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Discussion on: How do you stay up to date with the latest developments in tech?

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Valentin Baca

HackerNews primarily. I check it when compiling and put articles that seem interesting into Pocket for actual reading later. You can use Chrome's Read it later feature, but I like that Pocket syncs across my devices, personal and work.

The primary purpose of Pocket is so that I don't read things immediately. Instead, when I actually do sit down to read on the weekends or evenings, I ruthlessly delete anything that is no longer interesting or relevant by doing fast skims. Like, who's going to care about the Fastly outage in a week? It would be nice if Fastly published a decent post-mortem other than "pushed some bad code" So I can't learn from that => into Trash.

I also have a #someday tag for Pocket for articles or websites that will need a lot more time. At one point that someday tag was getting too much and a good part of quarantine for me was whittling it down.

I like that HackerNews, dev.to, and reddit all provide the ability to filter by "best of day/week/month/year" and I make heavy use of that as a way to filter out noise.

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Josefine Schfr

Thanks so much for sharing your process - more often than not I just push things into the 'read later' folder and never clean it up :D