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5 tools to keep up with tech

Alberto Yanes on October 27, 2020

In programming’s world, we could say it is essential and very important to keep up with the new information of our sector, in this way you manage t...

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Harish Kandala • Oct 28 '20 • Edited

Thanks for the informative article!

I have used daily.dev for quite some time, it is an amazing site to keep updated with tech. But personally I feel it has few drawbacks:

daily.dev uses its own upvote/downvote and comment system, instead of the source.
Trending and popular posts in daily.dev doesn't quite match with the source.
Can't see popular posts in the last week or last month etc.
Can't use on mobile or tablet as it is only available as browser extension (I suppose it is going to change as they are introducing web app too)

As I didn't find a good alternative to daily.dev without the above drawbacks, I started building my own news aggregator app: keepup.hkandala.dev/
It is in very early stage with only Hacker News, Reddit and Dev.to integration. Planning to add more site integrations and more features.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

P.S: daily.dev is a perfect app if those drawbacks aren't a big deal for you. Built keepup only to satisfy my requirements, will be very happy if it help others too!

Alberto Yanes • Oct 28 '20

Hey! Thanks for the comments! I agree 100%, an application mobile would be 100% great, and i'm happy to hear about your project, definitely i'll take a look on that.

Regards!

Ido Shamun • Oct 28 '20

Woohoo! Thanks for mentioning daily.dev as your 1st place 🙌

Alberto Yanes • Oct 28 '20

It's awesome!!

Joachim Zeelmaekers • Nov 2 '20

Nice article!
I would suggest using Feedly (feedly.com/i/welcome) to have 1 information app that combines some of them. It allows you to filter on topics that interest you the most and it integrates with most of the existing platforms!

Alberto Yanes • Nov 2 '20

Woah! One more tool to my collection, thanks for sharing it!

Hamza Azman • Nov 3 '20

Very nice content. Thank you :)

Vahid Mohammadi • Oct 31 '20

I use Twitter (Tweetdeck actually). There's a lot of useful Twitter pages

Łukasz • Oct 31 '20 • Edited

Thanks for this list. I'll probably give Daily DEV a try.

David Kyle Choe • Nov 3 '20

Great article Alberto.

I've also found (as a non-technical founder) following specific individuals like yourself on Twitter or on Substack to be invaluable for my own learning and growth.