Subscriptions

This page lists a selection of the weblogs, newsfeeds, and podcasts I’m subscribed to. The links point to regular HTML pages; usually there’s an XML feed on the page as well.

• Science
• Technology
• Programming
• Windows Development
• Video Games

Science

• The Christian Science Monitor, a (quite secular) digest of science and general news
• Croc Blog with CrocLog podcast: Australian zoologist Adam Britton on all things crocodilian
• The Naked Scientists, a podcast by the University of Cambridge and the BBC
• Nature.com with news, the Nature podcast, and other specialized podcasts
• Science Magazine with daily news and a weekly podcast
• The Science Show with Robyn Williams from Australia’s ABC Radio National
• Scientific American with Science Talk and other podcasts and newsfeeds
• The Scholarly Kitchen: what’s hot and cooking in scholarly publishing
• This Week in Science with Kirsten Sanford and Justin Jackson

Technology

• All About Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley
• AllThingsD: news & opinions on media, technology, and business
• AnandTech: news & reviews on computing technology
• Ars Technica with associated discussion forum
• Charlie’s Diary: being the blog of Charles Stross, author, and occasional guests
• The Ed Bott Report on Microsoft and other IT companies
• The Endeavour by John D. Cook, mathematics professor and programmer
• InfoWorld with separate RSS feeds for news, reviews, and weblogs
• Joel on Software with rare but sometimes brilliant essays
• Kevin Kelly maintains The Technium and other weblogs, as well as an active Google+ profile
• John C. Dvorak at MarketWatch and PC Magazine (strictly for amusement…)
• Microsoft Watch on our favorite monopolist
• Picture’s Up: Gordon Cameron’s thoughts on movies & television
• Pushing Pixels: Kirill Grouchnikov on user interfaces, movies, and visual style
• Revert to Saved: design, gaming & technology by Craig Grannell
• Rough Type: Nicholas G. Carr on information and technology
• Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier
• TechRadar: news & reviews on computing and multimedia technology
• Tim Anderson’s Gadget Writing on mobile & audio devices
• The TWiT Netcast Network: This Week in Tech and other podcasts with Leo Laporte et al.
• Vivek Haldar on technology, programming & science
• X3 on Mevio is John C. Dvorak’s new video show, the spiritual successor to Cranky Geeks

Programming

• Bartosz Milewski’s Programming Cafe on Concurrency, Multicore, C++, Haskell
• Coding Horror: Jeff Atwood’s weblog and book reviews
• I Programmer: an online magazine for programmers
• ignore the code: Lukas Mathis on user interface design
• JavaWorld with separate RSS feeds for news & articles and weblogs
• Jon Skeet’s Coding Blog on C#, .NET, Java, software development etc.
• Kazimir Majorinc’s Lisp Programming Blog with a focus on Lisp history & adoption
• Jon Rose @ Oracle on Java and the JVM
• Lambda the Ultimate on programming languages
• Riagenic: Ex-Microsoftie Scott Barnes trolls his former employer
• Software Engineering Radio: CS fundamentals and interviews with (more or less) famous developers
• Stack Exchange: many community-driven Q&A sites, notably Stack Overflow for programmers, with associated weblog
• Sutter’s Mill: Herb Sutter on C++ and other things
• Tim Anderson’s ITWriting on software technology

Windows Development

This section contains weblogs on all things Windows, including Microsoft employees posting on the company’s MSDN Blogs service and elsewhere, but also independent bloggers focused on Windows development.

• .NET Blog from all the .NET engineering teams
• BCL Team Blog on the .NET Base Class Library
• CodeCast by Code Magazine for .NET developers
• Don Syme’s WebLog on F# and related topics
• Fabulous Adventures in Coding: Eric Lippert on programming
• IanG on Tap: Ian Griffiths on Windows client programming
• Jer’s Hacks: Jeremiah Morrill on DirectX and XAML
• Joe Duffy’s Weblog on concurrency and parallelism
• Kirill Osenkov on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4
• Larry Osterman: Confessions of an old fogey
• Mark Russinovich tracks down spyware and other misbehaved applications
• Pete Brown’s Blog (POKE 53280,0) on Windows client development
• The Old New Thing: Raymond Chen on Windows arcana
• Precision Computing: Lee Holmes on Windows PowerShell
• Rico Mariani’s Performance Tidbits on Visual Studio, performance & profiling
• Tomáš Petříček on F# and asynchronous programming
• Ultimate Visual Studio Tips & Tricks Blog by Zain Naboulsi
• Visual C++ Team Blog on Microsoft’s one performant language
• Visual F# Team Blog on Microsoft’s functional language
• Visual Studio Blog on all aspects of the IDE
• Windows PowerShell Blog on Microsoft’s modern shell language
• Filip Skakun writes Xyzzer’s Dev Blog and edits WinRT Daily News

Video Games

• bit-tech.net with news & reviews about PC hardware and Windows games
• Bluh.org: Game design and other wastes of time, by Charles Randall
• The Bottom Feeder by Jeff Vogel, founder of Spiderweb Software
• Eurogamer and GamesIndustry.biz, two sister websites with consumer & industry focus, respectively
• Don’t miss Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry, a dedicated weblog for gaming technology
• Flash of Steel, a weblog and podcast on strategy games by Troy S. Goodfellow
• Gamasutra, industry news and articles by & for professional game developers
• Game Architect: Kyle Wilson’s Musings on Game Engine Structure and Design
• Games, Dammit! features several 1UP writers talking at length about a single game each week
• Greenspeak by Jeff Green of CGW/GfW fame
• Idle Thumbs, a video game podcast by Chris Remo et al. with associated forums
• iPhoneTiny: reviews & news for iPhone games & apps by Craig Grannell
• Jon Shafer on Design by the lead designer of Sid Meier’s Civilization V
• Pocket Tactics: Owen Faraday covers strategy gaming on Android & iOS devices
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Alec Meer, Jim Rossignol, Quintin Smith & John Walker on PC games
• The Psychology of Video Games by Jamie Madigan, psychologist and gamer
• Slide to Play and Touch Arcade: gaming news & reviews for Apple’s iOS devices
• David Thier writes about video games at Forbes (of all places)
• Weekend Confirmed: gaming podcast on Shacknews with Garnett Lee, Jeff Cannata, et al.