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Best Medium publications for Programming writers

76 publications that publish Programming stories. Publications marked open to new writers regularly publish people with fewer than 100 followers — the best place to submit your first stories.

Updated Oct 20, 2026

publications

open to new writers

961K

largest audience (Data Science Collective)

297

Programming stories per day

Where new Programming writers get published

Medium publications open to new Programming writers
#	Publication	Followers	Stories (14d)	Median claps	By small writers
1	Level Up Coding open to new writers	367K	134	96	31%
2	JavaScript in Plain English open to new writers	182K	145	1	54%
3	Python in Plain English open to new writers	100K	102	70	32%
4	Artificial Intelligence in Plain English open to new writers	50K	34	76	32%
5	CodeX open to new writers	37K	13	37	39%
6	Towards Data Engineering open to new writers	15K	11	72	36%
7	ThinkArt open to new writers	11K	15	130	67%
8	CoinsBench open to new writers	5.3K	4	0	100%
9	MeetCyber open to new writers	4.1K	24	1	54%
10	The Tech Notes open to new writers	1.1K	8	210	63%
11	Tech and AI Guild open to new writers	271	9	0	67%
12	AI Advances Briefs open to new writers	213	15	156	40%
13	Dispatch open to new writers	25	7	5	100%
14	Alt. open to new writers	22	16	25	75%
15	Future, Actually open to new writers	1	3	10	100%

All Programming publications

All Medium publications for Programming
#	Publication	Followers	Stories (14d)	Median claps	By small writers
1	Level Up Coding open to new writers	367K	134	96	31%
2	JavaScript in Plain English open to new writers	182K	145	1	54%
3	Python in Plain English open to new writers	100K	102	70	32%
4	Artificial Intelligence in Plain English open to new writers	50K	34	76	32%
5	CodeX open to new writers	37K	13	37	39%
6	Towards Data Engineering open to new writers	15K	11	72	36%
7	ThinkArt open to new writers	11K	15	130	67%
8	CoinsBench open to new writers	5.3K	4	0	100%
9	MeetCyber open to new writers	4.1K	24	1	54%
10	The Tech Notes open to new writers	1.1K	8	210	63%
11	Tech and AI Guild open to new writers	271	9	0	67%
12	AI Advances Briefs open to new writers	213	15	156	40%
13	Dispatch open to new writers	25	7	5	100%
14	Alt. open to new writers	22	16	25	75%
15	Future, Actually open to new writers	1	3	10	100%
16	Data Science Collective	961K	20	131	15%
17	Mac O’Clock	121K	6	300	0%
18	Stackademic	88K	16	50	19%
19	ITNEXT	88K	5	105	20%
20	Code Like A Girl	76K	4	88	25%
21	AWS in Plain English	64K	2	0	50%
22	Data Engineer Things	61K	2	150	0%
23	Javarevisited	58K	5	86	0%
24	Science Spectrum	51K	13	224	23%
25	The Geopolitical Economist	36K	14	72	14%
26	Dev Genius	34K	6	76	0%
27	Power BI	24K	2	0	0%
28	Realworld AI Use Cases	16K	2	282	0%
29	Let’s Code Future	14K	6	97	0%
30	Towards AWS	14K	3	0	67%
31	Towards Dev	11K	8	35	13%
32	Data Science in Your Pocket	10K	14	57	0%
33	CodeToDeploy	6.8K	42	100	19%
34	Technology Hits	4.8K	7	580	0%
35	Data And Beyond	4.5K	3	136	33%
36	Dare To Be Better	4.3K	5	58	20%
37	IT Chronicles	4.3K	3	120	33%
38	Rustaceans	3.7K	3	0	0%
39	Beyond Localhost	3.4K	7	38	14%
40	T3CH	2.2K	3	102	33%
41	Skill Stuff	1.4K	100	8	0%
42	Pythonic AF	1.3K	2	0	50%
43	ILLUMINATION Gaming	1.1K	2	15	0%
44	Engineering Under Pressure	668	90	0	7%
45	The Ordinary Programmer	640	2	104	50%
46	MESCIUS inc.	445	4	0	0%
47	Bash_DevOps_AI	431	3	0	0%
48	AlgoMart	395	7	95	0%
49	All in AI	350	2	0	0%
50	Spring Boot World	335	3	0	0%
51	DevelopersGlobal	304	3	3	67%
52	The Code Frontier	298	2	35	100%
53	AI @ Sulat.com	213	8	6	0%
54	All About Computers	176	2	0	50%
55	The AI Brief	172	9	107	22%
56	KD Agentic	152	6	5	0%
57	JIN System Architect	146	16	0	0%
58	Code with Python	145	2	30	0%
59	Programmer’s Career	109	3	0	33%
60	Heap & Wire	104	3	0	0%
61	100 days of python	100	2	0	0%
62	Backend Engineers Club	96	2	135	0%
63	Tailed Tech	51	2	51	0%
64	Code Your Own Path	45	3	0	0%
65	WebNex Labs	24	3	66	33%
66	Codexa	23	2	135	50%
67	Laravel Blog for PHP Devs Who Love Clean Code \| Laraholic	18	2	75	0%
68	Diary of a Software Developer	14	2	0	0%
69	Production Ready	13	5	2	0%
70	The Interesting World of Microcontrollers	12	9	0	0%
71	MobileByteSensei	10	33	0	0%
72	sofia’s tech cubicle	8	8	1	0%
73	BecomeBetter.Dev	6	6	53	0%
74	Python to Intelligence	4	8	0	0%
75	A Word That Awakens You	1	2	0	100%
76	Ruby / Rails in Practice	1	3	27	0%

How to choose a publication

Bigger is not always better. A publication with 961K followers can bury your story among dozens of daily posts, while a smaller, active publication that features new writers often brings more reads per story. Look at three numbers above: followers (potential reach), median claps (how much readers actually engage) and the share of small writers (your chances of being accepted).

For context, Programming sees about 297 new stories a day and 48% of them get no claps at all. Getting into a publication is one of the few reliable ways out of that pile. See the full Programming tag statistics.