A small shameless plug: for the past 5 years I’ve been working on a robotics newsletter that I hope some could find interesting: https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/
off topic, how do you find time to follow and read all those newsletters?
I tried to follow couple of them, after a while it felt like everyday I am reading some newsletter. At this moment I completely stopped, because messed up my time management skills after having kids. Need to recover
They all get filtered straight in to a folder. No notification when they arrive.
Then I just go through it every couple weeks either when im waiting around on my phone or when I find myself wasting time on reddit or hn but dont quite have it in my to jump back in to dev work just yet.
Between topics not being interesting to me, overlap in covered topics by each newsletter, and overlap with things I've already seen here; the vast majority of content that hits that folder doesn't ever actually get read. I'm yet to find any source of news, tech newsletter or otherwise, that warrants reading on a daily basis. Closest would be the weather.
I add them to inoreader, whenever I'm on a bus, can't sleep or have 5-10 minutes of free time I open inoreader and read instead of mindless scrolling, some of the articles are out of date by the time I get to them, but all in all it is more satisfying way to kill free time instead of reading comments.
in addition to tech you can also add long form journalism from authors/magazines you trust, usually these things tend to be more analytical and not related to the current thing/hype.
They stay in my inbox, whenever I have time I read one and archive.. I do not read them often.
I have also unsubscribed to a bunch as they have too much for me to casually consume. Pragmatic engineer one is great that it has a single topic and goes deep into it. Level up one is great as it has some great insight in the introduction and then it's more of a pointers to articles that I might click or not.
Honest question; do people actually go back and read the stuff the intended to read later? I have never been successful with that strategy, and have to bookmark folders to prove it.
I've been publishing The Sizzle - a general tech newsletter that comes out daily and has an Aussie take on the last 24 hours of news - for almost 8 years. 1,300 people pay me A$60/yr to read it. There's a 30 day free trial (no credit card needed, unsubscribe any time via a one click link in every email) at https://thesizzle.com.au
Big fan of the sizzle. Its nice to get a real persons quick short take of the tech news, rather than having to read every long winded press release rewritten as news - or worse - drinking from the firehose on twitter.
Yep Ben Evans’ newsletter is great. If one only would want to subscribe to one single weekly newsletter about the tech industry, I’d recommend that one.
The Embedded Muse (by Jack Ganssle), twice(ish) monthly updates on Embedded Electronics parts, tooling, firmware, etc. Almost every topic you’d be into if you were trying to make or join an electronics startup.
I’ve been enjoying the ByteByteGo newsletter. The content is often very abbreviated, but the breadth of topics touched on keeps it interesting. I always learn a little bit about something new.
My last piece was about my struggles to get coding tasks past that last 10% done. And how part of its being distracted by social media and part is that the stakes are low.
I started one newsletter/blog couple of months back. I write blog style posts where I write detailed articles on technical topics for example explaining the AlphaDev results from DeepMind. And I also write a links digest style post every week as well where I share some interesting articles and resources every week.
Off the mind, the newsletters I subscribe to: Console dev, Bytes, Changelog News, Hackernewsletter, Matt Rickard, Ben Evans, Stratechery, Unzip dev, Browsertech, Command Line, This Week at YC. All of this takes 2-3 hours reading weekly which I catchup on a Sunday night with no Read Laters.
(Shameless plug) I recently started my own newsletter to help a non-technical audience understand the big picture trends driving AI and AGI: https://newsletter.envisioning.io
I'm currently subscribed to a few tech newsletters that provide valuable insights and updates. Some of my favorites include TechCrunch, The Verge, and Wired. They cover a wide range of topics and keep me informed about the latest tech trends and news.
Since everything I subscribe to has already been named, I'll ask a question: anyone got any blogs/newsletters/etc. geared toward LISPy topics that they can recommend?
pragmatic engineer and levelup from Pat are the ones I read the most. The first one I'm not paying for, as I don't have the bandwidth to consume more than the free edition as it stands. I probably read one article per month from both of them, I prefer Pat's and maybe is a bit more unknown.
I also subscribe to:
- Hardcore Software[0]
- ByeByteGo[1]
- JavaScript Weekly[2]
- Bytes[3]
[0]: https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/
[1]: https://blog.bytebytego.com/
[2]: https://javascriptweekly.com/
[3]: https://bytes.dev/