Don't act like RSS is done with. It's twenty plus years old, and still going strong. Nobody is stopping you from using it, whether you only read or also post.
Hyped up tech is like milk, it stinks after a couple of days. Open protocols are like fine wine, they age beautifully.
P.S. Your site is offline. If it wasn't and you even had one interesting article, I would have added your website to my list of feeds. I picked up hundreds of interesting websites/feeds through HN alone in the last years.
Less people are blogging these days but there's still a lot of interesting blogs out there. It's even more self-selected than before but I almost always find a RSS feed for a blog that I think is useful and interesting.
Shameless plug, but hopefully relevant enough: my directory and search engine for personal blogs[1] indexes over 1000 RSS feeds, and naturally lots of them are about engineering and software development. Full-text search is implemented with Typesense, and there are also "related" recommendations for each post, example [2].
I was surprised that I started reading one blog on your site, and it was badly written. Only afterwards below the text, did I notice it was a summary!
I'd advise to put it at the top, before the text, to let people know beforehand and not be caught off guard. Then you can have a big button saying "read full article in website" or something, to make it easy for people to see both options.
OK turns out it was not a summary, just a preview paragraph that mixed headers and text from the original, leading to strange casing and reading. I'd suggest not to include headers there or distinguish them!
Example (had to search on kagi with site:minifeed.net):
You Can Either Steal Great Developers or Farm Them To grow software development teams, you can either steal excellent developers or you can develop them internally.
I'm building something similar with a bit more of a social angle (has comments, likes, and reposts) at lynkmi.com. If you sign up to the waitlist it's a very very short wait!
I like the concept. Many times I look for high quality articles to go deep on some topics. I recommend you the fly.io blog [1], it has really nice articles.
I like the premise — I’ve lost count of how many times I ended up deep in Google’s search results or on page 4 of some company blog just to find a relevant architecture post.
A couple of thoughts from my own workflow:
• I’d definitely add smaller but high-signal engineering blogs. Some of the most interesting write-ups I’ve read came from companies that aren’t FAANG-level but are operating at scale (think Segment, Plaid, Posthog, Linear). They often publish very focused “lessons learned” pieces that don’t get much SEO love.
• AI summaries could be useful if they’re really accurate and highlight the “why” behind a technical decision, not just rephrase the intro paragraph. I’d probably use them to triage which posts to read in full.
• For discovery, I usually rely on Twitter/X and the occasional Reddit thread. The problem is that those channels are noisy — so something that’s searchable and filterable like you’ve built is appealing.
One nit: for tagging, maybe consider a lightweight NLP approach (spaCy / transformers) that can detect concepts beyond exact matches. Even basic keyword clustering could improve relevance without needing a massive ML pipeline.
Nice work — bookmarking this for the next time I need to dig into how someone scaled their job queues without setting their hair on fire.
Looks good, but it‘s fascinating the term engineering nowadays almost only boils down to software(also mostly web) and AI, although it is way more than that.
idk, hardware engineering (whether electrical, mechanical, civil, aerospace, etc) is just as lucrative and IMO more interesting, since physics isn't an invention of the human mind like software is, and mistakes go boom instead of segfault.
I can't figure this one out - is it only a browser extension? The site keeps trying to trick me into installing a browser extension, which seems incredibly sketchy
Can you add cross support for Fediverse?
I really haven't been keeping up but I think with ActivityPub you can support Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads. A lot of the general support and progress went from GNU Social > Mastodon > whatever.
Nice work. I started working on something similar, but my use case is slightly different (but the solution is similar). We all are interested in certain topics, there is a lot of content that gets published and our time is limited, so we need something that helps us identify top 10 articles or so per topic. This is why most of us like HackerNews. I think HackerNews by topic or interest would be a good idea to implement (but along with users posting links, it can come from crawling few sites as well)
Thanks! It's a great collection and have been using that as a reference. Hasn't been updated in a while but definitely will try to add as many as I can
Are you trying to stick with company blogs primarily, or to expand into general non-affiliated eng blogs? People like Maggie Appleton (https://maggieappleton.com/) and Patrick McKenzie (https://www.kalzumeus.com/) frequently have compelling ideas around technology, but I suppose that's a different "product" from what a company blog is selling.
Great suggestions, I'm a big fan of Patrick McKenzie as well. I was going to start with company blogs but expand to individuals as well if there's enough demand/usage
Are you sure you want to add hundreds of blogs? I would keep it curated to 10-20 otherwise it will turn into an RSS feed but I think you are chasing a goal of having the most interesting blogs to read and for people to use in their designs, coding etc.
I think people would get less value if I kept it to 10-20. I was thinking of extending it to have user accounts were people could create their own lists of the articles (based on company, author, tags, etc) on there if there was enough interest
Thanks! It's a great collection and have been using that as a reference. Hasn't been updated in a while but definitely will try to add as many as I can
I love this idea. Like others mentioned the cloudflare is annoying and search is way too slow, but as a concept I like it. Make it faster and I can see myself using this every week
I think you might want to add a "debounce" to the search, typing more than a few characters at a time automatically kicks off a new request for the entire page
Kagi Lenses can be defined in many ways, one of which is specifying URLs to search. Unfortunately you can only provide 10 URLs per lens. Here are the ones I chose:
I believe there should be an industry standard to distinguish between engineers (the ones who spent 4-5 years in school) and software engineers (not necessarily those who spent 4-5 years in school) by name only. Either one should not be called engineers anymore, or the other should be called legacy engineers or something along these lines. I was expecting to search through articles of IEEE, RF, hardware maybe, or even other disciplines like civil and mechanical. The word "engineer" lost its meaning in the past ~2 decades because everyone now who touches a PC suddenly can call themselves an engineer, diluting the market now with hordes of bootcampers and "prompt engineers". How come we don't see the same in other white-collar jobs like doctors, nurses, lawyers, or even blue-collar ones that now require some sort of control over who calls themselves or is able to work in a trade by having apprenticeships? P. Eng isn't enforced, so it's meaningless.
I am not the one who's dismissing it, industry does. You can get hired as an engineer, holding an engineering title with zero engineering education nowadays, you can have senior or principal title as well, and no formal education either. Find me one hospital that would hire a nurse that never had formal education or went through acquiring the proper license? No wonder a doctor can earn 4 times more than an engineer nowadays.
Hyped up tech is like milk, it stinks after a couple of days. Open protocols are like fine wine, they age beautifully.
P.S. Your site is offline. If it wasn't and you even had one interesting article, I would have added your website to my list of feeds. I picked up hundreds of interesting websites/feeds through HN alone in the last years.
1. https://minifeed.net/
2. https://minifeed.net/items/n1HZYMDEKyra
I'd advise to put it at the top, before the text, to let people know beforehand and not be caught off guard. Then you can have a big button saying "read full article in website" or something, to make it easy for people to see both options.
Example (had to search on kagi with site:minifeed.net):
You Can Either Steal Great Developers or Farm Them To grow software development teams, you can either steal excellent developers or you can develop them internally.
It's a cool idea, but maybe a improvement could be to select a random handful per day, and let them stay there for a while? Fewer surprises this way!
[1] https://fly.io/blog/
A couple of thoughts from my own workflow: • I’d definitely add smaller but high-signal engineering blogs. Some of the most interesting write-ups I’ve read came from companies that aren’t FAANG-level but are operating at scale (think Segment, Plaid, Posthog, Linear). They often publish very focused “lessons learned” pieces that don’t get much SEO love. • AI summaries could be useful if they’re really accurate and highlight the “why” behind a technical decision, not just rephrase the intro paragraph. I’d probably use them to triage which posts to read in full. • For discovery, I usually rely on Twitter/X and the occasional Reddit thread. The problem is that those channels are noisy — so something that’s searchable and filterable like you’ve built is appealing.
One nit: for tagging, maybe consider a lightweight NLP approach (spaCy / transformers) that can detect concepts beyond exact matches. Even basic keyword clustering could improve relevance without needing a massive ML pipeline.
Nice work — bookmarking this for the next time I need to dig into how someone scaled their job queues without setting their hair on fire.
I think not.
Also a nice reminder to move my website off of cloudflare asap
Cloudflare thinks your browser is part of a DDoS?
Cloudflare is attacking your browser from several places across the internet?
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/278660/why-are-...
I understand it isn’t related to DDOS but used it as a joke since it is basically attacking my browser
This is unfortunate, RSS has promise to be that standard format. I've seen high adoption, but it's not universal.
I guess this is a reason why it does not have recent blogs from some of the sites. Otherwise, it's definitely something I'd use
[1] https://netflixtechblog.com/
https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/blogrolls/
Looks inside
>15 tech companies blogs
I've found software security companies tend to have interesting blog posts.
https://kagi.com/lenses/LdYine8hZtYmrt8yTMngOUtvTM9rmkRy
Kagi Lenses can be defined in many ways, one of which is specifying URLs to search. Unfortunately you can only provide 10 URLs per lens. Here are the ones I chose:
https://stripe.com/blog/engineering, https://engineering.fb.com/, https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/engineering/, https://netflixtechblog.com/, https://research.google/blog/, https://technology.riotgames.com/, https://incident.io/blog, https://www.anthropic.com/engineering, https://openai.com/news/, https://shopify.engineering/
Meta’s Pyrefly announcement (may 2025)
Netflix post about their overall use of python (March 2013)
Google’s announcement of the Croissant ML metadata format (March 2024)
So many show and tells neglect that
That's the industry standard.
My GP and my veterinarian and also my librarian are all doctors, but less ambiguously they are respectively MD, DVM and PhD.