Tech Industry blogs

Techdirt, founded by Mike Masnick, covers technology policy, free speech, copyright, and Section 230 law.

Top post: You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 of the CDA

A group blog on technology, digital rights, culture, and oddities, with Cory Doctorow as a frequent contributor.

Top post: Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012)

Google's official corporate blog, carrying product announcements, AI news, and policy statements from the company.

Top post: Google: G Suite and Gmail to more closely align

Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, writes about programming, software culture, and the web.

Top post: The Principle of Least Power (2007)

John Gruber writes about Apple, technology, and design, and created the Markdown format.

Top post: How to write a README file for GitHub (Markdown tips)

GitHub's official blog, covering product updates, security notices, platform availability, and developer features.

Top post: No Cookie for You

Microsoft employees' blogs on MSDN cover Windows, Visual Studio, C++, and C# internals, including Raymond Chen's and Eric Lippert's posts.

Top post: Visual C++ Team Blog: C99 library support in Visual Studio 2013

Google's official corporate blog, covering product launches, policy statements, and company announcements from executives and engineers.

Top post: A new approach to China

Stack Overflow's company blog covers developer surveys, language trends, community policy, engineering practice, and the company's own infrastructure.

Top post: The Incredible Growth of Python

Google's official blog for web developers, covering Chrome features, web standards, extensions, and DevTools.

Top post: Built-In AI – AI on Chrome

Twitter's official engineering and corporate blog, covering infrastructure, product changes, and moderation decisions.

Top post: Permanent Suspension of RealDonaldTrump (2021)

Ben Thompson analyzes technology business strategy, platforms, and media, with a paid subscription for much of it.

Top post: Aggregation Theory (2015)

Meta's corporate newsroom publishes announcements on products, layoffs, AI models, research, and policy and content moderation changes.

Top post: A new optional way to share and discover music tv and movies

Microsoft's official Windows blog, with announcements on Windows releases, Edge, developer tools, and Insider builds.

Top post: X64 emulation in preview for Windows 10 on ARM PCs

The Daily WTF collects reader-submitted stories of bad code, failed projects, and absurd workplace decisions in software.

Top post: How Æxecor’s programming error led to 28000 tons of coal delivered (2009)

Microsoft's Tech Community hosts official posts from product teams on Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365, Edge, and enterprise administration.

Top post: Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions

Google's Security Blog covers its security research and engineering, including memory safety in Android, Chrome certificate policy, and cryptography.

Top post: Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 Reduce Vulnerabilities

Maciej Ceglowski, who runs Pinboard, writes essays and talks on web bloat, technology criticism, history, and AI worries.

Top post: The Website Obesity Crisis

Microsoft's corporate blog, with company announcements on AI, OpenAI, carbon goals, products, and policy commitments.

Top post: Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030

An independent journalist-owned outlet covering technology, surveillance, hacking, and AI, founded by former Vice Motherboard reporters including Joseph Cox.

Top post: The Pitch Deck for 'Active Listening' Ad Targeting

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)

Meta's engineering blog, where its engineers describe infrastructure, messaging, open-source releases, and large-scale systems work.

Top post: Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)

Oracle's official blogs, covering Java, MySQL, Oracle Database, and engineering topics from its developers.

Top post: Oracle Free Java License

Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper and Overcast, writes about Apple, app stores, laptops, and software development.

Top post: The best laptop ever made

Y Combinator's blog, with startup advice, funding terms, and announcements about Hacker News and the accelerator.

Top post: How to Choose Domain Extensions for an International Audience

O'Reilly Media's technology blog, covering web performance, software practice, data, and industry trends, with posts by Tim O'Reilly and others.

Top post: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles

Cory Doctorow's daily blog of links and essays on tech policy, monopoly power, copyright, and what he calls enshittification.

Top post: TikTok's Enshittification

Facebook's engineering blog on infrastructure, open source projects, Haskell, Mercurial, storage, and licensing.

Top post: Scaling Mercurial at Facebook

Uber's engineering team writes about its infrastructure, datastores, spatial indexing, and machine learning systems.

Top post: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL

Charlie Stross, a science fiction author, blogs about publishing, the future of technology, politics, and space.

Top post: Accelerando

Kevin Kelly, a Wired co-founder, writes about technology, culture, and the future, including the 1,000 true fans idea.

Top post: 1,000 True Fans (2008)

Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, writes essays on startups, productivity, and the future of AI and superintelligence.

Top post: Employee Equity

Engineering blog of Dropbox covering storage infrastructure, compression, machine learning, and large-scale code and product engineering.

Top post: Rewriting the heart of our sync engine

NVIDIA's corporate blog covers GPUs, AI research, gaming hardware, autonomous driving, and data center products.

Top post: GauGAN Turns Doodles into Stunning, Photorealistic Landscapes

Evernote's company blog covers its note-taking app, pricing changes, infrastructure moves, and security practices.

Top post: Clearly

Microsoft's TechNet blogs carry official posts on Windows Server, licensing, PowerShell, Exchange, patents, and research announcements.

Top post: Microsoft calls WebGL "harmful"

LinkedIn's engineering team writes about the company's infrastructure, data systems, and web and mobile development.

Top post: The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction

Tim Bray, a software veteran who co-created XML and worked at Amazon and Google, writes about tech, cloud, and the web.

Top post: The Web's the place (don't be a sharecropper)

Benedict Evans, an independent tech analyst and former a16z partner, writes essays and a newsletter on tech industry trends.

Top post: The Great Unbundling

SemiAnalysis is a semiconductor and AI infrastructure research firm covering chips, GPU benchmarks, training costs, and datacenter hardware.

Top post: Google "We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI" (2023)

Chris Dixon, a venture capitalist, writes about startups, technology trends, and investing, with essays on new technologies and network effects.

Top post: The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)

Adobe's company blogs, with posts on Flash, open source fonts, file formats like PSD, web standards, and creative tools.

Top post: Source Code Pro (monospaced Source Sans), released open source by Adobe

Google's official developer blog, announcing AI models like Gemini and Gemma, agent protocols, and changes to developer products.

Top post: Interacting with Gemini through multimodal prompting

Ed Zitron writes critical analysis of the AI industry's finances, focusing on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Big Tech spending and revenue.

Top post: The man who killed Google Search?

RedMonk, a developer-focused industry analyst firm, publishes twice-yearly programming language rankings and commentary on developer technology and cloud pricing.

Top post: RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2020

Google's cloud team announces products and explains infrastructure such as Spanner, TPUs, and security hardening.

Top post: Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip

Meta's AI research blog, announcing models such as Llama, V-JEPA and Large Concept Models, plus its MTIA AI accelerator chips.

Top post: Meta Releases Llama 3

Eventbrite's engineering blog, covering its Britecharts D3 charting library and search, alongside the company's event ticketing platform.

Top post: Jobs

An unofficial blog that tracked Google products and features, from Gmail and Reader to Chrome and Picasa, for many years.

Top post: Google Multiple Sign-in Now Available

Vivaldi's company blog covers its Chromium-based browser, its business model, open-source status and positions on web standards like Manifest v3.

Top post: Source

Meta's AI research blog announces models, papers and systems such as OPT-175B, LLaMA, ImageBind and Instagram's recommender.

Top post: Meta AI releases large-scale language models with OPT-175B

Google's research blog reports on work in machine learning, language, vision and engineering, including the well-known binary search bug post.

Top post: Nearly all binary search and merge sort implementations are broken (2006)

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)

Google's open source program office announces releases and projects such as Logica, Jpegli, Abseil, KataOS and OpenCensus.

Top post: Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library

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?

Monday Note is Jean-Louis Gassée's weekly commentary on technology and business, especially Apple, with experience from Apple and BeOS.

Top post: The ARPUs of the Big Four Dwarf Everybody Else

noyb is the European privacy group led by Max Schrems, which files GDPR complaints against tech companies.

Top post: Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints

Raymond Chen, a Microsoft engineer, writes about Windows history, API quirks, compatibility and programming oddities.

Top post: The Old New Thing

Google's official blog announcing Gmail features, such as offline mode, HTTPS default, unsubscribe links and Inbox.

Top post: Images Now Showing in Gmail

Robert X. Cringely, a longtime tech journalist, comments on the IT industry, big companies, H-1B visas and Silicon Valley history.

Top post: What Americans don’t know about H-1B visas could hurt us all