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Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
- harshadura 15y agohacker news!! xD
- cpfohl 15y agonews.ycombinator.com
- Pawka 15y agohttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/2075066/what-are-good-php-and-mysql-type-blogs-to-read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2075066/what-are-good-php...
- benbscholz 15y agoThis summer I really enjoyed reading the joelonsoftware archives. The last update was mid-September, but the previous posts kept me busy for quite some time.
- dustingetz 15y agothis stuff never seems to be highly upvoted on HN anymore, and if it gets to +30 there's only a few comments, i speculate because new-school HNers don't understand or care. so i track them myself. best two advanced swegr blogs ever: http://prog21.dadgum.com/ -- swegr, fp theory http://www.johndcook.com/blog/ -- swegr, fp theory other advanced swegr blogs. we're not talking atwood and joel, here, that stuff is for college kids. http://blog.tmorris.net/ -- swegr, fp/tactics http://james-iry.blogspot.com/ -- fp/tactics http://playingwithpointers.com/ -- philosophy, fp/tactics life http://www.jasonshen.com/ -- "Art of Ass Kicking" (life) http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/ -- "Strategy, Philosophy, Self-Discipline, Science. Victory." (life) http://dilbert.com/blog -- politics & life fwiw, after having digested much of this material, I've moved on to reading all the interesting whitepapers I can find, mostly via my social networks. That's the really advanced stuff. I've been meaning to collect them and summarize many to post to HN. nag me.
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- manveru 15y agoSorry, but neither DDG nor Google know about the term "swegr", what does it stand for?
- count 15y agoGiven context, 'software engineering', I would assume. Strange way to write it though...
- rhubarbquid 15y agoAt first, I assumed it was some programming language I had never heard of ;-)
- sparky 15y agoSoftWare EnGineeRing.
- skrebbel 15y agoAh. Around here we've always always called that poing. For "PrOgrammING"
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoTwo fantastic ways of saving a few characters at the expense of clarity...
- atomicdog 15y agoI'd hate to see this guy's variable naming convention :O
- nait 15y agoUsing random characters you're lucky you didn't use the first, third, fifth and tenth character as a "descriptive" term. ;) And a bit on topic even though it's not a blog. How about "The Bug of the Month" of the makers of lint? http://www.gimpel.com/html/bugs.htm http://www.gimpel.com/html/bugs.htm A bit obscure but definately broadens the pool of error behavior concepts.
- mrspandex 15y agohttp://www.thedailywtf.com/ http://www.thedailywtf.com/
- ochronus 15y agohttp://blog.mostof.it/ http://blog.mostof.it/
- ochronus 15y agohttp://blog.mostof.it/ http://blog.mostof.it/
- lemming 15y agoThe best blogs don't have daily content. In fact, the best blogs usually post once a month, or less - often much less. Here are some: http://prog21.dadgum.com http://prog21.dadgum.com http://www.moserware.com http://www.moserware.com http://ridiculousfish.com/blog http://ridiculousfish.com/blog http://wingolog.org/ http://wingolog.org/
- stevek 15y agoEntertaining rants, compression (data & image) & general sweng. http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/ http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/
- octopus 15y agohttp://altdevblogaday.com/ http://altdevblogaday.com/ This is a blog with multiple authors, so I check this once a day.
- MaxGfeller 15y agohttp://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ is also an interesting blog to read.
- taypo 15y agoMore on the management side of development, but I like rands a lot http://www.randsinrepose.com/ http://www.randsinrepose.com/
- sidwyn 15y agoAre my eyes playing tricks on me or is the title supposed to read 'What programming blogs do you read daily?' instead of 'What programming blogs your read daily?' Both have subtle differences that poke at the perfectionist in me.
- Omnipresent 15y agohttp://martinfowler.com/tags/ http://martinfowler.com/tags/
- messel 15y agoHere are the ones in my reader, admittedly I haven't visited often enough over the past couple of months: http://www.igvita.com/ http://www.igvita.com/ http://ejohn.org/ http://ejohn.org/ http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/ http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/ (Denny covers assembly and networking issues often in great detail) http://buhrmi.tumblr.com/ http://buhrmi.tumblr.com/ http://elegantcode.com/ http://elegantcode.com/ http://72lions.com/ http://72lions.com/ http://kellabyte.com/ http://kellabyte.com/ (mobile-ish dev) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://ihumanable.com/blog http://ihumanable.com/blog http://4loc.wordpress.com/ http://4loc.wordpress.com/ http://www.maxogden.com/ http://www.maxogden.com/ http://till.klampaeckel.de/blog/ http://till.klampaeckel.de/blog/ http://www.quirkey.com/blog http://www.quirkey.com/blog http://www.mikealrogers.com/ http://www.mikealrogers.com/ http://cocoawithlove.com/ http://cocoawithlove.com/
- naner 15y agohttp://stevehanov.ca/blog/ http://stevehanov.ca/blog/ -- Updates infrequently. Very good programming articles. http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/ http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/ -- Updates infrequently. Good articles on Linux and Programming. Start here: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/best-of http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/best-of http://catonmat.net http://catonmat.net -- He doesn't update much anymore since he's working on his startup but the archives are still good. Mostly unix tools and CompSci stuff IIRC. http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/ http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/ -- Curates unix and plan9 articles and some lower level/systems programming stuff with a few other peculiarities sprinkled in. http://www.foldl.org/ http://www.foldl.org/ -- Curated programming/compsci stuff from certain subreddits. Didn't last long, archives still have some gems. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ -- I actually don't read the articles that often anymore but I scan the titles as if it were a ticker of what's going on in the programming world. If someone could point me to more curated sources like foldl, I'd appreciate it. Non-programming: http://ryanholiday.net http://ryanholiday.net -- http://www.ryanholiday.net/an-introduction-to-me/ http://www.ryanholiday.net/an-introduction-to-me/ http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ -- I skip the pharma articles that are way over my head. Cultural deconstructionism.
- robyates 15y ago+1 for Steve Hanov's blog. I enjoyed his post about how programmers/HR review your resume: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=56 http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=56
- pwelch 15y agoDuartes' articles are really well written. I had forgotten about his blog. Thanks for re-posting it.
- duck 15y agoI use to have a very big list that I would consume via RSS. I kept making the list smaller and smaller as I wasn't checking it very often and thought that was the reason. Then I realized why: for the most part I was seeing the best of those articles on HN. So now, for my daily reads, it is 100% HN + some curated newsletters I'm subscribed too.
- pestaa 15y agoPlease share your preferred newsletters -- I can't seem to find the good ones.
- duck 15y agoPeter Cooper has three of them that are hard to beat: http://rubyweekly.com http://rubyweekly.com, http://javascriptweekly.com http://javascriptweekly.com, and http://html5weekly.com http://html5weekly.com. I'll plug mine as well: Hacker Newsletter - http://www.hackernewsletter.com http://www.hackernewsletter.com, which is a product of what I said above. :)
- pestaa 15y agoI sadly found Peter's newsletters to be quite noisy for my taste, but I signed up for yours in a heartbeat. Thanks!
- petercooper 15y agoNoisy? Too many items? They have been growing over the months, admittedly, but there's a lot of noteworthy stuff happening :-)
- pestaa 15y agoThanks Peter for chiming in. I'm fine with missing a great chunk of noteworthy stuff and rather read one focused source only. ;)
- ohyes 15y agohttp://planet.lisp.org/ http://planet.lisp.org/ Aggregates a bunch of common lisp blogs that are generally interesting.
- pjscott 15y agoOn that note, I also read http://planet.haskell.org/ http://planet.haskell.org/ Generally high quality, interesting stuff if you're into Haskell.
- quadhome 15y agoFirst, go through the archives of http://anarchaia.org/ http://anarchaia.org/ Then follow http://chneukirchen.org/trivium http://chneukirchen.org/trivium
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- agumonkey 15y agohttp://dorophone.blogspot.com/ http://dorophone.blogspot.com/ ;; elisp/picolisp stuff. monads, sexp, fexpr. inspiring. http://okmij.org/ftp/ http://okmij.org/ftp/ ;; general cs ftw. too deep. http://john.freml.in/ http://john.freml.in/ ;; nice http server perf in clisp. http://www.learningclojure.com/ http://www.learningclojure.com/ ;; get the most of clojure in terms of cpu cycles. refreshing. http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/ http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/ ;; perf, lo-level details about java. refreshing. btw, swegr ~= hacker ?
- AbyCodes 15y agoThere are similar questions in reddit faq: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/faq#Whatprogrammingblogsorwebsitesdoyouread http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/faq#Whatprogrammingblogs... Steve Yegge's archives, http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/ http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/ are in my favourites, which are not mentioned here so far.
- yread 15y agohttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/ C# designer
- mullr 15y agoSeconded with enthusiasm. Eric writes at great length about the detailed decisions that go into programming language design, especially revision of an existing language. Even though I should know better, I have been guilty at times of "how hard could it be" syndrome. Reading what Eric says has cured me of that disease. (for programming languages at least)
- hasslblad 15y agoI agree with this. At first glance the problems he presents are simple, then you realise all the design decisions they've made and the pros and cons of each approach they were aware of when writing C#. On a footnote I also recommend Jon Skeet: Coding Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/ http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/ He's known in the .Net community. He's the guy behind Tony the Pony. He's a Google staffer who has written some C# books. He goes into great depth about C# stuff.
- smoyer 15y agoCurious that I'm not following any of the blogs listed below ... I suspect that there are so many that we could each read quality content and have very little overlap. Of course, there are theory blogs that would apply to the whole group, but many of the blogs are also language/domain specific and so only a subset of us would be interested.
- GlennS 15y agoI quite enjoy these: http://ayende.com/blog http://ayende.com/blog (.NET centric, writes RavenDB/NHibernate Profiler) http://blog.headius.com/ http://blog.headius.com/ (JRuby creator)
- zackb 15y agoI've always liked Ryan Flynn's blog and link collection http://www.parseerror.com/ http://www.parseerror.com/
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- voidfiles 15y agoIf you are looking for something that is more front-end specific Paul Irish has put together a really great list of blogs, and made a google reader bundle out of them. http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user/11165870484951445324/bundle/frontend http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user/1116587048495144532... Some standout blogs that I always read about programming are: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/ http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/ - Was writing about JS before it was cool, now it just has some of the most detailed coverage you can get of new things happening in js. http://dailyjs.com/ http://dailyjs.com/ - a great daily roundup of the news in the JS community http://www.nczonline.net/ http://www.nczonline.net/ - A developer who lead many FE efforts inside of Yahoo, very outspoken about how JS should work. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ - Joels essays can be a bit cantankerous, but also paradigm changing. http://sheddingbikes.com/ http://sheddingbikes.com/ - pretty much everything that zed shaw does is fucking awesome. Take it with a grain of salt though. UPDATE: Oh, I almost forgot steve yegge, http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ - In a few essays from steve my programming world opened into one of ideas, and not just syntax.
- amitvjtimub 15y agoI created this app for visiting multiple sites you visit daily from one place: http://www.morningtabs.com/ http://www.morningtabs.com/ Give it a try.
- _neil 15y agobackground-size: cover;
- amitvjtimub 15y agoThanks
- iskander 15y agoCan I log in with something other than facebook?
- shangaslammi 15y agoThe only semi-regularly updated ones I currently have in my RSS reader are: - James Hague's "Programming in the 21st Century": http://prog21.dadgum.com/ http://prog21.dadgum.com/ - Edward Z. Yang's blog: http://blog.ezyang.com/ http://blog.ezyang.com/ Rest of my daily blog hits I get via Hacker News and reddit/r/haskell
- dusklight 15y agodadgum has been mentioned a few times in this thread .. could someone please explain why that is a good blog, maybe a link to an article that is insightful?
- hernan7 15y agoSlow programming languages battle across time: http://prog21.dadgum.com/52.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/52.html A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering: http://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html
- rektide 15y agoProgramming blogs post daily????
- TechboyUK 15y agoIt depends what posts appear in my RSS reader :-)
- Avenger42 15y agoRaymond Chen's blog, The Old New Thing (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing), is still my go-to site for any WinAPI discussion - and he's got plenty to say on the subject of developer & user behavior as well. Come for the brilliance, stay for the snark.
- icebraining 15y agoDaily, none, but I have some on my RSS reader; besides the ones already posted: http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.html http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.html ← Julien Danjou, Awesome WM main (only?) dev. http://ejohn.org/ http://ejohn.org/ ← John Resig, jQuery creator and lead dev http://codeutopia.net/blog/ http://codeutopia.net/blog/
- _delirium 15y agoFar from daily, but Yosef K's blog is usually a good read when he does post: http://www.yosefk.com/blog/ http://www.yosefk.com/blog/
- perlgeek 15y agohttp://planetsix.perl.org/ -- Perl 6 http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ -- Perl 5
- instigateme 15y agoI try to read from FolkLore.ORg as often as I can - it's not a daily read and there's not much new stuff, but it's off the beaten path and the old stories of Bill and Steve and Woz are pure win.
- msbarnett 15y agoMike Ash's Friday Q&A series is always a great investigation of the depths of Objective-C and Cocoa: http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/ http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/
- eelco 15y agoFor iOS/Mac development, Ole Begemann's http://oleb.net/ http://oleb.net/ is invaluable, especially for the monthly link roundups.
- msbarnett 15y agoAwesome, I wasn't aware of that one. Other good ones I know of are the already mentioned Cocoa with Love http://cocoawithlove.com/ http://cocoawithlove.com/ Cocoa is my girlfriend http://www.cimgf.com/ http://www.cimgf.com/ and bbum's weblog-o-matic http://www.friday.com/bbum/ http://www.friday.com/bbum/
- allan_ 15y agohttp://got-ravings.blogspot.com/ http://got-ravings.blogspot.com/ by the vim-nerdtree dude. very funny.
- googletron 15y agoI tend to frequent http://www.mahdiyusuf.com http://www.mahdiyusuf.com The Dusty Programmer
- Manuelito 15y agoThis is my favorite: http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/ http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/
- dlapiduz 15y agoFor some Ruby/Rails stuff I follow: rubyinside.com yehudakatz.com weblog.rubyonrails.org
- kolsen 15y agoI like reading Scott Hanselman: http://www.hanselman.com/blog http://www.hanselman.com/blog I also like this one with his series (back in 2008) on coding poker bots but he hasn't posted in a while: http://www.codingthewheel.com/ http://www.codingthewheel.com/
- Osiris 15y agoI read Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew, which is a .NET resource. He posts links to tons of articles every morning on 10 different topics. It's fun to read up on such a variety of different topics. http://www.alvinashcraft.com http://www.alvinashcraft.com I also read the Daily WTF every day. It's great to have a chance to look at crappy code and try to re-write it in your head on how it should have been done. http://www.thedailywtf.com http://www.thedailywtf.com
- phatboyslim 15y agoThe Morning Brew http://blog.cwa.me.uk/ http://blog.cwa.me.uk/
- captaintk 15y agoI can highly recommend http://blog.cdleary.com/ http://blog.cdleary.com/
- r3570r3 15y ago"Joel on software" and "Coding horror" are my all time favorite.
- suyash 15y agoI only read HN for all the tech news/updates. I'm done with blogs now, it's too much out there and I only want the best. HN does a good job with that.
- swah 15y agodekorte.com (rare post on programming, but its nice to see a language implementor bashing on fp sometimes)
- afdssfda 15y agoNone. I read a number of blogs when I search, but there are none that I go to daily just to read them.
- Yhippa 15y agoI used to frequent Slashdot and DZone but all I have time for these days is HN. This place is fairly good at promoting good stories and the comments are usually as good as Slashdot so I feel like I don't need to go anywhere else (for now).
- absconditus 15y agohttp://blog.plover.com/ http://blog.plover.com/
- steamer25 15y agoNot a blog per se but I do check it most weekdays: http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=week http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=week
- earl 15y agoJoe Damato has a great albeit infrequently updated programming blog, http://timetobleed.com/ http://timetobleed.com/ . I think he wrote the memprof ruby gem. Posts HN may really enjoy: an obscure kernel feature to get more info about dying processes [1] a presentation from some ruby conf, particularly slide set 2 which details how memprof works and talks about the abi, etc [2] plus a bunch of discussion of profiling tools to look at exactly what gcc or your vm of choice are doing. Highly recommended. [1] http://timetobleed.com/an-obscure-kernel-feature-to-get-more-info-about-dying-processes/ http://timetobleed.com/an-obscure-kernel-feature-to-get-more... [2] http://timetobleed.com/slides-from-mwrc-2010/ http://timetobleed.com/slides-from-mwrc-2010/
- nxn 15y agohttp://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/ http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/ Updates have gotten sort of rare lately, but it is hands down my favorite JS blog.
- friendlytuna 15y agojava.dzone.com css.dzone.com www.dzone.com/mz/devops www.dzone.com/mz/html5 All updated with new content almost every day, and the quality is getting stronger.
- nickburlett 15y agoIt's not specifically a programming blog, but I find "A List Apart" (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ http://www.alistapart.com/articles/) to be a great resource for the design side of creating software.
- IGT 15y agoFor a little bit on BIOS I go here: http://sites.google.com/site/pinczakko/ http://sites.google.com/site/pinczakko/
- sure051 15y agoBTW may i know what testing blogs do you read daily which would be more informative?
- olalonde 15y agoThis one should be quite popular among the HN crowd although it's not strictly programming related. http://www.lesswrong.com http://www.lesswrong.com - A community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality
- dmitrykoval 15y agoArtima developer, http://www.artima.com/index.jsp http://www.artima.com/index.jsp - Java, Scala mostly
- berkerpeksag 15y agohttp://neugierig.org/software/blog/ http://neugierig.org/software/blog/ http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/ http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/
- larrydag 15y agohttp://www.r-bloggers.com/ http://www.r-bloggers.com/
- BadassFractal 15y agoI'm curious, why is Coding Horror not in your lists? Is it too high level to be considered a programming blog?