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Chris Alcock
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Chris Alcock writes The Morning Brew, a personal blog at blog.cwa.me.uk about programming. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The Morning Brew, a daily link roundup of programming articles since 2007, mostly .NET and Microsoft technologies with some web content. HN readers name it as a source for new articles.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A daily link blog covering all aspects of the Microsoft Development World, published every working week day
Most-linked posts?
- /6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-10-17
What Hacker News says?
The Morning Brew http://blog.cwa.me.uk/
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”Submitted The Morning Brew #3876 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot the OP, but these days I find new things (mostly blogs) through four different mechanisms: 1 - Hacker News - If there's an interesting article linked, then I'll consider adding the site to my feed (using feedbin since the great Google Reader apocalypse). 2 - Blog referrals - Sometimes existing feed items will link to other articles sites (sourced from, similar problem, etc) and I'll sometimes add those sites. 3…
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on “I Miss RSS”Submitted The Morning Brew #3585 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe Morning Brew: "a daily .NET software development link blog published by Chris Alcock" It's like a daily readers digest of software development stuff. And the tagline just quoted is a little out of date - it's got a strong .NET leaning but that's not the only thing on there. http://blog.cwa.me.uk/
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?”Submitted The Morning Brew #3576 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot sure if it's unknown but http://blog.cwa.me.uk/ is pretty good for MS technologies (and sometimes web in general)
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on “Ask HN: What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?”Submitted The Morning Brew as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe name remind me of Chris Alcock's [The Morning Brew]( http://blog.cwa.me.uk ), a .NET orientated daily roundup of articles that I've followed for years now. I recommend it.
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on “Show HN: Morning Cup of Coding – A curated newsletter of programming articles”Submitted The Morning Brew #3827 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis reminds be a bit of The Morning Brew by Chris Alcock, which has been around since 2007. It's heavily .NET focused though. http://blog.cwa.me.uk/
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on “Morning Cup of Coding – A curated daily newsletter for programmers of all fields”Submitted The Morning Brew #3775 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSimilar to Chris Alcock's The Morning Brew, which has been around since 2007. http://blog.cwa.me.uk/
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on “Morning Cup of Coding – A curated daily newsletter for programmers of all fields”Submitted The Morning Brew #3718 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI recommend http://blog.cwa.me.uk/ for new web stuff (somewhat .NET oriented)
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on “Ask HN: What is your daily reading list?”Submitted The Morning Brew #3687 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's a daily blog post that rounds up some of the more popular .NET related posts around the web: http://blog.cwa.me.uk/
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on “CudaSharp - Making C# run on the GPU”Submitted The Morning Brew #3659 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI don't know if it counts as "advice/tips" but I follow many blogs and a few periodic lists of news and articles like this one for .NET http://blog.cwa.me.uk/ and this one for JavaScript http://javascriptweekly.com/
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on “Ask HN: What places on the Internet do you go to for programming advice/tips?”Submitted The Morning Brew #3655 as a story · 1 points
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