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Ask HN: Good tech blogs to read

79 points by dhruvrrp ↗ HN
I recently started reading again and I was looking for some good tech blogs to read. I tried Mashable/Gizmodo/zdnet but their junk to good read ratio is really high. I'm looking for something more like the old new thing [1], but I've come to really enjoy.

[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

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Analemma_
It would help to clarify what you mean by "tech blog". "Tech" encompasses a lot, and most blogs (aggregators aside) are single-issue or few-issue because most people are knowledgeable about only a few things. What specifically are you looking for?
roryisok
Jeff Atwoods codinghorror.com is good. Rarely updated though.
marmot777
Here's some good ones:

* http://joelonsoftware.com/

* https://blog.codinghorror.com/

* http://joelonsoftware.com/

* http://martinfowler.com/

* http://www.hanselman.com/

* https://www.grahamcluley.com/

fazkan
You added joelonsoftware twice, if I were you I would add it one more time, just to show how important it is....
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marmot777
sorry i copied and pasted those from a text file. It was a mistake.
usernamebias
Those are all great! One thing I've never understood is the ironic shitty web design of these blogs. I understand some of these websites are as they were way back when it was started, I can see the nostalgia effect there. Can someone add to the reasons?
archagon
The Procedural World blog — about the development of a complex procedural-generation-centric engine and development tool — is quite a read: http://procworld.blogspot.com
akulbe
It surprises me that no one has suggested Patrick McKenzie's (patio11 here on HN) blog.

So much value there.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/

akulbe
For that matter, there is a lot of great stuff in just reading his comments on the threads here on HN.
probinso
Jeremy Kun's blog is exceptional
qwertyuiop924
The man, the myth, the legend Steve Yegge's blog(s) are worth reading if you haven't yet:

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/blog-rants

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/

Armin Ronacher's blog is also excellent:

http://lucumr.pocoo.org

For the Schemer, or the compiler hacker, Andy Wingo's blog is fantastic

http://wingolog.org

For insights into debugging, kernels, and debugging kernels, Bredan Gregg's blog is fantastic.

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/index.html

Finally, I wish to list a non-blog: and unblog, or perhaps the remnants of a blog once passed. This is an archive of John Carmack's .plan between 1996, and about 2005.

https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive

It is still a fascinating read.