Staying in the Know
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I was recently asked what are some of my favourite tech sources to stay in the know, so here comes the rolodex:
Still the fastest signal for what’s actually happening. Follow the right people, mute the noise. The algo is garbage but the network effects are unmatched.
Devo
Browser extension that turns your new tab into a dev news feed. Low effort, high surface area. Good for catching things you didn’t know you should care about.
Tech Radar by ThoughtWorks
Quarterly. Opinionated. Useful for understanding where the industry thinks it’s heading vs. where it actually is. I don’t agree with all their takes, but that’s the point.
Newsletters
- TLDR. Daily, skimmable, no fluff.
- The Overflow. Stack Overflow’s weekly. Good pulse on what devs are actually asking about.
- Level Up. Pat Kua’s newsletter for tech leads. Short, practical, no fluff.
- The Pragmatic Engineer. Gergely Orosz writes the real stuff about big tech eng culture.
- Architecture Notes. Deep dives that don’t waste your time.
- ByteByteGo. System design porn, great visuals.
YouTube
- Fireship. 100 seconds of dopamine. Perfect for mass-produced context on things you’ll never actually use.
- This is My Architecture. AWS customers explaining their real architectures. Less polished, more honest.