My Favorite Developer Blogs

Development Tips Posted by Akash Verma August 16, 2026

My Favorite Developer Blogs

I love coding. Or rather, what coding allows me to create. What started out in GWBasic in my childhood evolved into .NET, Node.JS, and Angular these days. Writing code is deeply engrossing, provided that I’m able to find the right solution to the problems I’m attempting to solve. There are also moments where coding is deeply frustrating. Most of those moments revolve around my inability to find an elegant solution to a problem. I can feel deeply frustrated by code that is far more complex than it should be, and I don’t know how to make it better. I’m sure all developers will recognize that feeling. It is also the primary reason why I follow many developers' blogs. If there is one thing I’ve learned, it is that all problems have been solved before by more talented developers. Even when the language is different, the idea often remains the same. In this post I want to share some of the blogs I follow, and why they are helpful to me. If you’re a developer, you may find value in them. If you work with developers in your team, they may be interested in them also. Because I write in .NET most of the time, you may notice that many of the blogs here at least feature a lot of .NET content — but not all.

Ploeg Blog by Mark Seemann

A good friend shared this blog with me several years ago. I’d never heard of Mark Seemann before. He is a Danish self-employed developer and architect who shares a lot of gems on his blog. What I particularly like about Mark is that he takes a very high-level perspective on code, and often talks a high-level perspective. He manages to distill a problem to its core and then offers abstracted solutions that are not language-specific. He also often writes about developer craftsmanship and team hygiene. One word of warning; Mark’s writing is aimed at developers who are experienced with object-oriented programming and functional programming. Beginning developers probably will struggle to make sense of the writing.

The Morning Brew by Chris Alcock

Phil Haack is an inspiring developer who worked at GitHub and Microsoft and has left his fingerprints all over ASP.NET MVC and NuGet. He now runs his own company. What I like about his blog is that the writing is excellent. Even for fairly advanced topics, he writes in such a way that even beginning developers are likely to catch the essence.

Here are some of my favorite posts:

Global Query Filters for Interfaces, which inspired me to separate selection logic from my repositories, and into specialized classes.
Recovering from Burnout
Should you flow external claims on every login?

You can find Phil’s blog here: https://haacked.com/

Conclusion

I’m sure that all developers frequent stackoverflow.com. Its really become the go-to place to find out if other developers have faced similar challenges, and whether or not their solutions work for you as well. And yes, everybody copy-pastes from Stack Overflow (although I hope you make sure to understand the code). Stack Overflow also has an interesting blog that frequently features useful content written by other developers. Considering their slick presentation, you’d think that much of the content is produced by marketing writers. But most of their content is written by active developers. The writing is generally quite good, and far more accessible than some of the other blogs I follow. So it is a good place for any developer to visit once in a while.

My Favorite Developer Blogs