Where to publish dev content besides CSS-Tricks

Here are solid places to publish dev content besides CSS-Tricks, depending on what you’re writing:

General dev/audience-building platforms

• Dev.to — very friendly for tutorials, opinion pieces, and short technical posts.
• Hashnode — good for developers who want their own blog plus community distribution.
• Medium — broad reach, less niche, works well for general-engineering essays.
• Substack — best if you want an email-first audience and newsletter style.
• Ghost — if you want to run your own publication/blog with more control.

Frontend/design-focused

• Smashing Magazine — strong for frontend, UX, and practical web design/development.
• Codrops — great for creative frontend experiments and implementation-heavy tutorials.
• A List Apart — more editorial, thoughtful pieces about web design and development.
• Frontend Masters blog — good for deep frontend education content.
• Web.dev — if your content is about performance, standards, accessibility, or modern web APIs.

Engineering-focused

• freeCodeCamp — huge reach for beginner-to-intermediate educational content.
• InfoQ — more architecture/engineering-oriented, good for deeper technical material.
• The New Stack — devops, cloud, infrastructure, and platform engineering.
• Better Programming — broad software engineering audience.
• SitePoint — still relevant for web development tutorials and guides.

Niche/community-driven

• Hacker Noon — broad tech readership, more opinionated and startup-friendly.
• Reddit — specific subreddits can work well if the post is genuinely useful.
• LinkedIn Articles/Posts — good for professional thought leadership and career-related dev content.
• X/Twitter threads — not ideal for longform, but useful for distribution.
• YouTube — if your content can be demonstrated visually or tutorial-style.

If you want to self-host

• Your own blog on Next.js, Astro, Hugo, Jekyll, or WordPress
• Then distribute on Dev.to/Hashnode/LinkedIn for discovery

Best picks by goal

• Maximum reach: Dev.to, freeCodeCamp, Medium
• Frontend credibility: Smashing Magazine, Codrops, A List Apart
• Own audience: Substack, Hashnode, self-hosted blog
• Advanced engineering: InfoQ, The New Stack, web.dev

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a ranked list by audience size,
2. places that accept guest posts, or
3. the best options for frontend vs backend vs career content.