Ask YC: Your best programming websites/blogs

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by sharpshoot • 19 years ago

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Curious to see apart from news.yc what do people read on a daily or occasional basis (apart from what you find on news.yc) ? These could be general ones or language specific.

bcater• 19 years ago

I'm a big fan of http://www.mattmaroon.com.

showerst• 19 years ago

http://programming.reddit.com for nerd discussion

http://planet.ajaxian.com/ which is actually an agglomeration of lots of other feeds is great for keeping up with company launches and industry rumors, but a bit heavy (over 100 posts/day usually during the week)

immad• 19 years ago

By programming do you mean related directly to programming or startup related stuff in general?

sharpshoot• 19 years ago

Both really, but its quite easy to find startup related stuff on the web. The hardest stuff is when its real programming related content.

skuzins• 19 years ago

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ is a great blog on programming languages.

eVizitei• 19 years ago

I like http://www.joelonsoftware.com, and http://www.codinghorror.com

bayareaguy• 19 years ago

Here are a few I check every so often. For python:

- comp.python.announce - http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce

- Daily Python-URL - http://www.pythonware.com/daily

For java/xml:

- Cafe au Lait: http://www.ibiblio.org/java/

- Cafe con Leche: http://www.cafeconleche.org/

Misc:

- Hack the Planet - http://wmf.editthispage.com

- Geek Press - http://www.geekpress.com

gruseom• 19 years ago

http://planet.lisp.org/

Xichekolas• 19 years ago

I'm a fan of http://www.codinghorror.com and http://www.thedailywtf.com

I've never found a need to be updated daily on any one language, so I read more of the meta-discussion of being a programmer rather than about languages themselves. When I want to figure out a language issue, I just google for it.

staunch• 19 years ago

http://perlmonks.org/?node=Best+Nodes

ntoshev• 19 years ago

http://anarchaia.org/

http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/ (JVM hacking, concurrency, non-blocking hashtable)

http://osteele.com/ (javascript, functional programming)

http://glinden.blogspot.com/ (personalization, collective intelligence)

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/

davidw• 19 years ago

This one gets a lot of good links, so does the programming reddit. LtU is at times interesting... at times it veers way too far into the theoretical.

nreece• 19 years ago

http://www.aldaily.com is great for philosophy, and Wired Mag: http://www.wired.com/wired

and a few others ...

quickpost• 19 years ago

http://projecteuler.net/ for building some skills and having some fun.

bootload• 19 years ago

My programming (development) resources include sources that are as much a evolution of the Internet itself. There's news:, pre Web, then web 1/1.5 and finally web2.0.

You may notice the sites are not always exclusively about "programming". Why? Well I find that a lot of the best stuff occurs at the edges of programming/development in lots of different areas. This wide scanning of sources is an attempt to avoid the narrow focus of any one "technology" and to see how "stuff" is being applied. Ultimately I'm just as interested in building stuff than just merely playing with cogs & gears. The cross-over of technology and technique is at the edges. Exactly where new stuff & ideas emerge.

a) Newsgroups

The real source of Internet news, plain-old news-groups. Rowdy, without pictures but the source of infinite detail. I don't scan them as much in news-mode but still flick through them:

- news:comp.lang.* (perl python core language)

- news:comp.unix.admin

- news:lucky.openbsd.misc (obsd chatter)

- news:linux.kernel

- news:rec.games.programmer (where all the good programming used to be discussed)

- http://groups.google.com/group/webpy

- http://groups.google.com/group/django-users

b) Web1/1.5: sites & blogs Every day I log onto these sites & scan them.

- http://scripting.com

- http://radar.oreilly.com

- hackernews via my summary http://goonmail.customer.netspace.net.au/hackerid/

- http://techmeme.com (broad brush)

Then if I get bored I go and take a look at the following urls or listen via c) ...

- http://factoryjoe.com/ (standards, usability & bleeding edge)

- http://www.plasticbag.org/ (ui, standards, application)

- http://www.hackdiary.com/ (bleeding edge, standards)

- http://jeffcroft.com/ (django)

- http://willotoons.com/ (tech in biz)

- http://chrisbrogan.com/ (social tech)

- http://www.valuesofn.com/blog (extracting meaning app)

- http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=guido (BDFL, creator of python)

c) Web2.0: Twitter & Flickr, etc

I've been on flickr for quite a while and when twitter started I added mostly my flickr contacts on twitter. So I'm hooked into twitter (and flickr) so a quick grab from my twit list shows quite a few ppl who blog and write. So you can listen to the cross chatter and see references to articles, topics or interesting things. You don't have to know them all. The direct line of contact means you can listen, ask questions, clarify information & facts. [0] For example my list of the first 20 twits or so include:

Watching the "alpha geeks" ....

Biz Stone , Blaine Cook , rael , veen , davegray , Sacca , Ross , Justin Williams , Mr Messina , Dave Winer , Bon , Scott Rafer , Chris Brogan , julien , Lachlan Hardy , 47teen , Jeremy Keith , Andre Torrez , Hicksy , Tom Coates , Matt Biddulph , Todd Jordan , Paul Boag ... etc

[0] Like the time I did a quick quote check on Chris Sacca & got a response back via twitter in a couple of hours.

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