Interested in programming? Like to read about programming without seeing a constant flow of technology and political news into your proggit? That's what /r/coding is for. A pure discussion of programming with a strict policy of programming-related discussions.
As a general policy, if your article doesn't have a few lines of code in it, it probably doesn't belong here. However, things directly related to the actual process of programming - libraries, tools, and so on - are all okay, but please use discretion.
To avoid a lot of self.coding posts, consider these subreddits:
This is also NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM SUBREDDIT. Post those where they belong. In /r/linux, /r/mac or /r/windows.