Raymond Chen's blog, The Old New Thing (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing), is still my go-to site for any WinAPI discussion - and he's got plenty to say on the subject of developer & user behavior as well. Come for the brilliance, stay for the snark.
Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
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Re: Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
#42this stuff never seems to be highly upvoted on HN anymore, and if it gets to +30 there's only a few comments, i speculate because new-school HNers don't understand or care. so i track them myself. best two advanced swegr blogs ever: http://prog21.dadgum.com/ -- swegr, fp theory http://www.johndcook.com/blog/ -- swegr, fp theory other advanced swegr blogs. we're not talking atwood and joel, here, that stuff is for col…
Sorry, but neither DDG nor Google know about the term "swegr", what does it stand for?
Me too. I'd never seen "swegr" before.
Re: Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
#43Daily, none, but I have some on my RSS reader; besides the ones already posted:
http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.html ← Julien Danjou, Awesome WM main (only?) dev.
http://ejohn.org/ ← John Resig, jQuery creator and lead dev
Re: Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, but neither DDG nor Google know about the term "swegr", what does it stand for?
Given context, 'software engineering', I would assume. Strange way to write it though...
At first, I assumed it was some programming language I had never heard of ;-)
Re: Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
#45this stuff never seems to be highly upvoted on HN anymore, and if it gets to +30 there's only a few comments, i speculate because new-school HNers don't understand or care. so i track them myself. best two advanced swegr blogs ever: http://prog21.dadgum.com/ -- swegr, fp theory http://www.johndcook.com/blog/ -- swegr, fp theory other advanced swegr blogs. we're not talking atwood and joel, here, that stuff is for col…
Sorry, but neither DDG nor Google know about the term "swegr", what does it stand for?
To me a "swegr" sounds like it would mean "an outdoor event on a really hot day where you have to dress in formal attire."
Cause you'd sweat a lot.
It probably stands for software engineering, though.
Re: Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
#46Far from daily, but Yosef K's blog is usually a good read when he does post:
Re: Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
#47The only semi-regularly updated ones I currently have in my RSS reader are: - James Hague's "Programming in the 21st Century": http://prog21.dadgum.com/ - Edward Z. Yang's blog: http://blog.ezyang.com/ Rest of my daily blog hits I get via Hacker News and reddit/r/haskell
dadgum has been mentioned a few times in this thread .. could someone please explain why that is a good blog, maybe a link to an article that is insightful?
Re: Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
#48 http://planetsix.perl.org/ -- Perl 6
http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ -- Perl 5Re: Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
#49I try to read from FolkLore.ORg as often as I can - it's not a daily read and there's not much new stuff, but it's off the beaten path and the old stories of Bill and Steve and Woz are pure win.