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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?

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Post by mitjam »

atoav wrote: post #26
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.

Had the same thought. ChatGPT often tells me things like: "This is the hard truth" or "I am telling it to you as it is (no fluff)" or whatever. Just because my initial prompt contains a line about it not making things up and telling me how things are instead of what would please me to hear. I added a line to specifically tell it to not phrase out these things, but it appears to be surprisingly hard to get rid of thos…

Yes, fun aspect: I actually think it was written by a human but in a way as if they‘re asking a machine and not other human beings. I feel guilty of doing the same, too, from time to time I feel it‘s a bad direction.

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

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Post by akutlay »

petercooper wrote: post #25
i_k wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Not RSS exactly but this OPML has feeds for several hundred such blogs if you can filter down from there: https://peterc.org/misc/engblogs.opml

Great list, thank you. The only thing to note is that whenever I imported a large list like this in the past, I always stopped checking my RSS reader after a while because the content wasn't interesting. I think finding RSS/adding it to a reader should happen organically over time.

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

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Post by rldjbpin »

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 wish the aggregators supported rss feeds.

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

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Post by freakynit »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #67
vibesareoff wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"OP" couldn't even be bothered to reformat the numbered list to run on separate fucking lines. But sure, cheer on the homogenization of online spaces into beige slop staccato bullshit! ˙ ͜ʟ˙

How do you reformat a list so it runs on separate fucking lines? Always happens to me (and I don’t use fucking LLMs) so I’d really like to know.

Add an extra line break between each list item... like this:::

1. this is first line

2. This is second

3. ...and so on

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

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Post by domysee »

akutlay wrote: post #142
petercooper wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not RSS exactly but this OPML has feeds for several hundred such blogs if you can filter down from there: https://peterc.org/misc/engblogs.opml

Great list, thank you. The only thing to note is that whenever I imported a large list like this in the past, I always stopped checking my RSS reader after a while because the content wasn't interesting. I think finding RSS/adding it to a reader should happen organically over time.

This may be because most feed readers don't have a proper way to triage items. Adding a feed doesn't mean you want to read everything from said feed. Usually only a subset of articles are interesting.

I built a feed reader with that concept in mind, having a separate triage stage where you only decide if it's worth reading or not. This will make it easier to handle large feed lists and find the best articles from them.

https://lighthouseapp.io/

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

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Post by aristofun »

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.

Because it’s a computer geeks forum, what else do you expect??

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

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Post by theshrike79 »

domysee wrote: post #145
akutlay wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great list, thank you. The only thing to note is that whenever I imported a large list like this in the past, I always stopped checking my RSS reader after a while because the content wasn't interesting. I think finding RSS/adding it to a reader should happen organically over time.

This may be because most feed readers don't have a proper way to triage items. Adding a feed doesn't mean you want to read everything from said feed. Usually only a subset of articles are interesting. I built a feed reader with that concept in mind, having a separate triage stage where you only decide if it's worth reading or not. This will make it easier to handle large feed lists and find the best articles from the…

I just build feed hydrators that get the feeds, filter them and generate a new feed for FreshRSS to consume.

For example my HN feed only surfaces articles with enough votes + comments and a few other variables.

All high-content feeds also have a maximum number of items, if it goes over they're marked as read.

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

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Post by cben »

sateesh wrote: post #57

https://jvns.ca/ Not a tech. company blog. Explains technical concepts clearly and top notch technical posts. Fits 1,2, 3 criteria of what you ask, though not the 4th one.

Totally. She has a fearless approach to learning complex topics (my favourite quote is simply "Computers are knowable", though I couldn't find it — I think she said it on some podcast?) that doesn't shy away from acknowledging ways in which stuff is genuinely hard (e.g. https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/03/22/the-current-branch-in-git/ is among the best usability/learnability dissections I've seen).
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