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> https://engineering.fyi/

Ugh. That looks like AI this, LLM that, Agent this.

Where are the databases, the distributed systems, where is the software verification?


I am quite surprised and a bit disappointed that almost none of them have RSS.

But thank you!




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

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


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 :)


Oh, I read your post backwards (thought you said RSS == more likely fluff). My fault, sorry!

To be fair to you, my original comment did say:

> It is to signal that these (those with RSS) aren't really "engineering" blogs at all

So now when I corrected that with/without typo, it looks like your previous comment doesn't make sense, but it kind of did, at the time. Sorry about that and thanks for making me realize the typo!


"Self-Organizing Social Learning Through the Monastery Gates" ( Rose M. Baker & David L. Passmore : The Pennsylvania State University ; 2005 )

"Abstract

An example of an emergent, self-organizing on-line social learning system is available at the PerlMonks site at http://perlmonks.org/. Perl is a scripting language commonly used to as an interface between databases and web pages. Provided in this paper is a review of principles of emergent, self-organizing systems from a perspective of learning systems as well as case study of PerlMonks as self-organizing eLearning."

PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rose-Baker/publication/...

via google scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22perlmonks.org%22



Consider the other perspective: how should Perl programmers feel when Google's index becomes the main criterion for what is considered important or not? This creates a circular dependency that can erase genuine technical contributions from the historical record.

Google index is tailored for each individual. Persons with interest in breeding cats won’t be served Perl results.

If Google index becomes a criterion of notability, we are in a deep deep shit.


The new rule of notability: if it’s no longer in Google’s index, it basically doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability criteria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion...

"From a Google search, I wasn’t able to find" appears multiple times on that page alone.


The relevant part is before that:

> This article is exclusively sourced on primary sources.

The Google search is the nominator looking for an alternative source that could make it notable, something earlier editors failed to establish.


This « rule » is infuriating. Google searches are tailored to serve us content that might interest us. In this case, Google search first page returns plenty of notable results for me. Might not be the case for a person interested in geology and dogs, though.

How could such a biased thing be a valid WikiPedia criteria?


In short, Google decides what stays in Wikipedia.

Neat. Not.


Not really,if that thing is cited on notable papers or books, it stays too.

Except if Google decides otherwise.

And then Wikipedia follows suit.


I wasn't defending wikipedia or engaging on a penis fight on the internet for no reason. I added context, because it seemed you misunderstood this specific Wikipedia rule, and considering how cryptic wikipedia is, and how often i myself misunderstood rules on wikipedia (or stackoverflow) or even in general, i thought it was the same to you and adding more information would have cleared things out.

If your original post does not come from a misunderstanding but some culture war bullshit or whatever, my bad probably, but i'd rather you go on reddit or something else, i'll probably still read you, but assume it's culture war or ragebait and leave you alone.


No.

The Google search wouldn't even have happened had the article had sources listed for the claim.


Thus Google gets the final word on whether an article is deleted.

No. The author gets the final word, by including citations as they should.

> "Lightning is available as part of Felt's Enterprise plan."

So yeah, not open source.

And the Enterprise plan isn't the non-profit/education one.


> Comparatively, almost nobody on Hacker News ever saw it.

imho: if you want more HN eyeballs next time, consider a "Show HN"[1] submission with the github repo link upfront.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html [2] https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/pkd-server-php




https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/glyphosate-safety-art...

""""Their request “was actually the first time a complaint came to my desk directly,” Martin van den Berg, a co-editor-in-chief of the journal, told Retraction Watch. The article was published long before he took over, said van den Berg, a toxicologist at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and “it was simply not brought to my attention” until Kaurov and Oreskes’ article. The retraction “could have been done as early as 2017, but it is clearly a case of two parallel information streams not connecting earlier,” he said.""""


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