Best operating systems and hardware blogs to follow
24 of the 211 blogs in the full directory of engineering blogs are tagged Operating systems and hardware. Each one is listed below with a one-line description and who recommended it.
Julia Evans explains Linux, networking and git more clearly than most documentation does. Chris Siebenmann has posted Unix system administration notes almost daily for years, Rachel Kroll tells debugging stories from large production systems, and Ken Shirriff reverse-engineers old chips down to the transistor.
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- Dan Luu
Personal · Named by 3 people
Deep dives on performance, hardware and engineering culture
Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet), Vivek Nathani, Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Julia Evans
Personal · Named by 2 people
Linux, networking, debugging and git explained simply
Recommended by Vivek Nathani, Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Andreas Kling
Personal
Building SerenityOS and the Ladybird browser
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Andrew Huang
Personal
Hardware hacking, open hardware and supply chains
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Bruce Dawson
Personal
Windows performance investigations, debugging and floating point
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Chris Siebenmann
Personal
Daily Unix system-administration notes
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Cliff Biffle
Personal
Embedded Rust and OS design (Hubris)
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Colin Percival
Personal
FreeBSD, Tarsnap, cryptography and security
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Daniel Balsom
Personal
Cycle-accurate PC emulation (MartyPC) and the 8088
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Fabien Sanglard
Personal
Game-engine source code reviews and retro hardware
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Julio Merino
Personal
Build systems, BSD, Rust and software history
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Justine Tunney
Personal
Portable executables, Cosmopolitan libc and low-level hacks
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Kai Hendry
Personal
Short notes on web, AWS, Linux and Go tooling
Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet)
- Ken Shirriff
Personal
Reverse-engineering chips and vintage computers
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Matt Godbolt
Personal
Compilers, C++, Compiler Explorer and emulation
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Matt Keeter
Personal
CAD kernels, graphics, Rust and embedded projects
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Michael Stapelberg
Personal
Go, Linux, networking and hardware projects
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Rachel Kroll
Personal
Sysadmin war stories, debugging and reliability
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Tanel Poder
Personal
Linux and database performance troubleshooting
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Ted Unangst
Personal
OpenBSD, security and C
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Tristan Hume
Personal
Systems, tracing, performance and hardware projects
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Xe Iaso
Personal
Linux, NixOS, infrastructure and Go
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Fly.io
Company
Networking, containers and running a cloud
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Oxide
Company
Server hardware and systems software
Recommended by Editor's pick
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