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Re: Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack

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Post by mumblemumble »

pc86 wrote: post #37
mumblemumble wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why would you penalize a blog with 3 authors who publish 3x the articles of a personal blog? Why would you penalize higher volume at all? Trying to ascribe anything close to quality based on volume is like trying to grade developer productivity and/or skill by LOC.

I'm not asking for some strict formula, more some ability for people to describe what kinds of blogs they're after in more detail in a way that's flexible, but not overly fiddly to use.

I'd possibly put a shared blog under a similar category as the ones with weekly roundups. Which is exactly why I threw out that example - I don't want hard-and-fast Google-style rules, because I would expect that to work out about as well as hard-and-fast Google-style rules ever does.

Re: Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack

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Post by kevas »

pc86 wrote: post #39
ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #7

I 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.

I've purchased whatever Jason calls the big bundle from ML Mastery and the books are pretty much the same. I get the impression the primary goal was "produce a lot of pages," while "impart information" was secondary. That being said, it looks like points are awarded two ways: * Counts the least: Retweets and likes of a tweet containing a link to an article on the blog * Counts the most: Replies and mentions of an art…

Statistics on the complexity of replies?

Re: Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack

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Post by sixhobbits »

pc86 wrote: post #39
ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #7

I 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.

I've purchased whatever Jason calls the big bundle from ML Mastery and the books are pretty much the same. I get the impression the primary goal was "produce a lot of pages," while "impart information" was secondary. That being said, it looks like points are awarded two ways: * Counts the least: Retweets and likes of a tweet containing a link to an article on the blog * Counts the most: Replies and mentions of an art…

Machine Learning Mastery has working code samples. That already puts it in the top 1% from my perspective and I definitely relied heavily on Jason's blog posts while doing my NLP masters.

He definitely has a far more commercial focus than many other bloggers but this seems a bit too critical to me.

Re: Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack

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Post by pc86 »

sixhobbits wrote: post #44
pc86 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've purchased whatever Jason calls the big bundle from ML Mastery and the books are pretty much the same. I get the impression the primary goal was "produce a lot of pages," while "impart information" was secondary. That being said, it looks like points are awarded two ways: * Counts the least: Retweets and likes of a tweet containing a link to an article on the blog * Counts the most: Replies and mentions of an art…

Machine Learning Mastery has working code samples. That already puts it in the top 1% from my perspective and I definitely relied heavily on Jason's blog posts while doing my NLP masters. He definitely has a far more commercial focus than many other bloggers but this seems a bit too critical to me.

I mean I spent hundreds of my own money on the bundle so it's not like I think he's a hack or fraud or anything of the sort. But there's a decent amount of duplicated content.

Re: Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack

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Post by mycall »

mlent wrote: post #9
ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #7

I 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.

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!

Is there plans for I18N for the content buckets?
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