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Newsletters.

Newsletters are unusually durable in the post-2022 social-platform shake-up. Subscribed inboxes are stable in a way algorithmic feeds are not. This file lists newsletters DevRel professionals should consider subscribing to, and notable i…

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DevRel-focused newsletters

DevRel Weekly

Mary Thengvall’s weekly curated newsletter. The longest-running DevRel-specific curation on the web.

Phil Leggetter’s agency newsletter.

Hoopy / Matthew Revell. Combines DevRelCon updates, industry analysis, and curated links.

Developer Avocados Weekly

Long-running newsletter focused on developer relations.

DevRel Foundation updates

(Newer, started 2025.) The Developer Relations Foundation under the Linux Foundation publishes ongoing updates on its working groups and activities.

The DevRel Collective

Active Slack community with a newsletter component.

Adjacent: developer marketing and analyst

SlashData reports and updates

Industry surveys and accompanying updates. Subscribe for State of the Developer Nation and State of Developer Relations releases.

Stephen O’Grady, James Governor, and team. Industry analysis with developer focus. Not a traditional newsletter but reads like one if subscribed.

Console.dev

Weekly curated developer-tools newsletter. One of the best signals for emerging developer products.

Daily tech digest with substantial developer-news coverage.

Bytes

Cassidy Williams (Cassidoo) JavaScript-focused weekly newsletter. Influential JS-community signal.

Industry / general tech

The Pragmatic Engineer

Gergely Orosz. Engineering-management and tech-industry focus. One of the largest paid technology newsletters globally.

Stratechery

Ben Thompson. Industry analysis with tech-policy and strategy depth.

Adam Gordon Bell; supplements his podcast with curated writing.

Substack publications by senior engineering leaders

Many senior engineers and CTOs operate Substacks worth following — search by topic and reputation rather than relying on a fixed list.

AI / ML focus

Latent Space

swyx and Alessio Fanelli. The defining AI-engineering newsletter. Companion to the podcast.

Import AI

Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder). Weekly AI digest.

The Batch

Andrew Ng / DeepLearning.AI. Mass-audience AI weekly.

Sequoia AI

Periodic industry analysis from Sequoia.

One Useful Thing

Ethan Mollick. Applied AI use; not infra-focused but widely read.

TLDR AI

Daily AI news digest.

The Neuron, Ben’s Bites, AI Tidbits

Various daily/weekly AI news.

Language and stack-specific

JavaScript Weekly, Node Weekly, Frontend Focus

Cooperpress family (Peter Cooper).

Python Weekly

Curated weekly.

Pycoder’s Weekly

Python-focused curation.

Ruby Weekly

PHP Weekly

Database Weekly, Postgres Weekly

Statuscode Weekly (Cooperpress) — general developer

Curated weekly digest of best Hacker News submissions.

Trends.dev (and similar trend-curation newsletters)

Awesome Web Audio, Awesome ___-Lang

(Various community-curated awesome lists with newsletter components.)

Operational / SRE / DevOps

SRE Weekly

Lex Neva. Outage stories, post-mortems, SRE practice.

DevOps Weekly

Gareth Rushgrove. Long-running DevOps curation.

Last Week in AWS

Corey Quinn.

Various.

Security

Last Week in Security

tl;dr sec

Clint Gibler. Application security and DevSecOps.

How DevRel teams use newsletters

Three modes:

Subscribe broadly to stay current. Consume curated digests rather than original posts where possible.
Sponsor relevant newsletters. See ../08-tools/newsletter-content.md.
Operate your own. Most successful developer-product DevRel teams operate at least one newsletter; some operate multiple (a customer-facing weekly + an internal-marketing-team weekly).

Newsletter sponsorship is one of the most efficient targeted-reach options available. Quality factors:

Reader engagement. Open and click rates matter more than subscriber count.
Audience composition. Senior engineers, decision-makers, your ICP.
Cadence. Weekly newsletters with consistent open rates outperform daily blasts.
Tone match. Sponsorship in a newsletter whose voice fits yours feels natural.
Cumulative effect. Sponsoring the same newsletter for multiple consecutive sends produces compounding awareness; one-off slots underperform.

Approximate rate ranges for developer-focused newsletter sponsorship (2024–2026):

Audience size	Per-send rate (USD)
5K–20K	$200–$800
20K–50K	$500–$3K
50K–150K	$2K–$10K
150K+	$5K–$25K+

The rate-to-audience ratio is usually better at the smaller end if the audience match is precise.