Ask the LLM you wrote this post with!
No judgement here whatsoever, but i think LLM would be "the" tool for this job. I also wonder if there's any point to "Ask" sections in websites after LLM's.
Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
71–80 of 150 posts
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#72A lot of great links here to the firehose (or at least for working parents). Unless someone has built it - anything that aggregates and shows beyond the first click of the by-line. (i.e. a first paragraph, or LLM-summary of the content)? Otherwise... coming soon from a vibe-coding session near you...
A friend and I worked on a startup together that did this back when only the GPT-3 API was available. Sucked up everything we could think of, including HN and traditionally opaque sources such as Telegram
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#73I always enjoyed Jason Sachs' blog at embedded related.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#74It's so interesting to me as a Mechanical Engineer and Hardware designer/architect how on HN "Engineering" almost always means "Software engineering" here.
I would love more blogs on mechanical, hardware, and especially industrial engineering, but the demographics in those areas skew stereo-typically older and also likely less blog-oriented, right?
Blogs are almost 30 years old at this point, but yes, I do associate a nearly compulsive need to show off one's work in meticulously-crafted blog posts with younger people.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#75Not corporate, but two of the best individual developer blogs are Eli Bendersky's and Rachel by the Bay. They've both been blogging prolifically for a decade+, Eli with a focus on, broadly, compilers and Rachel on SRE/debugging.
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing is also required reading for anyone that works with Windows.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#76https://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.
Yes! Julia is fantastic at explaining concepts, and creating ways to learn about them. She produces a great series of “zines” summarizing a bunch of technical topics, her blog archives are really fascinating, and she’s created really useful tools like Mess With DNS (https://messwithdns.net) which gives you your own DNS subdomain and the means to update records so you can try things out in an easy, harmless way.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#77MongoDB Engineering Blog is shaping up well
https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/channel/engineering-blo...
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#78It's so interesting to me as a Mechanical Engineer and Hardware designer/architect how on HN "Engineering" almost always means "Software engineering" here.
It is funny, almost as funny as an entire cadre of people with “engineer” in their title who've never had to draw a free body diagram, learn circuit analysis, understand the basics of thermodynamics, or the mechanics of materials.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#79It's so interesting to me as a Mechanical Engineer and Hardware designer/architect how on HN "Engineering" almost always means "Software engineering" here.
I thought the same. Check out this mechanical engineering channel - https://youtu.be/8yUsDnBXo_g?si=CXzWV9D5OvHcCBm3
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#80To balance all of the computer engineering blogs, check out this mechanical engineering channel: https://youtu.be/8yUsDnBXo_g?si=CXzWV9D5OvHcCBm3