Ask HN: What programming blogs do you recommend to read regularly and why?

That's probably the only programming blog I regularly check, though I return to Open Mirage every now and again to see how they're getting on: http://www.openmirage.org/

I went through the links you provided and found this:

http://prog21.dadgum.com/

I really enjoy his blogs based on his experiences in the industry and probing questions.

[1]: http://www.alvinashcraft.com/

Either way:

https://github.com/paragonie/awesome-appsec - Everything on this list is at least worth consideration

He's recently been learning new languages (currently SmallTalk) and does great writeups of new insights he's having and how others can apply these insights too.

http://devblog.avdi.org

- http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/ I love reading anything by Patrick McKenzie because he writes about incredibly valuable things, usually focusing on how to make sales, lifecycle emails, running his companies, and other general start-up related information. You might recognize him on HN as patio11

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/ CloudFlare has really excellent content and often writes about SSL/TLS related topics, which personally interest me. They have good technical explanations of SSL/TLS vulnerabilities and discuss how they provide SSL to all of their customers. Also, they discuss how they handle massive scale and other interesting things.

- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/week-in-review/ I often find really good articles linked from the AWS blog. I like to stay current on the latest/greatest features and improvements which AWS puts out there and the Week in Review posts are often easy to skim and see if a linked article is worth reading in its entirety.

- https://codeascraft.com/ Etsy's engineering blog is fantastic. I am always blown away at the passion that comes through from their posts. They seem to have a really sharp set of devs over there and I just enjoy reading their stuff. I especially enjoy the quarterly performance review posts, which show graphs about latencies throughout their stack.

- https://strongloop.com/ The StrongLoop blog has some really great content for NodeJS devs. They often post about their own products, which is understandable but annoying since I do not use them directly. They took over maintenance of ExpressJS, though, which I use daily and they also have great contributions to a bunch of other tools in the ecosystem.

- https://www.hashicorp.com/blog HashiCorp made popular tools like Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, etc. I enjoy using most of their products and I like the way their blog presents things in a straight forward tone without too much marketing BS. Seems like a great company culture.

- http://blog.ivanristic.com/ Ivan Ristic is seriously awesome. He runs the incredibly useful and educational SSL Labs (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/) and discusses really interesting and useful topics on SSL/TLS configuration and management. You should also buy his awesome book: https://www.feistyduck.com/books/bulletproof-ssl-and-tls/ (no, I'm not affiliated with Ivan. I just think he is awesome and his content is hugely valuable).

- https://www.imperialviolet.org/ Imperial Violet is the blog of Adam Langley (http://www.rsaconference.com/speakers/adam-langley), a security engineer at Google. He writes about SSL/TLS and many other security related topics. His technical explanation of POODLE and other SSL/TLS vulnerabilities are hugely useful and very digestable.

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/

http://nshipster.com/

http://natashatherobot.com/

http://oleb.net/blog/

Also I have a blog: http://koreyhinton.com/blog