Ian Bicking contributes quite a bit to the pylons/python community, and he helped me get my AppEngine stuff going, just from reading his blog and examples. Strikes me as a smart guy.
I like raganwald. (http://weblog.raganwald.com/) He's a bit of a language geek, seems to speak from experience and authority on a few software engineering topics, and seems all-around bright.
From my work with Bus Scheme, I find the blog of technomancy to be an interesting read (http://technomancy.us/). Some programming, but mostly all tech-related in some way.
I also like a lot of programs Ryan Davis writes (zentest, autotest, hoe, vlad), and he has some good posts on his blog too, though it's a bit light on content sometimes. http://blog.zenspider.com/
For some CSey stuff, Neighborhood of Infinity occasionally has some good stuff (http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/). Similar is Universe of Discourse (http://blog.plover.com/), though it seems a little more grounded in actual programming.
I met the guys at thoughtbot (http://giantrobots.thoughtbot.com) and OG (http://b.logi.cx) at railsconf, so I'm subscribing to their blogs. They're in my 'Trial' folder for now, but they'll probably get bumped into a full readership status.
Probably more from me next time I open my RSS reader, but that's it from the top of my head.
Here's a few:
I like raganwald. (http://weblog.raganwald.com/) He's a bit of a language geek, seems to speak from experience and authority on a few software engineering topics, and seems all-around bright.
From my work with Bus Scheme, I find the blog of technomancy to be an interesting read (http://technomancy.us/). Some programming, but mostly all tech-related in some way.
I also like a lot of programs Ryan Davis writes (zentest, autotest, hoe, vlad), and he has some good posts on his blog too, though it's a bit light on content sometimes. http://blog.zenspider.com/
For a language geek like me, the canonical source for cool stuff is LTU (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/)
For some CSey stuff, Neighborhood of Infinity occasionally has some good stuff (http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/). Similar is Universe of Discourse (http://blog.plover.com/), though it seems a little more grounded in actual programming.
I met the guys at thoughtbot (http://giantrobots.thoughtbot.com) and OG (http://b.logi.cx) at railsconf, so I'm subscribing to their blogs. They're in my 'Trial' folder for now, but they'll probably get bumped into a full readership status.
Probably more from me next time I open my RSS reader, but that's it from the top of my head.
My programming blogroll in opml
I have set the text attribute to simple notes about the blog.
I'll come back later and add more detailed notes on why I have them in my blogroll.
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<outline text="Ajax related articles from many authors"
title="Ajaxian" type="rss"
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<outline text="Articles published in Ruby Code Style"
title="Articles published in Ruby Code & Style"
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<outline text="Artima Ruby Buzz" title="Artima Ruby Buzz"
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<outline text="Lisp and some emacs"
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<outline text="Cocoa Dev Central" title="Cocoa Dev Central"
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<outline text="Occasionaly good ruby info" title="Codefluency" type="rss"
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<outline text="Cooking with Lisp" title="Cooking with Lisp"
type="rss"
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<outline text="EmacsWiki: RecentChanges"
title="EmacsWiki: RecentChanges" type="rss"
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<outline text="_why's projects. Specifically Shoes and hackety hack" title="hackety org" type="rss"
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<outline text="general programming" title="Juixe TechKnow"
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<outline text="LispCast" title="LispCast" type="rss"
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<outline text="Lisp/Scheme/Emacs Pipe - aggregate of many blogs"
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<outline text="M-x all-things-emacs"
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<outline text="refactoring and programming"
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<outline
text="Methods and Messages: Randal Schwartz on Smalltalk"
title="Methods and Messages: Randal Schwartz on Smalltalk"
type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/posts/atom.xml" htmlUrl="http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/"/>
<outline text="My OS X Programming Blog"
title="My OS X Programming Blog" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi/rss.xml" htmlUrl="http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi/index.xml"/>
<outline text="Ruby, meta-programming" title="Obie Fernandez"
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<outline text="Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI"
title="Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://ola-bini.blogspot.com/atom.xml" htmlUrl="http://ola-bini.blogspot.com/"/>
<outline text="OnRails.org" title="OnRails.org" type="rss"
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<outline text="Paul Graham: Essays"
title="Paul Graham: Essays" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss" htmlUrl="http://www.paulgraham.com/"/>
<outline text="feed of new reddit programming related links"
title="programming: what's new online" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://reddit.com/r/programming/new.rss" htmlUrl="http://reddit.com/r/programming/"/>
<outline text="RailsExpress.blog" title="RailsExpress.blog"
type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://railsexpress.de/blog/xml/atom10/feed.xml" htmlUrl="https://railsexpress.de/blog"/>
<outline text="Haskell, mondas, theoretical cs stuff"
title="Random Hacks" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://www.randomhacks.net/xml/rss20/feed.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.randomhacks.net/"/>
<outline text="More rails stuff"
title="Riding Rails - home" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/RidingRails" htmlUrl="http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/"/>
<outline text="Ruby Inside" title="Ruby Inside" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://www.rubyinside.com/feed/" htmlUrl="http://www.rubyinside.com"/>
<outline text="very rarely updated ruby challenges"
title="Ruby Quiz" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://rubyquiz.com/index.rss" htmlUrl="http://www.rubyquiz.com/"/>
<outline text="RubyFlow" title="RubyFlow" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Rubyflow" htmlUrl="http://www.rubyflow.com/"/>
<outline text="RubyGarden" title="RubyGarden" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://www.rubygarden.org/index.cgi/index.rss" htmlUrl="http://www.rubygarden.org/index.cgi"/>
<outline text="37 Signals blog (campfire, backpackit, etc)"
title="Signal vs. Noise"
type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://www.37signals.com/svn/index.xml" htmlUrl="http://37signals.com/svn/"/>
<outline text="The Blog of Lisp" title="The Blog of Lisp"
type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://www.priyadarshan.in/blog/easyblog_rss" htmlUrl="http://www.priyadarshan.in/blog"/>
<outline text="weekly squeak news roundup"
title="The Weekly Squeak"
type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/feed/" htmlUrl="http://news.squeak.org"/>
<outline text="Common Lisp" title="unClog" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://metabang.com/unclogit/?feed=rss2" htmlUrl="http://metabang.com/unclogit"/>
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