> I am quite surprised and a bit disappointed that almost none of them have RSS.
I think it's on purpose. It is to signal that these (those with RSS) aren't really "engineering" blogs at all, they're marketing websites aimed to help with recruiting and making the organization seem "engineering-like".
The artifacts are usually beautiful from good Workmanship Standards, Design For Manufacturability, and systematic Metrology. Dragging us all into the future one project at a time.
Note that training an ML model with such data would be pointless, as statistical saliency forms a paradox with consumer product design compromises. Note, there are _always_ tradeoffs in every problem domain.
Blog posts where I find quality really shows are usually about something I know next to nothing about how it works. A badly written article usually either goes really shallow or skips some facts when going into depth and requires catchup elsewhere to actually understand it. The lidar article from Main Street Autonomy goes beyond basics and explained everything from the ground up in such a connected way that it was a real pleasure reading it.
Sounds 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.
You're probably looking for something that is more focused on specific software decisions/implementations, but https://infrequently.org is the best web development blog out there.
It's not "technical" so much as it just educates you on how to be a good web developer/run a team. There's zero fluff and considerable detail (footnotes are practically blog posts themselves).
I'm a huge fan of https://eblog.fly.dev/index.html. The author, Efron, very graciously advises me on a lot of little things around my engineering practice, and I've learned a huge amount about weird holes in my practice from industry dysfunction in a very short period of time from him.
There are no such blogs. Usually companies, or individuals, will write these after they implement some feature into their products. Which makes them inherently little pieces of information scattered all over the internet and there is no one blog that is just about this.
I'm not beating up on OP but I chuckled when I read the question. Literally the only place I see the phrase "no fluff" with any frequency is with Deepseek lol.
Nothing wrong with the phrase itself of course, other than the fact that it's like literally in every other reply for me lol.
Had the same thought. ChatGPT often tells me things like: "This is the hard truth" or "I am telling it to you as it is (no fluff)" or whatever. Just because my initial prompt contains a line about it not making things up and telling me how things are instead of what would please me to hear. I added a line to specifically tell it to not phrase out these things, but it appears to be surprisingly hard to get rid of those phrases.
> especially from tech company blogs,
https://engineering.fb.com/
https://netflixtechblog.com/
https://stripe.com/blog/engineering
https://eng.uber.com
https://engineering.linkedin.com/
https://engineering.atspotify.com/
https://tailscale.com/blog
https://careersatdoordash.com/engineering-blog/
https://dropbox.tech/
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I am quite surprised and a bit disappointed that almost none of them have RSS.
But thank you!
Spotify and Tailscale do...
https://engineering.atspotify.com/feed
https://tailscale.com/blog/index.xml
Not RSS exactly but this OPML has feeds for several hundred such blogs if you can filter down from there: https://peterc.org/misc/engblogs.opml
> I am quite surprised and a bit disappointed that almost none of them have RSS.
I think it's on purpose. It is to signal that these (those with RSS) aren't really "engineering" blogs at all, they're marketing websites aimed to help with recruiting and making the organization seem "engineering-like".
Allegro Tech Blog: https://blog.allegro.tech/
These should be read at least once in your life if interested in building industrial grade electrical, mechanical, and or software.
1. https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/
2. https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/NASA/NASA-STD-87394
3. https://standards.nasa.gov/NASA-Technical-Standards
4. https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/workmanship
5. https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...
7. https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/laboratory-metrology/metrology-...
8. https://www.mitutoyo.com/training-education/
9. "Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds" (Charles Mackay, 1852, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/24518-h.htm )
The artifacts are usually beautiful from good Workmanship Standards, Design For Manufacturability, and systematic Metrology. Dragging us all into the future one project at a time.
Note that training an ML model with such data would be pointless, as statistical saliency forms a paradox with consumer product design compromises. Note, there are _always_ tradeoffs in every problem domain.
'What it actually means to be "AI Generated"' ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERiXDhLHxmo )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXbzktx1KfU
Have a nice day, and note >52% of the web is LLM slop now. YMMV =3
- https://modal.com/blog/vprox - https://modal.com/blog/host-overhead-inference-efficiency - https://modal.com/blog/resource-solver
Encountered one specific example about a month ago here on HackerNews - All about automotive lidar. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110395
Blog posts where I find quality really shows are usually about something I know next to nothing about how it works. A badly written article usually either goes really shallow or skips some facts when going into depth and requires catchup elsewhere to actually understand it. The lidar article from Main Street Autonomy goes beyond basics and explained everything from the ground up in such a connected way that it was a real pleasure reading it.
Sounds 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.
A very high ambition?
https://discord.com/blog https://blog.cloudflare.com/ https://netflixtechblog.com/
You're probably looking for something that is more focused on specific software decisions/implementations, but https://infrequently.org is the best web development blog out there.
It's not "technical" so much as it just educates you on how to be a good web developer/run a team. There's zero fluff and considerable detail (footnotes are practically blog posts themselves).
Maybe
https://projectzero.google/archive.html
https://netflixtechblog.medium.com/
https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/engineering/
Armin Ronacher's blog (of flask/jinja fame) https://lucumr.pocoo.org/
Antirez' blog (of Redis fame) https://antirez.com/
Simon Willison's blog (about AI) https://simonwillison.net/
You might be more interested in books than a blog.
For example: The Architecture of Open Source Applications
https://aosabook.org/en/index.html
Such a great resource!
I'm a huge fan of https://eblog.fly.dev/index.html. The author, Efron, very graciously advises me on a lot of little things around my engineering practice, and I've learned a huge amount about weird holes in my practice from industry dysfunction in a very short period of time from him.
https://dora.dev/research/2025/dora-report/
https://youtube.com/@modernsoftwareengineeringyt
Tweag has many interesting entries with good technical depth:
https://www.tweag.io/blog
http://highscalability.squarespace.com/all-time-favorites/
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/
There are no such blogs. Usually companies, or individuals, will write these after they implement some feature into their products. Which makes them inherently little pieces of information scattered all over the internet and there is no one blog that is just about this.
not software engineering, but https://practical.engineering/
Maybe it's just because I'm LLMing a bit too much, recently, but this question sounds to me like a prompt.
I'm not beating up on OP but I chuckled when I read the question. Literally the only place I see the phrase "no fluff" with any frequency is with Deepseek lol.
Nothing wrong with the phrase itself of course, other than the fact that it's like literally in every other reply for me lol.
Had the same thought. ChatGPT often tells me things like: "This is the hard truth" or "I am telling it to you as it is (no fluff)" or whatever. Just because my initial prompt contains a line about it not making things up and telling me how things are instead of what would please me to hear. I added a line to specifically tell it to not phrase out these things, but it appears to be surprisingly hard to get rid of those phrases.
Cloudflare, google project zero.
Ask the LLM you wrote this post with!
OP is asking a good question. There's no dishonor if he is not fluent in English, and used an LLM to translate.
The LLM instructed him to gather training data.
So prompt injection on humans
Polluting the internet with meat slop.
"What if we used more energy and got worse results?"
Sort of makes you miss "move fast and break things."
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