Directory of Software Engineering Blogs

Recently I have been on the hunt for small time software engineering (SWE) blogs and they have been a challenge to find. Criteria for blogs that I would be interested in:

  • How old: the blog has to be at least 1 year old
  • How often: at least 1 blog post per quarter (4 per year)
  • How stale: latest blog post must be posted within the last 3 months
  • Author: individual or a small group of authors only (no corporate blogs)

Essentially I want active blogs written by individuals in my space. Is it too much to ask for? 🤔

Search Engine Optimization?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is probably not the first priority for a niche SWE blog. This makes an appearance of such blog posts on the first page of Google rare. Instead you will find a lot of ads, marketing websites, and stale lists of blogs.

I created my own directory of SWE blogs

As a result of my less than resourceful search for good SWE blogs to read, I decided to create my own:



It is an open source directory with a goal of daily updates. Blogs that I have added so far are based on my criteria described above.

The stack

This is a simple static website. Each blog is represented via JSON like so:

    {
        "url": "https://romantaylor.com",
        "rss": "https://romantaylor.com/feed/",
        "title": "Roman's Software Engineering Blog",
        "description": "Software career tips, insights into SaaS ideas, and open-source projects.",
        "tags": "csharp, python, saas, django, career"
    }

The source code will be posted in this GitHub repo in the upcoming days. My hope is that the community will find this project useful and I am looking forward to seeing your pull request with your blog info or corrections! 🙂

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