Great list, thank you. The only thing to note is that whenever I imported a large list like this in the past, I always stopped checking my RSS reader after a while because the content wasn't interesting. I think finding RSS/adding it to a reader should happen organically over time.
This may be because most feed readers don't have a proper way to triage items. Adding a feed doesn't mean you want to read everything from said feed. Usually only a subset of articles are interesting.
I built a feed reader with that concept in mind, having a separate triage stage where you only decide if it's worth reading or not. This will make it easier to handle large feed lists and find the best articles from them.
> 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 without RSS) aren't really "engineering" blogs at all, they're marketing websites aimed to help with recruiting and making the organization seem "engineering-like".
Exactly, so if the blog doesn't have RSS, you know they're probably made from marketers with no input from engineering, otherwise they'd have RSS on the blogs.
Edit: Ah, noticed I made a without/with typo, fixed that, should make about 2% more sense now for the ones who the original meaning was unclear :)
Most of them have feeds.
* https://engineering.fb.com/feed
* https://netflixtechblog.com/feed
* No feed for stripe
* https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/london/engineering/rss/
* No feed for LinkedIn
* https://engineering.atspotify.com/feed
* https://tailscale.com/blog/index.xml
* https://careersatdoordash.com/engineering-blog/feed
* https://dropbox.tech/feed
linkedin feed: https://www.linkedin.com/blog.rss
there is a feed for stripe: https://stripe.com/blog/feed.rss
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
Great list, thank you. The only thing to note is that whenever I imported a large list like this in the past, I always stopped checking my RSS reader after a while because the content wasn't interesting. I think finding RSS/adding it to a reader should happen organically over time.
This may be because most feed readers don't have a proper way to triage items. Adding a feed doesn't mean you want to read everything from said feed. Usually only a subset of articles are interesting.
I built a feed reader with that concept in mind, having a separate triage stage where you only decide if it's worth reading or not. This will make it easier to handle large feed lists and find the best articles from them.
https://lighthouseapp.io/
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Your website is a work of art. Bravo <3
Thanks, I just treat it like my teenage bedroom, a trash heap with the occasional useful thing buried somewhere :-D
I remember Firefox used to have this cool feature where you could detect any RSS feeds on the page you have open.
Now if I don't see it on a page I check the page source - some blogs don't advertise the feed but it's there.
Spotify and Tailscale do...
https://engineering.atspotify.com/feed
https://tailscale.com/blog/index.xml
Some of them redesign their blog layouts every 6 months, abandoning and then eventually rediscovering RSS. It's extremely annoying.
> 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 without RSS) aren't really "engineering" blogs at all, they're marketing websites aimed to help with recruiting and making the organization seem "engineering-like".
What? That makes no sense. RSS is beloved and known among engineers. Marketers? Not so much.
Exactly, so if the blog doesn't have RSS, you know they're probably made from marketers with no input from engineering, otherwise they'd have RSS on the blogs.
Edit: Ah, noticed I made a without/with typo, fixed that, should make about 2% more sense now for the ones who the original meaning was unclear :)
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