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Ask HN: Good tech blogs to read

79 points| dhruvrrp | 9 years ago | reply

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/

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[+] marmot777|9 years ago|reply
Here's some good ones:

* http://joelonsoftware.com/

* https://blog.codinghorror.com/

* http://joelonsoftware.com/

* http://martinfowler.com/

* http://www.hanselman.com/

* https://www.grahamcluley.com/

[+] fazkan|9 years ago|reply
You added joelonsoftware twice, if I were you I would add it one more time, just to show how important it is....
[+] usernamebias|9 years ago|reply
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?
[+] qwertyuiop924|9 years ago|reply
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

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/

Armin Ronacher's blog is also excellent:

http://lucumr.pocoo.org

For the Schemer, or the compiler hacker, Andy Wingo's blog is fantastic

http://wingolog.org

For insights into debugging, kernels, and debugging kernels, Bredan Gregg's blog is fantastic.

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

It is still a fascinating read.

[+] akulbe|9 years ago|reply
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/

[+] akulbe|9 years ago|reply
For that matter, there is a lot of great stuff in just reading his comments on the threads here on HN.
[+] Analemma_|9 years ago|reply
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?
[+] probinso|9 years ago|reply
Jeremy Kun's blog is exceptional
[+] archagon|9 years ago|reply
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
[+] roryisok|9 years ago|reply
Jeff Atwoods codinghorror.com is good. Rarely updated though.