It's so interesting to me as a Mechanical Engineer and Hardware designer/architect how on HN "Engineering" almost always means "Software engineering" here.
people building physical things are probably too busy to blog about it lol
Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
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#82It'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.
I hold a CS master degree from an Eastern European university and everything you listed was in our Bachelor degree program. It’s pretty funny because while studying material properties back then I always wondered how and when am I gonna use that. It kind of makes sense now that I think about it - some students preferred branching out to hardware.
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Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#83It'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?
Depending on what you're looking for in industrial engineering, there are a lot of blogs on lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. INFORMS, may be paywalled, also publishes a lot of pretty interesting articles on applications of operations research to industry.
In general, though, my very limited experience working in manufacturing was that much of the blog equivalents were covered in things like white papers from hardware manufacturers or articles in trade publications. We always had a bunch of magazines delivered each month and there were usually some interesting articles to review.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#84https://engineeringblogs.xyz/ is a good place listing more than 500 (and adding more) engineering blogs.
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#85Sounds like you look for an intersection of academic papers (1.), tech blogs (2.), text books (3.), and confidential business strategies (4.)? A very high ambition.
Corporations commonly describe some of their internal processes and achievements because it builds reputation and that can be important for both sales and recruitment.
Sometimes they do it in the form of free or open source software releases.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP is asking a good question. There's no dishonor if he is not fluent in English, and used an LLM to translate.
"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˙
Other sites beckon.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#87> 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.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
#88While not exactly a blog, I've collected ~16 years of [startup] engineering lessons into a book and I think it came out fantastic. People are saying super nice things.
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#89It's so interesting to me as a Mechanical Engineer and Hardware designer/architect how on HN "Engineering" almost always means "Software engineering" here.
Agreed, though I understand the YC bias. I'm in biotech and mostly follow HN just to see what the software people are interested in these days.
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#90https://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.
Strong recommend! Julia's posts are always really engaging and educational.
She also publishes a number of technical topics as ZINES. I bought her "Oh Shit, Git!" zine and learned a ton of useful info, despite having decades in the industry.Zines are a great way to encourage book-allergic coworkers into learning great material.