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Re: A Curated List of Software Engineering Blogs

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Post by [deleted] »

detaro wrote: post #5
pbnjay wrote: post #4

This is so overwhelming! I wonder how feasible it would be to get Alexa traffic rankings or something similar to prioritize the list? I'm guessing the subdomains might be an issue but there's so much content here I don't know where to start (other than the blogs I already read of course).

Yes, it is a bit much (I hate that people nowadays use the "curated" label for lists that seem like they just collected everything they could find for a category. Which is fine, but not curated ) I don't think Alexa traffic rankings would correlate all that well to quality. Grouping them by specialization instead of company name might be interesting, and possibly could be done using some company data set or with text…

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Re: A Curated List of Software Engineering Blogs

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Post by rawnlq »

detaro wrote: post #5
pbnjay wrote: post #4

This is so overwhelming! I wonder how feasible it would be to get Alexa traffic rankings or something similar to prioritize the list? I'm guessing the subdomains might be an issue but there's so much content here I don't know where to start (other than the blogs I already read of course).

Yes, it is a bit much (I hate that people nowadays use the "curated" label for lists that seem like they just collected everything they could find for a category. Which is fine, but not curated ) I don't think Alexa traffic rankings would correlate all that well to quality. Grouping them by specialization instead of company name might be interesting, and possibly could be done using some company data set or with text…

Score of past submissions on hn/reddit is a good signal.

For example to get sorted submissions by domain on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/domain/blog.codinghorror.com/top/?sor...

Similarly for HN (but not sorted): https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=codinghorror.com

Maybe someone can automate this?

Re: A Curated List of Software Engineering Blogs

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Post by pbnjay »

rawnlq wrote: post #12
detaro wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it is a bit much (I hate that people nowadays use the "curated" label for lists that seem like they just collected everything they could find for a category. Which is fine, but not curated ) I don't think Alexa traffic rankings would correlate all that well to quality. Grouping them by specialization instead of company name might be interesting, and possibly could be done using some company data set or with text…

Score of past submissions on hn/reddit is a good signal. For example to get sorted submissions by domain on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/domain/blog.codinghorror.com/top/?sor... Similarly for HN (but not sorted): https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=codinghorror.com Maybe someone can automate this?

Yes! I was mainly trying to find some proxy for quality that could be easily automated, so these would be a much better start.

Re: A Curated List of Software Engineering Blogs

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Post by kilimchoi »

pbnjay wrote: post #4

This is so overwhelming! I wonder how feasible it would be to get Alexa traffic rankings or something similar to prioritize the list? I'm guessing the subdomains might be an issue but there's so much content here I don't know where to start (other than the blogs I already read of course).

Hi, author of repository here. Would you be interested in a site that organized the posts by Alexa ranking, and possibly how often they're updated?

Re: A Curated List of Software Engineering Blogs

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Post by staticassertion »

kilimchoi wrote: post #14
pbnjay wrote: post #4

This is so overwhelming! I wonder how feasible it would be to get Alexa traffic rankings or something similar to prioritize the list? I'm guessing the subdomains might be an issue but there's so much content here I don't know where to start (other than the blogs I already read of course).

Hi, author of repository here. Would you be interested in a site that organized the posts by Alexa ranking, and possibly how often they're updated?

Take submissions for summaries and require that new content/ pull requests provide one. For the record, I'm enjoying everything I've read so far from the list, so thank you.

Re: A Curated List of Software Engineering Blogs

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Post by dwenzek »

kilimchoi wrote: post #14
pbnjay wrote: post #4

This is so overwhelming! I wonder how feasible it would be to get Alexa traffic rankings or something similar to prioritize the list? I'm guessing the subdomains might be an issue but there's so much content here I don't know where to start (other than the blogs I already read of course).

Hi, author of repository here. Would you be interested in a site that organized the posts by Alexa ranking, and possibly how often they're updated?

The list is really interesting; But it lacks titles or subjects that would help to search the list and choose a blog or another

Re: A Curated List of Software Engineering Blogs

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Post by titomc »

kilimchoi wrote: post #14
pbnjay wrote: post #4

This is so overwhelming! I wonder how feasible it would be to get Alexa traffic rankings or something similar to prioritize the list? I'm guessing the subdomains might be an issue but there's so much content here I don't know where to start (other than the blogs I already read of course).

Hi, author of repository here. Would you be interested in a site that organized the posts by Alexa ranking, and possibly how often they're updated?

If something can be done similar to a Klout score based on frequency of posts, ranking, topic distribution, it would be great.
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