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12 websites every developer should follow 🌱

David Allen on September 06, 2020

1. StackExchange https://stackexchange.com/ Everyone knows of StackOverflow.com and AskUbuntu which are part of StackExchange network...
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Michael Burrows

I read Hacker News daily but via hckrnews.com as this allows me to filter the most upvoted articles for each day cutting out some of the clutter.

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Stefan Breitenstein

Nice tip!
I prefer RSS so i wrote a rss endpoint which returns all posts which reach 500 points in a week.

us-central1-social-channel-notifie...

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David Allen

Cool stuff. The URL doesn't return anything useful though. Is that intentional?

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Stefan Breitenstein

Ups I post the wrong link, here is the correct one:
us-central1-social-channel-notifie...

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Piotr Lewandowski

Nice stuff, any chance to share the code?

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Stefan Breitenstein

Sure:
github.com/ste-xx/social_channel_n...

The stuff runs with firebase and appengine.

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Piotr Lewandowski

Thanks! Great staff!

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David Allen

I use hckrnews.com now and then to see which all stories got flagged. You can also use the official HN search powered by Algolia for seeing the top stories of last 24 hours.

hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&...

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Adisa Nicholson

I use Gitlab instead of Github

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David Allen

GitLab is awesome as well. But there are more developers and open source projects using GitHub than GitLab. So GitHub is what I would recommend if one is getting started to open source.

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Your DevOps Guy

You want to know about the interview experiences of people who have attended software engineering interviews.

This is a very important point. The more you know, the better you can prepare since you know what to expect.

Reading about other people's experiences has always helped me for any interview I have had. Glassdoor, also mentioned in the article, is another great place to get this info.

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David Allen • Edited

Oh Yes. Glassdoor is also a terrific resource for figuring out the interview process of the company. Thanks for pointing that out :)

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Maura Monaghan

Thanks for this list, David - awesome resources! I'm curious to know if anyone has taken a paid tutorial on Udemy, and did you think it was worth it?

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David Allen

I have taken a bunch of courses of Stephen Grider. He is by far the best teacher I had. I would recommend anything by Stephen Grider.

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michelledev

I have Maura and think it is worth it, but look for the sales. Some courses are $8.99 well worth it, and the tutorials are byte size and not overwhelming. I recommend it.

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Jon G

Great list!

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David Allen

Thank you!

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Arturs Smirnovs

Nice post ;) Thanks for it!

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David Allen

Thanks!

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webbureaucrat

Good tip on diff.blog. I wasn't aware of this, but it looks neat.

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David Allen

Yup. diff.blog is awesome!

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Drazen Zaric • Edited

Hey David, that's a great list. I'm a fan of pretty much everything you listed.

Since you mentioned engineering blogs, I thought you might find useful this tool I recently made - blogboard.io

It helps you search, browse articles by similarity and follow topics. All posts are sourced from official engineering blogs of tech companies.

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Lee Warner

Great article David, some new ones on the list for me to check out!

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David Allen

Thanks!

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Lex

Cool but I think that lack Coursera , very cool website to learn, 😁👍

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David Allen

Coursera is awesome as well. I would recommend Stanford's Introduction to Algorithms if someone is looking to try a Coursera course. When I took it it used to be free. Not sure what is the status now.

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Laszlo Toth • Edited

I think the "Introduction to Algorithms" is a paid version.

There is a free version if somebody wants to learn algorithms and it seems good. Title: Algorithms Part I and Part II. at Princeton University.

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Surya

Appreciate your work on collating things at 1 place.
Invested an hour to complete reading whole page with links, very informative and good learning for developers

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David Allen

Hope you found the links helpful :)

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TitanSatya

Very informative article, David. Thanks for putting things at one place.

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David Allen

Thanks!

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Juan Cruz Martinez

I'm sad my site is not listed there lol, it's clearly one of the best blogs for developers. Maybe next time

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Karen Efereyan

I love devdocs so much. Thanks for this David

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Basem

thanks for amazing collection!

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David Allen

Thank you!

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Thomas Noe • Edited

lobste.rs if you want a more... technically focused hacker news

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David Allen

Yes. Lobeste.rs is a pretty awesome HN alternative. Though I think getting an account registered is a bit of a hassle.

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Thomas Semmler

Are you serious? I am assuming this is sarcasm.

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MOHIT BHAT

Very usefull, Thanks for sharing!!

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David Allen

Thank you!

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Dat Tran

Very useful informations. Thanks!

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David Allen

Thank you!

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ADDD

I'd add also all the super-duper subreddits for devs!

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David Allen

Oh Yes. I was a bit conflicted on whether to include the subreddits mainly because Reddit is insanely addictive and I don't want to send anyone down that path :) Though if one has the willpower to Stick to the ones like /r/programming it is worth try.

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David Allen

I think you missed the last paragraph :)

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Anoop Gupta

Thanks!!!

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Aswin Barath

50% of the resources were new to me.
Thanks for sharing 😇

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David Allen

Thanks!

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Ahmed Rebai

What about dev.to hahaha and medium.com? Dzone.com? gitter? StackOverflow
there a lot of links that can be helpful for developers

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Andrew Baisden

Good list going to check out a few I have not visited yet.

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Adrian Matei

Would like to suggest Codever for dev bookmarks and code snippets management.

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David Allen

Yes. IndieHackers is awesome. Glad that you found it helpful :)