Programming blogs

Joel Spolsky writes about software development, management, and running a software company, with many essays from the early 2000s.

Top post: Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, writes about programming, software culture, and the web.

Top post: The Principle of Least Power (2007)

Microsoft employees' blogs on MSDN cover Windows, Visual Studio, C++, and C# internals, including Raymond Chen's and Eric Lippert's posts.

Top post: Visual C++ Team Blog: C99 library support in Visual Studio 2013

Martin Fowler writes about software architecture, refactoring, microservices, and agile practice, with long-lived reference articles.

Top post: Microservices

The Startup was a Medium publication with articles from many authors on programming, startups, and technology.

Top post: Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot

Dan Luu, a software engineer, writes data-driven posts on performance, latency, hardware, and how tech companies work.

Top post: Computer latency: 1977-2017

Stack Overflow's company blog covers developer surveys, language trends, community policy, engineering practice, and the company's own infrastructure.

Top post: The Incredible Growth of Python

Simon Willison, a developer and co-creator of Django, writes about LLMs, prompt injection, and AI-assisted programming.

Top post: AI agent lethal trifecta: private data, untrusted content, exfiltration vectors

Bret Victor, an interface designer and researcher, writes essays and builds interactive explorations on programming, design, and learning.

Top post: What can a technologist do about climate change?

JetBrains' company blog, covering IDE and Kotlin updates, product history, and statements on events like the war in Ukraine.

Top post: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus

Microsoft's official Windows blog, with announcements on Windows releases, Edge, developer tools, and Insider builds.

Top post: X64 emulation in preview for Windows 10 on ARM PCs

Jamie Zawinski, a veteran programmer of Netscape and Mozilla fame, writes on software, the web, and his own projects.

Top post: The Rise of "Worse is Better"

Steve Yegge, a longtime programmer at Amazon and Google, wrote long, humorous essays on languages, software culture, and hiring.

Top post: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (2006)

Raymond Chen, a Microsoft engineer, writes about Windows history, API design quirks, and low-level programming.

Top post: It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (2006)

Philip Guo's page at MIT CSAIL hosts research papers, essays, and old mailing-list posts on programming languages, vision, and AI.

Top post: “A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003)

The Daily WTF collects reader-submitted stories of bad code, failed projects, and absurd workplace decisions in software.

Top post: How Æxecor’s programming error led to 28000 tons of coal delivered (2009)

Sophos's Naked Security blog explains security incidents, bugs, and best practices in plain terms, covering SSL, passwords, and certificates.

Top post: Anatomy of a “goto fail” – Apple’s SSL bug explained (2014)

qntm is the site of a writer who publishes science fiction, essays on software and time zones, and small web projects.

Top post: Lena

Eric S. Raymond's personal site, hosting essays on hacker culture, open source, and Unix design, including The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

Top post: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Scott Hanselman, a Microsoft developer and speaker, writes about .NET, Windows tooling, developer careers, and living with type 1 diabetes.

Top post: Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)

Oracle's official blogs, covering Java, MySQL, Oracle Database, and engineering topics from its developers.

Top post: Oracle Free Java License

John D. Cook, a consultant in applied math and statistics, writes short posts on numerical computing, probability, and programming.

Top post: Opening Black Boxes

Daniel J. Bernstein's site, with his cryptography and security software, such as qmail and djbdns, and papers and essays on security.

Top post: The IPv6 Mess

Julia Evans writes about systems, networking, containers, and debugging, and makes illustrated zines on technical topics.

Top post: Get your work recognized: write a brag document

Drew DeVault, an open-source developer behind Sway and SourceHut, writes about software, licensing, browsers, and programming languages.

Top post: The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers

O'Reilly Media's technology blog, covering web performance, software practice, data, and industry trends, with posts by Tim O'Reilly and others.

Top post: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles

Community weblog on programming language theory and design, where researchers and practitioners post papers and discuss them.

Top post: Have Tracing JIT Compilers Won?

Figma's engineering and product blog on its browser-based design tool, covering WebAssembly, multiplayer sync, plugins, and Rust.

Top post: WebAssembly cut Figma's load time by 3x (2017)

freeCodeCamp's Medium publication, with tutorials and articles on web development, careers, and open source.

Top post: A RealWorld Comparison of Front-End Frameworks with Benchmarks (2019 Update)

Russ Cox, a Go team engineer, writes about programming languages, algorithms, versioning, and clever programming tricks.

Top post: The Generic Dilemma (2009)

The official Rust project blog, with release news, roadmaps, language design posts, and survey results.

Top post: Fearless concurrency with Rust

A network of science bloggers, including Good Math, Bad Math and Pharyngula, covering math, biology, computing, and pseudoscience.

Top post: Strange Loops: Ken Thompson and the Self-referencing C Compiler

The official Go team blog, with posts on language features, tooling, the runtime, and design decisions.

Top post: Getting to Go: Garbage collection and runtime issues

Fabien Sanglard writes detailed code reviews of classic game engines such as Doom and Quake, and has published books on them.

Top post: The Game Engine Black Book: Doom

Daniel Lemire, a computer science professor, writes about squeezing speed out of software, covering SIMD, number parsing, and low-level optimization.

Top post: Reusing a thread in C++ for better performance

Matt Might, a computer science professor, writes about programming languages, static analysis, PhD advice, and practical topics like fitness.

Top post: The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

James Hague, a programmer with a retro-games background, writes about Erlang, functional programming, software simplicity, and the history of computing.

Top post: Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than

Artima Developer hosts articles and interviews on software design and programming languages, including talks with Anders Hejlsberg.

Top post: The fate of reduce() in Python 3000 (2005)

Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez), creator of Redis, writes about systems programming, Redis design, and software development.

Top post: Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)

Engineering blog of Dropbox covering storage infrastructure, compression, machine learning, and large-scale code and product engineering.

Top post: Rewriting the heart of our sync engine

John Walker, Autodesk co-founder, runs Fourmilab, a personal site covering science, software, random number generation, and The Hacker's Diet.

Top post: The Hacker's Diet (2005)

thoughtbot's engineering blog covers Ruby, Rails, Elm, Phoenix, vim, git and other practical tips from its consultants.

Top post: How We Replaced React with Phoenix

Eli Bendersky writes technical posts on compilers, parsing, JIT, Go, Python, and low-level systems programming.

Top post: Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables (2012)

Philip Greenspun, a software developer and pilot, writes about web publishing, software engineering, flying, careers, and money.

Top post: Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science

Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask, writes about Python, packaging, Unicode, async, and more recently AI agents and tooling.

Top post: Unicode in Python 3

Tim Bray, a software veteran who co-created XML and worked at Amazon and Google, writes about tech, cloud, and the web.

Top post: The Web's the place (don't be a sharecropper)

The official site of the Nim programming language, with its manual, tutorials, and posts on memory management and language features.

Top post: Introduction to ARC/ORC in Nim

John Regehr, a computer science professor, writes "Embedded in Academia" on compilers, undefined behavior in C and C++, and software correctness.

Top post: A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)

Bob Nystrom, a Google engineer and author of Crafting Interpreters, writes about programming languages, parsers, and game programming.

Top post: What Color Is Your Function?

Microsoft's official .NET blog, with release announcements, language features, and yearly deep dives into runtime performance improvements.

Top post: Performance Improvements in .NET 5

Yossi Kreinin, a programmer and hardware engineer, writes about C++, programming languages, stack machines, and software and engineering culture.

Top post: C++ Frequently Questioned Answers (2009)

Eric S. Raymond, open source author and hacker culture figure, writes on programming, version control, politics, and open source.

Top post: Eric S. Raymond

Google's official developer blog, announcing AI models like Gemini and Gemma, agent protocols, and changes to developer products.

Top post: Interacting with Gemini through multimodal prompting

Simon Tatham, a programmer and author of PuTTY, publishes software, a puzzle collection, and essays on C programming and bug reports.

Top post: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

RedMonk, a developer-focused industry analyst firm, publishes twice-yearly programming language rankings and commentary on developer technology and cloud pricing.

Top post: RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2020

Richard Gabriel, a Lisp and software patterns figure, writes essays on language design, including the well-known "Worse Is Better" series.

Top post: The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)

Scott Wlaschin writes tutorials on F# and functional programming, including railway-oriented programming and domain modeling with types.

Top post: Railway-Oriented Programming (2015)

Peter Seibel is a programmer and author of Practical Common Lisp, and writes about Lisp, code and software craft.

Top post: Practical Common Lisp (2005)

The official blog of the Crystal programming language, covering releases, the compiler, parallelism, the interpreter and production use.

Top post: Towards Crystal 1.0

Mark Dominus writes The Universe of Discourse, covering math, programming, languages, and miscellaneous curiosities since 2006.

Top post: Monads are like burritos (2009)