Newsletters proved unusually durable through the post-2022 social-platform shake-up. A subscribed inbox is more stable than an algorithmic feed, both for practitioners following the field and for DevRel teams building an audience they can reach again.
DevRel-focused newsletters
DevRel Weekly
Mary Thengvall’s weekly curated newsletter. The longest-running DevRel-specific curation on the web.
DeveloperRelations.com 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.
RedMonk Blog (essentially a newsletter)
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 that regularly covers emerging products.
TLDR Newsletter (and its specialised editions)
Daily tech digest with substantial developer-news coverage.
Bytes
JavaScript-focused newsletter associated with ui.dev and now Fireship.
rendezvous with cassidoo
Cassidy Williams’s weekly newsletter for web developers.
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.
CoRecursive Newsletter
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. Covers AI-engineering tools, practices, and companies; companion to the podcast.
Import AI
Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder). Weekly AI digest.
The Batch
Andrew Ng / DeepLearning.AI. Mass-audience AI weekly.
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.
Go Newsletter (Cooperpress)
Database Weekly, Postgres Weekly
Statuscode Weekly (Cooperpress): general developer
Hacker Newsletter
Curated weekly digest of best Hacker News submissions.
Trends.dev (and similar trend-curation newsletters)
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.
Kubernetes Newsletter / Cloud Native Weekly
Various.
Security
Last Week in Security
tl;dr sec
Clint Gibler. Application security and DevSecOps.
Risky Business newsletter
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 Newsletter tools.
- Operate your own. Some developer-product DevRel teams publish a customer newsletter and a separate internal digest.
How to choose what to sponsor
Compare newsletter sponsorships using:
- 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.
- Repeated exposure. Compare a run of consecutive placements with one-off placements rather than assuming the same response.
Approximate rate ranges for developer-focused newsletter sponsorship (2024 to 2026):
| Audience size | Per-send rate (USD) |
|---|---|
| 5K to 20K | $200 to $800 |
| 20K to 50K | $500 to $3K |
| 50K to 150K | $2K to $10K |
| 150K+ | $5K to $25K+ |
The rate-to-audience ratio is usually better at the smaller end if the audience match is precise.