The Best Newsletters for Software Engineers
Code, systems, and the craft of building software, from engineers who ship.
Most engineering newsletters fall into one of two camps: deep technical writeups from people building real systems at scale, or career and craft advice from engineers who've been through a few hype cycles.
This list has both. You'll find postmortems on production incidents, walkthroughs of how specific systems are architected, and opinions on tools, languages, and practices worth adopting (or avoiding).
If you write code for a living, these are the newsletters other engineers actually forward to their team.
Newsletters for Software Engineers
StaffEng
What staff-plus engineering actually is.
Scarlet Ink
Getting better at the job of being a senior engineer.
Week in Ethereum News
The Ethereum ecosystem, in one weekly email.
The Daily Gwei
Ethereum, every weekday.
Bankless
A guide to the crypto financial system.
TLDR AI
The TLDR treatment, just for artificial intelligence.
Latent Space
The AI engineer newsletter.
Superhuman AI
A fast daily scan of AI, robotics, and building with both.
The Rundown AI
Get smarter on AI in about five minutes.
Smashing Newsletter
Front-end design and development, twice a month.
Krebs on Security
Investigative reporting on cybercrime and digital risk.
Hacker Newsletter
The best of Hacker News, without the firehose.
JavaScript Weekly
The longest-running weekly roundup of the JS ecosystem.
ByteByteGo
Visual explainers of how large-scale systems actually work.
The Pragmatic Engineer
Big Tech and startups, from the inside.
TLDR
A daily digest of the most interesting tech, science, and coding news.