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Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?

716 points| t3rcio | 14 years ago | reply

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[+] dustingetz|14 years ago|reply
this 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.
[+] manveru|14 years ago|reply
Sorry, but neither DDG nor Google know about the term "swegr", what does it stand for?
[+] patfla|14 years ago|reply
I came here with the thought of adding John Cook's blog but I see the name already.

Second the recommendation.

[+] naner|14 years ago|reply
http://stevehanov.ca/blog/ -- Updates infrequently. Very good programming articles.

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/ -- Updates infrequently. Good articles on Linux and Programming. Start here: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/best-of

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/ -- Curates unix and plan9 articles and some lower level/systems programming stuff with a few other peculiarities sprinkled in.

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/ -- 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://www.ryanholiday.net/an-introduction-to-me/

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ -- I skip the pharma articles that are way over my head. Cultural deconstructionism.

[+] pwelch|14 years ago|reply
Duartes' articles are really well written. I had forgotten about his blog. Thanks for re-posting it.
[+] messel|14 years ago|reply
Here are the ones in my reader, admittedly I haven't visited often enough over the past couple of months:

http://www.igvita.com/

http://ejohn.org/

http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/ (Denny covers assembly and networking issues often in great detail)

http://buhrmi.tumblr.com/

http://elegantcode.com/

http://72lions.com/

http://kellabyte.com/ (mobile-ish dev)

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

http://ihumanable.com/blog

http://4loc.wordpress.com/

http://www.maxogden.com/

http://till.klampaeckel.de/blog/

http://www.quirkey.com/blog

http://www.mikealrogers.com/

http://cocoawithlove.com/

[+] duck|14 years ago|reply
I 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|14 years ago|reply
Please share your preferred newsletters -- I can't seem to find the good ones.
[+] Avenger42|14 years ago|reply
Raymond Chen's blog, The Old New Thing (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.
[+] agumonkey|14 years ago|reply
http://dorophone.blogspot.com/ ;; elisp/picolisp stuff. monads, sexp, fexpr. inspiring.

http://okmij.org/ftp/ ;; general cs ftw. too deep.

http://john.freml.in/ ;; nice http server perf in clisp.

http://www.learningclojure.com/ ;; get the most of clojure in terms of cpu cycles. refreshing.

http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/ ;; perf, lo-level details about java. refreshing.

btw, swegr ~= hacker ?

[+] nolanw|14 years ago|reply
> btw, swegr ~= hacker ?

I think it's an abbreviation of 'software engineer(ing)'.

[+] catch404|14 years ago|reply
Always enjoy reading johns posts.
[+] shangaslammi|14 years ago|reply
The 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/

- Edward Z. Yang's blog: http://blog.ezyang.com/

Rest of my daily blog hits I get via Hacker News and reddit/r/haskell

[+] dusklight|14 years ago|reply
dadgum 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?
[+] voidfiles|14 years ago|reply
If 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/1116587048495144532...

Some standout blogs that I always read about programming are:

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/ - a great daily roundup of the news in the JS community

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/ - Joels essays can be a bit cantankerous, but also paradigm changing.

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/ - In a few essays from steve my programming world opened into one of ideas, and not just syntax.

[+] yread|14 years ago|reply
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/ C# designer
[+] mullr|14 years ago|reply
Seconded 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)
[+] smoyer|14 years ago|reply
Curious 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.
[+] perlgeek|14 years ago|reply 

    http://planetsix.perl.org/ -- Perl 6
    http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ -- Perl 5