I'll share a couple:
- Branch prediction
https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/
- How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html
- NAT Slipstreaming v2.0
https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-co... is the kind of stuff I'd love to have one per day
I really like Gaffer on Games. I haven’t found a lot of good content that goes into the nuts and bolts of net code like he does.
The Crash Bandicoot development diaries.
It's a collection of many blog posts, but an entertaining read of working under not only technical, but also artistic and business restrictions.
https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ba...
Recent one that just got posted: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/core-infra/how-meta-bu...
Good deep dive.
Lately, I've been enjoying a lot of posts in this blog right here:
https://eugeneyan.com/writing
My company just hired some new VPs from Amazon, and the writings in that blog convey a bit of the Amazon WOW. It's pretty insightful stuff.
Also, many posts from Julia Evans :D
More concretely, here are a few blog posts I go back to occasionally:
https://doordash.engineering/2019/02/20/experiment-rigor-for...
https://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2019/12/humans-i...
https://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2016/10/practica...
https://eugeneyan.com/writing/ml-design-docs/
https://eugeneyan.com/writing/what-i-do-before-a-data-scienc...
https://www.fharrell.com/post/addvalue/
https://www.fharrell.com/post/stat-ml2/