Career & Work blogs

Martin Fowler writes about software architecture, refactoring, microservices, and agile practice, with long-lived reference articles.

Top post: Microservices

Dan Luu, a software engineer, writes data-driven posts on performance, latency, hardware, and how tech companies work.

Top post: Computer latency: 1977-2017

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) writes about software businesses, salary negotiation, Japan, and finance.

Top post: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

Steve Yegge, a longtime programmer at Amazon and Google, wrote long, humorous essays on languages, software culture, and hiring.

Top post: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (2006)

Scott Hanselman, a Microsoft developer and speaker, writes about .NET, Windows tooling, developer careers, and living with type 1 diabetes.

Top post: Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)

freeCodeCamp's Medium publication, with tutorials and articles on web development, careers, and open source.

Top post: A RealWorld Comparison of Front-End Frameworks with Benchmarks (2019 Update)

Kyle Kingsbury writes on distributed systems correctness, including Jepsen database tests, and satirical technical interview pieces.

Top post: Typing the technical interview

Matt Might, a computer science professor, writes about programming languages, static analysis, PhD advice, and practical topics like fitness.

Top post: The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

Philip Greenspun, a software developer and pilot, writes about web publishing, software engineering, flying, careers, and money.

Top post: Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science

Cal Newport, a Georgetown computer science professor, writes about focused work, productivity, and building a career people enjoy.

Top post: After You Vote, Unplug

Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek, writes about lifestyle design, entrepreneurship, fitness, learning techniques, and his podcast.

Top post: From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks

Michael Lopp, known as Rands, writes about engineering management, leadership, and working with nerds, and runs a leadership Slack community.

Top post: The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster (2010)

A Medium publication of opinion essays on startups, technology, education, and culture, by Jean-Louis Gassée-era tech and design writers.

Top post: Stop working so hard

A Medium publication with articles by many authors on software engineering, programming languages, tooling and engineering management.

Top post: GraphQL: From Excitement to Deception

Gergely Orosz, a software engineer and author, writes The Pragmatic Engineer on tech careers, salaries, big tech practices and engineering management.

Top post: The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)

Gergely Orosz's newsletter covers software engineering careers, big tech, compensation, hiring and industry trends, including AI tools.

Top post: The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What's in your tech stack?

Zed Shaw, a programmer and author of Learn Python the Hard Way, writes about programming, statistics and open source.

Top post: Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005)

Will Larson, an engineering executive and author of Staff Engineer, writes on engineering management, tech debt and career growth.

Top post: Digg v4 Launch Story

Better Programming is a Medium publication where many authors post about software development, languages, architecture, team habits, and tooling.

Top post: Object-Oriented Programming – The Trillion Dollar Disaster

Robert C. Martin, known as Uncle Bob, writes on software design, clean code and architecture, testing, and programming languages.

Top post: My Lawn

Zach Holman, a former GitHub engineer, writes about software workflows, remote work, Git, deployment, and giving talks.

Top post: Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window (2016)

Michael O. Church wrote essays on software careers, startups, venture capital, management, and the Gervais Principle.

Top post: Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs

Erik Dietrich writes about software careers, management, consulting and why developers stop improving, including the "Expert Beginner" series.

Top post: How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)

John Scalzi, science fiction author, writes essays on writing, publishing, money, and culture, plus occasional short stories.

Top post: John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)

James Altucher, entrepreneur and author, writes personal essays on money, failure, entrepreneurship, and creativity.

Top post: How to be THE LUCKIEST GUY ON THE PLANET in 4 Easy Steps

Sean Goedecke, a software engineer at a large tech company, writes frequently on AI, LLMs, and working in software.

Top post: Seeing like a software company

Cedric Chin writes Commoncog on business operations, tacit knowledge, learning, data-driven management, and how companies build advantage.

Top post: Goodhart’s law isn’t as useful as you might think (2023)

Scott Young writes about learning and skill acquisition, including his MIT curriculum challenge and his book Ultralearning.

Top post: Do the Real Thing

Pseudonymous programmer writing humorous essays on software work, interviewing, punctuation, and a personal account of a drug overdose.

Top post: Programming Sucks

Model View Culture was a tech publication with essays on diversity, labor, venture capital, open source and internationalization in the industry.

Top post: I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode

Scott Berkun is an author and former Microsoft manager who writes about project management, creative work, and workplace culture.

Top post: Asshole Driven Development

Medium publication of essays on startups, careers, productivity and learning, with provocative titles aimed at ambitious readers.

Top post: What are people working on in coffee shops?

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) writes on software consulting, pricing, selling to large organizations and running a software business.

Top post: How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting

Thomas Ptacek, a security and cryptography practitioner, writes about DNSSEC, cryptography engineering, random number generation, and hiring.

Top post: The Hiring Post

Triplebyte's blog covers its engineer hiring process, data on interview performance, and which YC companies are hiring.

Top post: Privacy center

Matasano was an application security consulting firm whose blog covered cryptography, password storage, and browser and JIT security research.

Top post: Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful

Eric Sink, a software developer and company founder, writes about version control, the browser wars, programming careers and small software businesses.

Top post: Memoirs from the Browser Wars (2003)

Charity Majors, an engineer and Honeycomb cofounder, writes on engineering management, observability, operations and startups.

Top post: The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Company site connecting developers with experts for paid help, plus a blog of developer tutorials on Angular, Node.js, and AWS.

Top post: Angular vs. React – the tie breaker

Mike McFunley, an engineer who worked at Etsy, writes about technology choices, analytics, and engineering careers.

Top post: Choose Boring Technology

Pieter Levels, an independent maker, writes about launching startups, remote work, and building products on his own.

Top post: I’m Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months

Hunter Walk, a venture investor, writes about startups, hiring, venture capital, and careers in tech.

Top post: Midstage Startups Are Your Best First Job in Tech

Giles Bowkett, a programmer and writer, posts essays on software development, Scrum, Rails, careers and creative work, plus some self-published ebooks.

Top post: Giles Bowkett: Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die?

Michael Lynch, a developer who left Google, writes about bootstrapping software businesses, code review, and the TinyPilot KVM device.

Top post: Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself

Swizec Teller, a software engineer and author, writes about web development, engineering careers, and the practice of software.

Top post: Why Programmers work at night (2011)

Philip Guo, a computer science professor, writes about PhD life, CPython internals, programming education and tech careers.

Top post: A candid book about 6 years of working towards a CS PhD at Stanford

Dave Eckhardt's Purdue site hosts computer science papers and essays, including notes on the PhD degree and query compilers.

Top post: How to Insult a Computer Scientist

Elad Gil, a startup founder and investor, writes about company building, hiring, career choices, and the state of the startup market.

Top post: What May Be Coming to Startups, 2022 Edition

CommitStrip is a web comic by French developers about daily life in software development and web agencies.

Top post: A comprehensive and precise spec (2016)

Rob Conery writes about web development, Ruby, .NET, data access, and screencasting, along with commentary on developer culture.

Top post: Jeff Atwood has nothing to say yet posts anyway (satire)

An online technology magazine, active in the early 2010s, covering European startups, recruiters, and the tech industry.

Top post: Oli Samwer's 1999 thesis on start-ups

Shawn Wang (swyx) writes about developer careers, learning in public, developer relations, and JavaScript tooling.

Top post: Learn in Public (2018)

Viget is a digital agency with offices in the US that writes about web development, Ruby, Git, front-end practice and design research.

Top post: Php cms developer

The MIT admissions office blog, written by admissions staff, covers application policies, testing requirements and student culture.

Top post: Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

The Codist is a veteran programmer's blog on software careers, shipping code, 1980s software history, and generative art made with Swift.

Top post: How Many People Does It Take to Ship Software?

Nicholas C. Zakas is a software engineer who writes about JavaScript, ECMAScript features, hiring, and engineering careers.

Top post: The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy)

The interviewing.io blog is written by a technical interview practice and hiring platform, using its data on interviews, bias, and hiring trends.

Top post: We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews

Reginald Braithwaite writes about programming, functional programming, hiring and interview questions like FizzBuzz, and language design.

Top post: Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters

The blog of Buffer, a social media scheduling tool, known for posts on transparent salaries, revenue, and remote work.

Top post: Buffer Transparent Salaries

Lenny Rachitsky's newsletter on product management, startup growth and tech careers, with interviews and frameworks from industry leaders.

Top post: Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"