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Software engineering blogs

192 points by kilimchoi 11y ago

lambdaelite 11y ago
Software engineering blogs. Not interested in opening up that debate, but I thought based on the title this would be something else.
donedonedone 11y ago
I expected to find a list of technical blogs but found "corporate" engineering blogs. IMHO, these are anything but engineering blogs. Don't be fooled by engineering.company.com sub-domaines, most of them only scratch the surface of technologies and most of the time have unnecessary marketing noise. If you really want to learn some technology, I advise against corporate blogs (except if your goal is actually to be aware of what technologies are companies using)
- kilimchoi 11y ago
  I included airpair.com/posts and they actually contain interesting technical blog posts.
  - donedonedone 11y ago
    Didn't know about this one, looks interesting indeed. Thanks for sharing!
- birken 11y ago
  I completely disagree. If you work on a small engineering team and want to broaden your knowledge of technologies you might want to use, reading about approaches that larger companies use is a great source of information. Most cutting edge software engineering (not computer science), occurs in technology companies. So if you ignore "corporate" engineering blogs, then you are hugely limiting your exposure to how software engineering works in the real world. Of course the companies are not blogging about everything, but that is irrelevant. Your choices are either a) not learn anything or b) learn stuff that might be dated (but probably also battle tested and rock solid). And I think you are way off with the advertising thing. The reason most companies make these engineering blogs is to attract engineering talent, thus their incentive is to post cool stuff which is interesting and exciting. Look at Etsy's great engineering blog [1] which I've personally learned quite a bit from. Read a few posts... they aren't trying to sell arts and crafts. ---- 1: https://codeascraft.com/ https://codeascraft.com/, in the OP's list
- Confusion 11y ago
  Prejudiced much? I just looked at the first three links, Adzerk, AdRoll and Airbnb, and found technically interesting posts on all three of them.
g123g 11y ago
Great stuff! Now if I someone can create a site with curated content from these sites so that I only need to visit only one site.
- deleted 11y ago
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- kilimchoi 11y ago
  Keep on the lookout! Working on it!
  - g123g 11y ago
    Looking forward to it eagerly!
    - kilimchoi 11y ago
      Hi, I created a website http://www.slicedham.co/ http://www.slicedham.co/ for it.
  - hrshtr 11y ago
    Me, too !!
  - silverlake 11y ago
    How about an OPML file we can upload it feedly?
    - duckspeaker 11y ago
      Done: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs/blob/master/engineering_blogs.opml https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs/blob/master/e...
  - deleted 11y ago
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- mvc 11y ago
dan_olivier 11y ago
What about https://www.joyent.com/blog https://www.joyent.com/blog, https://strongloop.com/strongblog/ https://strongloop.com/strongblog/, www.brendangregg.com/blog? Too devops-y?
- kilimchoi 11y ago
  Not really. I think we can include all but Joyent one. Joyent one seems to have too many company PR stuff. Feel free to make a pull request if you wanna add something.
latitude 11y ago
Would this count - https://bvckup2.com/wip https://bvckup2.com/wip ?
- kilimchoi 11y ago
  Looks more like a place to announce product updates than something that talks about interesting technical lessons or challenges.
moubarak 11y ago
Shouldn't Swift's blog be included as well? https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/ https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/ Edit: Seems the OP did add it.
- deleted 11y ago
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duckspeaker 11y ago
I was hoping for blogs by well known software engineers as opposed to lame company PR'ish blogs.
- kilimchoi 11y ago
  I've started including blogs from individual software engineers. If you know anyone with interesting content, feel free to make a pull request. :)
  - duckspeaker 11y ago
    Done. I guess next step would be categorizing them since, for instance, now I'm thinking of all the security-related blogs...
    - lnanek2 11y ago
      But then you have multiple dimensions: corporate vs. individual and security vs. non, so you have to start using a real CMS or your own code and tagging, not a plain file list on github.
program247365 11y ago
Ha! Great minds think alike. I did something similar awhile ago: https://github.com/program247365/engineering-blogs https://github.com/program247365/engineering-blogs Would love to get contributions, and I'd host it.
zazpowered 11y ago
Great list. I enjoy reading corporate engineer blogs for the practical info vs purely technical ones
programmernews3 11y ago
Another one: http://yakking.branchable.com/ http://yakking.branchable.com/
trollingineer 11y ago
Are there any rules against self-promotion submissions on Hacker News?
joffotron 11y ago
I'm the editor for Redbubble's tech blog: http://artplustech.com/ http://artplustech.com/ Comments and Feedback welcome :D
jakeogh 11y ago
http://blog.lse.epita.fr/ http://blog.lse.epita.fr/
97-109-107 11y ago
I used my prototype app for archiving-and-summary against this list - hopefully it makes it a bit easier (or entertaining) to browse: http://server.wwwas.it/key/engineeringblogs2 http://server.wwwas.it/key/engineeringblogs2
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192 points by kilimchoi 11y ago

Software engineering blogs. Not interested in opening up that debate, but I thought based on the title this would be something else.

donedonedone 11y ago

I expected to find a list of technical blogs but found "corporate" engineering blogs. IMHO, these are anything but engineering blogs. Don't be fooled by engineering.company.com sub-domaines, most of them only scratch the surface of technologies and most of the time have unnecessary marketing noise. If you really want to learn some technology, I advise against corporate blogs (except if your goal is actually to be aware of what technologies are companies using)

kilimchoi 11y ago
I included airpair.com/posts and they actually contain interesting technical blog posts.
- donedonedone 11y ago
  Didn't know about this one, looks interesting indeed. Thanks for sharing!
birken 11y ago
I completely disagree. If you work on a small engineering team and want to broaden your knowledge of technologies you might want to use, reading about approaches that larger companies use is a great source of information. Most cutting edge software engineering (not computer science), occurs in technology companies. So if you ignore "corporate" engineering blogs, then you are hugely limiting your exposure to how software engineering works in the real world. Of course the companies are not blogging about everything, but that is irrelevant. Your choices are either a) not learn anything or b) learn stuff that might be dated (but probably also battle tested and rock solid). And I think you are way off with the advertising thing. The reason most companies make these engineering blogs is to attract engineering talent, thus their incentive is to post cool stuff which is interesting and exciting. Look at Etsy's great engineering blog [1] which I've personally learned quite a bit from. Read a few posts... they aren't trying to sell arts and crafts. ---- 1: https://codeascraft.com/ https://codeascraft.com/, in the OP's list
Confusion 11y ago
Prejudiced much? I just looked at the first three links, Adzerk, AdRoll and Airbnb, and found technically interesting posts on all three of them.

g123g 11y ago

Great stuff! Now if I someone can create a site with curated content from these sites so that I only need to visit only one site.

deleted 11y ago
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kilimchoi 11y ago
Keep on the lookout! Working on it!
- g123g 11y ago
  Looking forward to it eagerly!
  - kilimchoi 11y ago
    Hi, I created a website http://www.slicedham.co/ http://www.slicedham.co/ for it.
- hrshtr 11y ago
  Me, too !!
- silverlake 11y ago
  How about an OPML file we can upload it feedly?
  - duckspeaker 11y ago
    Done: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs/blob/master/engineering_blogs.opml https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs/blob/master/e...
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
mvc 11y ago

dan_olivier 11y ago

What about https://www.joyent.com/blog https://www.joyent.com/blog, https://strongloop.com/strongblog/ https://strongloop.com/strongblog/, www.brendangregg.com/blog? Too devops-y?

kilimchoi 11y ago
Not really. I think we can include all but Joyent one. Joyent one seems to have too many company PR stuff. Feel free to make a pull request if you wanna add something.

latitude 11y ago

Would this count - https://bvckup2.com/wip https://bvckup2.com/wip ?

kilimchoi 11y ago
Looks more like a place to announce product updates than something that talks about interesting technical lessons or challenges.

moubarak 11y ago

Shouldn't Swift's blog be included as well? https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/ https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/ Edit: Seems the OP did add it.

deleted 11y ago
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duckspeaker 11y ago

I was hoping for blogs by well known software engineers as opposed to lame company PR'ish blogs.

kilimchoi 11y ago
I've started including blogs from individual software engineers. If you know anyone with interesting content, feel free to make a pull request. :)
- duckspeaker 11y ago
  Done. I guess next step would be categorizing them since, for instance, now I'm thinking of all the security-related blogs...
  - lnanek2 11y ago
    But then you have multiple dimensions: corporate vs. individual and security vs. non, so you have to start using a real CMS or your own code and tagging, not a plain file list on github.

program247365 11y ago

Ha! Great minds think alike. I did something similar awhile ago: https://github.com/program247365/engineering-blogs https://github.com/program247365/engineering-blogs Would love to get contributions, and I'd host it.

zazpowered 11y ago

Great list. I enjoy reading corporate engineer blogs for the practical info vs purely technical ones

programmernews3 11y ago

Another one: http://yakking.branchable.com/ http://yakking.branchable.com/

trollingineer 11y ago

Are there any rules against self-promotion submissions on Hacker News?

joffotron 11y ago

I'm the editor for Redbubble's tech blog: http://artplustech.com/ http://artplustech.com/ Comments and Feedback welcome :D

jakeogh 11y ago

http://blog.lse.epita.fr/ http://blog.lse.epita.fr/

97-109-107 11y ago

I used my prototype app for archiving-and-summary against this list - hopefully it makes it a bit easier (or entertaining) to browse: http://server.wwwas.it/key/engineeringblogs2 http://server.wwwas.it/key/engineeringblogs2

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