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Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by kjellsbells »

owlninja wrote: post #7

I would love any recommendations for physical magazines. I know they are mostly ads and yada yada, but I like to sit down with an actual magazine for some reason.

I strongly recommend Foreign Affairs magazine (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/). It's full of essays from the serious policy and academic establishment. You might disagree with them heartily, but they are well reasoned and don't hew to any particular political viewpoint (or rather, the magazine has contributions from all sides). About $60 USD per year for six issues plus an app, downloadable articles and audio, and website.

Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by golly_ned »

aurelius wrote: post #14

None of them. Study Knuth. Study the Intel manuals. Study “The Art of Multiprocessor Programming”. Study compilers. Study TCP/IP. Study algorithms and data structures. Write lots of code for all of those things. Disregard the noise. Ban yourself from reading blogs and magazines and tech news. Focus on what is fundamental to the field. Look where nobody else is looking.

Have you done these things?

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Post by ecliptik »

bttf wrote: post #27
jesse__ wrote: post #25

I've found a small number of indie game devlogs to be inspiring in seeing the amount of shit 1 guy can get done

That sounds awesome. On TIGSource by chance? Care to share any?

The Playdate Dev Forums have some good dev logs [1]. I've been going through the one for Resonant Tale [2] and it's fantastic.

1. https://devforum.play.date/tag/devlog

2. https://devforum.play.date/t/orkns-pulp-prototypes/4146

Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by nomilk »

Slightly contrarian perspective: I'm trying to read less temporal (things that matter now) and more fundamental (stuff that mattered 1+ year ago and will still matter in 1+ year, with even wider intervals for non-tech content).

This does result in missing ~important things occasionally (e.g. I still don't know what happened with SamA at OpenAI, and yes, I am curious), but that's a small price to pay for greater intellectual sanctity and an increased attention budget to distribute across important tasks or funnel into something hyper focussed.

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Post by adrianN »

haolez wrote: post #15
aurelius wrote: post #14

None of them. Study Knuth. Study the Intel manuals. Study “The Art of Multiprocessor Programming”. Study compilers. Study TCP/IP. Study algorithms and data structures. Write lots of code for all of those things. Disregard the noise. Ban yourself from reading blogs and magazines and tech news. Focus on what is fundamental to the field. Look where nobody else is looking.

I don't know about this. It seems that there is more demand for high level work than low level. But I hope you are right!

Low level pays pretty well.

Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by cushpush »

NextApex -- my eclectic digest (nextapex.co) with a newsletter at nextapex.beehiiv.com -- basically covering science, tech, ai breakthrus in a 3-min rundown. Made a dynamic link sharing site that operates like HN to go along with it and make collation easier.

Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by dfgert »

nomilk wrote: post #35

Slightly contrarian perspective: I'm trying to read less temporal (things that matter now ) and more fundamental (stuff that mattered 1+ year ago and will still matter in 1+ year, with even wider intervals for non-tech content). This does result in missing ~important things occasionally (e.g. I still don't know what happened with SamA at OpenAI, and yes, I am curious), but that's a small price to pay for greater inte…

I am trying to do this as well, but being surrounded by news/social/stream outlets that just push unnecessary hype its hard to achieve this. Any recommendation on how to filter out the junk?

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Post by pclmulqdq »

nomilk wrote: post #35

Slightly contrarian perspective: I'm trying to read less temporal (things that matter now ) and more fundamental (stuff that mattered 1+ year ago and will still matter in 1+ year, with even wider intervals for non-tech content). This does result in missing ~important things occasionally (e.g. I still don't know what happened with SamA at OpenAI, and yes, I am curious), but that's a small price to pay for greater inte…

I think a lot of good tech bloggers (and I try to be one of them) are also trying to focus on content that is less of-the-moment in nature. See Dan Luu's blog for great examples.
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