Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

jlelse4y ago· 4 in thread

Shameless, but I'm a programmer and this is my blog: https://jlelse.blog/

sandreas4y ago

Hey, here is mine: https://pilabor.com/

Is it even more shameless to abuse your shamelessness to promote it? ;)

halfdan4y ago

Same boat, here's mine: https://geekmonkey.org/

gaws4y ago

I'm recently unsubscribed from your RSS feed because your "blog" reads more like a Twitter feed.

jlelse4y ago

I'm ok with that, not everyone has to like my blogging style.

dgarrett4y ago· 3 in thread

Fabien Sanglard's blog is one of my favorites. He posts mostly about internals and implementation details of classic video/computer games, plus other tech like Git and USB.

https://fabiensanglard.net

And if you find his blog to your liking, he has a couple of books doing a deeper dive into the internals of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.

Bishop_4y ago

His series of posts on Another World and its ports are a solid read.

tluyben24y ago

You can buy some of his work in book form as well.

cdevroeOP4y ago

omg this is awesome, thanks!

bottlero_cket4y ago· 3 in thread

Xah has written a lot of great informative and opinion content on his blog. There is like a decade of posts covering a large span of topics like math, emacs, web dev, etc.

This is just one post I bookmarked, but you can link dive wikipedia-style.

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.htm...

beepbooptheory4y ago

Wow! I have appropriated quite a bit of elisp snippets from them through the years, no idea they had a blog too. The emacs resources on that site are unparalled.

gaws4y ago

> math, emacs, web dev, etc.

And sex: http://xahlee.org/sex/all_things_sex.html

His Emacs-specific content is great, but the last thing I want to read are his creepy, gremlin-like takes on relationships and sex.

throwanem4y ago

I'm not a fan of his Emacs stuff, even. A lot like Ken Rockwell, I've thought - opinionated to and often well beyond a fault, will reliably defend the most recent thought to cross his mind as if it were among the bedrock axioms of his life and soul, it's not that he can't say anything useful but you always want to get a range of other opinions first, and by the time you really know what you're doing you find yourself thinking he's mostly full of it.

At least Ken Rockwell can be relied upon as a quick source of high-res shots of new gear. I already know where to find the Emacs changelog, I'm not sure what purpose that leaves Xah Lee to serve.

elefantastisch4y ago· 3 in thread

Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/

Josh W Comeau: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

pcthrowaway4y ago

Two of my favourites, great suggestions. I was going to suggest Comeau but OP didn't mention an area of interest, and Comeau is very front-end focused.

mi_lk4y ago

and Evans is system focused

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cdevroeOP4y ago

Thank you for these. I've been subscribed to Julia's blog for many years. Excellent resource.

kinduff4y ago· 2 in thread

These are some I have in my Miniflux instance:

- Benjojo https://blog.benjojo.co.uk

- Julia Evans https://jvns.ca

- Tania Rascia https://www.taniarascia.com

- Fabien Sanglard https://fabiensanglard.net

- Jeff Geerling https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog

- Go360 https://www.go350.com

- Bartosz Ciechanowski https://ciechanow.ski

Also, shameless plug https://kinduff.com

tonto4y ago

just fyi there is an invalid cert warning on kinduff.com

cdevroeOP4y ago

grabbing all of these... tnx!

akshayshah4y ago· 2 in thread

Dan Luu: https://danluu.com/

I've found nearly every post clear and thought-provoking. Most have also generated good discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=danluu.com

gaws4y ago

He's Silicon Valley's gwern

Tehchops4y ago

Dan's writing is some of the best I've seen.

seanw4444y ago· 2 in thread

Surprised nobody mentioned Drew DeVault's blog (https://drewdevault.com). He's pretty well-known.

gaws4y ago

> He's pretty whiny.

FTFY

seanw4444y ago

True, but some of his entries are interesting.

pamoroso4y ago· 2 in thread

Here are some great but lesser known blogs:

- Brian Robert Callahan https://briancallahan.net/blog

- Austin Z. Henley https://austinhenley.com/blog.html

- Robert Nystrom http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com

- poor.dev https://poor.dev/blog

- Simon Willison’s Weblog https://simonwillison.net

cdevroeOP4y ago

Good list, thank you.

pamoroso4y ago

You're welcome.

asicsp4y ago· 1 in thread

Bruce Dawson: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/

+1 for Julia Evans already mentioned in another comment, who also has a favorite blogs post that may help you further: https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/04/09/some-of-my-favorite-blogs/

https://blogsurf.io/ has a huge directory, you could search by tags/topics and see if something interests you

Specifically for Python, I have a list of blogs here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_resources/miscellaneous....

Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski (more of a tech blog explaining things visually, interactively, etc)

cdevroeOP4y ago

solid list, thanks.

MichaelMoser1234y ago· 1 in thread

https://github.com/search?q=list+of+awesome+blogs Look at the result of this github search for 'list of awesome blogs'. It's all there, in github...

For example these lists:

https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs

https://github.com/markodenic/awesome-tech-blogs

https://github.com/crispgm/awesome-engineering-blogs

cdevroeOP4y ago

Wow, this will keep me busy. Thank you!

w10-14y ago· 1 in thread

Sadly now on hiatus, the morning paper by Adrian Colyer reviews research in modern systems, if you're interested in the boundaries of what's possible. Adrian climbed the ladder - big projects at IBM, lead AspectJ, CTO for Spring orgs, VC, and now... retired? https://blog.acolyer.org

stonecharioteer4y ago

Yes. This is an excellent blog. Even though it's stopped for now, the history is solid.

MatheusRich4y ago· 1 in thread

It's not regularly updated, but I absolutely love anything @munificentbob writes at https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/

cdevroeOP4y ago

you weren't the only one to suggest this, thanks

arubania4y ago· 1 in thread

https://matt.might.net/articles/

Not strictly a software engineer, but a computer scientist (and so many other things), and an extremely smart person in general - worth reading even if you're not interested in academia.

tester7564y ago

pretty interesting topics I'd say

dmux4y ago· 1 in thread

I've always found Mark Seemann's blog posts to be really pragmatic and insightful. He oftentimes puts to words things that I've always "felt" but hadn't quite found the thread to pull.

https://blog.ploeh.dk/archive/

Huggernaut4y ago

In a similar world Scott Wlaschin: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/

izend4y ago· 1 in thread

The talented API developer Brandur Leach has his technical blog here: https://brandur.org/articles

Lots of articles on Go, Postgres and databases in general.

indiv04y ago

He also has an excellent newsletter! For example: https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/029-path-of-madness

zppln4y ago· 1 in thread

OpenBSD developer Ted Unangst: https://flak.tedunangst.com/

throwawayboise4y ago

Was going to post this one. He hasn't written anything lately, but was a regular read for me a few years ago.

Pr0ject2174y ago· 1 in thread

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Just to help, here's a compiled-list of all of the links shared here so far:

http://ayende.com/blog

http://blog.cleancoder.com/

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/

http://www.stargrave.org/LinksCatPersonal.html

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.htm...

https://0xd34df00d.me/

https://2ality.com/

https://andymatuschak.org/

https://austinhenley.com/blog.html

https://bas.codes/

https://bas.codes/posts/python-slicing

https://bernsteinbear.com/pl-resources/

https://blog.aawadia.dev/

https://blog.acolyer.org/

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/

https://blog.codinghorror.com/

https://blog.esteetey.dev/

https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/

https://blog.kwatafana.org/

https://blog.ploeh.dk/archive/

https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/

https://blogsurf.io/

https://bowtiedfox.substack.com/

https://brandur.org/articles

https://briancallahan.net/blog

https://brooker.co.za/blog/

https://ciechanow.ski/

https://collection.mataroa.blog/

https://danluu.com/

https://drewdevault.com/

https://dsebastien.net/

https://dusted.codes/

https://earthly.dev/blog/authors/adam/

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/

https://fabiensanglard.net/

https://fasterthanli.me/

https://flak.tedunangst.com/

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/

https://github.com/crispgm/awesome-engineering-blogs

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs

https://github.com/markodenic/awesome-tech-blogs

https://github.com/search?q=list+of+awesome+blogs

https://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Ask%20HN%3A%20Great%20Blogs%20...

https://joelonsoftware.com/

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/

https://jrsinclair.com/

https://justine.lol/

https://jvns.ca/

https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/04/09/some-of-my-favorite-blogs/

https://jwstanly.com/blog/

https://kerkour.com/

https://kinduff.com/

https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_resources/miscellaneous....

https://lemire.me/blog/

https://lmy.medium.com/

https://martinfowler.com/

https://matklad.github.io/

https://matt.might.net/articles/

https://michelenasti.com/

https://modfoss.com/

https://nickp.svbtle.com/

https://noobmaker.substack.com/

https://nullprogram.com/

https://paulmck.livejournal.com/

https://poor.dev/blog

https://prog21.dadgum.com/

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/

https://simonwillison.net/

https://simpleprogrammer.com/ultimate-list-software-develope...

https://staysaasy.com/

https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/05/30/Picking-Your-Te...

https://staysaasy.com/software/2022/01/17/complexity.html

https://tenthousandmeters.com/

https://unixsheikh.com/

https://vadimkravcenko.com/

https://www.buildthestage.com/

https://www.codingshorts.io/

https://www.davidvlijmincx.com/

https://www.fluentcpp.com/

https://www.go350.com/

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/

https://www.husseinnasser.com/search

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

https://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/

https://www.swyx.io/rss

https://www.taniarascia.com/

https://www.theerlangelist.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg

https://www.yusufaytas.com/

https://www.zhenghao.io/

cdevroeOP4y ago

applause

gururu4y ago· 1 in thread

Me, myself: https://www.zhenghao.io/ Check it out if you are interested in JavaScript, TypeScript, or web development in general

emadabdulrahim4y ago

Love your writing and thought process

sirodoht4y ago· 1 in thread

I maintain this list. It contains non-programmer blogs as well but the vast majority is software people:

https://collection.mataroa.blog/

cdevroeOP4y ago

Wow! Ty.

VitalyAnkh4y ago· 1 in thread

Paul E. McKenney's Journal: https://paulmck.livejournal.com/

cdevroeOP4y ago

This looks like I'll be spending some time catching up. Thanks!

threatofrain4y ago· 1 in thread

https://2ality.com/ (by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer, amazing JS blog)

cdevroeOP4y ago

This looks good and in-depth. I like it. Thank you.

sgt4y ago· 1 in thread

Is John Carmack still maintaining his .plan? I haven't checked in years but there's no harm in trying to finger him.

cdevroeOP4y ago

old school

venmul4y ago· 1 in thread

https://andymatuschak.org

cdevroeOP4y ago

I am digging this one. Thank you for sharing.

boobo944y ago· 1 in thread

No one ask a question about bad blogs for programmers, so I'd like to self promote my personal blog https://whyboobo.com/.

cdevroeOP4y ago

;)

bascodes4y ago· 1 in thread

Shameless plug: https://bas.codes

I just started to share my knowledge I have as a developer and trainer, so there is not much to see here, yet. I think the best article so far has been the one about slicing (it got a huge traffic spike from reddit): https://bas.codes/posts/python-slicing

I would love to hear feedback to improve my writing.

qubyte4y ago

Always good to see a .codes blog! Mine is qubyte.codes.

mfrw4y ago

I find content written by Eli Bendersky pretty informative: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/

revorad4y ago

No longer active but one of my favourites - https://prog21.dadgum.com/

vsareto4y ago

https://danluu.com

fsloth4y ago

Scott Hanselman https://www.hanselman.com/blog/

Bruce Dawson https://randomascii.wordpress.com/

aantix4y ago

Hussein Nasser

https://www.husseinnasser.com/search

His Youtube videos on backend engineering are fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg

sodality24y ago

https://fasterthanli.me/

jmmv4y ago

I'll add Raymond Chen's "The Old New Thing": https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ . Helped me change my views towards Windows (for the better) many years back and it's a good read anyway.

... and while here, I may also plug my own: https://jmmv.dev/

probably_wrong4y ago

Unfortuntely it is no longer updating, but if you haven't read Kathy Sierra's blog this is a great time to go through the archives. It was not a programming blog but rather a blog about user experience, which I'd say is just as important.

https://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/

hooby4y ago

https://martinfowler.com/

https://joelonsoftware.com/

https://simpleprogrammer.com/ultimate-list-software-develope...

iKlsR4y ago

https://nullprogram.com/ is really good.

cdevroeOP4y ago

To everyone that submitted their recommendations, Thank you! I'm trying to reply to each submission since so many of these are so good, but I may not get to them all. I'm bookmarking this to refer back to for the next several months. I have already found so many great resources.

mmphosis4y ago

https://justine.lol/

hackitup74y ago

A friend and I write about engineering management and product management. Generally shorter pieces with 1-2 core ideas https://staysaasy.com/

Examples:

Picking Your Tech Stack For Dummies (and the future): https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/05/30/Picking-Your-Te...

Complexity Debt: https://staysaasy.com/software/2022/01/17/complexity.html

tndoan4y ago

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/

Blog of Dr. Christopher Rackauckas. The blog is a mixture of programming, Julialang, ML, computational scientific. I really enjoy

andersco4y ago

Jeff Atwood: https://blog.codinghorror.com/

sanjayts4y ago

This is a long shot but hoping someone might be able to help... Almost a decade back I stumbled across an excellent blog which had extremely long and detailed in-depth articles related to performance. Every article had a "hare/rabbit" mascot section similar to the "cool bear" section from this blog https://fasterthanli.me/articles/why-is-my-rust-build-so-slo...

Does someone else remember that blog? If yes, please share the link!

Genbox4y ago

- Daniel Lemire: https://lemire.me/blog/

- Andrew Lock: https://andrewlock.net/

- Steve Gordon: https://www.stevejgordon.co.uk/

- Scott Helme: https://scotthelme.co.uk/

- Phil Haack: http://haacked.com/

benmanns4y ago

Patrick McKenzie (@patio11)'s https://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/

curun1r4y ago

Pretty Rust-centric, but I think: https://matklad.github.io has some good content

adamgordonbell4y ago

https://lemire.me/blog/

https://earthly.dev/blog/authors/adam/ (Myself)

jesprenj4y ago

One interesting author from my RSS collection. I'm currently posting from my phone so I can't really create a curated list:

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/

marttt4y ago

The Universe of Discourse by Mark Dominus: https://blog.plover.com

Kartik Agaram: http://akkartik.name

compudanzas: https://compudanzas.net/

Pete Elmore: http://debu.gs

Joey Hess: http://joeyh.name

gengstrand4y ago

In this blog https://glennengstrand.info/blog/ I implement feature identical rudimentary polyglot persistent news feed microservices in various programming languages and tech stacks then compare them with previous implementations in terms of architecture, design, coding, and performance under load. I currently have 13 implementations of that same back end service in a freely available public github repo.

hjadal4y ago

I quite like Moments in graphics by Christoph Peters - http://momentsingraphics.de/

realcorvus4y ago

If you're interested in Erlang/Elixir, https://www.theerlangelist.com/

conartist4y ago

Some of my favorites more Frontend leaning:

- https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

- https://jhey.dev/writing/

- https://varun.ca/writing

- https://ishadeed.com/articles/

Xavdidtheshadow4y ago

I'm not sure it qualifies as "great", but I am a programmer!

https://xavd.id/blog

I write about all sorts of things, some of which are technical. Here's a favorite Python article: https://xavd.id/blog/post/python-dataclasses-from-scratch/

hyzyla4y ago

https://iximiuz.com - Ivan Velichko - blog that explains Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, etc visually

xaxaxb4y ago

https://unixsheikh.com/. however it may read, it is helpful.

merlinscholz4y ago

https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/

tmulcahy4y ago

The ryg blog: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/

ivanmontillam4y ago

If you're into C++, check out: https://www.fluentcpp.com/

It's a solid resource if you consider yourself a programming athlete.

I won't shamelessly plug mine, as it doesn't fit this category yet (programming posts are the least ones I have by quantity), but looking forward to improve that.

swyx4y ago

i write at swyx.io/ideas (RSS https://www.swyx.io/rss), on javascript, devrel, and tech strategy!

i guess best track record is HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=swyx.io

jono_wilson4y ago

I've really enjoyed:

https://death.andgravity.com/

teddyh4y ago

http://blog.cleancoder.com/

lyqht4y ago

If you're interested in frontend development (web, react native), UXUI and open source libraries, check out my blog. Just published an article on creating a CSS playground with vanilla JS.

https://blog.esteetey.dev/

strife254y ago

Shameless plug for my blog: https://www.buildthestage.com

I write about technical leadership and engineering management. The target audience are technical leads, managers, and people who wish to become leaders one day.

johnny_reilly4y ago

Shameless plug: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com

I generally write about tech I'm using; a lot of TypeScript, a lot of Bicep, a lot of Azure at the moment. Essentially anything that intrigues me may get blogged

tekknolagi4y ago

If you like programming languages content, I link to a lot of excellent papers and blogs from https://bernsteinbear.com/pl-resources/

hugofirth4y ago

If you're interested in building distributed systems, then I thoroughly recommend Marc Brooker's blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/

stargrave4y ago

There is my collection of hundreds of personal and IT-related blogs/homepages: http://www.stargrave.org/LinksCatPersonal.html

davidtos4y ago

Shameless plug of my blog. It’s about new and upcoming features in Java and unit testing. https://www.davidvlijmincx.com/

bndr4y ago

I mean, shameless plug, but you can read some of my stuff, I don't mind: https://vadimkravcenko.com

I mostly write about scaling early stage startups

housel4y ago

https://maskray.me/blog/ has plenty of solid information on the LLVM and GCC/Binutils toolchains.

pclmulqdq4y ago

Malte Skarupke: www.probablydance.com

Also: apenwarr.ca

Shameless plug for my own blog: www.specbranch.com

symkat4y ago

https://modfoss.com/ - a blog by me, a person and a programmer! I don't know about great, but I try :)

FeistySkink4y ago

https://lethain.com/ - not strictly programming, but more of tech career and management-related.

nickponline4y ago

Shameless plug on my blog on solving and visualizing problems: https://nickp.svbtle.com/

petercooper4y ago

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/ is one of my faves although not super frequent.

claytn4y ago

https://jrsinclair.com/ has amazing JS & functional programming essays.

snicker74y ago

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/ (Jamie Brandon)

bobbydreamer4y ago

I got my list here https://bobbydreamer.com/irevere

dSebastien4y ago

All time classic: Coding Horror by Jeff Atwood (SO)

Shameless plug: https://dsebastien.net

Igor_Wiwi4y ago

https://amortizedcost.net – bite size posts about programming

sylvain_kerkour4y ago

Shameless plug: https://kerkour.com

Rust, Go, Security & Cryptography :)

andrei5124y ago

https://noobmaker.substack.com/

jwstanly4y ago

https://jwstanly.com/blog/

bdrum4y ago

https://tenthousandmeters.com/

valdect4y ago

Also, you can checkout https://refined.blog

musikele4y ago

Me, myself and I: https://michelenasti.com

synchton4y ago

https://www.codingshorts.io/

c01n4y ago

https://blog.kwatafana.org/

BowTiedFox4y ago

https://bowtiedfox.substack.com

asadawadia4y ago

https://blog.aawadia.dev/

swah4y ago

I enjoyed recently:

- https://jacobian.org/

blah_dah4y ago

0xd34df00d - https://0xd34df00d.me

tehlike4y ago

http://ayende.com/blog

yusufaytas4y ago

https://www.yusufaytas.com

rambambram4y ago

I don't know. But I do know that I just added your RSS feed to my self-built reader. ;)

cushychicken4y ago

Been enjoying The Mad Ned Memo from Ned Utzig lately

linehk4y ago

self plug, using Chinese: https://www.sulinehk.com/

dustinmoris4y ago

self plug:

https://dusted.codes

tslmy4y ago

Shameless plug of mine: https://lmy.medium.com

I've moved everything out of the paywall yesterday.

I write about tech & economics, productivity & best practices, time & knowledge management, interesting analogies, and occasionally about the comedy club I help organize.

jhylands4y ago

self plug jameshylands.co.uk

stev6789234y ago

softacos.substack.com

sydthrowaway4y ago

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com

Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

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