Clan x86

General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: while1 on September 08, 2012, 06:36:34 pm

Title: Coding, Security, and Other Blogs/ Sites
Post by: while1 on September 08, 2012, 06:36:34 pm
For me, I absolutely hate trying to find new blogs to subscribe to just because of the sheer number of blogs out there.  It's finding quality and interesting ones that teach me something or give invaluable insight that is often daunting for me.  I seem to normally stumble upon blogs that I end up subscribing to/ regularly checking if someone links me to a notably interesting/ entertaining/ informational blog post (i.e. I didn't start reading Coding Horror until someone linked it in a post here).  Or a blog post is linked to from a news site/ community that I regularly check.  For example, I came across an interesting blog post (http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-starcraft) today by a former Blizzard developer, Patrick Wyatt, when it was posted on Slashdot (definitely a good read, it's the first of a three part series, I definitely look forward to reading the next two parts).

This got me thinking, what blogs everyone here subscribes to/ regularly reads, including any sites like Slashdot?

I think the reason I've been reading Slashdot for all these years is because the moderators generally do a good job of aggregating news and things that I find interesting and care about/ want to read... plus the comments can often be extremely insightful, informational, and funny.
Title: Re: Coding, Security, and Other Blogs/ Sites
Post by: Blaze on September 08, 2012, 08:07:27 pm
I try to follow smart people on twitter and just click on stuff they link.  I kind of stopped using RSS managers and all that sort of stuff a while ago.

Thanks for linking that Starcraft blog, though, it's a great read so fat.  :)
Title: Re: Coding, Security, and Other Blogs/ Sites
Post by: iago on September 09, 2012, 04:55:22 am
I try to follow smart people on twitter and just click on stuff they link.  I kind of stopped using RSS managers and all that sort of stuff a while ago.
Ditto.
Title: Re: Coding, Security, and Other Blogs/ Sites
Post by: while1 on September 10, 2012, 07:08:47 am
Thanks for linking that Starcraft blog, though, it's a great read so fat.  :)

Second part is up on his blog.

I try to follow smart people on twitter and just click on stuff they link.  I kind of stopped using RSS managers and all that sort of stuff a while ago.
Ditto.

... Mind naming some of these "smart" people on twitter?!?!
Title: Re: Coding, Security, and Other Blogs/ Sites
Post by: iago on September 10, 2012, 09:10:12 am
I try to follow smart people on twitter and just click on stuff they link.  I kind of stopped using RSS managers and all that sort of stuff a while ago.
Ditto.

... Mind naming some of these "smart" people on twitter?!?!
Depends what you're interested in. Look who I follow (@iagox86), that's a good list of people in IT Security
Title: Re: Coding, Security, and Other Blogs/ Sites
Post by: Chavo on September 10, 2012, 10:00:33 am
This got me thinking, what blogs everyone here subscribes to/ regularly reads, including any sites like Slashdot?
My RSS feeds:

Slashdot (though I skim the headlines and only end up reading about 10% these days)
Hackaday
Lifehacker
Engadget mobile
XDA
TheDailyWTF
<a couple deal sites>

And I have some google news sections set up for local & tech.
Title: Re: Coding, Security, and Other Blogs/ Sites
Post by: iago on September 11, 2012, 11:23:16 am
Here's my RSS collection:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror/                                                                                                                       
http://feeds.boingboing.net/boingboing/iBag                                                                                                                     
http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/headlines.atom                                                                                                               
http://blog.metasploit.com/feeds/posts/default                                                                                                                 
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SunbeltBlog                                                                                                                         
http://emergentchaos.com/feed/                                                                                                                                 
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/feed/                                                                                                                     
http://blog.portswigger.net/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss                                                                                                         
http://gynvael.coldwind.pl/rss_en.php                                                                                                                           
http://feeds.feedburner.com/schneier/excerpts                                                                                                                   
http://blackbag.nl/?feed=rss2                                                                                                                                   
http://pauldotcom.com/atom.xml                                                                                                                                 
http://www.cqure.net/wp/feed/                                                                                                                                   
http://xpnsbraindump.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default                                                                                                           
http://g-laurent.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default                                                                                                               
http://carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com/rss.xml                                                                                                                 
http://feeds.feedburner.com/securityaegis/igXu                                                                                                                 
http://blog.didierstevens.com/feed/                                                                                                                             
http://internetopenurla.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss 

Not all of those are still active.
Title: Re: Coding, Security, and Other Blogs/ Sites
Post by: rabbit on September 12, 2012, 10:35:18 am
Wyatt also has 2 articles on creating Warcraft as well, in which he describes the original intent of the *craft games, which were all supposed to be part of the same universe (Warcraft: pre technology, (Other)craft games, Starcraft: space technology).  Very good.