I inherited some old Rails code and am updating sites recently. It turns out whoever wrote the code I'm working on was using blog-driven development. Getting a kick out of finding many old blog posts where the code originated from. Google->Ctrl+C->Ctrl-V->Repeat
Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack
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Re: Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack
#22These days, my experience to use Google search for finding good sources for some high level technical question is very bad in general that can be summarised as going through piles of corporate blog posts with shallow content promoting their products.
I would be happy to use human curated collections of links by topics.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
thanks for your feedback (OP here). yeah it's tough, i try to give anyone a chance to rank who has more than just a few posts. what I didn't expect about that site is that it gets shared A LOT on twitter. still trying to refine the algorithm :) thanks a ton for checking it out and sharing your feedback!
Perhaps there could be a ranking that takes posting frequency into account, and lets people decide whether they want to see higher- or lower-volume blogs. Perhaps not a straight ascending or descending by frequency. For me, the sweet spot seems to be no more than once a month. More if it's one that does something like a weekly post aggregating interesting articles from other blogs.
That's a cool idea! Adding an "advanced search" is something I've been thinking about.
Gives people more control over their personal "algorithm" and what they value most when reading personal blogs.
Hadn't thought about frequency but that could definitely be something you could automate based on RSS. Thanks for the idea!
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#24This is great! If you're looking for other similar sites, I'd also suggest taking a look at https://engineeringblogs.xyz/ too.
While the BFD trends site is focused on personal developer blogs & trending posts, that one includes high-quality engineering team blogs too, like Cloudflare and Google Research. It's a bit simpler, and focuses simply on the latest posts rather than trending content, but it's worth a look.
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#25These days, my experience to use Google search for finding good sources for some high level technical question is very bad in general that can be summarised as going through piles of corporate blog posts with shallow content promoting their products. I would be happy to use human curated collections of links by topics.
OP here, I know what you mean.
I found it similarly irritating while sourcing the data that all the top 10 google results recycled the same, outdated recommendations.
Do you mean you'd like a central place to discover individual's curated list of blogs they read? Like blogrolls?
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#26I like the concept but the curation would have to be done ruthlessly by experts, otherwise you'll get the same SEO optimized garbage we find on google. To see Machine Learning Mastery at the top doesn't inspire confidence in your curation process. It's a blog that's emblematic to me of low quality content pumped out for SEO purposes.
Exactly. And SEO optimized garbage is already what we get currently.
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#27Let's appreciate that this project try to give visibility to personal self-hosted blogs (not mediums, linkedins, substacks, dev.tos) and is using (I guess) good old RSS tech to get the articles.
Cheers! * opens google.com/reader and plays the 2005 Gorillaz hit song Feel Good Inc before going to the cinema to see V for Vendetta *
Re: Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack
#28Let's appreciate that this project try to give visibility to personal self-hosted blogs (not mediums, linkedins, substacks, dev.tos) and is using (I guess) good old RSS tech to get the articles. Cheers! * opens google.com/reader and plays the 2005 Gorillaz hit song Feel Good Inc before going to the cinema to see V for Vendetta *
Haha thanks! (OP here) I'm using a combination of the Twitter API, RSS, and Puppeteer to put the data together. RSS is nice but not always complete, and some blogs don't have it :)
Glad you enjoy it, and yes, the goal is to make it easier to find blogs from individuals. I don't reject sites hosted on 3rd party platforms, but I do encourage people to post their own domain name when possible.
Cheers!
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#29This affiliate spam in the programming community is getting ridiculous.
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#30This affiliate spam in the programming community is getting ridiculous.
hey! OP here. are you talking about my site? I don't have a single affiliate link on my website.
not sure about the sites linked, but i reject sites that are low quality and filled with aggressive ads!