Engineering blogs worth the RSS slot
Feeds that publish rarely and land every time. Read whichever title pulls you first.
Dan Luu
Long, plain-text and data over vibes; the posts on latency and hiring stick for years.
Julia Evans
Turns “how does DNS actually work” into something you can explain at lunch.
Simon Willison
A running lab notebook: he publishes the experiment, not just the conclusion.
Rachel by the Bay
Postmortems from very large fleets, told with timestamps and no names.
Hillel Wayne
Formal methods for working programmers, minus the priesthood.
fasterthanli.me
Amos explains Rust the long way, and the long way is the one that sticks.
Fabien Sanglard
Reads old game source code the way others read novels; the black books grew from here.
Eli Bendersky
Twenty years of patient posts on compilers and language internals, still ad-free.