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Coding Horror [1], and Joel on Software [2] are my favorites.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/ [2] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/

I was going to reply that Joel quit blogging already, opened a his site to find a prooflink - and wow! He actually writes new stuff, and even the site looks new.

Anyway, the old-time Joel posts should be required reading to anyone who even wants to be a developer. And should certainly be re-read once in every 3-5 years or so.

He did summarize most of those in his books:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/buy-the-books/

I summarized all his blog posts once in one sentence per post, organized by year.[1]

[1] http://jwbs-blog.blogspot.nl/p/joel-on-software-summary.html

Oh interesting, it looks like Joel on Software recently got an update. Apart from cosmetic changes, there are now a number of recommended reading lists to help you find articles you might like.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/#reading-lists

Joel on Software is a brilliant blog. Read through all the posts a couple of years back, all of them were interesting and well written; a lot of them were solid gold.

Probably one of the best blog ever, programming or not, because it's not just good, it's so damn genuine.

Also http://thedailywtf.com/

I followed that for a long time, but stopped a few years ago as the articles felt so fake and/or fluffed up.

Do anything for a long time and in a very busy life and you start picking habits, patterns. When you write a blog for so long it's obvious you will develop a tone, style and way of writting that will feel deja-vue. And of course you can't be a genious every day so many time you rely on a formula you know works for you when the spark isn't there. That does't make it less genuine. If anything, it's human.

Plus they have a (fantastic) business to run so it get influenced by it.

Still, the last articles on password were high quality material.

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