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
* [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.
I don't know, it can definitely be done-I'm doing it for my personal stuff[0] it just takes explicit effort to write about what you are actually doing.
Unless you're suggesting only large startups / teams can create great engineering work, which, like, I don't really agree with at all.
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.
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.
I've been a follower for a long time but haven't been able to allocate funds for their paid Slack channel.
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.
It is less technical and more leadership, strategy and soft skill side of engineering but https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/ definitely deserves a mention.
http://jacobian.org 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.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/ - Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson (Google programmer working on Chrome, focusing on optimization and reliability)
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:
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 - https://blog.alexellis.io/
You'll also find insights from building my own products and revenue in my weekly sponsors emails -> https://insiders.alexellis.io/ - I often post book reviews and learnings, like last week on copywriting and tangible vs intangible benefits.
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* [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.
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/
Also: IETF RFCs and research papers (esp, from Microsoft and Google) remain an under-appreciated body of work on how real-world systems are built.
[0] https://engineering.fb.com/
[1] https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog
[2] https://fly.io/blog/
[3] https://blog.cloudflare.com/
If videos could do then perhaps the Brick Experiments Channel could have something interesting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHHErfX9hI
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
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.
Often time it presents great pieces of engineering work, with a "low-tech" approach that usually blows my mind !
Here's a list I stumbled upon some time ago.
>smaller startups and solo devs blogging insights from developing own products
I feel like those are different things.
Unless you're suggesting only large startups / teams can create great engineering work, which, like, I don't really agree with at all.
[0] https://devlog.hexops.com
[1] https://prog21.dadgum.com/
If anyone's interested, they provide the full OPML as well.
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6140
* [Martin Kleppmann](https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html) - databases, distributed systems, and information security.
* [antirez](http://antirez.com/latest/0) - a blog by Salvatore Sanfilippo on engineering and open source projects.
I've been a follower for a long time but haven't been able to allocate funds for their paid Slack channel.
Site: https://theprepared.org
His books are good too.
https://everythingsysadmin.com/
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/
You'll also find insights from building my own products and revenue in my weekly sponsors emails -> https://insiders.alexellis.io/ - I often post book reviews and learnings, like last week on copywriting and tangible vs intangible benefits.