Here are some that I've been following why working on my newsletter (<a href="https://weeklyrobotics.com/" rel="nofollow">https://weeklyrobotics.com/</a>). These will be mostly robotics oriented, and some of them might be inactive:<p>* [Robots&Chisel](<a href="http://www.robotandchisel.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.robotandchisel.com/blog/</a>) - 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<p>* [Mike Isted](<a href="https://mikeisted.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">https://mikeisted.wordpress.com/</a>) - at one point Mike was writing quite many blog posts on making drones, including some offboard control and autonomy<p>* [The Interrupt](<a href="https://interrupt.memfault.com/" rel="nofollow">https://interrupt.memfault.com/</a>) - in-depth blog about embedded programming. Really like their monthly "What we've been reading..." series<p>* [Electron Dust](<a href="https://www.electrondust.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.electrondust.com/</a>) - inactive, but a really cool series of blog post on making a ball bouncing robot<p>* [Casey Handmer blog](<a href="https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/</a>) - some very in-depth articles related to space<p>* [Modicum of Fun](<a href="https://jpieper.com/" rel="nofollow">https://jpieper.com/</a>) - a blog post of Josh Pieper, who makes mjbots open-source motor controller<p>Other:<p>* [Julia's Drawings](<a href="https://drawings.jvns.ca/" rel="nofollow">https://drawings.jvns.ca/</a>) - neat presentation of various technical concepts in programming. Unfortunately it's not active anymore.
* [Joel on Software](<a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.joelonsoftware.com/</a>) - engineering, leadership/startup, management, and recruiting.<p>* [Martin Kleppmann](<a href="https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html" rel="nofollow">https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html</a>) - databases, distributed systems, and information security.<p>* [antirez](<a href="http://antirez.com/latest/0" rel="nofollow">http://antirez.com/latest/0</a>) - a blog by Salvatore Sanfilippo on engineering and open source projects.
I always go back to James Hague's blog posts in "Programming for the 21st century" [1]. It inspired me so much as I was going through my early career in game dev. He's retired the blog now, but it's still very relevant.<p>[1] <a href="https://prog21.dadgum.com/" rel="nofollow">https://prog21.dadgum.com/</a>
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:<p><a href="http://sam.zeloof.xyz/" rel="nofollow">http://sam.zeloof.xyz/</a>
Dan Lu [1] gives a lot of thorough walkthroughs on hardware, architecture & security, and occasionally on topics close to software development & developer psyché. His posts are a regular feature on HN. (I am surprised no one mentioned him).<p>[1] <a href="https://danluu.com/" rel="nofollow">https://danluu.com/</a>
The Factorio Friday Facts blog often contains some excellent deep dives into difficult problems solved during development.<p><a href="https://factorio.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">https://factorio.com/blog/</a><p>One of my favorite posts is on an update to their pathing algorithm for biters: <a href="https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317" rel="nofollow">https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317</a>
The Prepared is weekly newsletter which has had some great engineering content. Last week there was an interview about the trials of making a folding bicycle wheel.<p>I've been a follower for a long time but haven't been able to allocate funds for their paid Slack channel.<p>Site: <a href="https://theprepared.org" rel="nofollow">https://theprepared.org</a>
<a href="https://fabiensanglard.net/" rel="nofollow">https://fabiensanglard.net/</a> does some great code reviews of old games
<a href="https://engineeringblogs.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://engineeringblogs.xyz</a> — This is a decent resource pulling together over 500 sources.
Bunnie Huang's blog occasionally has its moments, here he is implementing a custom hardware accelerator for messaging encryption:<p><a href="https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6140" rel="nofollow">https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6140</a>
<a href="https://randomascii.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">https://randomascii.wordpress.com/</a> - Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson (Google programmer working on Chrome, focusing on optimization and reliability)
It is less technical and more leadership, strategy and soft skill side of engineering but <a href="https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/</a> definitely deserves a mention.
Love to read this one: <a href="https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/</a><p>Often time it presents great pieces of engineering work, with a "low-tech" approach that usually blows my mind !
iism.org - <a href="https://iism.org" rel="nofollow">https://iism.org</a><p>Why CEOs are failing software engineers and other creative teams<p>> Here is the rub: new value is a function of failure, not success, and much of software engineering is about discovering new value. So, in effect, nearly everything you are taught as a business major or leader is seemingly incompatible with software engineering.<p><a href="https://iism.org/article/why-are-ceos-failing-software-engineers-56" rel="nofollow">https://iism.org/article/why-are-ceos-failing-software-engin...</a>
<a href="https://jaycarlson.net/" rel="nofollow">https://jaycarlson.net/</a> - His two in-depth articles on embedded linux and the $1 MCU are both excellent.
I feel like engineering is used in the very broad sense, but books/blogs by Tom Limoncelli (et al) helped me a lot in the past in better planning and structuring the systems I worked with.<p><a href="https://everythingsysadmin.com/" rel="nofollow">https://everythingsysadmin.com/</a>
If you write a lot of performance critical software <a href="https://lemire.me/blog/" rel="nofollow">https://lemire.me/blog/</a> is must-read.<p>If you are into distributed systems then aphyr.com/jepsen.io are also must-read.
<a href="http://jacobian.org" rel="nofollow">http://jacobian.org</a> is an excellent blog from one of the creators of Django framework – lots of good writing about engineering management, general team work and software development etc.
I curate a bunch of them at <a href="https://www.discoverdev.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.discoverdev.io/</a> if you're interested.<p>Been running for a few years now! Probably have a few 1000 articles curated :)
I like my favorite here: <a href="https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/blogs#favorite-blogs" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/blogs#favorite-blog...</a>
<a href="https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs</a><p>Here's a list I stumbled upon some time ago.
This suggests a related question: What if Hacker News had its own "subreddits" dedicated to specific topics?<p>I've wondered if there'd be enough of a user base to have a few smaller subsets of the larger universe of submitted links. (It could be as simple as allowing links to be tagged -- maybe with sysadmin/programming/engineering "flair", to use Reddit's terminology -- and then having a way to re-focus the front page on just that subset of tagged links.)
I used to enjoy <a href="http://highscalability.com/" rel="nofollow">http://highscalability.com/</a> , but haven't read it in a while.
>great engineering blogs<p>>smaller startups and solo devs blogging insights from developing own products<p>I feel like those are different things.
I quite like <a href="https://console.dev/latest/" rel="nofollow">https://console.dev/latest/</a>
It is curated list of tools mainly for software developers.
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 - <a href="https://blog.alexellis.io/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.alexellis.io/</a><p>You'll also find insights from building my own products and revenue in my weekly sponsors emails -> <a href="https://insiders.alexellis.io/" rel="nofollow">https://insiders.alexellis.io/</a> - I often post book reviews and learnings, like last week on copywriting and tangible vs intangible benefits.
I maintain a github repo where I implement a feature identical polyglot persistent microservice in various programming languages and tech stacks then I put each implementation through the same load test lab where I collect then analyze the performance results and draw comparatives. I blog about my findings here.<p><a href="https://glennengstrand.info/blog/" rel="nofollow">https://glennengstrand.info/blog/</a>
The <a href="https://www.indiehackers.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.indiehackers.com/</a> forum probably has a lot of what you want, with small scale projects abound.<p>The riot games engineering blog is at a larger scale, but still awesome - <a href="https://technology.riotgames.com/" rel="nofollow">https://technology.riotgames.com/</a><p>Is a pretty good read as well.
self promote XD not great, not even good<p><a href="http://kokizzu.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://kokizzu.blogspot.com/</a>