Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs? • Hacker News Board

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.

[1] https://prog21.dadgum.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?

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Post by Sosh101 » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 10:08 AM UTC

I used to enjoy http://highscalability.com/ , but haven't read it in a while.

Re: Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?

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Post by ignoramous » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

msadowski wrote: post #3

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…

As for corp blogs: Engineers at Facebook [0], LinkedIn [1], Fly [2], and Cloudflare [3] have penned some incredible posts over the years.

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/

[1] https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog

[2] https://fly.io/blog/

[3] https://blog.cloudflare.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?

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Post by brandrick » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 10:25 AM UTC

https://engineeringblogs.xyz — This is a decent resource pulling together over 500 sources.

Re: Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?

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Post by ximeng » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 10:36 AM UTC

Bunnie Huang's blog occasionally has its moments, here he is implementing a custom hardware accelerator for messaging encryption:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6140

Re: Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?

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Post by ChrisRR » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 10:39 AM UTC

https://fabiensanglard.net/ does some great code reviews of old games

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Post by nikivi » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 10:49 AM UTC

I like my favorite here: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/blogs#favorite-blog...

Re: Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?

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Post by demianr » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 11:09 AM UTC

purpleidea wrote: post #9

https://purpleidea.com/blog/ :)

Love mgmt's idea. Thanks for all the hard work of getting it started, good to see people starting to join you in development.