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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 ).

😎 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!

On average, people spend about one-third of their lives at work, which translates to roughly 90,000 hours over a lifetime. In many regions of the world, and especially in tech or as Software Engineers, it’s a lot more than this! For tech, it’s not unusual to expect to work 120,000 hours or more!

So insights about our field of work like for the likes of software engineers, junior developers, students in computer science, and ML researchers can be super important or useful for tidbits and perspectives.

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

Today in Technology [this is the regular macro one that existed before, new ones include:]

Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

Software & Apps

Emerging Technology

🏆 Programming and Development

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. (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:

What Newsletters should Software developers or engineers read in 2024?

Which AI Newsletters should they read if they want to get into ML more and especially Generative AI?

What select few product Newsletters are most relevant to Software engineers?

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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Keep in mind that the Software Engineering niche and content for professionals is still extremely nascent on Subsack.

New Tab: Programming

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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This article is a resource list of some of the best Newsletters in Software Engineering and for career development for software developers in particular.

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Following these Newsletter writers on LinkedIn and liking their posts there is one of the best ways you can support these people since LinkedIn’s targeting is fairly good now for different kinds of professionals. If you can click on their name you can see their external links. I also plan to add more articles once it is published, so stay tuned (since links appear to be capped in Email sends).

Let’s begin:

Top Software Engineering Newsletters in 2024

1. The Pragmatic Engineer

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Articles

🟠 The Pragmatic Engineer: Three Years

🟠 Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey

🟠 Visit of his legendary Deepdives:

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2. Refactoring

Podcast

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Articles:

🔵 How to Plan and Execute Software Projects 🚢

🔵 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

By – 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

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⚪ Prioritizing Health as a Software Engineer

13. Hybrid Hacker

By & (acquired by) Luca Rossi

Articles:

Should you Stay Technical as an Engineering Manager?

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

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🔴 The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine

17. Understanding AI

Articles:

Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions

18. The T-Shaped Dev

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🔵 Focus on learning one programming language and accelerate your SWE career

19. The AIEdge Newsletter

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20. The Hustling Engineer

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21. Developing Skills

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22. Marily Nika’s AI Product Academy Newsletter

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23. The Polymathic Engineer

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24. The Palindrome

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25. The Modern Software Developer

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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

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37. Lenny’s Newsletter

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38. Front-End Focus

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39. Tech Unfiltered

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40. Level Up by Ethan Evans

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41. The ML Engineer Insights

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42. The Salt – Curated AI

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43. Artificial Ignorance

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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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Suggest Another in the Comments?

Sorry I know it was a bit long. If you have another great example of a Software Engineering centric Newsletter for career education please list it in the comments section: