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Ask HN: What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs?

31 points by BrandonWatson ↗ HN
I am sure we all read Coding Horror, Spolsky, Zed and Hanselman, but can this community help me identify some of the other great developer/hacker focused bloggers?

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zkz
The best blogs for me, are those that are not for the great hacker public, but for smaller audiences. Blogs about mathematics, data mining, computer vision, and so on. Coding Horror, Spolsky and the alike only talk about generalities and aren't really useful to me.
tgittos
What computer vision blogs do you read?
biotech
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
sant0sk1
I just recently started reading that site (thanks to HN). Wow. I've never felt so inadequate as a programmer.
hypermatt
Yeah its a great site whenever you feel your ego getting to big, it knocks you down a few points
bretthoerner
> I am sure we all read Coding Horror, Spolsky, Zed and Hanselman

Not so much.

ldh
But how do you find out about the latest FogBugz release?!?!
gloob
HN seems insistent on keeping me up to date about it. ;)
leeskye
Agreed. HN is the best aggregator for hacker/dev content
rwolf
The post you replied to appears to be referencing FogBugz specifically.
ScottWhigham
Clearly a Microsoft person. A quick peek at his profile actually says, "I work at Microsoft. I don't want anyone to be confused on that point."

Not that there's anything wrong with that. I do find it funny that he put Zed in that list.

juliusdavies
I like Steve Yegge's archive, especially the original "internal amazon blog" (2004-2005): http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/blog-rants

Planet Apache can be interesting (an aggregator of apache committers). Extreme variation in quality, but James Duncan Davidson and Sam Ruby and a few others make it all worth it: http://planet.apache.org/committers/

Anton Chuvakin for security: http://chuvakin.blogspot.com/

tsally
I don't have any specific blogs for you at the moment, but go with someone who is smart but unknown. Unknowns have to produce good content to stay afloat. At this point Coding Horror and Spolsky can get away with just about anything because of their success. It's too easy to assume that the big names are correct without critically thinking about their words.
cruise02
Currently in my RSS reader:

* Coding the Wheel - http://www.codingthewheel.com/

* Good Math, Bad Math - http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/

* Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP - http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/

* Polymath Programmer - http://polymathprogrammer.com/

* The Endeavor - http://www.johndcook.com/blog/

* Programming Praxis - http://programmingpraxis.com/

* Pragmatic Bookshelf News - http://www.pragprog.com/news/

* Sutter's Mill - http://herbsutter.wordpress.com/

* Schneier on Security - http://www.schneier.com/blog/

peterbraden
What I do is use sites like Hacker news to discover other sites - if I like a story, I'll check the rest of the site to see if the author writes consistently good stuff, and if so subscribe.

I've found a lot of cool stuff that way.

GeneralMaximus
I enjoy DadHacker a lot, partly because I enjoy anecdotes, but mostly because Landon writes extremely well and seems like a nice guy without an agenda (unlike Joel and friends). I also used to read _why's blog from time to time before he vanished.

Mostly I just follow HN and proggit. I'm not very big on blogs.

keyist
Sites I like from my feeds, aiming for variety:

* Joseph Miklojcik (emacs, lisp, languages) http://jfm3-repl.blogspot.com/

* Mauricio Fernández (functional, with ocaml focus) http://eigenclass.org/R2/

* Colin Percival (tarsnap, freebsd security) http://www.daemonology.net/blog/

* Matthew Garrett (mobile linux, power management) http://mjg59.livejournal.com

* Brad Fitzpatrick (memcached, pubhubsubbub) http://advogato.org/person/bradfitz/diary.html

* Chris Neukirchen's Trivium (all links, great jumping point) http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/