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Bruno Anken

Software/Computer Engineer

Dec 27, 2017

How do you keep up to date with the technology world?

How and where do you get new information? Which webistes, blogs or YouTube channels do you access and recommend? Any podcasts, videocasts? Facebook pages, Twitter profiles? Maybe even email newsletters? Magazines?

From web technologies to the AI world, how do you know the trends and which technologies are rising and falling? What is being created and what is being researched? Who are the ones to pay attention to because of what they're doing?

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Gergely Polonkai

You have to believe in things that are not true. How else would they become?

Dec 28, 2017

I read a lot of newsletters like cron.weekly, the newsletter of opensource.com, and DZone.

As a result (and because I use Chrome, where I’m always logged in), my Google Now stream is also filled with similar articles (I believe that’s how I found cron.weekly).

Todd

Software Security TechLead

Dec 28, 2017

Out of all the problems in today's world, with today's youth, and with this generation...

Not having enough sources for news aint one of them. ;)

J03

Just another bit in the byte

Dec 28, 2017

Indeed, but with an increase in sources comes an increase in noise as well, and filtering out the noise is the new form of internet and information exploration.

J03

Just another bit in the byte

Dec 27, 2017

xkcd
Hacker News
3blue1brown
Siraj Raval
Coding Tech
Email digest of various channels on Medium.com
Random Googling
Other stuff I can't think of at the moment

Juho Vepsäläinen

SurviveJS

Dec 27, 2017

I interview people for my blog. Simply getting multiple views on the same topic is valuable. I think I'll hit hundred interviews next year if I have patience to keep going. :)

I follow Twitter and my friends actively. To be honest, there's too much going on and I am sure I am missing exciting technologies all the time even in my niche.

Sebastian

Dec 27, 2017

I have a big RSS feed but honestly I think I miss the most news there because it’s too much. Besides that I found the best sources for what is trendy are Twitter (following influencers and the creators/developer itself) and the conferences around a specific technology or framework.

It’s more important not to jump on every tech that gets hyped. Only time will tell if it came to stay. In the meantime look at what a tech can do for you and if the benefits/tradeoffs are not worth it to dive in to then don’t.

And learn at your own pace because the (internet-)world is spinning fast enough though.

I was thinking about this last night a bit while looking back at some podcasts I follow which had mentioned Bitcoin when I was following them back in 2011, namely Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte. It made me wonder why I hadn't gotten into Bitcoin until just this year, and the answer was roughly along the lines of (1) "It wasn't as exciting to me then as now", and (2) I was put off from looking into it until it was too late, maybe due to the fear of difficulty of the task?

So given that I figure, what technologies will end up being like Bitcoin in the future, which I should be looking at now, will likely be those which are off-putting to me on a procrastination level, and which seem slow going to a certain extent.

Two technologies stand out to me most: (1) Machine Learning / AI, which while it's made great strides these past couple of years, still has much potential, and (2) Quantum Computing, which seems off-putting and intimidating now, but which will likely be important to know stuff like Shore's Algorithm, how to read and manipulate Bra-ket notation, brushing up on differential equations and probability theory, etc. Not to mention finding people to talk to and meetup with on these topics.

The only other area that I can think of which is even more off-putting is genetic programming, and not simply the CS topic, but like programming actual genes using CRISPR and related technologies.

Mev-Rael

Executive Product Leader & Mentor for High-End Influencers and Brands @ mevrael.com

Dec 27, 2017

In general thenextweb.com, techcrunch.com and producthunt.com altogether with many other news portals.

As a professional in specific field, you should know your tools and key persons in that field and follow them. For example, if it's Machine learning, you are following Andrew Ng and Jeff Dean, right? Anyway, you should follow key CEOs, CTOs around the world. Finally, you should have own network and follow your friends and other people. Everyone and everything is on Facebook/Twitter/Quora/Medium. Visit those platforms at least few times per week.

Set up your Facebook news feed, it is #1 world's information aggregator.

Join professional and regional groups on Facebook as well. Eventually, you will start following everything in one place. Just make sure you are not infinitely scrolling down and clicking on every cat gif.

I second the Facebook news feed thing, but caution against it's addictive nature. Maybe it's just me (I have severe ADHD), but after adding in sites like those you mentioned, my news feed has gotten a bit more addictive to scroll through; kind of like a futile search for more and more information.

What's frustrating is that they're algorithm is designed in such a way that even if you select "Show this page first" for a particular page, they only show it to you if it's new, rather than pinning it there.

This is part of what has me wanting to design my own personal dashboard, which will pull into information from various social networking sites using their OAuth APIs. First thing I'd get rid of is the linear infinite scroll. I've come to absolutely hate that design. I'd use a more folder-oriented, or haphazard-desk-oriented (dragable items with rotational physics / friction) dashboard style.

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