive of John Carmack's .plan between 1996, and about 2005. https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive It is still a fascinating read.

79 points by dhruvrrp 10y ago

kilimchoi 10y ago

Here you go, https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

sumodirjo 10y ago

Also this one : https://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs https://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs

thaiphanvevo 10y ago

I'm a pretty big fan of Scott Hanselman! http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ http://www.hanselman.com/blog/

Analemma_ 10y ago

It would help to clarify what you mean by "tech blog". "Tech" encompasses a lot, and most blogs (aggregators aside) are single-issue or few-issue because most people are knowledgeable about only a few things. What specifically are you looking for?

santoshmaharshi 10y ago

It's a community blog, news for nerds, stuff that matters :). http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org http://techdirt.com http://techdirt.com - for techno legal matters. http://techmmeme.com http://techmmeme.com - aggregator of blogs & news sits.

mcrump 10y ago
It's http://techmeme.com/ http://techmeme.com/

roryisok 10y ago

Jeff Atwoods codinghorror.com is good. Rarely updated though.

testingalert 10y ago

http://testingalert.com/api-testing/api-manual/ http://testingalert.com/api-testing/api-manual/

animeshk 10y ago

Kilimchoi's link is a great repository! If you want some more good blogs and you tube channels to follow, take a look at my collection here.. http://searchtrack.co/viewproject/203/good-tech-blogs-to-follow?rc=120594565rcXCEQyvinJylCn%26source=socialquo http://searchtrack.co/viewproject/203/good-tech-blogs-to-fol...

icebraining 10y ago

I don't know any blog quite like Raymond's, but the more technical ones I like are: Jan-Piet Mens (mostly protocols and IoT) - http://jpmens.net/ http://jpmens.net/ Absorptions (Oona Räisänen's excellent hacking around signals of all kinds) - http://www.windytan.com/ http://www.windytan.com/

marmot777 10y ago

Here's some good ones: * http://joelonsoftware.com/ http://joelonsoftware.com/ * https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/ * http://joelonsoftware.com/ http://joelonsoftware.com/ * http://martinfowler.com/ http://martinfowler.com/ * http://www.hanselman.com/ http://www.hanselman.com/ * https://www.grahamcluley.com/ https://www.grahamcluley.com/

fazkan 10y ago
You added joelonsoftware twice, if I were you I would add it one more time, just to show how important it is....
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- marmot777 10y ago
  sorry i copied and pasted those from a text file. It was a mistake.
usernamebias 10y ago
Those are all great! One thing I've never understood is the ironic shitty web design of these blogs. I understand some of these websites are as they were way back when it was started, I can see the nostalgia effect there. Can someone add to the reasons?

stacktips 10y ago

http://stacktips.com/ http://stacktips.com/

archagon 10y ago

The Procedural World blog — about the development of a complex procedural-generation-centric engine and development tool — is quite a read: http://procworld.blogspot.com http://procworld.blogspot.com

afarrell 10y ago

I've never seen a Julia Evans post that wasn't super informative. http://jvns.ca/ http://jvns.ca/

HealthyTree 10y ago

A few that I follow on a semi-regular basis: https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com http://highscalability.com http://highscalability.com http://techblog.netflix.com http://techblog.netflix.com http://www.natpryce.com http://www.natpryce.com https://8thlight.com/blog/ https://8thlight.com/blog/ https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com https://www.smashingmagazine.com http://blog.crisp.se/author/henrikkniberg http://blog.crisp.se/author/henrikkniberg https://m.signalvnoise.com https://m.signalvnoise.com https://dannorth.net/blog/ https://dannorth.net/blog/ https://codeascraft.com https://codeascraft.com

bbotond 10y ago

A very good one if you are interested in (mostly .NET-based) application architecture is Jimmy Bogard's blog on Los Techies: https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/ https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/ Some great posts: https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2016/06/13/10-lessons-from-a-long-running-ddd-project-part-1/ https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2016/06/13/10-lessons-fro... https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2016/06/20/10-lessons-from-a-long-running-ddd-project-part-2/ https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2016/06/20/10-lessons-fro... https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/10/08/favor-query-objects-over-repositories/ https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/10/08/favor-query-ob...

akulbe 10y ago

It surprises me that no one has suggested Patrick McKenzie's (patio11 here on HN) blog. So much value there. http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/

akulbe 10y ago
For that matter, there is a lot of great stuff in just reading his comments on the threads here on HN.

probinso 10y ago

Jeremy Kun's blog is exceptional

qwertyuiop924 10y ago

The man, the myth, the legend Steve Yegge's blog(s) are worth reading if you haven't yet: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/blog-rants https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/blog-rants http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ Armin Ronacher's blog is also excellent: http://lucumr.pocoo.org http://lucumr.pocoo.org For the Schemer, or the compiler hacker, Andy Wingo's blog is fantastic http://wingolog.org http://wingolog.org For insights into debugging, kernels, and debugging kernels, Bredan Gregg's blog is fantastic. http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/index.html http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/index.html Finally, I wish to list a non-blog: and unblog, or perhaps the remnants of a blog once passed. This is an archive of John Carmack's .plan between 1996, and about 2005. https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive It is still a fascinating read.