Media content for developers. Recently, to be up to date with the…
By: Ana Antunes
Tags: Podcasts And Videos, Developer Tools, Sofware Development

Recently, to be up to date with the tech industry in terms of tools and development trends, or just to be involved in discussions related to the industry, I started to sign up to some newsletters, follow some podcasts and some developers on Twitter.

I find hard to find this kind of information, like recommendations, so here it goes my own.

Newsletters

Most of the ones I follow are related to frontend development, but here you will find others that are related to the whole development stack. I think following this newsletters it’s for me the easiest way to know about articles and I don’t need to spend time researching the latest news.

Maybe this are too much, but choose a one or two of your interest and give it a try.

Frontend Focus, once a week with articles and news related to the frontend stack https://frontendfoc.us/ CSSWeekly, as the name implies, as well once a week, with the same theme as the one above https://css-weekly.com/ Josh Corneau, a dev with a blog that has it’s own newsletter and you can follow his articles about what he does as well as other info related to the frontend development. https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ The Overflow, the Stackoverflow newsletter with articles and jobs related to the software field as a whole. https://stackoverflow.blog/newsletter/ Arch-Engineer, also from a developer which has the goal to help other developers to improve their skills and other tips related to software design. http://jameskoppelcoaching.com/ Kevin Peters, another developer with content related to coaching and software in general. https://www.kevinpeters.net/

Podcasts

I really like to hear podcasts, and I think it gives you a lot of food for thought hearing other developers or people in the software industry discussing topics related to it. So here are a few.

Front End Happy Hour, don’t be fooled because most of the time the discussions are not related to frontend development, they have a few episodes about estimation, switching jobs and developers seniority levels. It’s actually my favorite podcast. Soft Skills Engineering , a weekly podcast between two engineers, they usually answer some questions and discuss them. Level-up Engineering, a podcast that interviews other developers, ceo, etc. React Podcast, for react and javascript fans out there.

Twitter

If you are using your social media to be up to date to tech, as I do with twitter, here are some people that I like to follow because they usually share nice tips or resources that I find useful, they are mostly frontend devs.

Stephanie Eckles @5t3ph Álvaro Trigo @IMAC2 Pratham @Prathkum Marc Backes @themarcba

I also follow the creators of the newsletters I mentioned as well as the accounts of some platforms like egghead.io, they usually announce QAs and have discussions happening related to the sw industry, and I follow as well some accounts of some tools like Tailwind to be up to date with new releases, etc.

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So here is my current list of resources, hope you find it useful and of course I’m always open to new suggestions, specially if they are related to team productivity and coaching developers.