HACKER Q&A
📣 dondraper36

What are your favorite technical blog posts?


https://stripe.com/blog/online-migrations

By favorite, I mean posts that are insightful and deep.

Above is just one example that I like a lot found very useful. There are of course many others. Please share yours:)


  👤 in9 Accepted Answer ✓
Lately, I've been enjoying a lot of posts in this blog right here:

https://eugeneyan.com/writing

My company just hired some new VPs from Amazon, and the writings in that blog convey a bit of the Amazon WOW. It's pretty insightful stuff.

Also, many posts from Julia Evans :D

More concretely, here are a few blog posts I go back to occasionally:

https://doordash.engineering/2019/02/20/experiment-rigor-for...

https://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2019/12/humans-i...

https://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2016/10/practica...

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/ml-design-docs/

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/what-i-do-before-a-data-scienc...

https://www.fharrell.com/post/addvalue/

https://www.fharrell.com/post/stat-ml2/



👤 NukedOne
I'll share a couple:

- Branch prediction

https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/

- How fast are Linux pipes anyway?

https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html

- NAT Slipstreaming v2.0

https://samy.pl/slipstream/


👤 swah
https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-co... is the kind of stuff I'd love to have one per day

👤 larmstrong
I really like Gaffer on Games. I haven’t found a lot of good content that goes into the nuts and bolts of net code like he does.

https://www.gafferongames.com/


👤 ac2u
The Crash Bandicoot development diaries.

It's a collection of many blog posts, but an entertaining read of working under not only technical, but also artistic and business restrictions.

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ba...


👤 WallyFunk
Recent one that just got posted: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/core-infra/how-meta-bu...

Good deep dive.