About this index
The Curious Engineer started as a personal list of blog bookmarks. Each one was followed to the blog's home, its feed and its full archive, so most blogs here come with every post they ever published, not just the last ten in their feed.
What's kept
Only titles, dates and links. Every link goes to the original site, and nothing is republished here.
How the archives were collected
A small crawler reads each blog's feed and, where available, the platform's own archive interface (WordPress, Blogger, Substack and others), its archive pages and its sitemap. It respects robots.txt, except for 25 blogs read anyway although their robots.txt asks crawlers not to visit, and fetches at most one page per second from any site. Posts without a date in the feed got their date from the post page itself.
Ratings
Top picks (1,448 blogs) are deep, original writing worth reading in full. Good (5,617) are solid niche and personal blogs and project news. Also listed (5,317) covers release notes, company blogs and blogs that wander off-topic. The front page and the monthly archive show only top picks and good blogs.
Posting status
- Daily, weekly, monthly
- How often the blog posted over the last twelve months.
- Now and then
- At least one post in the last two years, but fewer than six a year.
- Quiet
- No post in two years (392 blogs). Their archives are still worth reading.
- Archived
- Read-only collections, such as Microsoft's old MSDN blogs (5,801).
- Offline
- The site no longer answers (98). Each one links to the Wayback Machine.
- Couldn't be read
- The site blocks automated readers (91).
Updates
The index was last rebuilt on 31 Oct 2026. New posts are picked up by re-running the crawler, which reads only each feed's first page.
Your blog
Know a blog that belongs here? Suggest it. Is your blog listed and you'd rather it wasn't? Ask for it to be removed. Both are read by a person before anything changes. Blogs whose robots.txt asks crawlers not to visit aren't updated, apart from the few read anyway; their owners can ask for removal the same way.