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Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

#111

It's so interesting to me as a Mechanical Engineer and Hardware designer/architect how on HN "Engineering" almost always means "Software engineering" here.

Hear hear. The word "Technology" has also been redefined to mean computer or phone stuff. As a real (manly) engineer, this pisses me off no end! :-)

To answer the OP, this Civil engineering blog / video site is really good. I always learn something new, and his enthusiasm is infectious. Well worth giving it a look:

https://practical.engineering/

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

#113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s great, unfortunately it is quite rare for CS undergrad programs in the US to require the basic engineering and science classes the other engineering/science majors require.

Do you not have separate "software engineering" and "computer science" undergrad streams?

At most places, no. Lol.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

#115

It's so interesting to me as a Mechanical Engineer and Hardware designer/architect how on HN "Engineering" almost always means "Software engineering" here.

Yeah, even as a software engineering type I immediately thought the question was too broadly posed. I assume the OP must have had something narrower in mind.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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> https://lessnews.dev A while ago I felt this "information fatigue" due to the overwhelming updates from the typical news sources (reddit, twitter, even hn). So I built a _slow_ webdev newsfeed aggregator that doesn't overwhelm you of constant updates, so you focus on reading the actual blog contents and enjoy other things.

I bookmarked to take a closer look later, but I'm a little unclear on the premise, could you explain what you mean by "slow"/how it is filtered/curated?

Sure.

Problem I had with the other newsfeeds is that I get distracted by the constant updates, always refresh the front-page, skipping the actual content and just skimming through headlines and comments.

So I built this one, set it as my homepage, and because it doesn't update often, I will actually read the content of the links. When I'm done, I move on to other things in life.

It's curated by matching keywords (focusing on web development) on HN, mostly automated but with few manual adjustments now and then.

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