Comments on: Engineering blogs: Best-of?

Question: Engineering blogs: Best-of?

sninctown — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:22:00 -0800

What are the best blogs written by unusually successful engineers?

I really enjoy the blogs Rands in Repose, Paul Graham and Joel on Software. I'd like to find similar blogs by engineers, ideally by mechanical engineers. Any industry (including academia) and job title is OK as long as the writer is good at what they do and is doing some kind of engineering.

By: straw

straw — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:25:23 -0800

It's electrical engineering, but Bunnie's Blog is always fascinating and nerdly. Andrew (bunnie) Huang is the guy behind, among other things, the Chumbly.

By: Chocolate Pickle

Chocolate Pickle — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:54:51 -0800

Brad Wardell (aka Draginol)

Wardell is the founder and CEO of Stardock.

By: bruceo

bruceo — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:15:03 -0800

i really enjoy coding horror, by jeff atwood. he helped create stack exchange, et al with joel spolsky.

also the old new thing has lots of interesting stories about the windows team having to debug other people's code.

By: deathpanels

deathpanels — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:59:02 -0800

By: evilmomlady

evilmomlady — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:59:46 -0800

These may not be what you're looking for as they are contributions from different people (not one blogger), but I enjoy "Tales from the Cube" on EDN -mostly electrical engineering, almost always fun, and "Made by Monkeys" at DesignNews.

By: evilmomlady

evilmomlady — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:02:57 -0800

Oh. I just noticed your "unusually successful engineers" requirement. The two I suggested are fun, but probably not the blogs you're looking for.

By: bajema

bajema — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:57:22 -0800

You might be intersted in Dr Drang. He does failure analysis.

By: Dansaman

Dansaman — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:04:58 -0800

Steve Blank.

By: Pink Fuzzy Bunny

Pink Fuzzy Bunny — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:31:51 -0800

Rocket Shop
Copenhagen Subortials blog

In the pipeline
Medical/chemical blog, you have to read his things I wont work with series: Things I wont work with

By: sninctown

sninctown — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:35:41 -0800

Thanks for all the answers! Things I won't work with is especially interesting and hilarious.