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Currently I don't pay for any blogs or newsletters. I'd be willing to pay for high quality content as long as it were still made freely available, ideally with
by TheAceOfHearts 9y ago
Currently I don't pay for any blogs or newsletters. I'd be willing to pay for high quality content as long as it were still made freely available, ideally with a permissive license. It is my belief that knowledge should generally be accessible to society.
I support content creators that have used similar strategies in other mediums. Some examples:
1. Exploring ES6 [0]. The book is freely available online which means I can access it anywhere and easily share relevant sections if the need arises, such as when having an online discussion or explaining to a beginner how a specific feature works. I happily bought a copy and regularly recommend it to others.
2. Textual [1]. It's an open source IRC client which charges for the precompiled version. I like having the option to dig into the source and compile it myself if the need arose. Paying for it allows the developer to continue working on bug fixes and improving the tool.
If I were more involved in the topics they covered, I'd happily start paying for LWN.net [2]. They allow linking to articles without paywalls and seem to produce very high quality content.
[0] http://exploringjs.com/es6/ http://exploringjs.com/es6/
[1] https://www.codeux.com/textual/ https://www.codeux.com/textual/
[2] https://lwn.net/ https://lwn.net/