Related: best engineering blogs

1. Signal to Noise - Great blog - highly recommended By 37Signals, about design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture, and more. From the company that brought us RubyonRails.
2. Joel on Software - Great blog by Joel Spolsky.
3. Stevey's Blog Rants - Thoughtful and entertaining blog by Steve Yegge.

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