Ask HN: Journals for CS practitioners?

Does anybody know of any journals that cater to practitioners in computer science, rather than academics? I think journal articles are a great way to introduce novel ideas or discuss clever implementations. Practitioner-oriented articles were pretty common back in the 1980's, but seem to have all but disappeared today. That's sad, because there are a lot of cool ideas that don't necessarily break new ground in theoretical CS but are still interesting to practitioners. E.g. Joel Bartlett at DEC published a really great paper on conservative garbage collection in the late 1980's, complete with sample code, that formed the basis of numerous implementations, including the collectors in SBCL and Dalvik. Articles like that are few and far between these days.

I think there is a nice middle ground between informal blog posts and theoretical CS papers, and I'd love it if HN-ers could point me to something that fills that gap.