by msadowski on 11/16/2021, 7:40:00 AM
Here are some that I've been following why working on my newsletter (https://weeklyrobotics.com/). These will be mostly robotics oriented, and some of them might be inactive:
* [Robots&Chisel](http://www.robotandchisel.com/blog/) - a blog by Michael Ferguson, he did a very nice series of posts on restoring a UBR-1 robot and implementing ROS-2 on it
* [Mike Isted](https://mikeisted.wordpress.com/) - at one point Mike was writing quite many blog posts on making drones, including some offboard control and autonomy
* [The Interrupt](https://interrupt.memfault.com/) - in-depth blog about embedded programming. Really like their monthly "What we've been reading..." series
* [Electron Dust](https://www.electrondust.com/) - inactive, but a really cool series of blog post on making a ball bouncing robot
* [Casey Handmer blog](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/) - some very in-depth articles related to space
* [Modicum of Fun](https://jpieper.com/) - a blog post of Josh Pieper, who makes mjbots open-source motor controller
Other:
* [Julia's Drawings](https://drawings.jvns.ca/) - neat presentation of various technical concepts in programming. Unfortunately it's not active anymore.
by sibit on 11/16/2021, 11:59:28 AM
* [Joel on Software](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/) - engineering, leadership/startup, management, and recruiting.
* [Martin Kleppmann](https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html) - databases, distributed systems, and information security.
* [antirez](http://antirez.com/latest/0) - a blog by Salvatore Sanfilippo on engineering and open source projects.
by speps on 11/16/2021, 9:39:28 AM
I always go back to James Hague's blog posts in "Programming for the 21st century" [1]. It inspired me so much as I was going through my early career in game dev. He's retired the blog now, but it's still very relevant.
by donquichotte on 11/16/2021, 12:58:42 PM
Sam Zeloof is building ICs in his garage. His blog and youtube channel are excellent and he has now a quite sophisticated process that produces reliable results, quite astounding really:
by srvmshr on 11/16/2021, 3:05:12 PM
Dan Lu [1] gives a lot of thorough walkthroughs on hardware, architecture & security, and occasionally on topics close to software development & developer psyché. His posts are a regular feature on HN. (I am surprised no one mentioned him).
by cmalloc on 11/16/2021, 7:51:51 AM
The Factorio Friday Facts blog often contains some excellent deep dives into difficult problems solved during development.
One of my favorite posts is on an update to their pathing algorithm for biters: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317
by colinwilyb on 11/16/2021, 12:03:10 PM
The Prepared is weekly newsletter which has had some great engineering content. Last week there was an interview about the trials of making a folding bicycle wheel.
I've been a follower for a long time but haven't been able to allocate funds for their paid Slack channel.
Site: https://theprepared.org
by ChrisRR on 11/16/2021, 10:39:02 AM
https://fabiensanglard.net/ does some great code reviews of old games
by radiKal07 on 11/16/2021, 9:01:22 AM
I really enjoyed https://overreacted.io
by simonz05 on 11/16/2021, 1:50:30 PM
* [Daniel Lemire's Blog](https://lemire.me/blog/)
by brandrick on 11/16/2021, 10:25:39 AM
https://engineeringblogs.xyz — This is a decent resource pulling together over 500 sources.
by ximeng on 11/16/2021, 10:36:27 AM
Bunnie Huang's blog occasionally has its moments, here he is implementing a custom hardware accelerator for messaging encryption:
by zonovar on 11/16/2021, 12:35:27 PM
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/ - Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson (Google programmer working on Chrome, focusing on optimization and reliability)
by kamyarg on 11/16/2021, 12:30:59 PM
It is less technical and more leadership, strategy and soft skill side of engineering but https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/ definitely deserves a mention.
by abricq on 11/16/2021, 9:13:59 AM
Love to read this one: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/
Often time it presents great pieces of engineering work, with a "low-tech" approach that usually blows my mind !
by exaltation on 11/16/2021, 12:05:39 PM
Rands in Repose is great. https://randsinrepose.com/
by replyifuagree on 11/16/2021, 5:03:10 PM
iism.org - https://iism.org
Why CEOs are failing software engineers and other creative teams
> Here is the rub: new value is a function of failure, not success, and much of software engineering is about discovering new value. So, in effect, nearly everything you are taught as a business major or leader is seemingly incompatible with software engineering.
https://iism.org/article/why-are-ceos-failing-software-engin...
by phlipski on 11/16/2021, 5:31:25 PM
https://jaycarlson.net/ - His two in-depth articles on embedded linux and the $1 MCU are both excellent.
by jeroenjanssens on 11/16/2021, 1:44:25 PM
* [Adam Johnson](https://adamj.eu/tech/) - Ansible, AWS, Django, and Python.
* [Julia Evans](https://jvns.ca/) - Linux, Rust, Debugging, Comics, HTTP.
by mgbmtl on 11/16/2021, 12:22:55 PM
I feel like engineering is used in the very broad sense, but books/blogs by Tom Limoncelli (et al) helped me a lot in the past in better planning and structuring the systems I worked with.
by mendelmaleh on 11/16/2021, 2:14:19 PM
- [Drew Devault](https://drewdevault.com/)
- [Michael Stapelberg](https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/)
by jpgvm on 11/16/2021, 5:04:43 PM
If you write a lot of performance critical software https://lemire.me/blog/ is must-read.
If you are into distributed systems then aphyr.com/jepsen.io are also must-read.
by gryzzly on 11/16/2021, 12:32:53 PM
http://jacobian.org is an excellent blog from one of the creators of Django framework – lots of good writing about engineering management, general team work and software development etc.
by deepakkarki on 11/16/2021, 3:58:06 PM
I curate a bunch of them at https://www.discoverdev.io/ if you're interested.
Been running for a few years now! Probably have a few 1000 articles curated :)
by neillyons on 11/16/2021, 2:30:27 PM
by nikivi on 11/16/2021, 10:49:56 AM
I like my favorite here: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/blogs#favorite-blog...
by hoseja on 11/16/2021, 9:25:19 AM
https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs
Here's a list I stumbled upon some time ago.
by MilnerRoute on 11/16/2021, 2:28:04 PM
This suggests a related question: What if Hacker News had its own "subreddits" dedicated to specific topics?
I've wondered if there'd be enough of a user base to have a few smaller subsets of the larger universe of submitted links. (It could be as simple as allowing links to be tagged -- maybe with sysadmin/programming/engineering "flair", to use Reddit's terminology -- and then having a way to re-focus the front page on just that subset of tagged links.)
by Sosh101 on 11/16/2021, 10:08:22 AM
I used to enjoy http://highscalability.com/ , but haven't read it in a while.
by tester34 on 11/16/2021, 9:39:27 AM
>great engineering blogs
>smaller startups and solo devs blogging insights from developing own products
I feel like those are different things.
by softwaredoug on 11/16/2021, 1:32:33 PM
Encourage your friends to blog and follow their blogs, it'll likely be more relevant to your interests :)
by justshowpost on 11/19/2021, 2:42:44 PM
I quite like https://console.dev/latest/ It is curated list of tools mainly for software developers.
by alexellisuk on 11/16/2021, 1:07:44 PM
If you're after software engineering and not structural, then I have a fair amount of blog posts on Go, Kubernetes, Docker and OSS software - https://blog.alexellis.io/
You'll also find insights from building my own products and revenue in my weekly sponsors emails -> https://insiders.alexellis.io/ - I often post book reviews and learnings, like last week on copywriting and tangible vs intangible benefits.
by purpleidea on 11/16/2021, 9:09:44 AM
by gengstrand on 11/16/2021, 3:33:37 PM
I maintain a github repo where I implement a feature identical polyglot persistent microservice in various programming languages and tech stacks then I put each implementation through the same load test lab where I collect then analyze the performance results and draw comparatives. I blog about my findings here.
by perceptronas on 11/16/2021, 2:21:26 PM
John De Goes (https://degoes.net/)
by cdiamand on 11/16/2021, 2:40:04 PM
The https://www.indiehackers.com/ forum probably has a lot of what you want, with small scale projects abound.
The riot games engineering blog is at a larger scale, but still awesome - https://technology.riotgames.com/
Is a pretty good read as well.
by kokizzu3 on 11/16/2021, 2:11:21 PM
self promote XD not great, not even good
by el_padrinho on 11/16/2021, 10:05:23 PM
Some about "devops" stuff?
Looking mostly for smaller startups and solo devs blogging insights from developing own products