Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?

#1

Post by ingvar77 » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 5:44 AM UTC

Looking mostly for smaller startups and solo devs blogging insights from developing own products

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

#2

Post by sharmin123 » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 5:52 AM UTC

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

#3

Post by msadowski » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 7:40 AM UTC

Here are some that I've been following why working on my newsletter (https://weeklyrobotics.com/). These will be mostly robotics oriented, and some of them might be inactive:

* [Robots&Chisel](http://www.robotandchisel.com/blog/) - a blog by Michael Ferguson, he did a very nice series of posts on restoring a UBR-1 robot and implementing ROS-2 on it

* [Mike Isted](https://mikeisted.wordpress.com/) - at one point Mike was writing quite many blog posts on making drones, including some offboard control and autonomy

* [The Interrupt](https://interrupt.memfault.com/) - in-depth blog about embedded programming. Really like their monthly "What we've been reading..." series

* [Electron Dust](https://www.electrondust.com/) - inactive, but a really cool series of blog post on making a ball bouncing robot

* [Casey Handmer blog](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/) - some very in-depth articles related to space

* [Modicum of Fun](https://jpieper.com/) - a blog post of Josh Pieper, who makes mjbots open-source motor controller

Other:

* [Julia's Drawings](https://drawings.jvns.ca/) - neat presentation of various technical concepts in programming. Unfortunately it's not active anymore.

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

#4

Post by cmalloc » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 7:51 AM UTC

The Factorio Friday Facts blog often contains some excellent deep dives into difficult problems solved during development.

https://factorio.com/blog/

One of my favorite posts is on an update to their pathing algorithm for biters: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317

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

#5

Post by redis_mlc » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 8:08 AM UTC

The canonical blog is Joel on Software/Fogcreek Software.

Patio11 has several good HN posts.

You can use showdead on and read my HN posts about databases, which apply to both startups and FAANG companies.

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

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Post by mjfl » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 8:38 AM UTC

msadowski wrote: post #3

Here are some that I've been following why working on my newsletter ( https://weeklyrobotics.com/ ). These will be mostly robotics oriented, and some of them might be inactive: * [Robots&Chisel]( http://www.robotandchisel.com/blog/ ) - a blog by Michael Ferguson, he did a very nice series of posts on restoring a UBR-1 robot and implementing ROS-2 on it * [Mike Isted]( https://mikeisted.wordpress.com/ ) - at one point…

thanks for the list!

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

#7

Post by radiKal07 » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 9:01 AM UTC

I really enjoyed https://overreacted.io

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

#8

Post by asicsp » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 9:03 AM UTC

msadowski wrote: post #3

Here are some that I've been following why working on my newsletter ( https://weeklyrobotics.com/ ). These will be mostly robotics oriented, and some of them might be inactive: * [Robots&Chisel]( http://www.robotandchisel.com/blog/ ) - a blog by Michael Ferguson, he did a very nice series of posts on restoring a UBR-1 robot and implementing ROS-2 on it * [Mike Isted]( https://mikeisted.wordpress.com/ ) - at one point…

>Julia's Drawings...Unfortunately it's not active anymore

As mentioned in that site, the newer ones can be found at https://wizardzines.com/comics/ and collections can be bought using links from https://wizardzines.com/