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The Pragmatic Engineer
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The Pragmatic Engineer is a personal blog at pragmaticengineer.com about career and programming. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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I write a newsletter, a blog and published a few books. The Pragmatic Engineer is the #1 newsletter for engineering managers and senior engineers.
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- /7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-01-01
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I haven't found my favorite this year, but instead I was heavily into newsletters. Currently I'm subscribed to: https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/ - industry insights. https://www.workspaces.xyz/ - people sharing their home office setup incl. photos. https://bigtechdigest.substack.com/ - all recent tech articles from companies engineering blogs. https://leaddev.com/ - leadership stuff. https://hackernewsletter.com/…
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on “Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023”The Pragmatic Engineer is a very good blog/newsletter I've came across recently, highly recommended. https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/
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on “Ask HN: Best Engineering Blog Posts?”The author also has a newsletter (paywalled, on substack) and a blog. https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/
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on “Tesla devs at Twitter misunderstand Slack privacy; leak fire lists based on LOC”I believe that "rando" here is Gergely Orosz, famous creator of https://www.pragmaticengineer.com and ex-team lead at Uber.
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on “Microsoft: We see all the backlash and we know we have a lot to fix in Windows”https://pragmaticengineer.com/ newsletter for me was a fun investment. another thing that I do, which is not a subscription for products, is putting money into opensource projects that I use. E.g. the terminal emulator, cli tools and some such. If they have patron or something I try and sign up or send one time sums.
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on “Ask HN: What subscription services are worth paying for IT professional”I guess “thoughtful” and “well-balanced” are subjective, but here’s some content and a few “influencers” that I personally find more realistic and balanced: - Simon Wardley (of Wardley maps fame) on Software Engineering vs Vibe Coding: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simonwardley_x-why-are-you-so... - Gergely Orosz from https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/ . I find myself agreeing with takes like this one: https://twit…
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on “Ask HN: Software Engineers to follow who have a healthy skepticism of AI”I subscribe to the channel, so I had already downloaded the episode. But glad PE is getting some algorithm-love; it's a great channel/podcast. Gergely is a great interviewer. https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/
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on “Ghostty – Terminal Emulator”These are the newsletters I am currently subscribing to. * Pragmatic Engineer https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/ * ByteByteGo https://bytebytego.com/ * Quastor https://www.quastor.org/ * Pointer https://www.pointer.io/ * Programming Digest https://programmingdigest.net/
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on “Ask HN: What tech newsletters are you currently subscribing to? (August 2023)”If by "capital product", you mean business, there's plenty. The most popular in these circles is: https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/ But it's not easy. I tried it for a TikTok content ideas, gave up after a few months: https://tiktokexamples.com/blog/shut-down-newsletter/
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on “Ask HN: Examples of a newsletter turning into a capital product?”
