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Alvin Ashcraft
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Alvin Ashcraft's personal blog at alvinashcraft.com covers programming and web. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew, a daily curated list of .NET and Microsoft tech blog articles across many topics. Commenters recommend it as an entry point to the .NET blogging community.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A daily link blog for developers, focused on .NET, Windows, and modern web development.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-06-26
What Hacker News says?
I read Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew, which is a .NET resource. He posts links to tons of articles every morning on 10 different topics. It's fun to read up on such a variety of different topics. http://www.alvinashcraft.com I also read the Daily WTF every day. It's great to have a chance to look at crappy code and try to re-write it in your head on how it should have been done. http://www.thedailywtf.com
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”I like these, tending towards the .NET world Alvin Ashcroft's Morning Dew http://www.alvinashcraft.com/ Chris Alcock's Morning Brew http://themorningbrew.net/ Regular Geek http://regulargeek.com/category/geek-reading/
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on “Ask HN: Best curated newsletters?”C# the language is pretty simple, or at least it can be - you can produce some monstrosities if you really try, but some of the gnarliest bits of C++, like arbitrary operator overloading and template abuse, are pretty blunted. The difficulty lies in the extreme breadth of the ecosystem - just the libraries built into the .NET framework itself could take you years to acquire a healthy knowledge of, not to mention the…
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on “C# 6.0: An Introduction”And if you're looking for a good doorway into the .NET blogging community (well, maybe it's more of a firehose): http://www.alvinashcraft.com/
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on “.NET Culture Shock”If you're into .NET and Microsoft tech, I really enjoy Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew [1], which is updated just about every morning with a curated list of blog articles on .NET topics. [1]: http://www.alvinashcraft.com/
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you recommend to read regularly and why?”