Top Software Development Newsletters for your Career
Michael Spencer
A.I. Writer, researcher and curator - full-time Newsletter publication manager.
Hey Everyone,
This is an article specifically for the software engineers and developers among you.
In the past year (2023-2024) professionals are finding more value in Newsletters than ever before (especially on Substack).
😎 As working from home took off, the nature of mentorship and skill acquisition has also evolved and shifted. Newsletters with pragmatic advice on our careers it turns out, are super valuable. This article is a resource list. Are you a software developer, work with one or know someone who is or wants to be?
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Professionals like product managers, cybersecurity professionals, data scientists, C-suite tech executives, Chief AI Officers, CEOs, startup founders, angel investors, equity and crypto investors, marketing & HR managers, and software engineers can now find Newsletters related to their niche, jobs and career development and skills.
Newsletters for our jobs of course makes a lot of sense!
Substack recently started breaking down the gigantic Tech category finally into more categories (at least on the app, so far). As of yet I have not yet noticed more leaderboards which would be helpful. However on the home page and in the app there are these new tags:
New Substack App Feeds
A High Trajectory 🚀
It’s early days for Tech and Software developer Newsletters. More professionals on LinkedIn are noticing Substack is the best place for sharing career insights.
Bailey Dunn
(works in Partnerships for Tech).
✏️ The basic trend: AI and software engineering Newsletters have been exploding in particular starting in 2023 and mostly in 2024.
📚 There’s been an exponential increase in the quantity and also the quality of these insights. These include career tips for Engineers and not just software engineering related content. But with so many, where to turn? This article is a guide.
⚙️ Most Useful Engineering Newsletters
In an applied sense, where to look?
I wanted to answer the following questions in our list:
I have some ideas. The list are some of the best sources and resources to follow for Software Engineers on the internet, along with some intersection from AI and product Newsletters really kept to a minimum here, and only when I felt there was considerable overlap. For the best reading experience, please read this on a web browser. You can always do this by clicking on the title of any article.
Software Engineering on Substack
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Substack’s app has a new category called: Programming and Development. Which will hopefully improve your discovery as a Software developer or student in the field. Even for non engineering workers in Tech, worth being curious about.
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Let’s begin:
Top Software Engineering Newsletters in 2024
1. The Pragmatic Engineer
New Podcast Trailer
Articles
🟠 Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
🟠 Visit of his legendary Deepdives:
2. Refactoring
Podcast
Articles:
🔵 How to Stay Technical as a Manager 🛠️
3. High Growth Engineer
Articles:
⚪ Fast-track your career: From Junior -> Senior engineer in 2 years
⚪ A 3-step framework to never get down-leveled in your behavioral interviews again
4. ByteByteGo Newsletter
- Legendary visual frameworks.
Articles:
🟢 System Design PDFs (download, 158 pages)
🟢 EP129: The Ultimate Walkthrough of the Generative AI Landscape
5. Engineering Leadership
Articles:
🟡 Become the engineer everyone wants to work with
6. System Design Newsletter
Articles:
🔸 How Amazon Lambda Works 🔥
7. The Kaitchup - AI on a Budget
Articles:
🔹 Multimodal RAG with ColPali and Qwen2-VL on Your Computer
8. Level Up Software Engineering
Articles:
🟣 15 ways to Supercharge your Career Growth
9. AI Tidbits
Articles:
✦ 12 techniques to reduce your LLM API bill and launch blazingly fast products
10. Engineer’s Codex
Articles:
🔵 4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
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11. Department of Product
Articles:
🟢 Deep: How are companies driving engagement and retention?
12. The Software Engineer Weekly
Articles:
⚪ Prioritizing Health as a Software Engineer
13. Hybrid Hacker
Articles:
14. Craft Better Software
15. Path to Staff Engineer
Articles:
🟠 How to say "No" and win back your time as a software engineer
16. Confessions of a Code Addict
Articles:
🔴 The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine
17. Understanding AI
Articles:
18. The T-Shaped Dev
Articles:
🔵 Focus on learning one programming language and accelerate your SWE career
19. The AIEdge Newsletter
Recommended by LinkedIn
Articles:
20. The Hustling Engineer
By
Articles:
21. Developing Skills
Articles:
22. Marily Nika’s AI Product Academy Newsletter
By Marily Nika
Articles:
23. The Polymathic Engineer
Articles:
24. The Palindrome
Articles:
25. The Modern Software Developer
Articles:
26. Product for Engineers
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27. Fabricated Knowledge
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28. Tech Lead Mentro
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29. Dev Leader Weekly
30. System Design Classroom
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31. Architecture Notes
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32. Scarlet Ink
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33. Level Up as a Tech Lead
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34. AlgoMaster Newsletter
35. Saiyan Growth Letter
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36. The European Engineer
Articles:
37. Lenny’s Newsletter
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38. Front-End Focus
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39. Tech Unfiltered
Articles:
40. Level Up by Ethan Evans
Articles:
41. The ML Engineer Insights
Articles:
42. The Salt - Curated AI
Articles:
43. Artificial Ignorance
Articles:
44. Level Up as a Tech Lead
45. A Life Engineered
46. Teaching Computers How to Talk
47. Computer Science Simplified
48. Tech World with Milan Newsletter
49. The Engineering Manager
50. Javarevisted Newsletter
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