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The best Software Development newsletters

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troyhunt.com· weekly· Published 3 days ago

Weekly updates from the creator of Have I Been Pwned covering data breaches, cybercrime arrests, and his own development work on the service. Readers get a first-hand, opinionated view of the security landscape, including commentary on AI hype versus real-world breach evidence.

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blog.codinghorror.com· irregular· Published 26 days ago

Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, writes personal essays on programming, online communities and the human side of technology. Recent issues cover Stack Overflow's legacy in the age of LLMs, a conference talk, and his new TWiT show.

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ryansinger.co· irregular· Published 26 days ago

Ryan Singer, author of Shape Up, shares practical guidance on defining software before hiring developers, separating framing (choosing work and getting buy-in) from shaping (specifying mechanics for building). Issues include a primer on documenting business logic and a real-world end-to-end Shape Up case study.

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blog.gitguardian.com· irregular· Published today

This blog from GitGuardian covers secrets management, credential security, and non-human identities, with research on leaked API keys in AI tools and the company's Good Samaritan notification program. Readers get practical security frameworks and data on how credentials leak across code, endpoints, and AI agents.

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thestack.technology· daily· Published yesterday

The Stack publishes news, interviews and analysis on enterprise technology, cybersecurity, cloud and startups for digital leaders. Excerpts show fast-moving coverage of security incidents with technical detail, plus a weekly startup and funding roundup.

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natesnewsletter.substack.com· daily· Published yesterday

A daily AI strategy newsletter aimed at practitioners and leaders who want practical guidance on running and building with AI agents, including hardware planning, agent security, and tools for investigating existing software. It mixes executive briefings, step-by-step prompt kits, and walkthroughs of open-source developer tools.

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Ben's Bites

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bensbites.com· weekly· Published yesterday

Ben's Bites is a newsletter from Ben Tossell about learning to build with AI agents, covering personal agent setups, prompt and workflow tips, and new agent tools. Each issue pairs a personal write-up or opinion piece with a curated feed of agent-related headlines and tools worth trying.

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workingsoftware.dev· irregular· Published 8 days ago

A Tech Lead and Software Architect writes about how business people and developers are building software with AI agents and what that means for domain knowledge, team roles and process design. Recent issues also cover the cost of agentic AI usage and how organisations should own token spend through architecture decisions.

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thoughts.jock.pl· irregular· Published 13 days ago

A Polish-based AI marketing lead shares practical notes on building AI agents, model comparisons for Anthropic's Claude lineup, and case studies of public-data websites built with an AI agent. The newsletter combines first-hand experience with evidence-based fact-checking of popular health claims.

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devas.life· monthly· Published 18 days ago

An indie developer shares behind-the-scenes updates on building his Markdown note app Inkdrop, plus personal essays and tutorials on coding with AI agents. Readers get first-hand reflections on how AI is changing programming and practical detail on design and development workflows.

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blog.emailengine.app· irregular· Published 1 months ago

EmailEngine's developer writes a blog about building and running a one-person commercial email-infrastructure business, covering his AI-assisted coding workflow, revenue and release cadence, and documentation practices for open source. Readers get candid, numbers-backed accounts of solo software businesses and how AI tools change development work.

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blog.owlbear.rodeo· irregular· Published 2 months ago

A developer's blog about building Owlbear Rodeo, a virtual tabletop for role-playing games, covering design decisions like map alignment tools, automatic fog detection, and reflections on the developer's early programming history. Readers get detailed insight into the tradeoffs and features behind a niche TTRPG software product.

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mironov.com· irregular· Published 2 months ago

Rich Mironov shares strategic product thinking for resource-constrained companies, drawing on decades of product management experience. Issues break down the difference between code, commercially deployable software and revenue-ready products, and argue that the core product problems of target market and value remain even as AI speeds up development.

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jeremyjordan.me· irregular· Published 4 months ago

Jeremy Jordan's blog-style newsletter mixes personal reflections on building software with coding agents (the 'continuous work' idea) and in-depth machine learning tutorials on distributed neural network training and the Transformer architecture. Readers get practical notes on agent-driven development alongside careful, math-backed explanations of deep learning fundamentals.

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john.onolan.org· irregular· Published 7 months ago

A personal blog by Ghost's founder covering his side projects, product experiments and reflections on open source and publishing. Readers get first-hand perspective on building software with AI, licensing, and independent media.

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chrismessina.me· irregular· Published 10 months ago

Chris Messina, inventor of the hashtag and former Product Hunt insider, writes about post-LLM software economics, the future of social platforms like Bluesky and hashtags, and personal reflections on digital identity. The issues mix sharp personal essays with some promotional framing around his fund and launch advice.

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claudecodefornoncoders.substack.com· weekly· Published today

A newsletter by Daniel Williams for senior technical people who want to build their own AI agents while keeping control of decisions. It offers weekly builds, interviews and lessons on coding agents, review loops and when to step in with Claude.

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theanthropicstack.substack.com· weekly· Published yesterday

A weekly roundup for developers building with Claude Code, MCP and the Anthropic ecosystem, mixing practical how-tos on managing images and context with curated pointers to GitHub tools and agent skills. Readers get concrete setup steps and a short list of tools worth trying, with a clear editorial voice on where human review matters.

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joshuawold.com· irregular· Published yesterday

Joshua Wold writes short personal essays for product designers on building products that serve real users, favouring fast, dogfooded first versions over speculative features. Issues also drift into reflections on nature and mindfulness.

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Opinion AI

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opinionai.substack.com· daily· Published yesterday

A practical AI newsletter for builders and busy people, delivering a daily brief on new AI tools, money-related AI developments, and how AI affects work and business. Recent issues cover building autonomous AI agents, reverse engineering software with AI, and organizing multi-model agent teams.

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crunchybagel.com· irregular· Published yesterday

Crunchy Bagel is the blog-style newsletter of an independent Apple-platform app studio, sharing development notes on updating its apps for new hardware and on tooling such as Xcode and Claude Code. It also announces new apps, mixing practical how-to detail with occasional product promotion.

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dailypythonprojects.substack.com· irregular· Published 2 days ago

A hands-on course that teaches Python by building a small project each day, with posts on generators, new Python releases, and decorators in a Flask-like app. Readers get runnable code, measured results and step-by-step explanations of concepts.

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blog.elmah.io· weekly· Published 2 days ago

A .NET developer's blog offering hands-on tutorials on ASP.NET Core, performance and memory tuning, and practical tooling such as MCP servers and API design for AI agents. Readers get step-by-step code walkthroughs and opinionated tool recommendations from the elmah.io team.

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blog.ravi-mehta.com· weekly· Published 3 days ago

This newsletter offers product leadership essays and workshop recaps on using AI to build products with more craft, taste and judgment. It accompanies a 12-part live workshop series, with much of the full content behind a paywall.

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thewriting.dev· irregular· Published 3 days ago

A practitioner-written newsletter on UK Global Talent visa applications, reframing rejected evidence packs, and a companion series on vibe coding for public-good projects. It offers practical guidance for applicants and beginners who want to build useful software with AI tools.

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ai blueprint

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readaiblueprint.com· weekly· Published 5 days ago

A weekly-style AI newsletter that covers the latest AI model launches, product updates, and industry news in a digestible format. Readers get practical explanations of what changed in AI tools, plus sponsored tool picks and short how-to features.

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James Montemagno

Independent
montemagno.com· irregular· Published 5 days ago

James Montemagno's blog covers his work as a developer and speaker, with recent posts on rebuilding his site as a static Hugo site and launching small browser-based developer tools. The newsletter offers practical write-ups of his projects, including implementation details and lessons learned.

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Reeducated

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soyonbo.substack.com· irregular· Published 8 days ago

A personal newsletter by a former Chinese newspaper journalist about building and defending PropagandaScope, a searchable archive of Chinese Party newspapers. It mixes first-person accounts of server attacks and log forensics with reflections on AI-assisted coding.

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blog.novacare.no· irregular· Published 23 days ago

A Norwegian developer-focused newsletter from Novacare sharing reflections on conferences, TypeScript and AI tooling, plus practical engineering write-ups such as debugging Azure DevOps deployment agents. Readers get a mix of event takeaways and hands-on troubleshooting guidance for .NET, Node and Azure pipelines.

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catalins.tech· irregular· Published 29 days ago

A developer shares hands-on impressions of AI coding tools such as Devin, Codex and Claude Code, alongside practical self-hosting tutorials. Readers get first-person product comparisons and step-by-step setup guides with commands.

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kenst.com· irregular· Published 1 months ago

Kent Beck-style practitioner essays by a developer who explores how AI and new interfaces are changing work, hiring and software. Issues mix personal experience, commentary on industry podcasts and concrete accounts of building software with AI coding agents.

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coworkoperator.com· weekly· Published 5 months ago

A practitioner newsletter on getting reliable results from Claude, covering how to scope tasks, when to use features like Dynamic Workflows, and how Anthropic's usage changes affect different Claude surfaces. It gives readers practical operating advice for both non-technical users and technical operators.

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powergentic.beehiiv.com· irregular· Published 5 months ago

Powergentic.ai is a newsletter by Chris Pietschmann covering enterprise generative AI, agentic workflows and model selection. Readers get practical framing on repeatable agent processes, local versus frontier model cost tradeoffs, and how open models like Gemma 4 fit into business AI strategy.

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breakdev.org· irregular· Published 8 months ago

BREAKDEV is the newsletter of a red-team tool author announcing updates to Evilginx Pro, a closed-source phishing framework for MFA-bypass testing. Issues cover release notes with feature detail (event notifications, proxy engine rewrite), plus reflections on open-source licensing and the dual-use ethics of offensive security tools.

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silvanhagen.com· irregular· Published 9 months ago

Silvan Hagen, a web developer and digital consultant, writes about building custom software with AI tools and practical Laravel and Filament development. The newsletter offers hands-on tutorials alongside curated reading lists for developers.

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SerpApi

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serpapi.com· weekly· Published yesterday

A company blog from SerpApi covering search engine scraping tutorials, weekly API changelogs, and developer community news. Readers get product updates, how-to guides for building search-powered apps and agents, and hackathon highlights.

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aiagentssimplified.substack.com· irregular· Published yesterday

A multi-part series that builds up AI agent concepts through one running example, an internal company assistant, covering RAG, context windows, agents versus chatbots, and integrations. Also includes practical pieces on learning to code with AI and how to pick a first project.

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Kilo Blog

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blog.kilo.ai· weekly· Published yesterday

A company blog from Kilo, an agentic coding platform, covering new model launches, workflows for working with AI agents, and product use cases. Readers get product updates alongside practical accounts of using agents in engineering and marketing work.

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labnotes.org· weekly· Published 4 days ago

A weekly-ish software design and culture newsletter by Assaf Arkin mixing short witty personal anecdotes with curated links to tools, browsers, open-source apps and AI experiments. Readers get brief takes on developer tooling, AI costs and new products, with a light, humorous voice.

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surfliner.ucsd.edu· biweekly· Published 29 days ago

Sprint review notes from the Surfliner project, a digital library software effort at UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara. Each issue lists sprint goals, accomplishments, bugs and next steps for the Comet and Daylight (discovery) components.

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mae.hexagon.com· irregular· Published 2 months ago

Technical documentation for configuring forms and tables in M.App Enterprise's App Engine scripting runtime, including UI properties, runtime globals and code examples. Readers get reference-style guidance on mounting and styling components with FormInstance and TableInstance.

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articles.mergify.com· irregular· Published 5 months ago

Technical articles on continuous merge, CI/CD, flaky tests and everyday Git workflows such as undoing commits and using git pull --rebase. The writing mixes practical how-to guidance with vendor-led product comparisons, so readers get useful command-level advice alongside some promotion.

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pestleanalysis.com· irregular· Published today

A set of promotional and general-interest business articles covering PDF features in apps, PESTLE pressures on manufacturing data, and a crypto payment gateway's features. The newsletter mixes sponsored-sounding product pitches with analytical business commentary.

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blogs.remobjects.com· irregular· Published yesterday

Product announcements and technical updates from RemObjects Software covering Service Tester, Elements Server Pages 2.0 and AI-driven debugging in CodeBot for Delphi. Readers get practical details on tooling for developers working with Delphi, .NET and their server frameworks.

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nolongerset.com· weekly· Published yesterday

A weekly digest for Microsoft Access and VBA developers, centred on twinBASIC news, community tool releases and curated links to Access articles and bug reports. It also republishes older posts on software proposals and development practice, mostly as summaries and links.

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activateglobalmedia.com· weekly· Published 2 days ago

Product news and founder profiles from the Activate ecosystem, covering the Creai AI builder, its terminal tool, and related products in trading, commerce and credit. Issues explain new features, how they work, and their guardrails in practical detail.

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blog.armbian.com· weekly· Published 2 days ago

Armbian blog posts weekly digests of development work on the Armbian Linux distribution for single-board computers, covering new board support, kernel and U-Boot updates, firmware, and build tooling. Readers get a changelog-style overview of what landed in Armbian's GitHub repositories each week.

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blog.forge-vtt.com· irregular· Published 16 days ago

Developer and product updates from The Forge, a platform for tabletop RPG tools including Foundry VTT hosting and the BGK board game prototyping tool. Readers get seasonal site news, service and database fix recaps, and feature deep dives on BGK.

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architecturenotes.co· weekly· Published 17 days ago

A weekly round-up of system design, architecture and software engineering news, with short summaries of articles from around the web on topics like AI coding agents, infrastructure efficiency and engineering practice. Readers get a quick overview of what is happening in the field and pointers to the original sources.

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programwitherik.com· weekly· Published 26 days ago

A developer's blog of tutorials and opinion pieces on software development, focused on JavaScript, Ember.js, Vue.js and Node.js. Recent issues cover AI-assisted coding workflows, MCP servers and how library choice interacts with AI tools.

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