My thoughts on how I keep up with things happening in the technology world. This is mostly tilted towards .NET, Azure, MSFT since that is my day to day
Ranked List
In roughly the order I’d recommend to others (see details below):
- Daily - Dew Drop and The Morning Brew
- Daily (though only 1-3 good articles a day) - /r/programming
- Weekly dotnetrocks
- Semi-Weekly - Watching youtube videos of conferences and updates
Details by Category
Reading
- Dew Drop (Alvin Ashcraft) - An aggregator
- The Morning Brew (Chris Alcock) - An aggregator
- /r/programming - a subreddit for generic programming
- /m/programming - a personal multi-sub of technology related subs. Not all of them are bangers.
Listen/Watch
- .NET Rocks! - a fantastic podcast where they interview all these big names in dotnet, and the creators of these libraries.
This is where i got started and learned a ton
- Jimmy Bogard - .NET Rocks! Mediatr with Jimmy Bogard (also Vertical Slice)
- Jeremy Miller - .NET Rocks! Minimal Architecture with Jeremy Miller
- Mads Torgersen - .NET Rocks! The Next C# with Mads Torgersen
- Steven Smith - .NET Rocks! Clean Architecture in 2023 with Steven Smith
- Conferences
- Top Talks of 2023 - self explanatory
- NDC - they have 3-6 conferences a year, focused on software dev in the .NET world
- dotnet - the MSFT channel for dotnet news
- GOTO - less .NET, more high level concepts and ideas. Big names show up here - Martin Fowler, Dave Thomas, Alan Kay
- Strange Loop - these videos are off the beaten path, but really make you think about software. “Birdsong as code”, “Uptime of Voyager”, “Database inside out”, “Economics of programming languages”
Code
- quozd/awesome-dotnet - github repo with .NET libraries, tools, frameworks, and software
- mjebrahimi/Awesome-Nuget-Packages - great NuGet packages