The Best Software Development Blogs
Succeeding as a software developer involves a lot more than just writing code. It’s about continuously learning and adapting to the changing digital space. Staying up-to-date with the latest trends, tools, and best practices is inevitable if you want to build great software and stay ahead in your career. And one of the best ways to do this is by regularly reading software development blogs.
The problem is, with so many options, it can be overwhelming to figure out where to start.
That’s why I put together this guide to 24 of the best software development blogs out there. To make things even easier, I’ve rated each blog on a few key things:
- Writing quality: How easy is it to read and understand?
- Consistency: How often do they publish new content?
- Longevity: Have they been around long enough to trust?
- Technical depth: Will you get in-depth knowledge or just surface-level stuff?
- Broad usefulness: Is it relevant to your specific interests and skill level?
Before we dive into each blog individually, here are the 24 best software development blogs at a glance:
| Blog | My Overall Score |
|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | 4.8 |
| Smashing Magazine | 4.6 |
| Stack Overflow Blog | 4.6 |
| CSS-Tricks | 4.2 |
| Level Up Coding | 4.2 |
| Bits And Pieces | 4.2 |
| freeCodeCamp | 4.2 |
| Tutorialspoint | 4.2 |
| DEV.to | 4.2 |
| Ultimate Courses Todd Motto | 4 |
| Robin Wieruch | 3.8 |
| Kodeco | 3.8 |
| SitePoint | 3.8 |
| Stack Abuse | 3.8 |
| LogRocket | 3.8 |
| Towards Data Science | 3.8 |
| JavaScript In Plain English | 3.8 |
| A List Apart | 3.6 |
| Flavio Copes | 3.6 |
| Hackr.io | 3.4 |
| Codecademy | 3.2 |
| Hackernoon | 3.2 |
| David Walsh | 3.2 |
| Code Like A Girl | 3 |
1. DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean might be the next great thing in the developer community. Their library is vast enough to fulfil the needs of every developer. They publish a truly staggering amount of content monthly, with great technical depth.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 5
- Longevity: 4
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 5
- Overall score: 4.8
2. Smashing Magazine
Visually appealing for web developers of all backgrounds, Smashing Magazine consistently provides long, technical reads about topics like JavaScript, React and web design in general.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 5
- Longevity: 4
- Technical depth: 4
- Broad usefulness: 4
- Overall score: 4.6
3. Stack Overflow Blog
Naturally, the most famous website for developer knowledge from all over the world has a blog, with simple, easy-to-understand guides on every type of topic for developers of all backgrounds.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 5
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 5
- Overall score: 4.6
4. CSS-Tricks
Don’t get misled by the name; CSS articles aren’t the only reason it’s worth a visit. CSS-Tricks is a great platform for all web-related technologies, publishing three to five new articles daily of great quality and technical depth. The site’s UX is extremely modern, complementing a rich collection of guides on web topics like Flexbox and SASS.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 5
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 3
- Overall score: 4.2
5. Level Up Coding
Written by select authors, this Medium blog shares great web technology content for all types of developers, with a consistent quality of writing and a very active community.
- Writing quality: 4
- Consistency: 5
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 4
- Overall score: 4.2
6. Bits And Pieces
Two million developers tune in monthly to read about the web on Bits and Pieces. Join the blog and get daily content about your favorite JavaScript frameworks. Accessible for developers of all skill levels.
- Writing quality: 4
- Consistency: 5
- Longevity: 4
- Technical depth: 4
- Broad usefulness: 4
- Overall score: 4.2
7. freeCodeCamp
freeCodeCamp made history as the most-followed Medium publication ever. They’ve since moved on their own website, with more than 6000 articles about any type of coding technology. A great site for beginners, and not only because of the quality of content, they offer a free software development curriculum. Pair the lessons with their articles to fast-track your learning.
- Writing quality: 4
- Consistency: 4
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 5
- Overall score: 4.2
8. Tutorialspoint
Choose a coding language, and Tutorialspoint will have dozens of articles ready for you to pick from. Really one of the best linear resources for developers looking to acquire new skills.
- Writing quality: 3
- Consistency: 4
- Longevity: 5
- Technical depth: 4
- Broad usefulness: 5
- Overall score: 4.2
9. DEV.to
On Dev.to, you will find a community of more than half a million developers reading and sharing each other’s articles. It hosts thousands of articles, podcasts and Q&As related to any type of coding language, with new content added daily. Everybody can contribute whenever they want to this website, like in social media. This makes the platform very content-rich but also low in quality sometimes, as there is no checking on the published article’s quality.
The platform also offers a cool gamification system to reward contributors with badges and free gifts from their shop.
- Writing quality: 3
- Consistency: 5
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 5
- Overall score: 4.2
10. Ultimate Courses | Todd Motto
Google expert Todd Motto provides readers with deeply technical articles about the web’s most used frameworks, such as Angular and React. Unfortunately, the website isn’t that consistent when it comes to new content, but it’s still worth checking out.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 2
- Longevity: 4
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 4
- Overall score: 4
11. Robin Wieruch
Robin Wieruch’s followers are used to a collection of truly amazing articles about React every month. Easily learn everything you ever wanted to know about the library thanks to Wieruch’s straightforward, easy-to-understand writing style.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 3
- Longevity: 4
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 2
- Overall score: 3.8
12. Kodeco
A masterpiece when it comes to discussing mobile technologies, this blog publishes three to four deeply technical articles a week. With a special focus on Swift and Kotlin, this site allows free subscribers to download resources from select articles, making it a masterclass for students of mobile tech.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 3
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 3
- Overall score: 3.8
13. SitePoint
Since 1999, SitePoint has been an excellent platform for web-based technology tutorials. With four to five highly researched articles published a week, topics range from JavaScript and PHP to Angular and React.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 3
- Longevity: 5
- Technical depth: 3
- Broad usefulness: 3
- Overall score: 3.8
14. Stack Abuse
Weekly articles about JavaScript, Java and Python are perfect for developers with some experience. Stack Abuse gets in-depth and can be complex for novices.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 3
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 3
- Overall score: 3.8
15. LogRocket
LogRocket builds software for monitoring your frontend. Conveniently, they’ve created a blog with deeply technical articles and how-tos for improving application performance. Suggested for more experienced professionals.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 4
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 3
- Overall score: 3.8
16. Towards Data Science
An extremely large Medium publication, Towards Data Science is focused on, well, data science, with a good amount of content related to coding. Best fit for people who are in the field of AI or machine learning, this site publishes great quality material daily.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 4
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 2
- Overall score: 3.8
17. JavaScript In Plain English
This is the place to be for all developers passionate about JavaScript. Rapidly growing, JavaScript in Plain English offers daily education and inspiration for junior developers who want to master the language of the web.
- Writing quality: 4
- Consistency: 5
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 3
- Overall score: 3.8
18. A List Apart
This website hasn’t been publishing a lot lately, yet its collection of articles is still great for all the web developers out there with a passion for project management and creativity tools.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 3
- Longevity: 4
- Technical depth: 2
- Broad usefulness: 4
- Overall score: 3.6
19. Flavio Copes
Flavio Copes writes short-format articles, kind of like pills of knowledge, on topics ranging across all languages, but particularly JavaScript. Check out this site for beginner how-to guides, as well as Flavio’s library of free ebooks.
- Writing quality: 3
- Consistency: 5
- Longevity: 4
- Technical depth: 3
- Broad usefulness: 3
- Overall score: 3.6
20. Hackr.io
I found Hackr.io to be particularly useful for those looking for career orientation. In fact, most of their articles are guides for interviews. Expect to find two or three new posts every month. If you want help deciding what to learn first, they offer a special section listing the best online tutorials chosen by the community for every technology you can think of.
- Writing quality: 5
- Consistency: 2
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 5
- Broad usefulness: 2
- Overall score: 3.4
21. Codecademy
Codecademy is one of the best places online to start your career in coding. Their blog reflects that, with quality weekly content about interviews and landing a job as a developer.
- Writing quality: 4
- Consistency: 3
- Longevity: 4
- Technical depth: 2
- Broad usefulness: 2
- Overall score: 3.2
22. Hackernoon
Hackernoon is for people passionate about technology — they don’t only focus on coding, setting it apart from the rest of the blogs in this guide. It also covers startups, decentralization and gaming. A great place for techies, but a little distracting for developers looking for specific tutorials.
- Writing quality: 3
- Consistency: 4
- Longevity: 4
- Technical depth: 2
- Broad usefulness: 3
- Overall score: 3.2
23. David Walsh
Tech guru David Walsh, who worked for Mozilla, writes new articles about web development every week. On his blog, you will enjoy a variety of contents ranging from JavaScript to its frameworks. Or, if you prefer, an amazing series of articles regarding career advice from an absolute master like David.
- Writing quality: 4
- Consistency: 2
- Longevity: 4
- Technical depth: 4
- Broad usefulness: 3
- Overall score: 3.2
24. Code Like A Girl
A community built by women to inspire other women to join the tech world and help create its future. Their Medium blog publishes great content daily, especially related to career advice for women in tech.
- Writing quality: 4
- Consistency: 3
- Longevity: 3
- Technical depth: 2
- Broad usefulness: 3
- Overall score: 3
Do you have a favorite software development blog that I didn’t include in this list? You can let me know by sending them to [email protected].
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By Piero Borrelli
Software developer for the Wi-Fi industry. Burning keyboards with JavaScript code. Talking about the ups and downs of the developer’s life.
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