Flipcode was a community driven site focusing on the technical side of game development and programming. It had a quite large following for its time, but had to close down in 2005. The site still have a large archive which may interest you if you like those aspects of gaming.

Bottom-line: If you are interested in game coding and the technicalities behind games, check it out and maybe help it resurrect itself again as it is community driven.

http://www.flipcode.com/

Wow - flipcode. That takes me back. Unfortunately that link isn't resolving for me but try it again later. Thanks for sharing the news.

edit: and as soon as I posted it suddenly started working. Looks good so far - it definitely reminds me of the old flipcode.

Would somebody with very limited knowledge of such technical issues find something useful there?

I think so. I am as technical as a caveman who have sever problems understanding how the wheel works, bust still find things interesting and useful to know. Will never make any use of it, still fun to read.

Might give it a shot then :)