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How Do You Stay Updated with the Tech World?
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Hi everyone!
I’m a CS graduate from Germany, and I’m curious about how you all stay on top of the ever-changing tech landscape. What resources, news sites, or methods do you use to keep up with current trends, breakthroughs, and innovations in the tech/IT/computer science industry?
Do you have favorite websites, newsletters, YouTube channels, podcasts, or even communities that you recommend? I’d love to hear how you stay informed and inspired!
Thanks in advance for sharing your tips!
Top Comment: Shameful confession: I mostly scan https://news.ycombinator.com daily and follow up on interesting things that are mentioned there. Before that Tech Twitter was a great place. But thats gone now. Maybe a Bluesky or Mastodon instance will take over at some point, but so far havent seen that. If you are leaning into the Enterprise side of tech stuff then https://www.infoq.com might be a good resource as well. And twice a year I make sure to check out the latest https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar For some time I regularly skimmed https://devurls.com - but its just too much. Also some sites there are outdated by now.
Reddit - The heart of the internet
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future of Tech.
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Hi Folks,
The title is a little bit bold but nevertheless it is what is concerning me and many others for a while. I love this community, this is where I started using Reddit so it's the place imo I should discuss this.
I'm founder engineer and janitor of prepare sh, you probably seen it being discussed here, but today I want to talk about something else. Never in my life I thought I'd be thinking "shall I quit tech?", "is it a viable career?", "is there a future in Tech?"
I see daily posts of desperation from young folks, applying for 300-400 jobs in a short matter of time to be ghosted, rejected, disrespected by companies sending AI interviewers showing how invaluable engineers are that they don't even assign a real person to conduct an interview.
I believe STEM path requires certain aptitude and resilience, and those people could have easily become something else like Doctors, Mechanics, etc. and wouldn't witness (not to this degree) never ending vicious cycle of upskilling, ageism, and layoffs.
I'm not saying doctors, and other professions have it easy, but there are many specialties such as dentistry etc that pay very well, are extremely stable and simply can never be outsourced. You go through some shit to get there but once you're there by say 35 or so, you're pretty much set for life. And with more experience you only become more valuable, unlike tech where you're on the hamster wheel of constant upskilling just to not fall behind. And even if you manage to stay relevant and up-to-date you'll still get shit from people once you're 40+ as ageism starts to hit you.
We've been lied to continuously by media, government, and big tech about shortage of talent in tech. They had their agenda to destroy tech salaries and boost their revenues and if you ask me they've achieved it successfully. Sure there is a shortage when someone is offering very low salary and requiring years of experience, but I've yet to witness shortage where adequate compensation is offered.
So the question is where do we go from here? Do we continue riding this increasingly unstable roller coaster, constantly fighting to stay relevant in an industry that seems designed to burn us out and replace us? Or do we start seriously considering alternatives that offer more stability and respect for experience? I'm genuinely curious what others in this community think, especially those who've been in tech for 10+ years. Are these concerns overblown, or are we witnessing the slow collapse of what was once considered the most promising career path of our generation?
Top Comment: Honestly I think a lot of this comes down to a mismatch in expectations on both sides. Yeah, a lot of people are struggling to land jobs, but at the same time companies are still complaining they can’t find the talent they need. Both can be true. There was a European study (pretty sure it was McKinsey) that said only 16% of execs feel confident in the tech talent they’ve got to push digital transformation. That’s wild IMO. The U.S. has seen the same thing tons of people in tech, but not enough who can actually operate at the level businesses need. It’s not just about writing clean code or spinning up some Terraform to toss a k8s cluster into the cloud. It’s about architecture, systems thinking, dealing with complexity, making real trade-offs that have long-term impact. I’ve interviewed a lot of people over the years, plenty can script or throw together a pipeline, but as soon as you start talking about actual infrastructure planning, or scaling, or designing for failure, they’re lost. Which is fair enough, but it just shows how shallow a lot of this “experience” actually is. AI and bootcamps help people get started, sure, but they’re not going to give you the depth you get from years of screwing things up and learning the hard way. The issue isn’t that we have too many engineers, it’s that we don’t have enough engineers who can actually handle the hard stuff. Tech got flooded with people chasing high salaries and remote work, and yeah, I get it. But now the industry’s correcting, and it’s filtering for the people who are actually in it for the long haul. People who can solve real problems, not just follow tutorials and hope GPT fills in the gaps. The “learn to code and get rich” dream is dead and it's about time. So is the “I’ll get into DevOps because AI can do it for me” mentality. That’s not how any of this works. The people who’ll survive this wave are the ones who actually like this stuff, who are curious, adaptable, and bring value beyond just writing YAML.
Where do you get your daily doze of interesting tech news?
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Where do you get your daily doze of interesting tech news? Sites and newsletter recommendations please?
Top Comment: Tech: 404 Media Ars Technica blog.rabu.me Builder.io Blog Gizmodo Hacker News MIT Technology Review PCWorld Slashdot TechCrunch Techdirt The Register The Verge Tom's Hardware Wccftech Wired WSJ Tech Perplexity Discover & Discover Daily Then I check reddit: r/technology and tildes: ~tech Linux: Howtoforge Linux Howtos und Tutorials It's FOSS Linux Uprising Blog Phoronix selfh.st Noted Tech Hardware: AnandTech . (Shutdown) GamersNexus Hardware Secrets HotHardware NAS Compares Neowin TechPowerUp How-To's: 1, How-To Geek 2. Daves Computer Tips 3. Makeuseof Youtube Personalities: Chris Titus Tech Techno Tim DB Tech Some other notable youtube creators, Reid Owl, NetworkChuck, Christian Lampa, TechHut, ETAPrime, The Modern Vintage Gamer, The Linux Experiment, Craft Computing. There are a bunch more that I'm missing that are linux related which I will share when I remember their names. Podcasts Self-Hosted Linux-Unplugged The Homelab Show The Linux Cast Bloomberg Tech Discover Daily 2.5 Admin How do I access all of this? I self-host FreshRSS + Five Filters , Wallabag , Linkding . On my phone I use NetNewsWire, Linkdy, Wallabag app.
Any thoughts on why the tech market is so bad right now?
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I haven’t seen it this bad since 2001, this is worse than the pandemic. I’ve worked with front and back end JavaScript for a long time. The past few years, the quality of the codebases I’ve inherited has been abysmal. I worked on a software product from a well known company, with tens of thousands of users, that provided a user experience that could only be described as grueling. I’ve interviewed dozens of developers over the past few years and many did not display basic, fundamental knowledge.
This is to say, I never expected to have trouble finding work for the foreseeable future. IME, there’s no shortage of work that needs to be done. I have been looking for two months and have not had a single interview. A friend, who is a very strong dev, told me that 3 devs he currently works with have been looking for other jobs for 6-9 months and they’ve found nothing, and he says they’re good. He believes that employers know this, and are using it to squeeze more work out of people. Every employed developer I’ve talked to is overworked and stressed out.
What is going on? This is not normal. I have a couple of theories, but when I hear myself explaining them, I sound like a crackpot.
- Employers are frustrated at developers refusing to return to the office and are applying pressure
- With a polarizing presidential election this year, companies are reluctant to make long term plans and commit to budgets when the business environment could be drastically different, come January, depending on the winner
- Employers are creating artificial job scarcity in order to influence the outcome of the election
This is not a political post, please don’t flame me. I’m just perplexed by this job market when overall unemployment is at an all time low and the economy is supposedly strong. I did not have trouble finding work in 2008, when the economy was in the toilet.
Top Comment: I’m no economist, but it seems like the years growing acclimated to cheap money followed by a rapid pandemic boom/bust cycle followed by a sudden spike in interest rates explains it pretty neatly.