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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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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, ins…
Read the Mythical Man Month. If you have ever managed a software project, it will ring true and right like really good mythology. Write down pithy parts to steal for future slides in presentations to management.
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> Study the Intel manuals. Which Intel manuals in particular? How much relevance remains in Intel's content given the popularity of ARM nowadays?
Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... Before the internet, Intel used to distribute these manuals in hard-copy for free. One just had to drop by your local Intel sales office to pick up a copy. A good solid foot of shelf-space. These manuals used to be so much easier to read back in the 486/Pentium era. One could almost build a com…
I miss the days of printed manuals, or even manuals at all. I killed a big software purchase years ago because they did not even have a PDF manual. The jerks told us to use their forums. No way I would spend money with such arrogant pr_cks. Needless to say, I find myself spending real coin on manuals on ebay. They are worth it.
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I've been reading all my news on Saturday, I didn't know what happened with SamA at OpenAI for an entire week while it was all anyone would talk about. I just waited until my Saturday slot and now I know probably as much as anyone. I feel this designated intervals approach is working well for me. You slow down and don't clutter your mind, but at the same time you don't miss anything and probably absorb greater amount…
What's your news source for these Saturdays?
That hasn't changed from before, just regular ones everyone uses.
FT, WSJ, NYT, one Indian paper from back home. I don't read all of course, just pick the ones I want to read from RSS reader and any interesting things I come across on HN and some subreddits, also via RSS.
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#95I apologize for this blatant self promotion but if you want to hear about science and tech news with a strong dose of humor, check out. https://technoscreed.substack.com
You might learn something. If you don't laugh, you might be too serious. See a professional.
Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?
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#97Slightly 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've been reading all my news on Saturday, I didn't know what happened with SamA at OpenAI for an entire week while it was all anyone would talk about. I just waited until my Saturday slot and now I know probably as much as anyone. I feel this designated intervals approach is working well for me. You slow down and don't clutter your mind, but at the same time you don't miss anything and probably absorb greater amount…
I wish someone would make a good weekly digest World News newsletter.
Every year I look for one, and every year I come up empty handed. Every newsletter is daily at a minimum.
Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?
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I've been reading all my news on Saturday, I didn't know what happened with SamA at OpenAI for an entire week while it was all anyone would talk about. I just waited until my Saturday slot and now I know probably as much as anyone. I feel this designated intervals approach is working well for me. You slow down and don't clutter your mind, but at the same time you don't miss anything and probably absorb greater amount…
I wish someone would make a good weekly digest World News newsletter. Every year I look for one, and every year I come up empty handed. Every newsletter is daily at a minimum.
The Wikipedia portal is daily but easy enough to scroll through occasionally.
Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?
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I've been reading all my news on Saturday, I didn't know what happened with SamA at OpenAI for an entire week while it was all anyone would talk about. I just waited until my Saturday slot and now I know probably as much as anyone. I feel this designated intervals approach is working well for me. You slow down and don't clutter your mind, but at the same time you don't miss anything and probably absorb greater amount…
I wish someone would make a good weekly digest World News newsletter. Every year I look for one, and every year I come up empty handed. Every newsletter is daily at a minimum.
Economist has a decent round-up for the week. https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief
They usually don't cover tech that much, but it's reasonably good politics and business.
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I wish someone would make a good weekly digest World News newsletter. Every year I look for one, and every year I come up empty handed. Every newsletter is daily at a minimum.
The Wikipedia portal is daily but easy enough to scroll through occasionally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
I have a simple script I run to turn this into a daily newsletter: https://github.com/kimberli/wikinews
Happy to also add you to the recipient list!