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Give me your best software engineer blogs (awful.systems)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by V0ldek@awful.systems to c/freeasm@awful.systems

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I'm looking for recommendations of good blogs for programmers. I've been asked about what I would recommend by younger folks a few times these past few months and I realised I don't really have a good list that I could just share with them.

What I'm interested in are blogs that don't focus specifically on any particular tech but more things like Coding Horror that are just for devs in general. They don't have to be for beginners. It'd also be interesting to see which of those are most popular in our little circle, so please upvote comments that contain recommendations you agree with.

I'm implicitly assuming stuff shared by folks here is going to be sensible, well-written blogs, and not some AI shill nonsense or other tech grift.

Note that I'm specifically interested in the text medium, podcasts or YT not so much.

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[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

Many of the old articles on joelonsoftware.com about software development are as timelessly insightful as they are amusing. The newer ones about running a small business are hit or miss for me.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I started liking https://izzys.casa/ after someone linked her meandering horror story on the C++ ecosystem on awful. All her posts seem to be written like that.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

Okay "like that" is strong wording after that specific article. She seema to mix anecdotes, research, opinions and technical details in an entertaining and somewhat educative way.

[–] AnarchistArtificer 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'll have a wee look later if there's anything I enjoy (Commenting to act as a pin for later). Though maybe worth noting that I'm not much of a developer/programmer — I'm mostly a scientist who ended up taking a level or so of software dev/programming when I started wondering how to be doing scientific code better. I read a lot of blogs though.

There are a couple that come to mind now actually. A while back there was a blog post titled "I will fucking piledrive you if you mention AI again", and I found myself generally a fan of that blog (ludic.mataroa.blog). Some people consider this author overly abrasive and unprofessional, but I find that quite refreshing actually.

I really enjoyed this series at this blog. I think the author is on Lemmy also (though username forgotten).

https://unserious.substack.com/p/devs-pt1

I've also enjoyed coverage of recent anti-monopoly proceedings that were on Matt Stoller's blog: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/