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

Post by wyclif » Mon, Jan 01, 2024, 10:06 PM UTC

FranzFerdiNaN wrote: post #73

wyclif wrote: post #61

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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, ins…

I did the complete opposite: I threw away almost all my books, digital or physical. I now restrict myself to having two books I’m actively reading at a time, one fiction and one non-fiction. If I reach the final 15% of either one I allow myself to buy a new book, not before. This has massively increased the number of finished books. I found having a Dropbox folder with hundreds of books to be both completely useless…

Post by wizzerking » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 2:22 AM UTC

nop_slide wrote: post #26

Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut Very relevant on this AI age

Post by gaws » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 3:16 AM UTC

shicholas wrote: post #32

This guy is awesome - https://www.twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen

Post by 0xEF » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 10:05 AM UTC

andrewjanke wrote: post #60

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…

Big +1 to this. Much of the programming stuff I've read that's made a big difference to me and my skills and career has been the older "classic" and fundamental stuff. Unless it's directly related to the specific tools you're working with on your current project, and even specific issues with those tools, maybe let it age before you spend time on it. "1+ year" actually sounds pretty short to me. Maybe 5 or 10 years t…

Post by tmaly » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 4:12 PM UTC

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…