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A Curated List of Software Engineering Blogs

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This is so overwhelming! I wonder how feasible it would be to get Alexa traffic rankings or something similar to prioritize the list? I'm guessing the subdomains might be an issue but there's so much content here I don't know where to start (other than the blogs I already read of course).

Yes, it is a bit much (I hate that people nowadays use the "curated" label for lists that seem like they just collected everything they could find for a category. Which is fine, but not curated)

I don't think Alexa traffic rankings would correlate all that well to quality.

Grouping them by specialization instead of company name might be interesting, and possibly could be done using some company data set or with text analysis.

The format Dan Luu used in http://danluu.com/programming-blogs/ is probably the way to go. A short explanation of what the blog is about, why he finds it interesting, and linking to a couple of individual posts as examples.

Though it probably requires a consistent authorial voice. So it'd only work for genuine "this is the stuff I read" curation, not for "send a pull request to get your own blog included".

Score of past submissions on hn/reddit is a good signal.

For example to get sorted submissions by domain on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/domain/blog.codinghorror.com/top/?sor...

Similarly for HN (but not sorted): https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=codinghorror.com

Maybe someone can automate this?

Yes! I was mainly trying to find some proxy for quality that could be easily automated, so these would be a much better start.

Page views would be helpful, how often they are updated, topics covered, and maybe even voting.

Hi, author of repository here. Would you be interested in a site that organized the posts by Alexa ranking, and possibly how often they're updated?

Take submissions for summaries and require that new content/ pull requests provide one. For the record, I'm enjoying everything I've read so far from the list, so thank you.

The list is really interesting; But it lacks titles or subjects that would help to search the list and choose a blog or another

If something can be done similar to a Klout score based on frequency of posts, ranking, topic distribution, it would be great.

I always try to subscribe to individual blogs whenever I see individual posts make it on HackerNews. It gives me a good pool of stuff to look at that often gets overlooked.

I think it'd be interesting to import the OPML file into a separate RSS reader (so not to pollute my already quite large list of subscriptions) and comb through the daily individual posts.

me too and I found this very useful with the 'engineering_blogs.opml'

I just added the OPML to my Feedly without even thinking about how long it's going to take to unsubscribe from all of the ones I don't care about. The second I hit upload it hit me.

There are too many blogs for this list to be useful.

I don't think so. For the individual blogs, most people only write one or two a month. If you import the OPML into RSS OWL, you can go through and look for stuff that interests you. If you find a blog that frequently has interesting stuff, add the feed to your primary on-line reader.

These types of lists are good for people who do nothing but submit to HN/Reddit/Voat all day when they should be working. O:-)

It's useful as a sort of master list, but personally I'd like a much shorter list that curated for quality and relevance.

I can't believe the word "curated" is used here.

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