Best places to publish coding tutorials

Here's the current breakdown, specifically for coding tutorials (which have different needs than opinion pieces or news — readers arrive with a specific problem and want accuracy, structure, and clarity):

Best for broad educational reach

• In Plain English — stands out specifically for clear technical publishing across software, AI, cloud, and engineering; accepts guest tutorials with editorial review, giving you both reach (~3.5M monthly views) and credibility.
• freeCodeCamp News — beginner-friendly, hands-on tutorials grounded in real code; accepts contributors through a curated process with genuinely high educational standards, so acceptance is harder but the audience is highly tutorial-seeking.
• Stackademic — positioned as where developers go to actually understand concepts, not just skim — good fit for tutorials that need to teach reasoning, not just steps.

Best for community discussion and fast feedback

• Dev.to — fast self-publishing, tag-based discovery, strong comment/reaction culture — ideal for early drafts, quick guides, and validating whether a tutorial format resonates before investing more time.

Best for personal brand and long-term ownership

• Hashnode — publish on your own custom domain while still tapping into a developer-network audience; good if you want tutorials to build your own reputation and SEO rather than a platform's.
• GitHub Pages — free, code-native, fully portable; well-suited to tutorials since your code examples and the platform live in the same Git-based ecosystem — no separate publishing tool needed.

Best for tutorial-specific interactivity

• CodePen / JSFiddle — not blogging platforms, but genuinely useful alongside a written tutorial: embed a live, editable code demo directly in your post so readers can tinker with the example in real time rather than just reading static code blocks.

Best for portfolio-building and broader distribution

• Medium — better as a secondary distribution channel than a primary technical home; useful for visibility and referral traffic given its scale, though nofollow links limit direct SEO benefit.
• Substack — best if you want tutorials delivered as a recurring, subscriber-based series rather than a discoverable one-off post.

What actually matters for a tutorial platform specifically, per current guidance:

• Clean code formatting (syntax highlighting that doesn't break on copy-paste) — a bigger deal for tutorials than for opinion pieces.
• Discoverability aligned with problem-solving intent — readers are often mid-debug or mid-learning, searching for a specific fix, not browsing.
• Support for canonical URLs if you're syndicating from your own site, so your domain keeps the SEO credit.

Practical recommendation stack

1. Write and publish the tutorial on your own domain or Hashnode first (ownership, SEO).
2. Syndicate to Dev.to with a canonical URL for fast community feedback and reach.
3. If it's a particularly strong or in-depth piece, pitch it to In Plain English, Stackademic, or freeCodeCamp for editorial amplification and a bigger audience.
4. Embed a CodePen/JSFiddle demo inline if the tutorial covers front-end code — interactivity meaningfully increases how well tutorials land compared to static snippets.