Dr. Dobb's puts out a monthly PDF issue. It's smaller in terms of content than the paper issues of the 90s, but it's in that mold. Also, the website posts new feature articles every Tuesday, covering a fairly wide range of programming topics. Most articles have code.
Yes, I know about the PDF issues, and I also realize that there are so many great resources on the web that having a dedicated general purpose programming magazine doesn't make business sense anymore.
It is quite possible that what I miss is really my childhood and the excitement of waiting for the magazine and learning about things (most of which I didn't fully understand) with wide-eyed wonder. But of all the computer magazines I have ever encountered I think it was Dr. Dobbs' that struck the best balance between CS academia and the hands-on world of programming. It straddled that world between abstraction and application perfectly in my opinion.
It would be a wonderful role to resurrect in the age of big data and increasing statistical and algorithmic sophistication. Won't happen, though. So I'll just wallow in my moment of nostalgia :-)
