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Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

by cdevroe on 2/7/22, 2:25 PM with 140 comments

• by asicsp on 2/7/22, 3:10 PM

  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)

• by kinduff on 2/7/22, 5:35 PM

  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

• by dgarrett on 2/7/22, 4:40 PM

  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.

• by MichaelMoser123 on 2/7/22, 3:01 PM

  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

• by bottlero_cket on 2/7/22, 4:36 PM

  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...

• by akshayshah on 2/7/22, 8:26 PM

  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

• by mfrw on 2/7/22, 5:01 PM

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

• by elefantastisch on 2/7/22, 3:03 PM

  Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/

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

• by revorad on 2/7/22, 3:45 PM

  No longer active but one of my favourites - https://prog21.dadgum.com/

• by vsareto on 2/7/22, 3:56 PM

  https://danluu.com

• by w10-1 on 2/7/22, 6:44 PM

  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

• by seanw444 on 2/7/22, 5:11 PM

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

• by MatheusRich on 2/7/22, 5:27 PM

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

• by fsloth on 2/7/22, 3:39 PM

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

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

• by pamoroso on 2/7/22, 2:59 PM

  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

• by aantix on 2/7/22, 4:21 PM

  Hussein Nasser

  https://www.husseinnasser.com/search

  His Youtube videos on backend engineering are fantastic.

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

• by arubania on 2/7/22, 3:54 PM

  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.

• by sodality2 on 2/7/22, 2:55 PM

  https://fasterthanli.me/

• by jmmv on 2/7/22, 9:06 PM

  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/

• by probably_wrong on 2/7/22, 7:19 PM

  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/

• by hooby on 2/7/22, 2:33 PM

  https://martinfowler.com/

  https://joelonsoftware.com/

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

• by iKlsR on 2/7/22, 4:28 PM

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

• by dmux on 2/7/22, 6:27 PM

  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/

• by cdevroe on 2/7/22, 7:17 PM

  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.

• by jlelse on 2/7/22, 8:36 PM

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

• by mmphosis on 2/7/22, 5:39 PM

  https://justine.lol/

• by hackitup7 on 2/7/22, 4:28 PM

  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

• by tndoan on 2/7/22, 4:03 PM

  https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/

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

• by andersco on 2/7/22, 3:11 PM

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

• by izend on 2/7/22, 6:08 PM

  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.

• by sanjayts on 2/7/22, 9:02 PM

  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!

• by Genbox on 2/7/22, 7:31 PM

  - 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/

• by benmanns on 2/7/22, 6:47 PM

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

• by curun1r on 2/7/22, 4:48 PM

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

• by zppln on 2/7/22, 3:36 PM

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

• by adamgordonbell on 2/7/22, 3:00 PM

  https://lemire.me/blog/

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

• by jesprenj on 2/7/22, 8:52 PM

  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/

• by Pr0ject217 on 2/7/22, 7:50 PM

  EDIT:

  Paste this hacky snippet into your browser's console to save all of the links into your clipboard:

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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/

• by gururu on 2/7/22, 5:48 PM

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

• by sirodoht on 2/7/22, 3:02 PM

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

  https://collection.mataroa.blog/

• by marttt on 2/8/22, 9:07 AM

  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

• by gengstrand on 2/7/22, 7:56 PM

  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.

• by hjadal on 2/7/22, 7:39 PM

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

• by realcorvus on 2/7/22, 3:51 PM

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

• by conartist on 2/7/22, 9:58 PM

  Some of my favorites more Frontend leaning:

  - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

  - https://jhey.dev/writing/

  - https://varun.ca/writing

  - https://ishadeed.com/articles/

• by Xavdidtheshadow on 2/7/22, 9:03 PM

  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/

• by hyzyla on 2/7/22, 8:26 PM

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

• by VitalyAnkh on 2/7/22, 6:00 PM

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

• by xaxaxb on 2/7/22, 2:58 PM

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

• by threatofrain on 2/7/22, 6:16 PM

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

• by merlinscholz on 2/7/22, 3:01 PM

  https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/

• by tmulcahy on 2/7/22, 8:06 PM

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

• by ivanmontillam on 2/7/22, 5:59 PM

  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.

• by swyx on 2/7/22, 4:07 PM

  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

• by jono_wilson on 2/7/22, 8:55 PM

  I've really enjoyed:

  https://death.andgravity.com/

• by sgt on 2/7/22, 5:19 PM

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

• by teddyh on 2/7/22, 3:50 PM

  http://blog.cleancoder.com/

• by lyqht on 2/7/22, 4:43 PM

  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/

• by strife25 on 2/7/22, 2:59 PM

  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.

• by johnny_reilly on 2/7/22, 6:41 PM

  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

• by venmul on 2/7/22, 6:06 PM

  https://andymatuschak.org

• by tekknolagi on 2/7/22, 5:47 PM

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

• by hugofirth on 2/7/22, 5:14 PM

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

• by stargrave on 2/7/22, 6:10 PM

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

• by davidtos on 2/7/22, 5:50 PM

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

• by bndr on 2/7/22, 3:22 PM

  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

• by boobo94 on 2/8/22, 9:02 AM

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

• by housel on 2/7/22, 9:04 PM

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

• by pclmulqdq on 2/7/22, 6:55 PM

  Malte Skarupke: www.probablydance.com

  Also: apenwarr.ca

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

• by symkat on 2/7/22, 6:03 PM

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

• by FeistySkink on 2/7/22, 9:08 PM

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

• by nickponline on 2/7/22, 6:17 PM

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

• by petercooper on 2/7/22, 3:07 PM

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

• by claytn on 2/7/22, 4:01 PM

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

• by snicker7 on 2/9/22, 1:58 AM

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

• by bobbydreamer on 2/10/22, 3:35 PM

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

• by dSebastien on 2/7/22, 5:55 PM

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

  Shameless plug: https://dsebastien.net

• by Igor_Wiwi on 2/7/22, 8:16 PM

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

• by bascodes on 2/7/22, 4:54 PM

  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.

• by sylvain_kerkour on 2/7/22, 7:21 PM

  Shameless plug: https://kerkour.com

  Rust, Go, Security & Cryptography :)

• by andrei512 on 2/7/22, 3:21 PM

  https://noobmaker.substack.com/

• by jwstanly on 2/7/22, 3:13 PM

  https://jwstanly.com/blog/

• by bdrum on 2/7/22, 6:05 PM

  https://tenthousandmeters.com/

• by valdect on 2/11/22, 9:09 PM

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

• by musikele on 2/7/22, 3:54 PM

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

• by synchton on 2/7/22, 3:50 PM

  https://www.codingshorts.io/

• by c01n on 2/7/22, 5:17 PM

  https://blog.kwatafana.org/

• by BowTiedFox on 2/7/22, 3:04 PM

  https://bowtiedfox.substack.com

• by asadawadia on 2/7/22, 4:32 PM

  https://blog.aawadia.dev/

• by swah on 2/7/22, 8:50 PM

  I enjoyed recently:

  - https://jacobian.org/

• by blah_dah on 2/7/22, 6:01 PM

  0xd34df00d - https://0xd34df00d.me

• by tehlike on 2/7/22, 6:50 PM

  http://ayende.com/blog

• by yusufaytas on 2/7/22, 5:06 PM

  https://www.yusufaytas.com

• by rambambram on 2/7/22, 8:24 PM

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

• by cushychicken on 2/7/22, 9:00 PM

  Been enjoying The Mad Ned Memo from Ned Utzig lately

• by linehk on 2/8/22, 10:52 AM

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

• by dustinmoris on 2/7/22, 6:19 PM

  self plug:

  https://dusted.codes

• by tslmy on 2/7/22, 5:17 PM

  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.

• by jhylands on 2/7/22, 6:22 PM

  self plug jameshylands.co.uk

• by stev678923 on 2/7/22, 3:12 PM

  softacos.substack.com

• by sydthrowaway on 2/7/22, 3:15 PM

  https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com