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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 wyclif »

firecall wrote: post #41
dfgert wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Read Books, is the answer I think. The entire online news chain is polluted it seems to me. If you have access to a decent Library, I believe the benefits to the individual by using it are: 1) economic, save you money 2) social, you interact with people 3) physical, you are moving around 4) mental health, you are using a different part of your brain and being proactive by planning to engage in new knowledge Then hope…

I have a gigantic Dropbox folder with hundreds of PDF tech books that I am slowly working through. The focus is on the canonical and classic over the hippest or latest new thing. There have been a number of books that I read when they were fairly new that are classics now, like some of the Wiley titles on networking. It's one of the best things you can do for your career. Whenever you have some extended downtime, instead of hopping on social media and doomscrolling, open up this folder and keep working through books you need to read and understand.

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

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Post by andrewjanke »

dfgert wrote: post #38
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?

My approach is mostly to curate your news/social/stream feed to individual people that post the sort of things you like, and to slower-moving publications. Limit your follows on social media. Prefer blogs and RSS over Twitter-style social. And/or read journals/magazines/books and reviews of them instead.

E.g. the old "The Morning Paper" blog by Adrian Colyer (https://blog.acolyer.org/) seems maybe up your alley? It's over now; dunno if what the new online versions of that are. For substantive programming stuff, these days I mostly read magazines and books, like CODE, Logic, and 2600. (IEEE Computer Society and ACMD have journals, but they're prety theoretical and academic; guessing that's not what you want here. I haven't found them very useful in my own programming work.) Sad to say, the current scene for this doesn't seem great. Old school Dr. Dobb's sounds like maybe what you want, but AFAICT there isn't really much like that any more? LWN and OSNews seem like modern online versions of stuff in that area, for system programmers at least. MIT Technology Review is also decent, but less about programming per se.

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

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Post by wyclif »

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.

When you say "the Intel manuals", what books are you specifically referring to?

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

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Post by andrewjanke »

pclmulqdq wrote: post #40
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.

Dan Luu is great. If he's up your alley, you may also like Steve Sinofsky ("Hardcore Software"), Raymond Chen ("The Old New Thing"), and if you're in to the business & finance side of things, Patrick McKenzie aka patio11 ("Bits About Money").

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

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Post by eterps »

jcrubino wrote: post #28

Paged Out! Institute https://pagedout.institute/ # What is Paged Out!? Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics. It's made by the community for the community. And it's not-for-profit (though in time, we hope it will be…

Nice! I think it deserves a post on its own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830777

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

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Post by alanfranz »

dfgert wrote: post #38
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?

I’m not affiliated with them, but I think O’Reilly Learning is quite good. A lot of resources on various topics without a marketing push.

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Post by samwho »

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…

Same, but writing. I’m very deliberately avoiding things that might not be relevant 10 years from now. This means rarely writing about specific technologies / languages / implementations, and instead focusing on concepts.

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

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Post by frankdenbow »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #29
frankdenbow wrote: post #12

I've been putting out videos from (mostly) bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are outside of the normal tech news cycle in a youtube channel called INFLECTION Community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsO80DSMypJSSDcgdDywgdQ

This is interesting. Subscribed to the Youtube Channel and also to the Newsletter. Best of luck.

Awesome! Appreciate that. The Teespring story is a good episode of the new podcast coming out in February: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTPTBDQGPSQ
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