Ask HN: What programming blogs do you recommend to read regularly and why?

I went through the links you provided and found this:

http://prog21.dadgum.com/

I really enjoy his blogs based on his experiences in the industry and probing questions.

[1]: http://www.alvinashcraft.com/

That's probably the only programming blog I regularly check, though I return to Open Mirage every now and again to see how they're getting on: http://www.openmirage.org/

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/

http://nshipster.com/

http://natashatherobot.com/

http://oleb.net/blog/

Also I have a blog: http://koreyhinton.com/blog

He's recently been learning new languages (currently SmallTalk) and does great writeups of new insights he's having and how others can apply these insights too.

http://devblog.avdi.org

Either way:

https://github.com/paragonie/awesome-appsec - Everything on this list is at least worth consideration

- http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/ I love reading anything by Patrick McKenzie because he writes about incredibly valuable things, usually focusing on how to make sales, lifecycle emails, running his companies, and other general start-up related information. You might recognize him on HN as patio11

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/ CloudFlare has really excellent content and often writes about SSL/TLS related topics, which personally interest me. They have good technical explanations of SSL/TLS vulnerabilities and discuss how they provide SSL to all of their customers. Also, they discuss how they handle massive scale and other interesting things.

- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/week-in-review/ I often find really good articles linked from the AWS blog. I like to stay current on the latest/greatest features and improvements which AWS puts out there and the Week in Review posts are often easy to skim and see if a linked article is worth reading in its entirety.

- https://codeascraft.com/ Etsy's engineering blog is fantastic. I am always blown away at the passion that comes through from their posts. They seem to have a really sharp set of devs over there and I just enjoy reading their stuff. I especially enjoy the quarterly performance review posts, which show graphs about latencies throughout their stack.

- https://strongloop.com/ The StrongLoop blog has some really great content for NodeJS devs. They often post about their own products, which is understandable but annoying since I do not use them directly. They took over maintenance of ExpressJS, though, which I use daily and they also have great contributions to a bunch of other tools in the ecosystem.

- https://www.hashicorp.com/blog HashiCorp made popular tools like Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, etc. I enjoy using most of their products and I like the way their blog presents things in a straight forward tone without too much marketing BS. Seems like a great company culture.

- http://blog.ivanristic.com/ Ivan Ristic is seriously awesome. He runs the incredibly useful and educational SSL Labs (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/) and discusses really interesting and useful topics on SSL/TLS configuration and management. You should also buy his awesome book: https://www.feistyduck.com/books/bulletproof-ssl-and-tls/ (no, I'm not affiliated with Ivan. I just think he is awesome and his content is hugely valuable).

- https://www.imperialviolet.org/ Imperial Violet is the blog of Adam Langley (http://www.rsaconference.com/speakers/adam-langley), a security engineer at Google. He writes about SSL/TLS and many other security related topics. His technical explanation of POODLE and other SSL/TLS vulnerabilities are hugely useful and very digestable.