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The best Developer Experience newsletters

6 newsletters, ranked by editorial quality and how recently they published. Looking for something more specific? Search instead.

fightforthehuman.com· weekly· Published 13 days ago

A newsletter by psychologist Cat Hicks applying psychological research to software teams, AI adoption and workplace culture. Readers get in-depth essays, collaborative series with other tech writers, and practical discussion guides tied to her book.

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blog.droidchef.dev· irregular· Published 3 months ago

A Google Developer Expert for Android writes about Android and Gradle engineering, with recent posts on AI-driven code generation and its effects on engineering workflows. A reader gets first-person commentary from industry events and practical prompts for working with LLM tools.

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invoke.dev· weekly· Published 7 months ago

Invoke.dev is a newsletter examining developer experience and AI in engineering teams, skeptical of hype. Recent issues cover the hidden costs of AI mandates, realistic total cost of ownership for AI coding tools, and treating agent skills as testable code.

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leif.me· monthly· Published 1 months ago

Announcements for a monthly video call book and paper club that discusses research on the human factors of making software. Each issue previews the paper or book chapters up for discussion, with context on why they matter.

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salaboy.ghost.io· irregular· Published 2 months ago

A practitioner's blog on platform engineering for Kubernetes, developer experience and agentic frameworks, with hands-on technical posts such as Spring AI observability with OpenTelemetry. The sampled issues include an announcement that email delivery is ending as the blog moves to GitHub Pages, with new posts announced on LinkedIn.

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erinmikailstaples.com· irregular· Published 11 months ago

A developer experience engineer shares hands-on tutorials on building small projects like a swipe-based GitHub repo browser and a React virtual pet, plus practical notes on documentation tooling and linting from their work at Galileo. Readers get step-by-step walkthroughs for beginners and pragmatic lessons on automating docs workflows.

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