Dr Dobbs was pretty good until almost the end, no? If memory serves me well, I recall the magazine got thinner and more sparse towards the end, but still high signal-to-noise ratio. Quite the opposite of Ars T.

Huge debt of gratitude to DDJ. I remember taking the bus to the capital every month just to buy the magazine on the newsstand.

Anyone remember "Compute!"? I still have (mostly) fond memories of typing in games in Basic.

Actually, bugs in those listings were my first bug-hunts as a kid.

I finally subscribed to Dr. Dobbs for the Michael Abrash graphics articles, about a month before he ended them.