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Ask HN: What are your favorite programming blogs?

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mattbgates
When I was a kid learning programming, there was another kid named "PatorJK", maybe a few years older than me, and its crazy to see him still coming up with new app ideas, mostly just scripts that you can use on his website. The reason its crazy... I became familiar with him over 25 years ago, when I was probably around 12 or 13 years old.

Back in the days of Visual Basic, he would include the code to do it, which was always useful for me to see how it was done, being the self-taught programmer I was.

Too many years ago, he posted on his blog about what his website was... http://patorjk.com/blog/2007/09/24/what-patorjkcom-is/

I still pop into his website every now and then to see his latest projects. It's just a unique random mess of his life's work, but he's still somewhat active today.

mnurzia
PatorJK's Text to Ascii Art Generator[1] is still in my opinion the easiest to use tool to preview Figlet-style fonts/text and has almost every font under the sun. Still seems very popular and is among the top search results.

[1] http://patorjk.com/software/taag/

Two9A
If I'm allowed to self-promote, my own blog just got its redesign released today, so now it's responsive for mobile etc: https://imrannazar.com/

The most recent programming content on there is from ten years ago though... I should really get around to putting something new together, now the design work's done.

gsuuon
I like the clean paper-y look!
v-erne
Nice, has really soothing, ala late 90's web vibe to it. I like it.
mraza007
I hope I’m allowed to self promote here.

But i have a blog where I write technical content mostly about things I find interesting

Here’s the link: https://muhammadraza.me/

I would love to hear the feedback from the community about it

gsuuon
I remember your vim one-liner article! Definitely one of the nicer looking blogs - I also appreciate the focused shortness of the posts.
mraza007
Well thank you.

Your comments are really encouraging

umtksa
again me I cannot open your links from rss source because of they are linked as file like this file://muhammadraza.me/2021/Oneliners/