• zX41ZdbW 3 days ago

    Only 16 companies - quite sparse. May I ask to add my blog if possible? https://clickhouse.com/blog?category=engineering

    • indiehackerman 3 days ago

      Just getting started but will definitely add to the list!

    • gombosg 2 days ago

      I kind of miss the RSS days when you just had your own news/blog aggregator without the annoyance of Substack, Medium or anything else.

      • rambambram 2 days ago

        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.

        • ctxc 2 days ago

          Damn, if I knew I'd get one person to read what I write I'd have added RSS :P

        • dewey 2 days ago

          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.

        • freetonik 3 days ago

          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].

          1. https://minifeed.net/

          2. https://minifeed.net/items/n1HZYMDEKyra

          • pnt12 2 days ago

            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.

            • pnt12 2 days ago

              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.

              • freetonik 2 days ago

                Yeah, the parsing is suboptimal right now. I'll work on that!

              • pnt12 2 days ago

                Also when going back the page, I don't see that post anymore - it was featured in random blogs, so I lost it.

                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!

                • freetonik 2 days ago

                  Good idea, thanks! I was planning to modify the welcome page into that kind of "Minifeed Today" page, and to regenerate it only once a day.

              • jpmonette 3 days ago

                Looks really nice! Any plan to add social aspect like comments, likes and such?

                • freetonik 3 days ago

                  Thought about it, but not sure yet. Not too many user yet for that sort of thing.

                  • OisinMoran 3 days ago

                    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!

                    • jpmonette 2 days ago

                      will have a look!

                  • victorbjorklund 3 days ago

                    Can we add / suggests sites?

                • angelmm 3 days ago

                  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.

                  [1] https://fly.io/blog/

                  • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                    Adding to the list!

                  • skyzouwdev 2 days ago

                    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.

                    • kenanfyi 3 days ago

                      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.

                      • mrugge 3 days ago

                        the engineering that pays (big bucks)

                        • kawfey a day ago

                          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.

                          • kenanfyi 18 hours ago

                            As an hardware engineer, I can't say if it's more interesting or not, but definitely a different mindset and tempo you have during development. Things are not running in a sandboxed environment where you can iterate theoretically endless times.

                      • pbronez 3 days ago

                        Cool idea. I thought I’d try to make a Kagi Lens to accomplish the same thing:

                        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/

                        • pbronez 3 days ago

                          When I use this lens to search for “Python” the top three hits are:

                          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)

                          • __turbobrew__ 3 days ago

                            No AWS blog? If anything I have found the AWS blog the highest quality and most novel. The articles on things like route53 are really interesting.

                            • jzig 3 days ago

                              Now make a lens of lenses!

                            • plucafs 3 days ago

                              I'd suggest to add the Riot Games tech blog (https://technology.riotgames.com)

                              • sontek a day ago

                                They haven't posted since February of 2024, seems inactive?

                                • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                  Adding to the list!

                                • demarq 2 days ago

                                  > When learning a new technology, the best insights often come from how companies like Google, Meta, or Stripe actually implement it in production.

                                  I think not.

                                  • skhameneh 2 days ago

                                    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.

                                    • idosh 2 days ago

                                      Shameless plug, you can find all of them and many more on https://daily.dev/. It's a personalized aggregator for developer news

                                      • grub5000 2 days ago

                                        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

                                    • ozgrakkurt 3 days ago

                                      Amazing idea but Cloudflare DDOSes my browser when I try to open it.

                                      Also a nice reminder to move my website off of cloudflare asap

                                      • jagged-chisel 3 days ago

                                        Maybe I’m a bit out of the loop on Cloudflare’s activity these days, but I’m not sure I understand your statement.

                                        Cloudflare thinks your browser is part of a DDoS?

                                        Cloudflare is attacking your browser from several places across the internet?

                                        • 8organicbits 2 days ago

                                          My guess is that this refers to the CPU challenge. Presumably DDoS here should be DoS, specifically overwhelming their CPU or draining their battery.

                                          https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/278660/why-are-...

                                          • ozgrakkurt 2 days ago

                                            On my phone, it locks up my browser with it’s “check” so I have to restart it.

                                            I understand it isn’t related to DDOS but used it as a joke since it is basically attacking my browser

                                        • chandu_vrs 2 days ago

                                          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)

                                          • indiehackerman a day ago

                                            Thanks for the support and suggestion!

                                          • meander_water 2 days ago

                                            There's a good list here which you could add as well https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

                                            • indiehackerman 2 days ago

                                              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

                                            • colesantiago 3 days ago

                                              It would be great if you can add RSS on this.

                                              • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                Adding to the list!

                                              • mmargenot 3 days ago

                                                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.

                                                • indiehackerman 2 days ago

                                                  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

                                                  • mmargenot 8 hours ago

                                                    Yeah, it's one of those things where it's very reasonable to draw a line between company and individual blogs and keep it to one or the other.

                                                    In any case, I know there are some other solid individual blog collections in the comments - good luck with feature addition.

                                                    • indiehackerman 8 hours ago

                                                      Thanks for your support!

                                                • 8organicbits 3 days ago

                                                  > Each blog requires custom parsing logic (no standard format)

                                                  This is unfortunate, RSS has promise to be that standard format. I've seen high adoption, but it's not universal.

                                                  • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                    I started off with scraping through RSS but quickly realised it doesn't include all historical posts

                                                    • lysecret 2 days ago

                                                      Are you using ai for the parsing/setting up the parsing structure?

                                                  • bilguudeiblgd 21 hours ago

                                                    It'd be nice if there' some kind of relevancy, or hottest* articles filters.

                                                    • Catbert59 3 days ago

                                                      First thing I saw was an annoying Cloudflare captcha.. ugh

                                                      • ordinarily 2 days ago

                                                        This is awesome! We got some really technical deep dives here https://www.warpstream.com/blog-category/engineering

                                                        • indiehackerman a day ago

                                                          Thanks for the support, will add to the list!

                                                        • fuzball1989 2 days ago

                                                          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.

                                                          • indiehackerman 2 days ago

                                                            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

                                                          • marit77 a day ago

                                                            Would it be possible to add the JetBrains blog? https://blog.jetbrains.com/

                                                            • farai89 2 days ago

                                                              This is great. Would be good if you add RAMP also, have found the engineering blog useful. https://engineering.ramp.com/

                                                              • sontek a day ago

                                                                There doesn't seem to be an RSS feed on there

                                                                • indiehackerman 2 days ago

                                                                  Thanks for your support! Added to the list

                                                                • ndom91 2 days ago

                                                                  Nice one! You should definitely offer some sort of master rss feed though

                                                                  • indiehackerman 2 days ago

                                                                    Thanks for your support! Will add that to the list

                                                                  • brikym 2 days ago

                                                                    I can't say I like the infinite scrolling and lack of body scroll bar.

                                                                    • bkhl 2 days ago

                                                                      > Current status: Core search is working. Adding new blogs weekly as I index them.

                                                                      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

                                                                      • indiehackerman 2 days ago

                                                                        Glad to hear it'd be useful for you :)

                                                                      • dgs_sgd 2 days ago

                                                                        Awesome work! I would suggest adding Netflix’s blog [1]. It’s very high quality imo.

                                                                        [1] https://netflixtechblog.com/

                                                                      • WASDx 3 days ago

                                                                        FYI here is a list of hundreds of engineering blogs: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

                                                                        • 8organicbits 3 days ago

                                                                          I've been collecting OPML blogrolls for a project, here's over one hundred I've found. I'll add this one too.

                                                                          https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/blogrolls/

                                                                          • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                            Awesome, thanks!

                                                                          • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                            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

                                                                          • shelika 3 days ago

                                                                            Biased as I work for them but I think https://incident.io/blog/engineering is definitely worth adding.

                                                                            • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                              Adding to the list!

                                                                            • FailureCrown 2 days ago

                                                                              I can't find tags for C#, asp.Net

                                                                              • LtdJorge 2 days ago

                                                                                Should definitely be able to filter out any of the sources. Unless that's already there and I'm not seeing it.

                                                                                • indiehackerman a day ago

                                                                                  Thanks for the suggestion

                                                                                • aeve890 3 days ago

                                                                                  >Engineering

                                                                                  Looks inside

                                                                                  >15 tech companies blogs

                                                                                  • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                    Gotta start somewhere :)

                                                                                  • g8oz 2 days ago

                                                                                    I would add: - Instacart - Temporal - Pinterest - Etsy - Atlassian

                                                                                    • indiehackerman a day ago

                                                                                      Thanks for the suggestions

                                                                                    • cosmicgadget 3 days ago

                                                                                      Great idea and the post preview cards are excellent.

                                                                                      I've found software security companies tend to have interesting blog posts.

                                                                                      • indiehackerman 2 days ago

                                                                                        Thanks for your support and the great suggestion!

                                                                                      • __natty__ 3 days ago

                                                                                        I have so many of tech blogs in my bookmarks. And I open them maybe once per month. How often do you read these blogs?

                                                                                        • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                          I read them especially when I'm picking up a new task at my job with new technologies

                                                                                        • dbgrman 3 days ago

                                                                                          none of the filters seem to work for me. Good concept. Wish it wasn't in the done-to-death vibe coding UI.

                                                                                          • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                            Thanks for the feedback! Have made fixes to the filters so please try again

                                                                                            • coldtrait 3 days ago

                                                                                              What is a more standard UI that doesn't scream vibe coded?

                                                                                            • yieldcrv 2 days ago

                                                                                              Thanks for having a default feed to show an example of what to expect

                                                                                              So many show and tells neglect that

                                                                                              • indiehackerman 2 days ago

                                                                                                Thanks for your support and glad you liked it :)

                                                                                              • kushan2020 3 days ago

                                                                                                The performance is really slow on my phone - iPhone XR. Even selecting filters takes away lot of time.

                                                                                                • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                                  Made some performance improvements, hope it's better for you now!

                                                                                                • kathir05 3 days ago

                                                                                                  This is interesting stuff!! Love to see further updates and scale on this

                                                                                                  • indiehackerman 2 days ago

                                                                                                    Thanks for your support! Stay tuned for more updates

                                                                                                  • penguin202 2 days ago

                                                                                                    I'll be building a MCP for this

                                                                                                    • majom 3 days ago

                                                                                                      Great start. I would be great to see more blogs added to your project.

                                                                                                      • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                                        Thanks for your support! Will definitely be adding plenty more this week

                                                                                                      • matkurianski 2 days ago

                                                                                                        I always wanted something like that. Awesome job!

                                                                                                        • indiehackerman 2 days ago

                                                                                                          Thanks for your support! Glad I could help build it for you :)

                                                                                                        • DiabloD3 3 days ago

                                                                                                          Already hug of death?

                                                                                                          • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                                            Back up now

                                                                                                          • Quitschquat 3 days ago

                                                                                                            It would be cool to filter out the AI/LLM stuff

                                                                                                            • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                                              Will add that to the list, thanks for the suggestion

                                                                                                            • dwedge 3 days ago

                                                                                                              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

                                                                                                              • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                                                Thanks for the feedback! Search should be better now

                                                                                                                • netloks9599 2 days ago

                                                                                                                  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

                                                                                                                  • indiehackerman 2 days ago

                                                                                                                    Thanks for the suggestion, added!

                                                                                                              • kwakubiney 3 days ago

                                                                                                                Nice project. Filtering took forever though.

                                                                                                                • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                                                  Have made improvements to the filters! Hope you get a better experience now

                                                                                                                • xyst 3 days ago

                                                                                                                  AI-grifters: "why bother using yet another search engine? In a few weeks {{preferred LLM}} will be trained on the underlying data"

                                                                                                                  • gricardo99 3 days ago

                                                                                                                    nice concept. fyi, search feature doesn’t seem to work

                                                                                                                    • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                                                      Thanks for your support! Search should be fixed now

                                                                                                                    • whattheheckheck 3 days ago

                                                                                                                      I get an ssl error

                                                                                                                      • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                                                        Can you try again? Seems to be working for others

                                                                                                                      • ayerajath 3 days ago

                                                                                                                        this is good! will revisit soon!

                                                                                                                        • indiehackerman 3 days ago

                                                                                                                          Thanks for your support!

                                                                                                                        • anonymous344 2 days ago

                                                                                                                          order by latest?

                                                                                                                          • tamimio 2 days ago

                                                                                                                            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.

                                                                                                                            • xyzzy_plugh 2 days ago

                                                                                                                              I have no idea how you can dismiss P.Eng as being meaningless. Engineer, yes, certainly overloaded. But P.Eng? It literally implies licensure.

                                                                                                                              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.

                                                                                                                              • tamimio 2 days ago

                                                                                                                                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.