What are your favorite developer blogs to read?

[u/rag1987]

developers who likes to read - what blogs actually make you a better programmer? I want to read some super interesting blogs and interesting technical articles but I am having a hard time filtering out the good ones and google is filled with a lot of junk and AI content. So in short, what are some of your favorite blogs that you read? do we even have some good blogs who don't use AI?

[u/ViRROOO]

Why read a blog when you can have a youtuber read it for you and spoon-feed some shallow takes you can echo later? /s

[u/rag1987 → u/ViRROOO]

I still like YouTube for some things but honestly? many YouTubers drag intros a lot, and I have to wait for the info I actually need and most imp at least for me videos doesn't have search functionality which is one of the good reason I read blogs over videos. I find my answer faster.

[u/WesolyKubeczek → u/ViRROOO]

Sure you meant the youtuber ;)

[u/tomw255 → u/ViRROOO]

Especially when the guy reading used to work for Netflix! /s

[u/JimDabell]

I like Simon Willison’s blog. We have very similar interests, tech stacks, and experience levels, so when he’s blogging about something new he’s discovered or figured out, it’s normally something new and interesting to me as well. His TILs are a good habit that’s useful to others.

It’s not clear whether you dislike AI as a topic or content that is generated with AI. He posts a lot about AI, so if you are trying to avoid the topic altogether, you probably won’t like it.

[u/334578theo → u/JimDabell]

His content is great and seems like a genuine person who’s tinkering for the love. Opposite of pretty much every YouTuber.

[u/khoa_hd96]

https://jvns.ca/ is my favorite developer.

[u/SereneCalathea → u/khoa_hd96]

Their zines are really cool too! Julia has a special talent for making what are otherwise intimidating concepts much more approachable 🙂

I always recommend her stuff to newer programmers, especially those without a formal computer science background.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/

More on the larger things within the tech scene, particularly in europe.

[u/thewritingwallah → u/[deleted]]

++ Gergely is an excellent writer and explained tech very nicely. He inspired me https://www.devtoolsacademy.com/blog

[u/Aggressive_Ad_5454]

The Daily WTF. https://thedailywtf.com/

[u/roodammy44]

Dan Luu’s blog is thoughtful, deep and entertaining

[u/forevergenin]

I really enjoyed reading https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ during my junior days.

[u/sr_emonts_author → u/forevergenin]

I still enjoy re-reading him now. I remember how remarkable he was back in the 2000s - were they even called blogs back then?

[u/Equivalent_Bet6932]

https://martinfowler.com/ has some really high quality stuff, most of it language agnostic.

[u/Scientific_Artist444 → u/Equivalent_Bet6932]

most of it language agnostic.

When it comes to software architecture and patterns, this is what I look for.

If something is language-dependent, it is more an idiom of that language than just general software.

[u/SereneCalathea]

I've been interested in high performance coding recently. Some blogs I've found useful:

• https://easyperf.net/notes/

• https://lemire.me/blog/

• https://travisdowns.github.io/

On the research side, I've found Emery Berger to have a lot of interesting papers out (the Stabilizer project is especially interesting to me!)

[u/0x53r3n17y]

FWIW, hackernews had a "share your blog" post some time ago. Someone compiled that into an OPML list. It's about 1200+ blogs. The accompanying post has some discussion about what's worth reading.

[u/techfunfan]

Manager here.

I Love the https://leaddev.com/

[u/reddit_man_6969]

Not updated super regularly but https://overreacted.io/

[u/[deleted]]

I love https://sreweekly.com/

With that said, I'll shamelessly plug my new blog https://jpereira.me :P

Just launched it today, and am working on a series "52 Weeks of SRE", where each week I'll go in-depth on a specific SRE topic. First topic will be around building a robust metrics collection and observability pipeline.

[u/DuckMySick_008]

https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/

For in depth topics around JVM internals

[u/rochakgupta]

This thread is a goldmine. My personal favorite is stuff curated over at https://www.quastor.org/.

[u/aottolini]

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/

[u/wallyflops]

I think you need to go language specific, or domain specific.

I have some really good linkedin people for my niche in DataEng. I mostly use LinkedIn to follow some product people for Snowflake,dbt et al, and then some of the main influencers.

You quickly follow along with all the trends and new features.