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

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

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Post by slimsag » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 12:53 PM UTC

tester34 wrote: post #12

>great engineering blogs >smaller startups and solo devs blogging insights from developing own products I feel like those are different things.

I don't know, it can definitely be done-I'm doing it for my personal stuff[0] it just takes explicit effort to write about what you are actually doing.

Unless you're suggesting only large startups / teams can create great engineering work, which, like, I don't really agree with at all.

[0] https://devlog.hexops.com

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

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Post by donquichotte » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 12:58 PM UTC

Sam Zeloof is building ICs in his garage. His blog and youtube channel are excellent and he has now a quite sophisticated process that produces reliable results, quite astounding really:

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/

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

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Post by alexellisuk » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 1:07 PM UTC

If you're after software engineering and not structural, then I have a fair amount of blog posts on Go, Kubernetes, Docker and OSS software - https://blog.alexellis.io/

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.

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

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Post by softwaredoug » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 1:32 PM UTC

Encourage your friends to blog and follow their blogs, it'll likely be more relevant to your interests :)

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

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Post by Kelteseth » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 1:32 PM UTC

zonovar wrote: post #29

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/ - Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson (Google programmer working on Chrome, focusing on optimization and reliability)

I came here to post the same link. I'm always fascinated about his ETW traces blog posts on how to discover performance bottlenecks. Great guy!

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

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Post by jeroenjanssens » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

* [Adam Johnson](https://adamj.eu/tech/) - Ansible, AWS, Django, and Python.

* [Julia Evans](https://jvns.ca/) - Linux, Rust, Debugging, Comics, HTTP.

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

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Post by simonz05 » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 1:50 PM UTC

* [Daniel Lemire's Blog](https://lemire.me/blog/)

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

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Post by kokizzu3 » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 2:11 PM UTC

self promote XD not great, not even good

http://kokizzu.blogspot.com/

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

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Post by Sosh101 » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 2:11 PM UTC

jwdunne wrote: post #21

Sosh101 wrote: post #14

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

I used to enjoy this but came back to it recently and sadly seems chock full of promotional content with interesting stuff much harder to find.

Yeah I had the same impression from a brief look.

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

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Post by mendelmaleh » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

- [Drew Devault](https://drewdevault.com/)

- [Michael Stapelberg](https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/)