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this stuff never seems to be highly upvoted on HN anymore, and if it gets to +30 there's only a few comments, i speculate because new-school HNers don't understand or care. so i track them myself.

best two advanced swegr blogs ever:

    http://prog21.dadgum.com/ -- swegr, fp theory
    http://www.johndcook.com/blog/ -- swegr, fp theory
other advanced swegr blogs. we're not talking atwood and joel, here, that stuff is for college kids.
    http://blog.tmorris.net/ -- swegr, fp/tactics
    http://james-iry.blogspot.com/ -- fp/tactics
    http://playingwithpointers.com/ -- philosophy, fp/tactics
life
    http://www.jasonshen.com/ -- "Art of Ass Kicking" (life)
    http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/ -- "Strategy, Philosophy, Self-Discipline, Science. Victory." (life)
    http://dilbert.com/blog -- politics & life
fwiw, after having digested much of this material, I've moved on to reading all the interesting whitepapers I can find, mostly via my social networks. That's the really advanced stuff. I've been meaning to collect them and summarize many to post to HN. nag me.

Sorry, but neither DDG nor Google know about the term "swegr", what does it stand for?

Given context, 'software engineering', I would assume. Strange way to write it though...

At first, I assumed it was some programming language I had never heard of ;-)

To me a "swegr" sounds like it would mean "an outdoor event on a really hot day where you have to dress in formal attire."

Cause you'd sweat a lot.

It probably stands for software engineering, though.

In Glasgow, here in Scotland, a "Swedger" is boiled sweet or candy.

As in "gonnae gee-us wan o'yer swedgers, wee man".

//Cause you'd sweat a lot.

And you'd swear a lot.

Me too. I'd never seen "swegr" before.

SoftWare EnGineeRing.

Ah. Around here we've always always called that poing.

For "PrOgrammING"

Two fantastic ways of saving a few characters at the expense of clarity...

I'd hate to see this guy's variable naming convention :O

Using random characters you're lucky you didn't use the first, third, fifth and tenth character as a "descriptive" term. ;)

And a bit on topic even though it's not a blog. How about "The Bug of the Month" of the makers of lint? http://www.gimpel.com/html/bugs.htm A bit obscure but definately broadens the pool of error behavior concepts.

Yeah, it's software engineering given the context but it also could how the kids write swagger these days ;)

I came here with the thought of adding John Cook's blog but I see the name already.

Second the recommendation.

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