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Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?

• naturalgradient 9y ago
  Ah rather thinly veiled blog advertisement?
  • pagnol 9y ago
    She also inserted some grammatical/spelling mistakes to make it look more authentic, real' smart.
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  • yitchelle 9y ago
    Does it matter if it generates interesting and compelling content/discussion as it had done?
• nikivi 9y ago
  I keep a list of blogs I follow as a GitHub repo : https://github.com/learn-anything/blogs https://github.com/learn-anything/blogs
• skibz 9y ago
  Not as frequently updated as it used to be, but: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/
• nextos 9y ago
  http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
• Arcsech 9y ago
  Here's a dump of the "Programming" folder from my RSS reader: Aphyr's (aka the guy behind the Jepsen distributed system test series): https://aphyr.com/ https://aphyr.com/ Fred Herbert, the author of Learn You Some Erlang: http://ferd.ca/ http://ferd.ca/ Eevee, who posts a mishmash of stuff about programming in general but these days is mostly focussed on games: https://eev.ee/ https://eev.ee/ Tef/Programming is Terrible, which features strong opinions about programming/programmers: http://programmingisterrible.com http://programmingisterrible.com Matt Kline, who posts mainly about low-level stuff and embedded systems: http://bitbashing.io/ http://bitbashing.io/ Evan Miller, whose blog topics are wide-ranging: http://www.evanmiller.org/ http://www.evanmiller.org/ tptacek, who can be seen tirelessly defending common sense in the comments on this very site: https://sockpuppet.org https://sockpuppet.org Sonniesedge, who talks about front-end stuff and the human impact of programming: https://sonniesedge.co.uk/blog/ https://sonniesedge.co.uk/blog/ Carin Meier, who posts most often, but not exclusively, about Clojure: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/ http://gigasquidsoftware.com/ Also Julia Evans, as mentioned in the OP.
  • mosen 9y ago
    I found the Sonniesedge blog to rely quite heavily on expletives and anger. It's a shame: there are some great articles in there, but it becomes hard to read. This, for example: https://sonniesedge.co.uk/blog/progressive-enhancement https://sonniesedge.co.uk/blog/progressive-enhancement
  • c0ffeekat 9y ago
    I follow Eevee on twitter, love their content, for some reason I always find it inspiring for my own projects
• briansteffens 9y ago
  Mostly Haskell-related: http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts.html http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts.html
• hprotagonist 9y ago
  - aphyr - scott hansleman - coding horror - decyphering glyph - eric lippert
• xref 9y ago
  If you like Julia Evans style you may also like Charity Majors aka @mipsytipsy on twitter https://charity.wtf/ https://charity.wtf/ Also I use the open source Django project Newsblur as my RSS reader, and follow Samuel's blog: http://blog.newsblur.com/ http://blog.newsblur.com/ A couple others I like: https://watirmelon.blog https://watirmelon.blog https://martinfowler.com https://martinfowler.com
• nikanj 9y ago
  I follow https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
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• ryanschneider 9y ago
  Mike Ash has started posting again after a long hiatus: https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/ https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/ The URL is very misleading, his blog is about Objective-C (and now Swift) internals, in a very loose way like an "Old New Thing" for Apple's tech stack (w/o the insider knowledge parts, he's not an Apple employee).
• jvns 9y ago
  Dan Luu has a list of programming blogs you might like: https://danluu.com/programming-blogs/ https://danluu.com/programming-blogs/. The rest of his blog is good too! a few of my favorite blogs: - http://blog.acolyer.org http://blog.acolyer.org for fantastic daily summaries of CS papers. - http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/ http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/ -- she has a business creating a new compression algorithm and I love reading about it - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ is pure gold for weird debugging stories - https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/ https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/ is always a fun read - http://wingolog.org/ http://wingolog.org/ on building compilers - http://composition.al/blog http://composition.al/blog -- Lindsey Kuper on her programming languages research - aphyr's blog on distributed systems, of course - https://charity.wtf/ https://charity.wtf/ - http://www.pgbovine.net/writings.htm http://www.pgbovine.net/writings.htm -- Philip Guo is a CS professor whose blog on his experiences in academia I really like - http://whilefalse.blogspot.com http://whilefalse.blogspot.com by Camille Fournier, mostly on engineering management - http://larahogan.me/blog/ http://larahogan.me/blog/ by Lara Hogan, on engineering management Also I think this comment from Dan's blog (https://danluu.com/about/ https://danluu.com/about/) is very true and important: > I view that as a sign there’s a desperate shortage of understandable explanation of technical topics. There’s nothing here that most of my co-workers don’t know (with the exception of maybe three or four posts where I propose novel ideas). It’s just that they don’t blog and I do. I’m not going to try to convince you to start writing a blog, since that has to be something you want to do, but I will point out that there’s a large gap that’s waiting to be filled by your knowledge. When I started writing this blog, I figured almost no one would ever read it; sure Joel Spolsky and Steve Yegge created widely read blogs, but that was back when almost no one was blogging. Now that there are millions of blogs, there’s just no way to start a new blog and get noticed. Turns out that’s not true. I really think there is a shortage of understandable explanations of technical topics, and I see new people writing great posts clarifying complicated technical topics all the time. And I find people really do notice/appreciate it. So if you're excited about blogging, maybe do it :)
  • rch 9y ago
    The Morning Paper (http://blog.acolyer.org http://blog.acolyer.org) is the only source mentioned so far that I go out of my way to read. Highly recommended.
• crispytx 9y ago
  PHP on Acid ;) https://phponacid.com https://phponacid.com
• Entangled 9y ago
  Not a blog but daily articles from Medium bloggers by language, much better: https://medium.com/tag/swift/latest https://medium.com/tag/swift/latest https://medium.com/tag/kotlin/latest https://medium.com/tag/kotlin/latest
  • tra3 9y ago
    That's a great way to discover interesting content. Thanks for posting!
• gk1 9y ago
  https://www.highscalability.com https://www.highscalability.com - good devops articles and link roundups
  • BenoitP 9y ago
    +1 ; especially for the "Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability" Friday digest.
• romgrk 9y ago
  Robert Martin: http://blog.cleancoder.com/ http://blog.cleancoder.com/
• tomcam 9y ago
  As a nod to HN I confess its front page acts as a wonderful filter. So while I do not follow blogs, I get a really good stuff from here.
  • pmontra 9y ago
    Seconded. I also subscribe some of Cooper Press *-weekly digests https://cooperpress.com/publications/ https://cooperpress.com/publications/ The idea is the same: a curated list of links to some posts on a zillion of different blogs.
    • dangraziano 9y ago
      Yeah Cooper Press are fantastic, particuarly JavaScript Weekly, Ruby Weekly and React Status.
  • amelius 9y ago
    It would be nice if HN provided a list of the user's most upvoted websites. That way, you can easily figure out what your favorite blog is :)
  • humanrebar 9y ago
    Same here. I haven't been able to find an RSS reader I love since Google Reader went under. I'm loving all the blog recommendations I get here, but I don't see how I can follow the content reliably like I can with my favorite podcasts.
    • alkhatib 9y ago
      Have you tried Feedly?
      • humanrebar 9y ago
        Yeah, it didn't take for reasons I can't really recall offhand. Maybe I'll give it another shot.
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• zbuttram 9y ago
  Surprised to see http://2ality.com/ http://2ality.com/ missing. First place I go for every new JavaScript lang feature/proposal.
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• psbrandt 9y ago
  https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs There's also an OPML file that you can import into Feedly.
• ZedDogX 9y ago
  I listen to a few podcasts but don't religiously follow any one particular person on blogs. I just find blog posts about what i want to do and learn from that, maybe poke around a while after.
• abglassman 9y ago
  https://eklitzke.org/ https://eklitzke.org/ http://www.onebigfluke.com/ http://www.onebigfluke.com/
• andythemoron 9y ago
  Julia Evans' blog is one of my favorites! It was a big inspiration for starting my own blog (https://andythemoron.com https://andythemoron.com). I also love High Scalability and Dan Luu's blog which have been mentioned in other comments. I "follow" several which are mostly defunct, but in terms of blogs that still feature active updates: Evan Klitze's blog: lots of topics around Linux, C++, etc. https://eklitzke.org/ https://eklitzke.org/ Sutter's Mill: lots of "state of the world" for C++, but also context, history, etc. https://herbsutter.com/ https://herbsutter.com/ IT Hare: C++, game programming http://ithare.com/ http://ithare.com/ The Erlangelist: Erlang/Elixir http://theerlangelist.com/ http://theerlangelist.com/ null program: lots of miscellaneous topics http://nullprogram.com/ http://nullprogram.com/ Fluent C++: the name speaks for itself http://www.fluentcpp.com/ http://www.fluentcpp.com/ Another Programmer's Blog: Linux, C, C++, C#, MSSQL https://www.stev.org/ https://www.stev.org/
• deepakkarki 9y ago
  I have created this as a side project of mine :) https://discoverdev.io https://discoverdev.io It's a curated and tagged list of company blogposts - published every weekday (or whenever I get 5-10 good links for the day)! As of now it is limited to only engineering blogs. To know more, visit : https://www.discoverdev.io/about https://www.discoverdev.io/about
  • firstbabylonian 9y ago
    Please consider adding hyperlinks to the articles themselves in your RSS entries: right now it's a useless bullet point list of titles: https://www.discoverdev.io/rss.xml https://www.discoverdev.io/rss.xml
    • deepakkarki 9y ago
      Holy! I didn't notice that at all. I thought I was already adding hyperlinks! Thanks for letting me know :)
• gkelly 9y ago
  Here is a similar question from a few months ago, which resulted in a pretty great list of blogs and twitters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520891
• philip1209 9y ago
  I've been impressed by the Sourcegraph blog lately: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/ https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/
• jrochkind1 9y ago
  I run an aggregator for ruby-related blogs and other news feeds. http://rubyland.news http://rubyland.news
• Entangled 9y ago
  For those who like newsletters delivered to their inbox: https://github.com/vredniy/awesome-newsletters https://github.com/vredniy/awesome-newsletters Enough programming news for a lifetime, or two.
• acemarke 9y ago
  Wayyyyy too many :) A few months back I wrote a Reddit comment listing "just" the high-quality React-related blogs that I read : https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/5t8loz/what_are_your_top_reactreact_native_blogs_that/ https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/5t8loz/what_are_yo... . I read a lot more besides that. To pick out just a few: - Scott Hanselman: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ - Robert O'Callahan: http://robert.ocallahan.org/ http://robert.ocallahan.org/ - Henrik Warne: https://henrikwarne.com/ https://henrikwarne.com/ - Andrew Wulf ("The Codist"): http://thecodist.com/ http://thecodist.com/ - Lin Clark: https://code-cartoons.com/ https://code-cartoons.com/ . (Her actual blog hasn't been updated in a while, but she's also posted many in-depth articles to Mozilla organization blogs over the last few months.) And while I don't think
  • harigov 9y ago
    How do you manage to keep yourself updated on all of these?
    • acemarke 9y ago
      Easy - RSS feeds :) I use BazQux Reader, which is basically a modern incarnation of Google Reader. Simple, works, and totally worth the $20 subscription. All the blogs I just listed, plus a whole bunch more, are in my "Programming - High Quality" folder - anything new in that folder is likely to be pretty good, but the total amount of traffic is relatively low. I also subscribe to several blog aggregators like EchoJS, JavascriptKicks, DZone, Planet Python, etc. Those go in a separate folder that has a lot more volume, and I skim the titles to pick out what's interesting. Then there's the "General" category, and so on. It's a shame RSS feeds seem to have been mostly ignored after the death of Google Reader. They're a _fantastic_ way to stay up to date with a wide variety of sites.
• sidcool 9y ago
  Most of the ones I read are covered here. Would like to add http://dev.to http://dev.to
• atsaloli 9y ago
  http://codesimplicity.com/ http://codesimplicity.com/ for fundamentals of software design and improving code bases
• panic 9y ago
  Here are a bunch of blogs from my RSS reader that I think are worth reading. Some of them haven't updated in a while, but the archives may be worth a look anyway. * Blogs with a math focus: http://blog.sigfpe.com http://blog.sigfpe.com http://bit-player.org http://bit-player.org http://mathr.co.uk/blog/ http://mathr.co.uk/blog/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/ * Blogs with a programming languages focus: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com https://existentialtype.wordpress.com https://bluishcoder.co.nz https://bluishcoder.co.nz http://blog.ezyang.com http://blog.ezyang.com http://akkartik.name http://akkartik.name http://lambda-the-ultimate.org http://lambda-the-ultimate.org http://mrale.ph http://mrale.ph * Blogs with a UI design focus: http://www.brandonwalkin.com/blog/ http://www.brandonwalkin.com/blog/ http://ignorethecode.net/blog/ http://ignorethecode.net/blog/ http://interuserface.net http://interuserface.net * Blogs with a graphics / 3D rendering focus: http://c0de517e.blogspot.com http://c0de517e.blogspot.com http://diaryofagraphicsprogrammer.blogspot.com http://diaryofagraphicsprogrammer.blogspot.com https://directtovideo.wordpress.com https://directtovideo.wordpress.com http://graphicrants.blogspot.com http://graphicrants.blogspot.com http://www.reedbeta.com http://www.reedbeta.com http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/ http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/ https://blog.demofox.org https://blog.demofox.org http://eelpi.gotdns.org/blog.wiki.html http://eelpi.gotdns.org/blog.wiki.html * Other interesting / more general programming blogs (many of these have a "systems" focus): http://danluu.com http://danluu.com http://ewontfix.com http://ewontfix.com http://chneukirchen.org/blog/ http://chneukirchen.org/blog/ http://neverworkintheory.org http://neverworkintheory.org http://apenwarr.ca/log/ http://apenwarr.ca/log/ https://www.snellman.net/blog/ https://www.snellman.net/blog/ https://www.pvk.ca https://www.pvk.ca http://psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com http://psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com https://randomascii.wordpress.com https://randomascii.wordpress.com http://fastcompression.blogspot.com http://fastcompression.blogspot.com https://fgiesen.wordpress.com https://fgiesen.wordpress.com http://blog.plover.com http://blog.plover.com http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/ http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/
• wizzerking 9y ago
  Since i do a lot of image stuff with OpenCV pyimagesearch.com
• weishigoname 9y ago
  some machine learning blog I like to follow is http://karpathy.github.io http://karpathy.github.io
• gogopuppygogo 9y ago
  http://www.catonmat.net http://www.catonmat.net is excellent. I'm also a fan of the comics the author Peter Krumins puts out https://comic.browserling.com/ https://comic.browserling.com/
• karthik_ir 9y ago
  martinfowler.com
• purpleidea 9y ago
  The Technical Blog of James https://ttboj.wordpress.com/ https://ttboj.wordpress.com/ Source: Author
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• lurrr 9y ago
  I'm actually surprised no one mentioned these two Eli Bendersky http://eli.thegreenplace.net/ http://eli.thegreenplace.net/ Jeff Preshing http://preshing.com/ http://preshing.com/
• codeforgeek 9y ago
  https://codeforgeek.com https://codeforgeek.com https://scotch.io https://scotch.io Hackernoon medium and free code camp. Video courses at plural and Edx.
• duykhoa12t 9y ago
  I read from https://robots.thoughtbot.com/ https://robots.thoughtbot.com/.
• av3csr 9y ago
  When he was updating it, shakes fist http://fabiensanglard.net/ http://fabiensanglard.net/
• blojayble 9y ago
  http://www.bfilipek.com/ http://www.bfilipek.com/ C++ stuff
• johnny_reilly 9y ago
  The Morning Brew: "a daily .NET software development link blog published by Chris Alcock" It's like a daily readers digest of software development stuff. And the tagline just quoted is a little out of date - it's got a strong .NET leaning but that's not the only thing on there. http://blog.cwa.me.uk/ http://blog.cwa.me.uk/
• ahamedirshad123 9y ago
  +1 for Julia Evans blog
• nezo 9y ago
  Airbnb Engineering & Data Science https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering
• turingbook 9y ago
  If you can read Chinese, Meituan-Dianping Engineering Blog is a must-read: https://tech.meituan.com/ https://tech.meituan.com/
• fapjacks 9y ago
  Windytan (Oona Räisänen), absolutely phenomenal hacker: http://www.windytan.com/ http://www.windytan.com/
• gmanolache 9y ago
  The Practical Dev https://dev.to/ https://dev.to/
• executesorder66 9y ago
  https://www.nayuki.io/ https://www.nayuki.io/ Lots of high quality code examples in a variety of languages.
• theknarf 9y ago
  Let's see. Often when I find something interesting on HN or Reddit I might see if the author writes other interesting posts and subscribe to their blog on Feedly. I currently have a few hundred sources that I subscribe to so it might be a bit hard for me to choose which "blogs" I'd promote. But there are some: - https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/ - http://www.pentadact.com/ http://www.pentadact.com/ - http://procworld.blogspot.no/ http://procworld.blogspot.no/ - https://moviecode.tumblr.com/ https://moviecode.tumblr.com/ - http://hackaday.com/ http://hackaday.com/ - https://research.googleblog.com/ https://research.googleblog.com/ - https://gpuofthebrain.com/ https://gpuofthebrain.com/ - https://xkcd.com/ https://xkcd.com/ - http://oglaf.com/ http://oglaf.com/ This is an almost random selection of some of the blogs that I subscribe to.
• adyimpulse 9y ago
  https://reprog.wordpress.com/ https://reprog.wordpress.com/ is a great one i discovered recently.
• toomanybeersies 9y ago
  Not strictly programming, but Troy Hunt on Security (https://www.troyhunt.com/ https://www.troyhunt.com/) is really good. He's the guy behind Have I Been Pwned (https://haveibeenpwned.com/ https://haveibeenpwned.com/).
• amiralles 9y ago
  Eric Lippert's blog https://ericlippert.com/ https://ericlippert.com/ He used to write about C#, mostly. Now he is into functional programming. Awesome content.
• NwmG 9y ago
  I am a big fan of the bolt blog. https://blog.bolt.io/ https://blog.bolt.io/ Its a hardware/hardware startup blog written by what looks like a full(ish) stack hardware VC.
• pedrodelfino 9y ago
  Paul Graham - www.paulgraham.com Eli Bendersky http://eli.thegreenplace.net/ http://eli.thegreenplace.net/ FreeCodeCamp/Quincy Larson on Medium
• md365 9y ago
  www.simform.com/blog - on IoT & product engineering
• thlst 9y ago
  https://blog.regehr.org https://blog.regehr.org for undefined behavior lovers.