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Raymond Price

I don't really follow any blogs; it's mostly RSS and email newsletters to keep up to date. I'll still list them all off here, on the off-chance that something is useful to somebody and also so I can prune the ones that don't spark joy.

DO RECOMMEND

  • Better Dev Link "Weekly links to help you become a better developer" They're not wrong.
  • Daily Dev Links What it says on the tin. Biased towards frontend and UX development.
  • Hacker Newsletter Curated articles from Hacker News, on a weekly basis.
  • Javascript Kicks "Get the best weekly JavaScript articles hand-picked by experienced developers" Very good and broad; includes items specifically about React, Vue, Typescript, NodeJS, and functional programming in JS, among others.
  • Programming is Terrible Actual good philosophy about programming, but definitely one for an RSS feed since they post like twice a year.

The rest of the list

  • Codrops Cool demos of stuff you can do in UI.
  • CSS Weekly "weekly e-mail roundup of css articles, tutorials, experiments and tools curated by Zoran Jambor"
  • Frontend Focus "A once–weekly roundup of the best front-end news, articles and tutorials. HTML, CSS, WebGL, Canvas, browser tech, and more."
  • Frontend Weekly "The best articles, links and news related to Frontend Development delivered once a week to your inbox." Short, but fairly good.
  • Hacker Bits Curated articles from Hacker News, on a roughly-monthly basis.
  • Javascript Weekly "A free, once–weekly email roundup of JavaScript news and articles." Covers new libraries, events, jobs, and tutorials.
  • Morning Cup of Coding "Morning Cup of Coding is a daily programming newsletter featuring long form technical articles of all fields of software engineering." One caveat- They mean all fields; the most recent one in my inbox has articles about C++, Idris, and AI.
  • Mozilla Dev Newsletter A newsletter about cool things from Mozilla.
  • Programming Digest "Programming Digest is a weekly newsletter with the five most interesting stories in programming 👩‍💻, data 💾, and technology 📱." Leans more to "That's interesting" and "TIL" than technically useful.
  • Programming Praxis Weekly problems to practice programming on. Not bad, but I get enough problem solving in work.
  • React Status "A weekly roundup of the latest React and React Native links and tutorials."
  • ReactJS Newsletter Another newsletter; articles, tutorials, "here's my cool project", and videos.
  • Status Code Weekly "A weekly newsletter covering software development, Web operations, infrastructure, platforms, and performance, from browser down to the metal."
  • The Codeless Code Zen-style koans and fables about software development. Hasn't posted since Obama was in office, but I like it so it's staying in my RSS feed.
  • The Daily WTF Stories about software development going wrong, "your how-not-to guide for developing software".
  • The Old New Thing Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen blogs about C++, Microsoft stuff, and occasionally the Seattle Symphony season.
  • The Overflow A newsletter from Stack Overflow, covering their own blog, interesting questions from Stack Exchange, and outside articles.
  • TLDR Newsletter "TLDR is a daily newsletter with links and TLDRs of the most interesting stories in tech 📱, science 🚀, and coding 💻!" Leans more towards WIRED WRT tech news.
  • Web Design Weekly What it says on the tin. Includes tools, articles, non-technical stories, and occasional job listings.