Students have been sending in additional pointers to SE-related resources and blogs to complement the treasure trove of links I placed at the end of Lecture 2.
Building Windows 8 is a development blog hosted by Microsoft that features posts created by the Windows engineering team as they work on developing the next major release of the Windows operating system.
Hacker Monthly is the best articles from the previously mentioned Hacker News site put into print. Note: this resource requires a paid subscription.