If you're reading this, then I can only assume that you still enjoy the process of reading medium to long form content on the internet. As do I. And I have my favorites that I come back to from time to time.
The following list is only a small sample of what I have bookmarked on my browser, but these are the blogs that stand out right off the bat.
So feel free to check them out and show support for this lesser talked about craft that we call blogging.
hanselman.com
This might be the oldest blog that I'll mention on this list. And kudos to Scott for still keeping it alive this many years later.
I've been a fan of Scott Hanselman ever since I was in college and barely getting into .NET. He has a way of explaining concepts in a way where the user doesn't feel overwhelmed and his tutorials from back in the day were pretty easy to follow and kept me engaged with the .NET ecosystem.
His blog is a combination of technical posts related to Windows and .NET as well as more personal tales and/or productivity hacks. And that's probably a big part of why I've enjoyed reading it throughout the years. I don't always need a multi-page explainer related to IHostBuilder and NUnit. But sometimes, I just need a 5 minute break in my day to read about something non-coding related.
Scott doesn't post at the same frequency as he once did over a decade ago. But I'd say that he posts just enough to get me to visit every once in a while to see what's new.
Check out hanselman.com.
wattenberger.com
Amelia Wattenberger has some of the best looking blog posts that I have ever seen. Each post is a unique looking, interactive experience and it explains its core concept in a way that I've yet to stumble across on the internet.
Just take a look at her post on the concept of an 'infinite canvas'. I can only assume that you've never read an article that invites you to click around and to interact with it directly in order to understand what its saying.
It honestly makes me feel bad about my posts at times. Mainly because I have no idea how she does it. I know how JavaScript animations and graphing libraries work, I just can't figure out how to blend them into an article seamlessly to tell a story.
In general though, her posts are just very well put together and the visualizations help to explain concepts that otherwise might be difficult to explain using plain old letters.
Highly recommend if you're into data science, graphs and web design / user experience.
taniarascia.com
I can't quite recall how I ended up on Tania's blog, but I'm pretty sure I was searching for some walkthrough or tutorial online on GraphQL and I found myself reading through one of her thorough articles.
Tania has a fair number of full how-to's on her blog, such as:
How to Set Up webpack 5 From Scratch
and
How To Set Up a GraphQL API Server in Node.js
And these are the articles that I frequently visit, whenever I need to refresh on these core concepts. In general though, Tania's articles are comprehensive and she includes links to all tools and resources that she is referencing, which you don't often see these days.
bram.us
When it comes to staying up to date with all things CSS, bram.us is my go to blog. Bramus is a web developer from Belgium and he is part of the Chrome Developer Relations team at Google.
And his posts are typically related to some CSS/Ui/UX feature which is about to see the light of day.
Finding ways to stay up to date on the latest and greatest features coming to the web is definitely challenging, so I'm glad to see that there's someone out there helping to reduce that stress.
The blog is updated frequently enough with several posts per month, but the archive's are vast and will take anyone years to go through them all.
netflixtechblog.com
The outlier on thist list. Netflix has a blog and it is catered to developers. And it is good. Surprisingly good.
I'll say now that many of the articles are incredibly complex in nature, and unless you yourself are working on storing petabytes of data and serving it with millisecond access latency, you might not exactly find the most applicable information.
But as a fan of software development in general, it is fascinating to read about how Netflix tackles performance challenges that I will probably never encounter.
LogRocket
LogRocket is a session replay and performance monitoring tool that just so happens to maintain a frequently updated developer blog full of well-written and helpful developer articles.
While I don't personally use their product, I do read their blog and I've done so for years now. They cover topics ranging from JavaScript, React, UI/UX to everything in between and it's all well-written and concise.
Personally speaking, I still enjoy reading blogs on the internet. I was reading blogs before YouTube was around and I'd argue that most of my initial software developer journey was strongly influenced by random content that people were writing online.
There's just something about the self-guided pace in reading that you wont really find in videos with quick cuts. You can instantly pause for a second, sip on coffee, get distracted somewhere else and come right back where you left of.
I hope you discovered something new on this list, and if you have a favorite developer blog then comment it down below.