Each issue presents a hands-on programming project, such as building your own version of tail, a Bluetooth proximity finder, or an MCP code context server, with a description of the goals and what you will learn. Readers get project ideas and step-by-step challenge specs for practising systems and software skills.
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The Pragmatic Engineer is a newsletter by Gergely Orosz covering Big Tech and startup engineering from the inside, with deep dives into AI tooling spend, developer infrastructure, and industry events. Readers get practical, data-backed analysis useful for software, AI, and engineering leaders.
Latent.Space is a technical newsletter and podcast covering how leading AI labs build agents, models, inference infrastructure, and AI for science. Recent issues cover open-source inference economics, how AI-native engineering firms structure compensation, and programmable GPU data centers.
Weekly digest of Simon Willison's blog covering hands-on experiments with LLMs and coding agents, event live blogs, and short notes on new releases and tools. Readers get practical write-ups of what he built, what he learned, and roundups of links, quotes and open source releases.
ByteByteGo explains complex software and system design concepts in simple terms through short articles and illustrated refreshers. Readers get clear breakdowns of how companies like Shopify, Uber, and others build large-scale systems, plus practical engineering topics such as RAG chunking and testing.
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