Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs? Looking mostly for smaller startups and solo devs blogging insights from developing own products |
Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs? Looking mostly for smaller startups and solo devs blogging insights from developing own products |
Here's a list I stumbled upon some time ago.
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.)
>smaller startups and solo devs blogging insights from developing own products
I feel like those are different things.
Unless you're suggesting only large startups / teams can create great engineering work, which, like, I don't really agree with at all.
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.
The riot games engineering blog is at a larger scale, but still awesome - https://technology.riotgames.com/
Is a pretty good read as well.
* [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.
Also: IETF RFCs and research papers (esp, from Microsoft and Google) remain an under-appreciated body of work on how real-world systems are built.
[0] https://engineering.fb.com/
As mentioned in that site, the newer ones can be found at https://wizardzines.com/comics/ and collections can be bought using links from https://wizardzines.com/
If videos could do then perhaps the Brick Experiments Channel could have something interesting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHHErfX9hI
* [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.
One of my favorite posts is on an update to their pathing algorithm for biters: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317
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
If anyone's interested, they provide the full OPML as well.
Often time it presents great pieces of engineering work, with a "low-tech" approach that usually blows my mind !
His books are good too.
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...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23872625
and this equally excellent discussion:
Developers can't fix bad management (2020)
* [Julia Evans](https://jvns.ca/) - Linux, Rust, Debugging, Comics, HTTP.
* [Wizard Zines](https://wizardzines.com/)
- [Michael Stapelberg](https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/)
If you are into distributed systems then aphyr.com/jepsen.io are also must-read.
Been running for a few years now! Probably have a few 1000 articles curated :)