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

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Post by javcasas »

pella wrote: post #12

> especially from tech company blogs, https://engineering.fb.com/ https://netflixtechblog.com/ https://stripe.com/blog/engineering https://eng.uber.com https://engineering.linkedin.com/ https://engineering.atspotify.com/ https://tailscale.com/blog https://careersatdoordash.com/engineering-blog/ https://dropbox.tech/ -- Aggregators:( https://engineering.fyi/ ; https://diff.blog/ ) + https://hn.algolia.com/?query=engin…

> https://engineering.fyi/

Ugh. That looks like AI this, LLM that, Agent this.

Where are the databases, the distributed systems, where is the software verification?

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

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Post by h3half »

nishilpatel wrote: post #123
iancmceachern wrote: post #66

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

Fair Observation, HN surrounded by mostly Software guys, which directly add nuances of "Engineering" and Engineering. but to specific is much important, imo Engineering means "Solving problem at a scale", irrelevant of the industry.

Perhaps. Sometimes the scale is "one" - the amount of engineering that goes into bespoke space missions is very large, and very little of that work is re-used for anything other than direct follow up missions

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Post by beechiaseed »

iancmceachern wrote: post #66

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

one of the few places I’ve found that consistently talks about hardware / manufacturing stuff is https://hardwarefyi.com, i read it pretty religiously

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Post by talonx »

i_k wrote: post #17
pella wrote: post #12

> especially from tech company blogs, https://engineering.fb.com/ https://netflixtechblog.com/ https://stripe.com/blog/engineering https://eng.uber.com https://engineering.linkedin.com/ https://engineering.atspotify.com/ https://tailscale.com/blog https://careersatdoordash.com/engineering-blog/ https://dropbox.tech/ -- Aggregators:( https://engineering.fyi/ ; https://diff.blog/ ) + https://hn.algolia.com/?query=engin…

I am quite surprised and a bit disappointed that almost none of them have RSS. But thank you!

I remember Firefox used to have this cool feature where you could detect any RSS feeds on the page you have open.

Now if I don't see it on a page I check the page source - some blogs don't advertise the feed but it's there.

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Post by talonx »

CommenterPerson wrote: post #111
iancmceachern wrote: post #66

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/

And worse - when I open Google News all the news under Technology is about the latest mobile phones and "gadgets".

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

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Post by mitjam »

x187463 wrote: post #55
mitjam wrote: post #14

Maybe it's just because I'm LLMing a bit too much, recently, but this question sounds to me like a prompt.

Some people act like the use of an LLM immediately invalidates or lowers the value of a piece of content. But the case of a question or simple post, especially by somebody for whom English is second language, using an LLM to rephrase or clean-up some text seems like an innocent and practical use case for LLMs.

I apologize if it sounded like a critique (it did), but I wanted to make an honest observation first and foremost. I think it was written by a human but it sounds Like a prompt. I believe I changed my use of language, too, but I dont like the direction for human to human communication.
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