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I've been receiving a weekly email digest of the posts on "Fonts in Use" using ifttt.com for a long time already. Love their site.
How'd you set that up? Aka I'd love to copy you as that sounds like the ideal way to view this site.
I assume it's using one of the site's RSS feeds.
Great to hear! We have plans for a curated newsletter, but I’m glad people are already shoving things to their inbox via the RSS.
And the greatest source code font of all time is DejaVu (Sans) Mono. It's open-source: http://dejavu-fonts.org/
Ask 100 Programmers what their favourite font is and you get 100 answers :)

I'm a big fan of Proggy (the clean / slashed zero / bold puncutation one) combined with a light color on a dark background I can stuff as much code on my monitor as possible without straining my eyes. That way I believe to better oversee the structure of the code and need to scroll less, but each to his own.

Proggy: http://www.proggyfonts.net/download/

Programming font comparison: https://s9w.github.io/font_compare/

I thought everyone just used consolas!
Real coders use comic sans.
Real coders use Papyrus just as their ancient Egyptian forefathers before them.

EDIT: Free obfuscation security from over-the-shoulder glances for the real coders that code in Wingdings.

I would say our Egyptian forefathers used a font more along the lines of Wingdings than papyrus.
I tend to agree. But have you seen how horribly it renders on Windows 10? It's a travesty...at least until every screen gets to "retina" resolution.